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InvolvEdu: Changing the Extracurricular Landscape

A Principal's Reflections

The other day I had a great conversation with Nick Alm, a sophomore at the University of Minnesota studying Entrepreneurial Management and Social Justice. 1 product due out prior to the start of the Fall 2015 semester. For the past few months he has been working on a tech start-up called InvolvEdu. How does InvolvEdu work?

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OPINION: Can Zoom classes keep students excited and engaged? We have found some ways

The Hechinger Report

It not only scuttled our trip, but both the pandemic and the economic fallout hit our majority minority students hard. Last April, as the coronavirus swept through the city, our students and their relatives, many of whom work front-line jobs, were especially vulnerable to the health and economic devastation befalling New York.

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OPINION: In higher ed, lower enrollment isn’t the only sign of trouble

The Hechinger Report

These trends are confirmed by a 2012 survey conducted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development , which showed that the U.S. A recent study by the Young Invincibles showed that, while the number of individuals with degrees increased from 1974 to 2015 among all groups, racial disparities have widened. In 2015, 36.2

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Enrollment and financial crises threaten growing list of academic disciplines

The Hechinger Report

Everybody’s already talking about program reviews,” said Rudy Fichtenbaum, a professor of economics at Wright State University in Ohio and president of the American Association of University Professors. Falling enrollment has already imperiled programs such as FIU’s African and African Diaspora Studies.

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An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM

The Hechinger Report

This kind of experience may be common at New Jersey’s most selective and wealthiest suburban high schools, but McGee graduated from North Star Academy College Preparatory High School in Newark, where 84 percent of the students are economically disadvantaged and 98 percent are black or Latino.

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Universities try to catch up to their growing Latinx populations

The Hechinger Report

Between 2000 and 2015, the number of Latinx college students more than doubled , to 3 million. Between 2000 and 2015, the number of Latinx college students more than doubled , to 3 million. Anel Chavez, a recent graduate of Indiana University Northwest, picks up an application for the school’s business and economics graduate program.

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The educational value of a black teacher

The Hechinger Report

In a 2017 study published by the Institute of Labor Economics, researchers found that low- income black male elementary school students who were paired with a black teacher in the third, fourth, or fifth grades were 39 percent less likely to drop out of high school. According to 2015 research by Adam C.

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