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A small rural town needed more Spanish-language child care. Here’s what it took

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2024

Through the local advocacy of several organizations, the community will have nine Spanish-speaking providers by this summer — including Aguilera. The group, founded in 2017, helps develop quality early care and education programs in Nebraska communities that don’t have enough of them. “If

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Choosing pass/fail grades may help college students now, but could cost them later

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2020

In the midst of such disruption — with hastily prepared classes delivered remotely, and without professors’ office hours, libraries or advisors — students were demanding the option to pass or fail their courses this semester, instead of getting letter grades. This story also appeared in PBS Newshour. Many universities and colleges agreed.

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‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Collins Elementary School, in southeastern Mississippi, paddled students more times than almost any school in the country in 2017-18, the last year for which there is national data. During the 2017-18 school year, more than 69,000 students received corporal punishment almost 97,000 times nationwide. And we can say yes.”.

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Public colleges shock students by sending them to costly debt collection agencies

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2021

To the surprise of many students and parents, public colleges in every state in the country except Louisiana use for-profit debt collection agencies to retrieve overdue tuition, library fees and even parking fines. He got a bill from the agency in 2017 informing him he owed $12,689.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. In 2017, he left teaching to work in education technology at Clever, a digital platform for schools. OAKLAND, Calif.

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Some colleges start to confront a surprising reason students fail: Too many choices

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Undergraduates, on average, end up taking 15 credits more than they need to get degrees — a full semester’s worth — according to the advocacy group Complete College America. A committee gathers every Thursday morning in a conference room in the library to review these cases. “To All of this takes a toll on graduation rates.

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A mother and son go from homeless to college

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Moises Urena a SUNY student who grew up homeless lobbies for increased state aid during a visit to the Capitol Wednesday March 8, 2017 in Albany, NY. They stayed at the library working until closing time because they didn’t have laptops. I never thought I’d be in a library for two hours every day.”.

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What’s school without grade levels?

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

Northern Cass’s reforms rely on North Dakota’s 2017 decision to let districts apply for waivers from requirements such as hours of instruction. Jaguar Academy is often library-quiet. “I’d love to tell you we have every answer,” Steiner said, but “we’ve got a long way to go.”. We’ll do whatever we have to do for testing,” said Steiner.

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Schools in the poorest state become even poorer

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

Under the fiscal 2017 budget, approved by lawmakers in April, allocations for the state’s public schools will still be about $172 million below what is considered full funding, according to figures from the state Department of Education. billion under the 2017 budget. “We billion on elementary and secondary education.

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Vermont’s ‘all over the map’ effort to switch schools to proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

If you brought a pencil to class or not, that would be factored into your grade,” the high school senior said during a study period in the library. The idea, popular among well-funded education philanthropies and education advocacy groups, is gaining ground across the United States. percent between 2009 and 2017. percent to 89.1

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The rural school district Obama fought to save

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

State waivers under the old No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) also gave rural schools needed flexibility, said Ellerson, the associate executive director for policy and advocacy at the American Association of School Administrators (AASA). Media specialist Marcia Bethea said the new school’s media center is nice, with good technology.

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Why we could soon lose even more Black Teachers

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Partly because of these and related efforts, the number of teachers from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups more than doubled over the last 30 years—from about 327,000 in the late 1980s to 810,000 in the 2017-18 school year. s worry, expressed shortly before his death, that he had integrated Black Americans “into a burning house.”

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Is California saving higher education?

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Jaelyn Deas and her four best friends shared everything, including late-night study sessions in the library at San Jose State University and a never-ending preoccupation with how they’d pay for their tuition there. “It took a burden off my shoulders,” Deas says. Photo: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. SAN JOSE, Calif.

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“Kids who have less, need more”: The fight over school funding

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2019

And in the summer of 2017, Taheem’s 16-year-old sister, Naveha Gibbs, was shot and killed in a city a 20-minute drive to the north. Bayard Middle School, when he arrived there, had a library, but no librarian, so most of the day it’s a dark, unused room. Earlier this year, Taheem witnessed a shooting as he was walking to school.

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A small rural town needed more Spanish-language child care. Here’s what it took

Choosing pass/fail grades may help college students now, but could cost them later

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‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

Public colleges shock students by sending them to costly debt collection agencies

How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

Some colleges start to confront a surprising reason students fail: Too many choices

A mother and son go from homeless to college

What’s school without grade levels?

Schools in the poorest state become even poorer

Vermont’s ‘all over the map’ effort to switch schools to proficiency-based learning

The rural school district Obama fought to save

Why we could soon lose even more Black Teachers

Is California saving higher education?

“Kids who have less, need more”: The fight over school funding

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