The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Data and research show that access to college coursework while in high school increases college enrollment, success and graduation rates and has a positive impact on academic performance. Too often, though, that advocacy for the future overshadows immediate opportunities to expand Dreamers’ college access despite state and local policies.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

During the last pre-pandemic college application cycle, 2018-19, nearly 1.2 Researchers characterized this subset of students as “non-submitters.” Magouirk was a senior manager of research and analytics at Common App while conducting the study.) But this strategy had a fundamental error. Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Gary Miron, an education researcher who co-authored a National Education Policy Center report on for-profit charter schools. It’s really easy for [these companies] to expand and just incredible how much profit they make,” said Gary Miron, an education researcher who co-authored the National Education Policy Center report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2018

But since it wasn’t our house, they could use the bathroom first,” Kimberly, 12, told the child advocacy organization Children’s Defense Fund for their The State of America’s Children 2014 report. Sometimes we had to go to school late, because we had to wait for the bathroom. But at school, she was labeled truant. “I percent, but was also 2.0

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

When Diamante Hare stepped onto Northeastern Illinois University’s campus in Chicago for the first time in 2018, he was gambling with thousands of dollars of grants, scholarships and loans — and his future. It’s mostly not just one obstacle or one incident that makes a student decide to leave school, researchers and educators say.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

That’s because since 2010 the number of students enrolled in teacher prep programs at colleges has fallen by more than a third, from about 900,000 students in 2010-11 to only 600,000 in the 2018-19 academic year, according to the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

School districts in red are where spending per pupil is $10,000 or more dollars short of what would be needed to bring students up to average test scores, according to researchers’ estimates. March 2018. The costs of educating poor children escalate faster in urban areas, the researchers found. Baker et al.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Maria and her husband arrived at Adventist HealthCare’s The Lourie Center for Children’s Social & Emotional Wellness in 2018, seeking answers for their then-2-year-old middle son, Lucas. Their household is a busy one, occupied with wrestling matches, filled with outdoor adventures, and covered all over in Legos.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 17, 2018

They are great models for how to use social media in empowered ways for research dissemination, policy advocacy, and educational impact. Increasing the visibility and impact of our work [July 2, 2018]. I would encourage you to see how the following scholars are engaging online. Previous MMMs. Related Posts. Day 3 and 4: The End.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 22, 2025

She was granted tenure in 2010 and promoted to Senior II Tenured Faculty in 2018. His diverse experience bridges policy, education, and advocacy, reflecting his commitment to academic excellence and civic engagement. Before his career in higher education, Rogelio worked in the federal government at the U.S. She holds a B.A.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Research findings leave room for debate about just how bad corporal punishment by teachers is for kids, especially in the United States. Still, researchers say they can draw parallels. The research does not support that at all,” she said. She has also analyzed data about corporal punishment use in schools. And we can say yes.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2024

About 23 percent of Latino adults between the ages of 25 and 29 have a bachelor’s degree, compared to 45 percent of their white peers, according to a 2022 Pew Research Center report. It has six campuses in Michigan along with its online program.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In recent years, the group’s advocacy has led to changes in the district’s graduation requirements, to align them with admissions requirements for California’s university systems, and an expansion of funding for an after-school meal program that had been cut by the school board. Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Tanji Reed Marshall, a former teacher and current researcher at The Education Trust, an education research and advocacy organization, recently studied how frequently teachers offer students choices in the classroom. Here, a quote from a 2018 graduate. The results – very seldom – were not entirely surprising.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2022

Research shows mental health treatment is more effective when it’s in line with the client’s culture and when clients perceive their therapist to be culturally competent. Moran started as Holy Cross’s first LGBTQIA+ coordinator in 2018. “We’re working with them and their full background and identity as an understanding of self.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2020

Researchers have found, perhaps counterintuitively, that bilingual education can be a particularly effective way to help newcomers master English.). At Sarah Greenwood, school leaders have resisted López’s advocacy for years. Cassellius is asking principals to make these changes, however—not ordering them to do so.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

But new research suggests colleges’ policies around unpaid balances may also be contributing to the decline while creating lasting financial harm for the institutions and students. Researchers projected estimates for the system based on the percentage of students affected in Compton, Lake Tahoe and Peralta Community College Districts.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

The data was from the 2018-19 academic year, with the exception of Nevada, which has released only the data from 2017-18. Related: A decade of research on the rich-poor divide in education. Longtime advocates of this federal transparency mandate hope the new data will spur more widespread advocacy. That’s a problem.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

