The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Indeed, a recent study in the 2017 Mississippi Economic Review found that districts with the worst teacher shortages have a weak local property tax base, a high percentage of black students and are disproportionately located in the Delta. In 2017, more than $20 million was allotted for pay raises to these schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2017

1 best primary school system in the world, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report 2016-2017. Doyle is also a 2015-2016 Fulbright Scholar and 2017 Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Resident Fellow. Related: What do we invest in the country’s youngest? Little to nothing.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2022

That’s why my district is reimagining high schools with a strong focus on helping students become leaders in their own learning and the learning of others — a pathway to future success and economic mobility. In Rich Township, our students are striving for continuous improvement and for ways to rebound from perceived failures.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2018

But are they any better than traditional schools, or other progressive teaching philosophies? The main problem is that you can’t randomly assign some students to Montessori schools and study how they do compared with students at traditional schools. Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

college students with lifetime diagnoses of mental health conditions in 2017 was 36 percent, compared with 22 percent in 2007. A 2019 American Council on Education survey found that student mental health had become a higher priority over the previous three years for 80 percent of college presidents.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2024

Since 2017, 93 percent of students taking it have passed, and 83 percent have achieved all the course’s learning goals, including the ability to use arithmetic, geometry, algebra and trigonometry to solve welding problems, school data show. Even modest gains like that are hard to achieve, said Navarro Chandler, a dean at the college.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

But now a convergence of factors — a dwindling pool of traditional-age students, the call for more educated workers and a pandemic that highlighted economic disparities and scrambled habits and jobs — is putting adults in the spotlight. In late 2017, she was laid off. that pay college tuition for adults. ?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

today, nearly double the number in 2017. has more than doubled since 2017 to 585 in 2020, according to the Natural Start Alliance. The school also prioritizes economic equity. Some, like Sol, are attempting to address these problems to give more students an opportunity for an outdoor education. When many U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Since 2017, for example, students in Roscoe, Texas, a rural community of about 1,300 residents, have been able to earn associate degrees and receive college credit by taking career education courses in health care, veterinary services and agriculture through a program called P-TECH. Joel Vargas, Jobs for the Future (JFF). “It’s

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

In the fall of 2017, he moved to Boston and enrolled in a community college, planning to transfer to a four-year program. Using a four-year degree as a proxy for employability shuts out the most economically vulnerable job seekers. He received an associate degree, hoping to eventually get a bachelor’s and work as a financial adviser.

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

With enrollment in traditional teacher education programs declining nationwide in the past few years, it is drying up at an alarming rate. According to a report published in 2017 by the Economic Policy Institute, large urban districts spend approximately $20,000 on every new hire. The teacher pipeline is no longer leaking.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2019

They belong to students who have come to college later in their lives than traditional undergraduates. Yet at a time when universities nationwide are aggressively recruiting students like Souza, who face a myriad of obstacles traditional-aged students don’t, the kind of help she’s gotten on this campus is more of an exception than the rule.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

By 2017-18, the most recent data available , the district was 54 percent Hispanic — and its gifted classes were 48 percent Hispanic. In this poster, the association highlights the fact that traditional methods of finding gifted children often miss children who are low-income, nonwhite or do not speak English at home.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Claudette Bautista, a 2017 Muñiz graduate who now attends Lesley University, was born in the Dominican Republic but spent her K-8 years in Boston, learning in English. When you think about the future economics of the world, it’s not an English world.”. Economically, he sees the vast promise of a bilingual workforce.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2022

Any shift in the workforce to the advantage of workers without degrees carries obvious implications for economic mobility and equity. The Burning Glass “degree reset” report, which Fuller co-wrote, found that between 2017 and 2019, the number of positions requiring a B.A. Merit America co-CEO Rebecca Taber Staehelin.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Colorado’s public pension system is one of the most underfunded in the country, with a shortfall totaling an estimated $29 billion in 2017. Cory Koedel, an associate professor of economics and public policy at the University of Missouri. “It’s one more thing on top of everything else.”. percent to 20.4.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

That’s the “doomsday scenario” Vermont is trying to avoid through programs like Randolph Union’s, says Joan Goldstein, the state’s commissioner of economic development. In Vermont in 2013 18 percent of economically disadvantaged students dropped out of high school compared to only 3.5 It recognized that learning can occur anywhere.”.

