The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2025

Online education is another revenue stream from a different market, said Duha Altindag, an associate professor of economics at Auburn University who has studied online programs. Her day job is at the national nonprofit Young Invincibles, which pushes for reforms in higher education, health care and economic security for young Americans.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 19, 2022

In contrast, Coleman argued that social capital is a powerful force that activates class mobility, with students leaping over the economic divide, some waking up transformed by the American Dream after college. Will they be set free to overturn barriers imposed by their social and economic status?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2025

In 2020, 44 percent of high school youth reported having no source of supportive relationships either adults or peers, a reduction by half from a decade earlier. We continue to treat relationships as secondary a soft issue compared to academic rigor or economic productivity. for adults and children. Family hubs in the UK and the U.S.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The next census in 2020 will require counting a population of around 330 million people in more than 140 million housing units. Adult education remains critical for workers who are looking to advance economically, including those in low-wage earning jobs, opportunity youth, immigrant-origin adults, and parent learners. population.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 9, 2019

It may be August, but we’re already planning ahead for SXSW EDU in March 2020. Against a backdrop of growing interest in learning coding as an economic driver and computational thinking as a new literacy, this panel discussion will lean into the equity challenge of realistically addressing “computing for all” in K-12 education.

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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

In order to understand the significance of microcredentials, their ability to help meet workforce demands , and the dilemma these short-term credentials are causing to traditional higher education, we must first walk through the ways college has evolved during its nearly 400 years of history in our nation. According to historian Benjamin T.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2021

The result is that we are losing the energy, intelligence and creativity young people could and should bring to New York’s economic recovery. We are losing the energy, intelligence and creativity young people could and should bring to New York’s economic recovery. The time is right. Can the proposed three-tier initiative work?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Since 2020, nine U.S. states have adopted laws or policies requiring personal finance education before students graduate from high school, bringing the total number to 30 states, according to the Council for Economic Education. Experts say it’s a course that doesn’t necessarily have to be taught by a traditional math teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

When the coronavirus hit in the spring of 2020, student surveys indicated that four-year colleges would be hit the hardest this fall, with many students turning to cheaper two-year community colleges until the pandemic ended. Students are vanishing from community colleges during the pandemic fall of 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

Perizzolo, Jacquez and Hernandez are among the eight math teachers of an increasingly popular data science course offered at most schools in the Oxnard Union High School district, an economically diverse school system northwest of Los Angeles, where 80 percent of students identify as Hispanic.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2020

The study received a lot of attention and generated controversy among statisticians , after Vox wrote about it earlier in January 2020. Sefi Roth, an economist at the London School of Economics, is an author of both studies. An earlier draft version was circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in 2018.)

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2020

Many colleges and universities anticipate a sharp decrease in international students for fall 2020. Institutions are now scrambling to rethink how they recruit and teach students from abroad as they prepare for fall 2020. “As If fewer international students enroll, the economic fallout will be severe.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

caption here Chart from "Understanding Equity Gaps in College Graduation," Urban Institute, January 2020. “ Understanding Equity Gaps in College Graduation ” was written by Erica Blom and Tomas Monarrez at the Urban Institute and published in January 2020. This is where the Urban Institute analysis gets really interesting.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

Todd Young, a Republican from Indiana, and Tim Kaine, a Democrat from Virginia, are both staunch advocates of short-term workforce training programs; they reintroduced the bill in May, after a February 2020 version languished without success. The increase has also been sped up by the pandemic, she said.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

A new book by Arthur Levine and Scott Van Pelt asks, How will America’s colleges and universities adapt to remarkable technological, economic and demographic change? No matter what we are calling them, they may be here to stay. Credit: Johns Hopkins University Press. Colleges and universities no longer have a monopoly on credentials.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Traditional public schools alone aren’t responsible for the student debt or skilled labor crises — but a longstanding Massachusetts education experiment has shown promise at addressing both. But students aren’t the only ones who lose out from a one-size-fits-all high school approach. So does the U.S. percent , even lower than the overall 1.5

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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 May 2020, White earned an associate degree in business administration, with a 3.84

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Dora Bray Magilke had been unemployed for over a month when someone from her local career center in Branson, Missouri, reached out in the summer of 2020 with an offer. Like hundreds of similar programs, it receives millions in tuition dollars, not from traditional student aid, but from the Departments of Labor and Defense.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

In mid-March 2020, schools in Lindsay Unified shut down in response to the coronavirus pandemic. 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. So, what is competency-based education, exactly?

