The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In Nevada, just 4 percent of students who took a career-oriented science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) course in the 2019-20 school year — 88 students total — were Black, even though Black students make up more than 11 percent of the state’s public school enrollment.

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The Hechinger Report

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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FEBRUARY 17, 2025

“Without conscious intervention through education and universal values, humanity risks perpetuating cycles of dominance, inequality, and ecological collapse.” Colombo argues that the key to transcending these ancient drives lies in education and the promotion of universal values. Related Research Sapolsky, R.

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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

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. We’re leading these schools.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Marines under his command to take advantage of an online college education program made available to active-duty service members. One education provider the military used didn’t serve the Okinawa base where Brenner and his Marines were stationed. Getting Marines educated while on deployment isn’t a priority.”. military’s 1.3

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

As the too-soon-departed Chadwick Boseman reminded us when accepting a Screen Actors Guild award in 2019, American society often tells those like him and his Black colleagues, “There is not a place for you.”. The experience motivated me to make visible and challenge the structures of racism that are built into education.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Even the current Supreme Court’s conservatives have embraced that Brown vs. Board of Education decision. Yet, 70 years after Brown, a key obstacle to racial equality in education continues to be white resistance to racial integration and to adequate funding for the education of Black and Latino children. And data from the U.S.

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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The average performance of the nation’s fourth and eighth graders mostly declined in math and reading from 2017 to 2019, following a decade of stagnation in educational progress, according to the results of a test released on Oct. The one exception was fourth-grade math, with the average score rising by one point between 2017 and 2019.

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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

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. By seizing these benefits, the federal government takes away critical financial lifelines that reduce poverty for millions of families.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2025

From the presidential campaigns to local races, Democrats and Republicans both acknowledged that our early care and learning systems are not functioning for families, educators or their communities. In 2023, 3,200 parents were employed in early care and education, and 5,600 children had benefited from the program, Day said.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Washington state’s free-college program, enacted by law in 2019, is considered one of the nation’s most generous. At a time when higher education is in constant flux – some of it is online, some of it is in person with students at a social distance, some of it is in hybrid form – at least one part remains constant: It’s expensive.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2020

“Of course it’s important that Penn at least recognizes the profound challenges that the School District of Philadelphia faces with things like lead poisoning and asbestos,” Campano, a professor at Penn’s Graduate School of Education, said. They suggest paying it into an education equity fund managed by the city council.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

When Iowa Wesleyan University announced in March that it would close, its biggest creditor was a federal government agency that had loaned it $26 million and then — in an attempt to help the university survive —softened the terms and extended the repayment period. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack. The USDA loaned Iowa Wesleyan $26.4

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2022

Public two-year community colleges achieved a new budgetary milestone in fiscal year 2021 as they reaped 6 percent more money per student from state and local governments than public four-year institutions did for their regular operating expenses: $9,347 versus $8,859 for each student. Community colleges don’t receive these sorts of funds.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2022

A May 2022 study of children with disabilities found that Black and white children who posted the same low test scores were equally likely to be removed from a general education classroom and placed in a separate special ed classroom. Department of Education. Photo by Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Now they are demanding a greater role in school policy and the decisions that shape their educations. They are also seeking to use this moment to educate teens about elections and voting and turn them into lifelong voters. Andrew Brennen, National Geographic education fellow.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

Where are we going to find an additional year to make up for these kiddos before they leave the education system?” These companies may have a business motive in sounding an alarm to sell more of their products, but the reports are produced by well-regarded education statisticians. One is phonics. How am I going to factor?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

It provides a further reflection on what’s the purpose of higher education as a whole. said Michael Itzkowitz, an education consultant and the former director of College Scorecard, an online federal government tool to compare the cost and value of higher education institutions. “It An audit published by the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

million students calculated that in the spring of 2021 students in each grade scored three to six percentile points lower on a widely used test, the Measures of Academic Progress or MAP, than they did in 2019. Students in grades 3 through 8 slid 6 percentage points in reading on state tests in the spring of 2021 compared to 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

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. Before we can move forward to create equitable systems, we need our leaders in government to acknowledge and repair past wrongs. Photo: Brian Witte/AP.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Surgeon General to declare a youth mental health crisis , and the federal government has rolled out billions of dollars since then to help schools respond. Investments made into increasing the pipeline now won’t see results — in the form of hireable mental health workers — for several years.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

They’d spent the past decade grappling with declining enrollments and weakening support from state governments. How higher education’s own choices left it vulnerable to the pandemic crisis. Even in the case of orderly closings, students’ educations can be significantly disrupted — many drop out and never finish their degrees.

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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

JANUARY 4, 2023

Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) dependent schools are run by the U.S. The schools were recently in the news for their relatively strong performance on what’s known as the Nation’s Report Card, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). It’s important to look for educational bright spots.

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2022

We’re familiar with the higher education headlines. The world’s complexity has been catapulted to a new level, and higher education is feeling the repercussions like never before. Soaring operational expenses and shrinking government support has led to higher attendance costs for students, and as a result, to lower enrollment numbers.

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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. We’re narrowing in on where nudging is useful.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Their families don’t make enough money to afford early childhood education. As President Joe Biden’s efforts to expand child care support have faltered, states have been the next-best hope for addressing a nationwide crisis in early childhood education. A preschool push started in 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

Undeterred, Doreen Gehry Nelson, now 86, went on to start her own nonprofit , win a slew of awards and share her city-building teaching methods with thousands of classroom teachers and other education professionals around the world, though not nearly as many as she would like. over how and what students are taught.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2019

Backers of project-based learning, and its hands-on relative, maker education, would argue that activities like these not only deepen understanding of academic content but also bolster creativity, persistence, problem-solving and related skills that are critical for success in a rapidly changing world. Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

JULY 31, 2024

A 2019 report from the Century Foundation, called “ Dear Colleges: Take Control of Your Online Courses, ” urged institutions to turn away from outsourced programs. OPMs have come under scrutiny in recent years, particularly for tuition-sharing contracts that critics say encourage predatory marketing practices and swell student loan debt.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

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. We’ve seen the federal government step up and say, ‘You know what, we need to pay for that.’”. Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

That year, 2019, the district changed its policies to allow Indigenous students to wear cultural items along with their caps and gowns. They argue that the practice of policing Indigenous students’ graduation attire is symptomatic of an education system woefully ignorant of, and insensitive to, Native culture.

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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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