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OCTOBER 22, 2020

Historically, career and technical education (CTE) was seen as a dumping ground for students who weren’t considered college material. A two-tier educational system tracked predominantly low-income students and students of color into career and technical classes, then known as vocational education. Perkins Act.

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ED Surge

MARCH 25, 2024

In the realm of education, it means breaking down barriers so that educational technologies and data systems can collaborate effectively, ultimately enhancing the educational experience for leaders, staff, specialists, teachers, students and parents. The best advice is to start with a solid use case.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Photo: Peggy Barmore The federal government is trying to increase the number of minorities in the teaching profession by, in part, allowing institutions to maintain a low bar for entry into teaching programs. Department of Education sought public input about the proposed rules. Education Secretary John King. In a statement, U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2018

Eleven percent of black men in Louisiana have a college degree, compared to 25 percent of white men, according to my analysis of 2016 census data. After paying their debt to society, the incarcerated need to be set up for success — and what better way to do that than to subsidize their education? Higher Education. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2019

National Center for Education Statistics blog, December 2018. According to the government’s report, education spending rose for the third straight year in 2015-16 to $11,841 per student in kindergarten through 12th grades. A small upswing in education spending first began in 2013-14 after cuts of $600 per student.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

The average performance of the nation’s fourth- and eighth-graders mostly held steady in math and reading from 2015 to 2017, now marking a decade of stalled educational progress, according to the results of a test released Tuesday. The one exception was eighth-grade reading, with the average score rising by one point between 2015 and 2017.

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DECEMBER 21, 2021

To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016. Education policy leaders at the federal level and beyond were exploring the growing role of competency-based education and non-traditional providers —and calls were growing for stronger connections between universities and the world of employment.

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JULY 11, 2024

Department of Education recently started reevaluating financial aid regulations from 2016 that effectively allow colleges to automatically bill students for books and supplies as long as those materials meet criteria that include being sold at below competitive market rates. Otherwise, any changes would take effect in mid-2026.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Red states are where the annual issuance of new high school equivalency diplomas has fallen by more than 50 percent between 2012 and 2016. Specifically, the annual number of test takers who completed one of the three exams has fallen more than 45 percent from more than 570,000 in 2012 to roughly 310,000 in 2016. Data source: Thomas J.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

That was just when the state was in the midst of seven straight years of cutting its budget for higher education during and after the recession, or at best keeping spending level. It was worth it, John Fulgencio said, to see his daughter become vice president of student government, graduate magna cum laude with a 3.7

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Each of the satellites will offer more than one terabyte per second of total network output, a thousand times the capacity of the company's first generation satellites, which the company says will allow educators and students across the country to connect “significantly” better.

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JANUARY 16, 2016

Digital Learning Day 2016 is Wednesday, 17 February. The event, sponsored by the Alliance for Excellent Education, is designed to showcase successful digital teaching and learning in our classrooms, and encourage all teachers to use innovative instructional technology to improve student outcomes.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

In a 2017 study by the American Council on Education, a higher education association, researchers found that individuals who identified as something other than white held just 17 percent of college and university presidencies in 2016, while representing 42 percent of students enrolled in 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2016

He took honors physics in 11th grade and earned a general education diploma, even though his cerebral palsy classified him as a special education student. Yet the state left $14 million in federal VR dollars on the table in 2015 and again in 2016, even as the agency temporarily shut its doors to new clients. NASHVILLE, Tenn.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Now they are demanding a greater role in school policy and the decisions that shape their educations. They are also seeking to use this moment to educate teens about elections and voting and turn them into lifelong voters. Andrew Brennen, National Geographic education fellow.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

In response to rising numbers of homeless youth here, state legislators passed a bill in 2016 that freed up money to enable schools to identify more students as homeless and get them into stable housing — even if they aren’t viewed as homeless by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. Public schools identified 1.1

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

Department of Education promise, and many are calling for an urgent push for help, including through legislation and a marshalling of resources from institutions like libraries and groups such as AmeriCorps. It’s a terrible time for anyone who counted on that U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In a 2016 survey by Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research, 94 percent of middle school math teachers said they analyzed student performance on tests in the prior year, and 15 percent said they spent over 40 hours on this kind of data analysis. The emerging answer from education researchers is no.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2019

