The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2021

Gavin Newsom who leads the state’s Council for Postsecondary Education, to develop a vision for the future of higher education that could be a model for the rest of the country — if it can get past the obstacles in its path to implementation. Related: California higher education reforms are tackling the biggest challenges.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

Public education in America is under attack on multiple fronts. The toxic and ominous polarization of our politics has arrived in our school board meetings, and educators are getting pummeled by accusations that they are brainwashing children into believing “woke” ideologies. These goals become a priority at every school, every day.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2020

When it comes to education spending, middle-income Americans typically don’t put their money where their mouth is. How often do we hear politicians and parents wax poetic about education being the great equalizer? It’s impossible for education to be an equalizer if budgets don’t meet every kid’s needs. It’s a long time coming.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

These efforts are two of the 15 recommendations in a project called the Moon Shot for Equity, a plan that seeks to eliminate college graduation equity gaps by 2030. The Moon Shot program is specifically designed to close gaps for Black, Latino, Native American, first generation and other historically underserved students by 2030.

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ED Surge

APRIL 4, 2022

percent between 2020 to 2030. percent from 2020 to 2030. Bringing career outcomes into early conversations is important, because 65 percent of students report that their colleges didn’t deliver enough support in connecting education to meaningful careers, according to a nationwide Strada College Pulse survey from 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2021

Of those currently enrolled, a fifth say they are likely to delay their graduation because of Covid-19, a Strada Education Network and Gallup survey found. The news of that big drop in community college enrollment is eliciting sympathy for students and prospective students who have delayed or slowed down their educations or dropped out.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2024

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Higher Education newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Thursday with trends and top stories about higher education. David Attis, managing director of research at the education consulting company EAB. Sign up for our higher education newsletter.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Student interest in computer science far exceeds access to computer science education, especially among historically underserved populations. Findings from a recent Gallup survey note that student interest in computer science far exceeds access to computer science education, especially among historically underserved populations.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2024

As educators, we focus on math and reading as the twin flames of childhood development, as the two progress in tandem and pave the path to academic success. By 2030, it is estimated that over 60 percent of jobs in Texas will require at least some level of post-high school education. And we need to start now.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

Among other things, the boosters who pitched international companies to come and do business in this port city promised that its high quality of education would guarantee a steady supply of skilled employees. Their goal: for 75,000 Mobile residents to earn new degrees by 2030. Photo: Fred Salinas for The Hechinger Report. MOBILE, Ala.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Latino children make up one of the fastest-growing demographics in K-12 education. Noel Candelaria, secretary-treasurer of the National Education Association, pointed to statistics that show Latinos accounted for more than 90 percent of U.S. Yet few are likely to grow up and establish careers in technology. Elvir-Ray said.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Alabama administrators increasingly hire educators with emergency certifications, often in low-income and majority Black neighborhoods. By 2030, as many as 16 million K-12 students in the region may be taught by an unprepared or inexperienced teacher, the Southern Regional Education Board projects. 11, 2022, in Athens, Ala.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In educational settings, AR can be used in numerous ways to enhance teaching and engage students. Furthermore, it can transport students to different times and places, making history and geography lessons more immersive and educational. The person who really helped me along this journey has been educational technologist Jaime Donally.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

At a time when other higher education institutions are closing or merging because of a decline in the supply of high school graduates, the Roux is among a small but largely unnoticed number of new colleges that are opening. Demand for workers in solar is expected to nearly double by 2030, according to an industry census.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Their immersive stories will be screened at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on September 24 and 25, days on which heads of state and government from around the world will gather to comprehensively review progress in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 SDGs. Watch the MY World 360?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2019

This story is part of our Map to the Middle Class project , where we ask readers what they want us to investigate about educational pathways to financial stability. As many as 800 million people worldwide could be displaced and need to find new jobs by 2030. Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

Both technologies have made their way into classrooms, leaving educational researchers wondering about their differences and implications for learning. We asked Robert Spierenburg, the chief executive officer at All Things Media , to help explain how AR and VR differ and what that means for the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Why It Matters: More minority and low-income grads going to college could require stronger commitment to educate them. For higher education institutions to continue at that pace or boost it, they’ll need to find new ways of educating a student body increasingly composed of people who are the first in their family to enter college.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 5, 2019

As we approach 2020—the start of a “decade of action” leading up to the 2030 deadline set for achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—we are pleased to announce the launch of a new round of MY World 360?. Educators and adults working with students under age 18 are welcome to share their students’ media.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

“If it does come true, we’re going to see massive changes,” said Mike Griffith, a school finance specialist at the Education Commission of the States, a think tank that aims to inform education policy. It’s important to point out that the National Center for Education Statistics, the statistics arm of the U.S.

