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The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 20, 2025
Our research at the Institute for Higher Education Policy shows that first-dollar free college programs deliver more postsecondary value than last-dollar programs. Moreover, data-driven insights can help institutions and policymakers develop targeted strategies that improve the economic returns of higher education for all students.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 15, 2022
Now a doctoral student in education leadership policy at Texas Tech University, Williams often thinks about the student loan debt she is still accruing. And for Williams, a higher education senior policy analyst at the advocacy group Education Trust, the personal is also professional.
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The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
In the last few years, the American education system has been bludgeoned by changes that have upended decades of progress toward better academic, economic and social outcomes for all. These dangerous culture wars will wreak havoc on education and education policy for years to come.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 30, 2018
No more simply “sitting on your butt in class,” as one educator put it. We have to engage in a movement,” Susan Patrick, CEO of the nonprofit advocacy group known as iNACOL (International Association for K-12 Online Learning), told the cheering crowd of 3,000 true believers. Why are we so stuck in an age-based, grade-based era?
ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
It’s one relevant to past research about barriers preventing students from enrolling in college, said Taylor Odle, an assistant professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and co-author of the “non-submitters” study. Their advocacy work has already begun, one high school senior at a time. “At
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 11, 2023
From 2017-18 to 2021-22, districts with more economically disadvantaged students and Black and Latino students gave out more such suspensions per capita than their more affluent, whiter counterparts. Buffalo Public Schools assigned more than 2,200 long-term suspensions over those five years, the highest of any district that provided data.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 3, 2016
New York City’s public schools, like those in the state’s other big cities, educate large numbers of (traditionally struggling) poor black and Latino students, and sometimes those students outperform even their white and more affluent peers in Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo and Yonkers on state tests. In Rochester, for example, just 6.7
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