The score gap between those who make less than $80,000 and those who make more than that amount has increased from 2012 to 2016, according to a 2016 ACT report. The College Board releases average scores on a yearly basis across various levels of income, race and levels of parental education , among other categories.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Higher Education newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Thursday with trends and top stories about higher education. It was $12,353 in 2011 but $10,748 in 2016, according to How Colleges Spend Money. Subscribe today! WASHINGTON, D.C. –

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2019

This story is a part of our Map to the Middle Class project, where readers ask questions about educational pathways to financial stability and then we investigate. The model is also notable because the schools are run by county governments, not school districts. John O’Boyle for The Hechinger Report. and how are they funded?

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Celina Pierrottet remembers 2016 as the year when she and her colleagues at the middle school where they taught noted a pointed change among their students. “We Surgeon General to declare a youth mental health crisis , and the federal government has rolled out billions of dollars since then to help schools respond. Pierrottet recalls.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The series was produced by The Hechinger Report and Columbia Journalism School’s Teacher Project , nonprofit news organizations focused on education coverage, in partnership with Slate Magazine. public housing or come from immigrant communities—is one of the surest paths to promoting educational equity. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. The newly released National Education Technology Plan from the U.S. Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In a report publicly released in October 2020 , the Government Accountability Office (GAO) counted 99 school data breaches over the past four years, from July 2016 to May 2020, that compromised the personal information of thousands of students in kindergarten through high school. Attacks by cyber criminals were rare, the GAO found.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

. Imagine hundreds of thousands of parents protesting the ways in which schools educate their children. Indeed, in 2016, the U.S. Department of Education warned 11 states that their opt-out rates exceeded five percent. Wouldn’t you want to know what parents are protesting and why?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2019

Stewart Lockett (right, grey shirt) leads a meeting of the student government executive team in late January. His team is the most diverse student government the university has ever had. He dug through the bottom drawer and pulled out a student government flyer from five years earlier. Percentage point change, 2015–2016.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

Higher Education. Department of Education has supported teaching adults the fight method, but not students. As of 2016, almost 95 percent of students in U.S. public schools practice some sort of lockdown drill according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2023

Marraccini, an associate professor of school psychology at UNC’s School of Education Now, as the rate of young people experiencing mental health distress climbs, with in-patient mental health hospitalizations rising by more than 120 percent between 2016 and 2022 according to one measure, the need for school support programs has grown.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

When the federal government released its revised edtech plan last month, it was laying down its hope for a future that delivers on effective instruction for students. The plan was first released to fulfill the Improving America’s Schools Act of 1994 and last revised in 2016. Even still, receding funds threaten to push schools backward.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

When Iowa Wesleyan University announced in March that it would close, its biggest creditor was a federal government agency that had loaned it $26 million and then — in an attempt to help the university survive —softened the terms and extended the repayment period. million in 2016, more than the university’s annual operating budget.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

It’s where districts and schools decide to spend their money,” Worth, a veteran educator who has also taught in Greene County’s traditional public schools, explained. Department of Education. In 2016, California had 33 racially identifiable white charters, Texas was home to 19 and Michigan, 14. Board of Education decision.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2021

As attention now shifts to understanding men’s declining enrollment, policymakers, legislators and higher education administrators must address three specific challenges that discourage women from applying to college, compel them to leave once they’ve started or prevent them from reaping the full benefits of their degrees.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2018

More than 19 million undergraduate students are enrolled in colleges and universities for fall 2018, according to a report this week from the National Center for Education Statistics , and many of them are adults aged 25 and older. But higher education experts and other federal data tell a different story.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

In December, the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture described the predicament as “extremely disconcerting.” American schools can learn valuable lessons from Finnish education, both positive and negative. Our free biweekly newsletter consults critical voices on innovation in education. It was a step in the right direction.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

Many parents, however, experience educational, technological and language barriers to accessing and understanding data, limiting their ability to make informed decisions about their children. These changes could offer parents like Zuberi a deeper understanding of the educational systems in their communities. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2019

If the number of black-owned firms in Birmingham was proportionate to the percentage of college-educated residents who are black, 830 more businesses in the city would be black-owned. Underrepresentation Based on Education. Source: The Census Bureau’s 2016 Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs. Source: IPEDS 2016-17.

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