The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2021

The internships could be in government, in nonprofit organizations or in the private sector. The civil unrest of spring 2020 laid bare racial inequities and accelerated the job market’s readiness to embrace young and diverse workers. The time is right. Despite the economic upheaval created by the pandemic, many jobs remain unfilled.

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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 Shuai “Eddy” Jiang, a rising junior at Boston College, on Acorn Street in Boston.

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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. Magilke qualified for a government grant to go back to school, she was told, at a place the center suggested: an online company called MedCerts.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Education policy leaders at the federal level and beyond were exploring the growing role of competency-based education and non-traditional providers —and calls were growing for stronger connections between universities and the world of employment. The number of open badges awarded nearly doubled from 24 million in 2018 to 43 million in 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

The starkest example is eighth grade students, who were in fourth grade when the pandemic first erupted in March of 2020. But the pace of learning, or rate of academic growth, has been rocky since 2020, with some students missing many months of instruction. This is a crisis moment with middle schoolers,” said Lewis.

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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. There was nothing like this.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 29, 2024

Providers of some of the most popular standardized tests are rethinking their offerings as new AI tools are challenging traditional techniques for finding out what students know — and allowing new ways to give and score tests. Thousands of students complained about their resulting scores, and some governments launched formal investigations.

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Political Science Now

MAY 13, 2025

Schwartz Professor of Government at Cornell University. In addition to teaching traditional political science courses, she serves as campaign manager for the campus-wide voter mobilization program Vote Oswego and coordinator of SUNY Oswegos broader civic engagement efforts. Martins Press, 2020), co-authored with Suzanne Mettler.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

A bipartisan law passed in 2020 initiated a complete overhaul of the FAFSA. Related: Simpler FAFSA complicates college plans for students and families “As much staff as government has, it’s not enough for students right now,” said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the national advocacy group Complete College America.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 27, 2021

We interviewed leaders at 30 different ‘deeper learning’ schools around the world in 2019 and 2020. Our goal was to try and parse out What do leaders at innovative schools do that is different from their counterparts in more traditional schools ? As you might imagine, we saw some fantastic leading, teaching, and learning.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2022

But there is still more that the government can do to help higher education and employers partner to support people who are trying to land better careers. Department of Education funding to $88.3 Community colleges are best positioned to meet the needs of the American workforce—but intervention at historic levels is necessary.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Most early college high schools are small public schools, housing grades nine to 12 just like traditional public high schools, though some extend five years. AIR publicized it February 2020 as a policy brief. For students, that’s a degree with zero tuition. Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2023

When students enroll in a traditional college, they know they are attending an institution that has met certain standards set by the federal and state governments and accrediting agencies. Make School didn’t have to disclose any ongoing information about its financials to the federal government or the accreditor.

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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. Credit: Adria Malcolm for The Hechinger Report.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

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. For government authorities, we created policy briefs, translated into Bahasa Indonesian and Spanish. The Jakarta Post reported that Sumba went 249 days without rain in 2019.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

After all, framed that way, teachers give hundreds of standardized tests a year, even those who do learner-centered assessment, project-based learning, or otherwise collect evidence of student learning in ways that are considered alternative or non-traditional. Consider the NHRC’s use of the phrase “licit and illicit” in principle 1.

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ED Surge

MAY 31, 2022

And with universities and schools being given extra funds by the federal government, they'll likely invest in more edtech resources, he says. However, the cliche of “public markets are not the economy” holds just as true today as it did in the heady days of the 2020 V-shaped recovery, only in reverse this time around. Just in the 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

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government. Things … the government does affect us, but we can’t vote,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2022

Larry Hogan announced in March that the state government would strip bachelor’s degree requirements from thousands of job listings. Jared Polis directed government agencies in his state to embrace hiring workers for skills , not degrees. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. requirements too. yearly median of $36,660.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Then, in March 2020, Araujo was at a meeting with other local child care owners when she heard about a program that could give her access to federal Early Head Start funds. Araujo’s salary has nearly doubled since she joined the federally-funded Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership program in 2020. It hasn’t been easy, though.

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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. Credit: Brandon Sullivan for The Hechinger Report.

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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. The urgency for protective measures is underscored by past events, such as the destruction of the Juukan Gorge shelters in 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Election Day is the most sacred of holidays for a democracy, a time when citizens 18 years and older can select representatives charged with shaping our laws and running our governments. billion in revenue for fiscal year 2019-2020, which would contribute to the state’s general education budget. In the U.S.,

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ED Surge

JULY 22, 2022

Sarah Glynn Women in Construction is the kind of program that leaders in the federal government say can help more women succeed in registered apprenticeships—and then break into better-paying fields. There is broad recognition that we are leaving a lot of talent on the table when we exclude women from certain occupations.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2021

Despite recent talk of debt relief and free college, little government help has been forthcoming, especially for working adults. With the government mostly out of the picture, employers set aside tens of billions each year for tuition benefits programs, supposedly with the hope of building the skilled workforce they need.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Some students being placed into lower-level classes has been a pattern since the program started at Concord-Carlisle in 2020, Mims said. He says he has not heard from the federal government or the group about the complaint since early 2023. Parents Defending Education did not respond to several interview requests.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The [remote learning] experience is not good, and it is leaving a really bad taste for many learners,” Weise told me, noting that traditional universities in crisis mode don’t have a background in instructional design and online learning that could help make remote classes more meaningful for students.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Sixteen of them have closed just since 2020. Rural voters are convinced that their communities get less government spending than they deserve. Nicholas Jacobs: I’m an assistant professor of government at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. It’s a Mississippi tradition where politicians come to make speeches.

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2023

In Afterschool Alliance’s “America After 3PM” report released last year, the organization found that between 2014 and 2020, participation in after-school programming decreased and barriers to participation and unmet demand grew. Today’s offerings are rife with game design, sound engineering, culinary classes, coding and more.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Half a million people have left Puerto Rico in the last decade, first after the government cut services in a scramble to try and pay back its $123 billion in debt and then in response to the catastrophe of Hurricane Maria. Until 2020, they’ll co-administer Goyco with the city of San Juan.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2023

“For almost two years, we told families that school can look different and that schoolwork could be accomplished in times outside of the traditional 8-to-3 day. When classrooms closed in March 2020, Negrón in some ways felt relieved her two sons were home in Springfield.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Albuquerque Public Schools is a member of Mission: Graduate, an initiative of the United Way of Central New Mexico that brings together schools, government agencies, businesses, nonprofits and community members to collectively work toward common education goals.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2021

And the disparity is even greater for students of color, according to a study by McKinsey & Company published in December 2020. Children like Lonnie and Lincoln, who are Latino, who have disabilities, and who live with immigrant parents, could experience a setback in their academic performance averaging six months to a year.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Standardized testing has constrained teacher autonomy and creativity, and charter and private schools have competed more aggressively for government funds. He called it his “20 x 2020” plan. The strikes are thus partly about reclaiming a sense of professional pride and middle-class stature.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The reasons include a federal law so little-known that people charged with implementing it often fail to follow the rules; nearly non-existent enforcement of the law by federal and state governments; and funding so meager that districts have little incentive to survey whether students have stable housing. Is this actually what we want?’”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

After decades of demands that this be fixed, a new report from the Government Accountability Office finds that students who transfer among colleges and universities still lose more than 40 percent of the credits they’ve already earned and paid for. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. That’s just under 10 percent of its enrollment.

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