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MARCH 23, 2025

Education systems were built on the belief that if we filled young minds with enough knowledge, progress would follow. This years NAEP scores revealed that in both reading and math, most fourth- and eighth-graders still performed below pre-pandemic 2019 levels. for adults and children.

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MARCH 23, 2023

Community colleges, which have historically served as comprehensive institutions offering associate degrees with transfer articulation agreements to four-year colleges, have also served as workforce drivers through their array of educational credit and non-credit courses. Arrington, in 1860 the economic value of enslaved peoples in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2020

It’s no secret that the coronavirus pandemic poses many dangers to American higher education. Last year, my organization, the American Council on Education , released a report showing that while communities of color have made tremendous educational headway over the last several decades, substantial and pervasive inequities remain.

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OCTOBER 18, 2021

After years of discussion, New York City announced in October 2021 that it is overhauling gifted and talented programs, eliminating the testing of thousands of 4-year olds and the city’s separate education system of schools and classrooms for students who score high on this one test. Among Hispanic students, it’s 5 percent.

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

That’s a problem because the data don’t lie: Two-thirds of all jobs and 80 percent of all “good” jobs (paying a median wage of $65,000) demand a postsecondary credential, according to research by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce. The foundation’s results in several small, rural counties are eye-popping.

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JULY 30, 2024

Related: Interested in innovations in the field of higher education? Subscribe to our free biweekly Higher Education newsletter. Across the country, colleges and universities offer scores of programs designed to help students from underrepresented groups succeed in STEM education and prepare for tech careers.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2021

But after 27 years with a company with education benefits — benefits Thomas pitches to other employees — she still hadn’t taken advantage of them herself. “I Thomas earned her bachelor’s degree in July 2019 though an online program; she is now on her way to an MBA. million students are using employer-provided education benefits.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

What if our hope that public education can erase inequality is in vain? If there was ever a time to ask big, heretical questions about American K-12 education, it’s when schooling has been thrown into chaos by a pandemic, and Americans’ faith in institutions, including schools, is at ebb tide. But what if he’s right?

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OCTOBER 19, 2020

As part of an introductory economics class, Swiss students had the option to work in study groups with their peers. That’s what a University of Zurich graduate student found in an experiment conducted in 2018 and 2019 involving more than 600 college students and 150 study groups. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Rider oversees career and technical education in Allen Parish, a region of rural Louisiana known for pine forests and the state’s largest casino. About 85 percent of high school graduates in 2019 had taken at least one course in career and technical education, or CTE. Louisiana bet big on career education.

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JANUARY 12, 2021

America’s economic recovery from Covid-19 is in jeopardy because our leaders are neglecting the needs of a key sector: child care. We need to solve this problem now by treating child care as a priority of our economic recovery strategy. Rick Snyder served as the 48th governor of Michigan from 2011 to 2019.

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JUNE 1, 2020

That’s why all eyes are on the New York City Department of Education’s next move. This story about planning for the fall semester in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Be fully remote?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

This story also appeared in The Washington Post It wasn’t the Department of Education that made the loan, or the Treasury or Interior departments, or any of the many government departments that support academic research. The decline of rural higher education is also widening one of America’s biggest equity challenges.

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JANUARY 20, 2020

Hotter classroom temperatures and polluted air are affecting children’s brains at school, according to a new body of education research. (AP Education researchers have traditionally focused on the obvious ingredients of teaching and learning, such as instruction, curriculum, student motivation and school funding. Weekly Update.

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JULY 7, 2023

language education was published in 2017, with data from less than half of the country’s K-12 schools. While our understanding of language education is incomplete, we know that most K-12 students in American public schools do not have the opportunity to study an additional language to proficiency. Of the small portion of the U.S.

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MAY 30, 2023

Fewer high school graduates are now going straight to college , and there is growing skepticism across the country about the long-term value of a college education. Higher education remains a gateway to economic opportunity, creating pathways to first jobs, promotions, raises and careers. With median earnings of $2.3

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The American Indian College Fund’s 2019-20 Student Ambassador cohort. For the last six years, the American Indian College Fund has selected a group of talented students and alumni for leadership training to speak about education issues impacting Native Americans. Credit: Caitlin Alysse/American Indian College Fund 2019.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2021

As colleges around the country resumed in-person learning in the fall of 2021, many educators expected students to return to campus after taking a pandemic gap year. percent fewer undergraduate students now than there were in the fall of 2019 before the pandemic. “If Credit: Alison Yin for the Hechinger Report. That adds up to 6.5