Samantha Tran, senior managing director of education policy at Children Now, a nonpartisan research, policy and advocacy organization, noticed. “I The heightened inclusiveness seen since she took over in 2018 is not some caricature of femininity, all chitchat and smiles, she said. According to research , she’s right.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

Research says if students are behind in reading by the end of third grade, they are unlikely to ever catch up with their peers. The research on retention is mixed. The retention rate for Mississippi third graders in 2018-19 was about 10 percent. At least 19 of those require retention if a student doesn’t meet certain standards.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2024

Credit: The Baltimore Banner James Murphy, the director of postsecondary policy at the advocacy group Education Reform, said he expects legacy admission preferences to disappear through a combination of legislation, like Maryland’s bill, and institutions voluntarily dropping the practice. Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2021

Jones’s daughter had taken summer classes in 2018 at the University of Cincinnati, near home, to make sure she could graduate in four years. She also contributed $4,000 to a candidate committee for Dave Yost, the current attorney general, in the lead-up to his election in 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Some research supports this view, but there’s no evidence to date that use of the protocols prevents school shootings. In 2018 Congress allocated federal funds to train schools on threat assessment. I’ve been calling for other states and other models to do research for years and years,” said Cornell.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Much of the advocacy for net-zero buildings has focused on environmental and economic incentives. According to a March 2018 NBI report, there are 89 verified or “emerging” net-zero schools (emerging means under construction or too new to have been verified yet).

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

The lack of physical activity is taking a toll on student fitness and that’s bad for growing brains, research shows. At least we’re at the table now,” said Carly Wright, advocacy director for SHAPE. “It Hillman, who is advising the U.S. Girls, black students and Hispanic students get less exercise than white boys.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The gap is often stark: In 18 states, graduation rates for students who experienced homelessness lagged more than 20 percentage points behind the overall rate in both 2017 and 2018. Our analysis focused on non-charter districts in the 2018-19 and 2019-20 school years. The academic cost is not equally shared. 17, 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

6, 2018, in front of Lincoln High School in Tacoma, Wash. were underfunded by $580 billion in federal dollars alone — money that was specifically targeted to support 30 million of our most vulnerable students,” says a new report published by the education advocacy nonprofit, the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2019

His “quiet and relentless advocacy brought hundreds of African Americans into space industry jobs in the Deep South, helping to shift perceptions of black people in ways both subtle and profound,” wrote Michael Fletcher in the story. million from 1990 to 2018 (a 79 percent increase). Total includes bachelor’s and associate’s degrees.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

When devising a definition of “reading disability” based on the population of nine- to 11-year-olds on the island, the researchers distinguished between poor readers who read at levels predicted by their IQs and those who did not, looking for evidence of dyslexia only in those in the latter group. The studies came just as the U.S.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 30, 2024

million dollar Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) (2020-2023 and 2023-2026). million dollar Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) (2020-2023 and 2023-2026). Mealy brings a wealth of organizational experience and expertise to the position.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

“Only very wealthy people can afford current decent care and education [for young children],” said Richard Brandon, a political scientist recently retired from the University of Washington and co-author of a 2018 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine report on financing early education. The Hechinger Report graphic.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

In dozens of interviews, Summit leadership, education researchers, and the people who teach and learn in schools that use Summit agreed that the platform offers a systematic way to achieve the otherwise complicated, messy objective of personalizing learning. That’s the argument Summit makes. All screen time is not the same.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2017

Between 2013 and 2015, more than 56,000 students who took out federal loans to pay for Georgia’s four-year regional, state and research universities dropped out before graduating, as did 44,000 people at the mostly two-year state colleges and technical colleges. I’m hoping I can save up money and go back in 2018. It’s our money.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2023

Most faculty really feel pressured to do research, and they do it in the summer,” Zemsky said. We no longer have the luxury of going to college for college’s sake,” said Yolanda Spiva, president of the advocacy organization Complete College America. Don’t discount that. That’s a very powerful push against this.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

The idea, popular among well-funded education philanthropies and education advocacy groups, is gaining ground across the United States. As of mid-2018, 17 states were in “advanced” stages of proficiency-based learning, also sometimes called competency-based learning. percent to 89.1 percent between 2009 and 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

But finishing in four years matters, because research shows that the longer it takes, the less likely a student is to make it to graduation. A quarter of students drop out after four years, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Tucci, who will graduate in 2018. THE 12-CREDIT FALLACY.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

Pre-K 4 SA uses a research-based curriculum called High Scope, which stresses a hands-on approach to developing memory, creativity, problem solving, and self-control. We’re staying true to what we know in the research works and what has long-term benefits,” she said. Pre-K advocates across the state are also aware of those benefits.

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