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ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2022

I think one challenge for the teaching profession is that with traditional salary schedules, no matter how great of a teacher you are, compared to the teacher in the next classroom over, you’ll earn the same base amount,” Holston says. “Or, Public Schools have been using their “ IMPACT plus ” model for over a decade. “But

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

. $700,000 — The amount of tuition assistance received by some 325 Utah students since EAW began operations in the state in 2017. Since EAW began operations in Utah in 2017, about 325 students have received $700,000 in tuition assistance, the organization said; Kalapara said he’s so far netted $2,200 toward his tuition. He makes $9.75

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Within a single generation, his family has staked a claim to social and economic opportunities often viewed as out of reach in low-income, majority-Black neighborhoods. In West Philadelphia, one of the poorest areas in that city, a five-year, $30 million Promise Neighborhood grant went into effect in 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2019

The county-based programs for high schoolers are so popular that of the nearly 30,000 young people who applied for spots in the programs in 2017, only about 13,000 students received a seat. If that employment picture doesn’t change soon, some experts say, it could hamper economic growth.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

Although Khan Academy was one of the first online learning organizations to promote the idea that kids could learn at home at their own pace, Khan denied the suggestion that working with traditional schools was a significant change in direction, instead calling it “a natural evolution of our work.”.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 25, 2024

What mental, social, and economic tolls do patients and their families bear? In both these cultural traditions, children were believed to have been sent from the spirit world to plague their parents. In 2017, a Massachusetts woman sat with her Hydroxyurea prescription, a medication that can help manage but not cure sickle cell anemia.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

At IU Northwest in 2017, Latinx students like Perez had a six-year graduation rate of just 28 percent, while the graduation rate for white students was 35 percent. From 2008 to 2017, the share of Latinx students at this commuter school of roughly 4,000 rose from 13 percent to 22 percent — the highest of any public university in the state.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Private college counseling cost an average of $200 an hour in 2017, the last year for which the figure is available from the Independent Educational Consultants Association. Early decision is typically offered by more selective institutions and locks in applicants who are accepted, even before they see how much financial aid they’ll get.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

But the community began to suffer economically after several major employers, including what was once the largest olive processer in the world, shut down in the early 1990s. to learn how to make the shift from traditional time-based systems … towards one that is truly organized around the learner.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Dan Abramoski, the school’s assistant headmaster, said the arts exposure is multi-purpose and supports more traditional academics. “If José Pinales, a 2017 graduate, credits the school’s band program with getting him off the streets and keeping him out of trouble. José Pinales, 2017 graduate, Margarita Muñiz Academy.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

With people of color expected to make up a quarter of the state’s population by 2035, these gaps represent an economic threat to Minnesota; unless more residents get to and through college, there won’t be enough qualified workers to fill the jobs that require a post-secondary degree or certificate. Will jobs go begging?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

A 2017 study by the RAND Corporation found that 17 percent of teachers in the personalized learning schools surveyed said they devote a least a quarter of class time to tutoring students one-on-one, compared to just 9 percent of teachers surveyed nationwide. Around three-quarters of the schools in the 2017 RAND study were charter schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

20, 2017, in Durham, N.C. White students with special needs are far more likely to graduate with a traditional diploma than are their black and brown peers. Nationally, 76 percent of white students in special education who exited high school in 2014-15 earned a traditional diploma. Photo: AP Photo/Brian Blanco. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

But the neighborhood just to the north, Hancock Park, is 71 percent white, with a median income of $85,000; the student body, meanwhile, is 79 percent Latino, 12 percent African-American, 7 percent Asian, and 64 percent “economically disadvantaged,” drawn from Koreatown, Mid-City, and neighborhoods farther afield. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Jonathan Johnson, a former teacher in New Orleans, thinks there’s a quicker way for more African-American youth to reach high paying jobs in this city of sharp racial and economic divides. The launch date was pushed back to August 2017 as he sought more private funding to supplement the public school funding stream all charters receive.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

This shift detached investors from the personal aspect of a debt relationship, allowing them to earn 20 to 30 percent annual interest—significantly higher than the 3 to 5 percent offered by traditional banks. Despite the hope for formal licensing for surviving platforms, many struggled to adapt to new rules.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Then, in May 2017, a friend told her about a new Delta-based nonprofit, Regional Initiatives for Sustainable Education (RISE), which offered tutoring for the Praxis. William Carey University in Hattiesburg joined RISE’s efforts to help teachers become certified in October 2017. Her eyes welled with tears as she recalled the struggle.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

Massachusetts is turning that traditional model on its head by having many schools combine rigorous academics with hands-on career training, now called “career and technical education.” Just over 18 percent of the school’s students are economically disadvantaged. Essex Tech is what used to be known as a vocational school.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Plus, Gisleson liked the idea that Otto would be surrounded by kids who came from racial and socio-economic backgrounds that were different from his own. “It Fast-forward to 2017, and Plessy still prides itself on being one of just a handful of schools in the city that has purposefully sought to integrate its student body.

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Steven V. Miller

MAY 23, 2024

However, the abbreviated, somewhat hurried nature of the curriculum and the economic situation brought on by our landlords mean we don’t have as much real estate as I’d like to teach students important things I want them to know. From a political science standpoint, this tradition is so strange it’s almost offensive.

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