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

It is especially abhorrent that a government program intended to create equitable opportunities for all students instead perpetuates racial and economic gaps in financial stability and mobility. The vast majority of those who default on student loans have faced persistent economic and social vulnerability.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In the post-war boom of the 1950s, college students were confident of their economic futures and many studied liberal arts subjects such as English, history and philosophy. Current economic anxieties that erupted with the pandemic in 2020 are certainly not helping the humanities now. “It’s That’s true for college students too.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2023

Over and over, we read news stories and research studies demonstrating that Black learners face huge barriers in attending and completing college and gaining a strong economic foothold. Some estimates, including one from Citi , find that the racial economic divide has cost our country $16 trillion over the last two decades.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Back in 2019 , I took to an EdSurge column to share my opinion — a sounding call for more attention to be paid to the role social capital plays in education and workforce training. In tandem, educators often have the ability to purchase or acquire materials that students do not have access to at home or otherwise.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Now, with the added pressures of the coronavirus pandemic, the fabric of American higher education has become even more strained: The prospect of lower revenues has already forced some schools to slash budgets and could lead to waves of closings, experts and researchers say. This story also appeared in NBC News.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Some teachers in Hickory Public Schools, where Viewmont Elementary is located, have been focusing more on the science of reading in recent years, spurred in part by the influence of a local education college. In North Carolina, reading scores barely budged in the five years between 2015 and 2019. READ THE SERIES.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2019

A group of students, alumni and supporters named in the original lawsuit as the Coalition for Equity and Excellence in Maryland Higher Education is seeking $577 million in damages. Hogan should see that an investment in black institutions and students is an investment in his state’s economic and social wellbeing. Photo: Brian Witte/AP.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

According to a preliminary October 2020 report from National Student Clearinghouse Research Center that tallied fall enrollment figures from just over half of the nation’s colleges and universities, the number of undergraduate students has fallen 4 percent since the fall of 2019. The number of new students is down 23 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2021

percent since fall 2019, compared to a 5.3 While basic needs insecurities threaten students regardless of gender, a 2019-20 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study of the pandemic’s impact on undergraduates found that females had greater difficulty than males accessing food or paying for food and finding stable and safe child care.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Around 100,000 fewer high school seniors completed financial aid applications to attend college this year than in 2019, according to an analysis by the National College Attainment Network. But they should know their seemingly short-term decisions to delay their education could have long-term consequences.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

While the full impact of the continuing pandemic is still being examined, massive disruptions in child care and preschool, along with the emotional stress endured by parents, children and educators are likely making this climb even steeper. In short, we have an urgent and largely unacknowledged education crisis that starts in the early years.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2023

That’s the case with the most recent results from a key global education test, the Program for International Student Assessment or PISA. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona credited the largest federal investment in education in history – roughly $200 billion – for keeping the United States “in the game” during the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

One of the most promising uses of technology in education seemed to be a cheap one: nudging text messages. Based on these early successes, education leaders in government and nonprofit organizations sought to bring the power of text messages to hundreds of thousands of students. Educators in this country could learn from that lesson.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2024

Still, these neediest children were projected to be one third of a grade level behind low-income students in 2019, before the pandemic disrupted education. Federal funding helped and it helped kids most in need,” wrote Robin Lake, director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education, on X in response to the two studies.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2021

Members of this age group have always faced drastically different opportunities to grow and flourish based on where they live and their demographics, but these disparities became more pronounced during the pandemic, according to The State of Babies Yearbook 2021, which looked at dozens of data sets spanning health, education and family welfare.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

At Brewbaker, which in 2020 served more than 700 students in pre-K through second grade, nearly 20 percent of her students are English learners and 71 percent are economically disadvantaged. In 2019, a year before Brown Wright was hired, less than 20 percent of students were proficient on the school’s reading assessments, the principal said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

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. When a student can see themselves in their educational environment, when they see their own story … it’s very engaging.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

When people learn that I have a doctorate in educational psychology and quantitative methods, they often assume that I love math. As a United Way director of education, I used statistical methods, such as linear regression, to make investment and funding decisions. And the truth is, I do now, although that wasn’t always the case.

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AUGUST 24, 2022

The national consensus supporting higher education is unraveling , as backing for college funding is increasingly becoming a partisan issue. Enrollment in areas with large low-income and minority populations fell most sharply, notes Carleton College economics professor Nathan D. But not all types of students are opting out of college.

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