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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.”. Schools get creative.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2022

Intended to train displaced workers, non-traditional adult students, and first-time college students, these efforts seek to upskill or reskill people and help them to obtain industry-recognized credentials that align with in-demand, high-wage occupations.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Interest in outdoor schools like Sol has spiked since Covid-19 hit the United States last year, according to a 2020 snapshot report from the Natural Start Alliance. has more than doubled since 2017 to 585 in 2020, according to the Natural Start Alliance. The school also prioritizes economic equity. When many U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

We know that education reform is far from simple: Charter schools modestly accelerate the learning of students from poor and working-class families, relative to their peers who attend traditional campuses. Related: COLUMN: Support for charters in 2020 elections comes at a price. as well, thanks in part to high-quality charter schools.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Taking advantage of the event’s popularity, organizers of the Bayou Classic teamed up with Louisiana-based NexusLA, an economic development organization, to host a pitch competition between teams of tech-savvy college entrepreneurs. Related: Support for charters in 2020 election comes with a price.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

Once considered a boutique form of education overly reliant on technology, competency-based education is increasingly seen as a way to solve a host of problems with traditional schooling, problems that became more apparent when learning went virtual.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The economic devastation wrought by Covid-19 and its disproportionate impact on students served by community colleges make this an ethical imperative. Traditional career service offices and methods are outdated. Traditional career service offices and methods are outdated.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

It has a far-reaching ripple effect, with power to uplift individuals, families and entire communities; it remains the most reliably consistent path to economic and social mobility. Will it be economic interests, such as legacy, donor status and the ability of the student’s family to pay the “full freight” cost of college?

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Digital Promise

APRIL 24, 2018

In math education, the problem is not quite so dire – but it’s time to start breaking a few of our own traditions. In fact, students who struggle early with the traditional singular STEM pathway are more likely to fall out of the higher education pipeline entirely.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

A bipartisan law passed in 2020 initiated a complete overhaul of the FAFSA. The task ahead is daunting: The Department of Education only started sending batches of student records this week to colleges that will determine aid offers, and about 200 have already extended the traditional May 1st deadline for students to accept offers.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

In 2020, 24 percent of teachers were considering leaving their current state or the profession within five years; a year later, that number had grown to 30 percent, a Brookings Institution report found. Not surprisingly, a concerning number of educators have grown dissatisfied with their jobs and are eyeing exits.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

As this happens, more people will encounter a confluence of water-related challenges , including substantial disease risks, constrained economic opportunities, and political instability. In 2020, we launched a first-of-its-kind study about what happens to women’s health and well-being when water sources run dry—starting in Peru and Indonesia.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 14, 2024

In Australia, some traditional owners have expressed concerns over the potential destruction of sites like Murujuga due to industrial development projects. A gas project in the area threatens the preservation of the ancient petroglyphs, raising questions about the balance between cultural conservation and economic interests.

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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 pandemic has driven down four-year college enrollment by 4 percent and community college enrollment by 17 percent since spring 2020. yearly median of $36,660.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2018

Still others are stymied by academic calendars that continue to favor the traditional 18- to 22-year-old, even though such students are no longer the norm. Nearly every state has set a goal for boosting the proportion of its population with post-secondary education; most are aiming for 55 to 65 percent by 2020 or 2025.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 25, 2024

It’s no surprise that by high school, nearly 75% of students report negative feelings – tired, stressed, and bored– about school (Moeller, Brackett, Ivcevic & White, 2020). The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs report highlights the rapidly changing landscape of the workforce. Moeller, J., Brackett, M.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

As an assistant professor of economics at City College in New York, Shankar knew that one of the most important requirements of scientific research was often missing from studies of the effectiveness of online higher education: a control group. “We A student walks through a mostly empty college campus in Irvine, California, in October 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2022

It shows that school closures widened both economic and racial inequality in learning — which was already at unacceptable rates prior to the pandemic. The latest study from Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research is based on testing data from 2.1 million students across the country.

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