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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. To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Over the past several years, at the same time that the words “screen time” became shorthand for children zoning out, several researchers and educational experts have been taking an entirely different track. Today’s preschoolers — the class of 2030 —will still need to be able to read in the traditional sense.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2024

It’s one of a small but growing number of efforts by higher education institutions to address what has become, along with food, the fastest-growing cost of college: a place to live. “I Housing is a human necessity, and yet it’s the thing people try to compromise on just to get an education.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Education is free, lunch is free, books are free, sanitary napkins are free,’’ Ballani tells parents, urging them to visit this government-run school on the edge of the Thar Desert, where, on a warm day late last spring, 12 teachers were overseeing the education of 260 students from first grade through high school.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2022

Related: First nationwide look at racial breakdown of career education confirms deep divides. state in terms of educational achievement. In only two years, our schools have reversed course, wiping out hard-won gains in educational achievement and equity. Google is not going to hire coders who cannot code.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

This month’s Conference of the Parties , or COP 27, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, the United Nations’ annual “let’s not burn the planet” gathering, has a brand-new focus on education. 18, is holding in-person and virtual events at a “Climate Education Hub.” “We education.). For the first time, this COP, which runs through Nov.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Yet labor and education leaders warn that the country is almost uniquely ill-equipped to help these people gather new skills and prepare for new careers. Information about which education programs offer a path to economic security is sometimes limited and inaccessible. Related: Where are the educational pathways to good jobs?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

Emily House, executive director, Tennessee Higher Education Commission and the Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation. “It It’s a real barrier,” said Zora Mulligan, the state’s commissioner of higher education.) Laura Perna, executive director, Alliance for Higher Education and Democracy at the University of Pennsylvania.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2017

Yet throughout India, a number of digital initiatives are underway aimed at improving education in areas that lack sufficient trained and experienced teachers. billion population is under 25, will need some three million new primary school teachers by 2030. India has also had long had a problem with keeping girls in school.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2022

Related: OPINION: Jump in, the water is rising — it’s time to educate students for a sustainable future. Department of Education or any state education agencies make clear to the school boards and superintendents that are guiding these generational infrastructure investments the stark ramifications of their decisions.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2018

The New York Times has a new education supplement, called Learning, and The Hechinger Report is collaborating with the Times to produce Bulletin Board, a collection of noteworthy ideas and trends in education that will appear on page 2 of the section, which will come out four times a year. Highlights from Bulletin Board follow.

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ED Surge

MAY 30, 2024

For that reason, the department also recently announced a voluntary “women in construction framework” that companies receiving these grants can commit to in order to achieve Raimondo’s goal of doubling the number of women in construction by the year 2030.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 29, 2022

There’s advising for those who decide to go further in their educations. Nearly one-third of teenagers now say they would prefer their postsecondary education to last two years or less , a survey by the ECMC Group, a nonprofit education corporation, found. Interest in nondegree programs is way up since before the pandemic.

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the Global Goals, were adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity by 2030. The SDGs are: 1. No hunger 3.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

West Virginia unveiled a campaign this year for 60 percent of adults ages 25 to 64 to have earned a degree or certificate by 2030. Home visits for high schoolers are a “very rare occurrence” said Steven Sheldon, an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Education who studies them. Rural ones.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2016

They are educators, practitioners, school district leaders and principals, nonprofit and government leaders and others who believe in the power of literacy to change lives and who are committed to closing the literacy gap. Yet statistics on illiteracy have remained relatively unchanged for nearly a decade. Who are our literacy leaders?

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Geography Teacher Sharing

MARCH 27, 2021

Within each episode, you will find resources that could complement your lessons: Short video explaining and exemplifying the question with Singapore examples Downloadable activity sheets to engage students in school or at home Downloadable educator guides which include discussion questions for the videos and how to conduct the activity sheets Pop quizzes (..)

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