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MARCH 19, 2021

Meanwhile, research suggests that , for English learners, English-only instruction is not as successful as bilingual models like dual-language immersion. A 2019 Department of Education report found evidence that English learners suffered from these divides before the pandemic; the crisis has only made them more consequential.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

Seventy-seven percent of teachers are women, but only 31 percent of district chiefs are, according to an April 2019 report by Chiefs for Change, a bipartisan nonprofit. Samantha Tran, senior managing director of education policy at Children Now, a nonpartisan research, policy and advocacy organization, noticed. “I

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

By 2019, the state allocated its first dollars into the fund, and began matching local funds dollar for dollar. Multiple advocacy organizations are pushing to increase the eligibility threshold for the program (now 150% of the federal poverty line). Before the state placed any money in the fund, New Orleans got busy.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2021

With help from Hameed, the lead instructor, and several teaching assistants, students learn how to use search engines like Google, how to research and verify information, create presentations online, answer emails in a professional manner and use Google products like Google Docs, Google Sheets and Google Drive.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 19, 2025

Her research interests include migration politics and policy, local politics, and race, ethnicity, and politics. That was in the fall of 2019. There are so many opportunities to connect with others, share research, and learn new things. Tell us about your professional background and your research.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

At Northeastern Illinois, only 11 percent of Black students graduated within six years in 2019. In some states, the graduation rate gaps are particularly acute: At every four-year public college in Illinois and Missouri with data available, for example, there was a gap of at least 14 percentage points between white and Black students in 2019.

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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

MAY 28, 2024

The research firm Mathematica found that, by the end of 2022, the program’s initial payments had increased child care employment levels in Washington by about 100 additional educators, or 3 percent. Early data suggests that the pay equity program has helped the city hire, recruit and retain child care employees.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Please join Dr. Heather Johnson and me for one or both of our two Spring 2019 social media workshops for SEHD faculty and students! ]. They are great models for how to use social media in empowered ways for research dissemination, policy advocacy, and educational impact. Here’s my second one, which came out today. ].

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2021

I’m not opposed to civic action, but we can’t let the cart get ahead of the horse,” said David Davenport, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank at Stanford University. “In In science, you don’t run around doing a bunch of experiments — you start with knowledge and develop a hypothesis first.”.

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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

MARCH 19, 2021

In a survey conducted by Quest Research and the Kaplan test-prep company, they were four times more likely to say they’d hire an English major with a credential in cybersecurity than an English major without one. Only 26 percent of working U.S. Related: With enrollment sliding, liberal arts colleges struggle to make a case for themselves.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

O’Neal Elementary School, in Elgin, Illinois, none of the third graders could read and write at grade level according to state tests in 2019. But despite its low performance and its students’ needs, O’Neal received $9,094 per student in 2019 in state and local funding compared to Centennial’s $10,559. At Ronald D. That’s a problem.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Districts have taken a wide range of approaches, as documented by the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, a nonprofit that studies how government policies impact low-income families. It’s not just a feeling that has Cole-Ochoa believing that the culture of caring is working at his school — numbers are backing it up.

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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

JUNE 20, 2023

Related: When your disability gets you sent home from school Oregon is embroiled in a lawsuit over schools’ use of shortened school days, filed by the nonprofit advocacy group Disability Rights Oregon in 2019.

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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. From 2017 to 2019 , Mississippi had the highest jump in fourth grade reading scores in the nation. Because I email, I call. Nobody emails or calls back,” Taylor said.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

Research continues to show the harmful impact of housing instability on kids’ learning: Each time students switch schools, for example, they are more likely to fall behind academically and less likely to graduate. Low-income housed students, meanwhile, performed much better.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Her tenure at Collins has overlapped with two developments that have contributed to a drop in paddling incidents: the state legislature’s 2019 partial ban on corporal punishment — of students with disabilities — and a global pandemic that interfered with in-person learning. Still, researchers say they can draw parallels.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2019

Roy Wilson, president of Wayne State University, Sandy Baruah, president and CEO of the Chamber and Brandy Johnson, advisor, Office of the Governor – Michigan announce a new initiative to remove college debts at gathering hosted by the Lumina Foundation in Detroit Michigan on April 30, 2019. Andre Perry/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2022

One reason Back a Boiler has been suspended is that program servicer Vemo Education went out of business, said Brian Edelman, president of the Purdue Research Foundation. Ben Kaufman, director of research and investigations, Student Borrower Protection Center. Purdue’s pause points to bigger problems in the ISA industry.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Lynn Fuchs, research professor at Vanderbilt University Covid exacerbated the nation’s problem with math achievement. There’s not as much research on math disorders or dyscalculia,” as there is on reading disabilities, said Karen Wilson, a clinical neuropsychologist who specializes in the assessment of children with learning differences.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2019

Together with three other researchers at Harvard, UCLA and Stanford, she set up an elaborate experiment with more than 15,000 middle and high school students in California during the 2015-16 school year. at a March 2019 conference of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness. Then the results started coming in.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Early data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center shows college enrollments down this fall for the second year in a row. A Georgetown report published in October showed that from 1980 to 2019, average college costs rose 169 percent, while earnings for those aged 22 to 27 rose only 19 percent. Students are pushing back.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

“We don’t need to panic,” said Cory Koedel, a University of Missouri economist who presented his preliminary findings at a conference of the National Center for the Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) in January 2019. “If

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2021

CU Boulder’s Program in Exploratory Studies began in 2019 for some students and was opened to all students last year. More than eight out of 10 first-year students say getting a good job is why they are pursuing a degree , according to a national survey by a research institute at UCLA. “I

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

That changed in the 2019-20 school year when the federal government for the first time made public the race and ethnicity breakdowns for individual school districts. Nationally, Black students were 15 percent of public school enrollment but 27 percent of homeless students in 2019-20. Data disclosed in U.S. 17, 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2021

Her principal balance of $2,712 grew to more than $4,600 by December of 2019. Between 2019 and the first quarter of 2021, state records showed that the company’s lobbyists met several times with the attorney general’s office about what was listed in public records as “collection decisions.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

Schools investing in recovery programs do so without an abundance of research connecting the programs to improved student outcomes. Washington lawmakers passed a bill in 2019 that led to the creation of a state grant fund to support recovery. The price tag is not the same,” he said. President Biden’s stalled 2024 budget includes $10.8

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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.

Psychology 145

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The number of institutions that have adopted this approach “is still a small group,” said Maria Flynn, president and CEO of the advocacy group Jobs for the Future, or JFF, which has announced a $5 million competition to develop more rapid-reskilling programs that reduce training time by at least 50 percent for well-paid occupations.

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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. Another net-zero elementary school, also designed by VMDO, is to open in 2019. Right now, we have a lot of anecdotes,” said Seydel, “but the gold-standard research is not there.”.

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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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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

King, consultant for research, policy and advocacy at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. “Our sense from our members is that this has exacerbated the trend we had already been seeing of declining student interest in going into teaching,” says Jacqueline E. Why are they leaving? It’s not a tenable job.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Elizabeth Warren at a Warren Town Hall event at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa on Sunday, October 20, 2019. Education advocacy nonprofit Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools found that “[b]etween 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S. 2020 Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. Last week, Democratic presidential candidate Sen.

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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. In fact, nothing has been done to restore HOPE to the pre-2011 levels.

Tutoring 87

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

That’s because as the companies add more programs, they need to shell out large sums to ramp them up, said Brett Knoblauch, an equity research analyst at Berenberg Capital Markets, who follows companies like 2U. Howard Lurie, principal analyst, Eduventures Research. It takes a few years for the programs to turn profitable, he said.

Education 77

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