The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2016

Paola De La Torre Macias and Brian Torales, who started college this fall already having completed remediation courses while still in high school. Stephanie Lewis and one of her students both cried when he graduated in the spring from South Pittsburg High School in Tennessee, where she teaches English.

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JULY 1, 2024

While some progress has been made since then, institutions can still do a better job connecting their educational and economic mobility missions; recent research indicates that college graduates are having a hard time putting their degrees to work. Make coursework-career connections a campuswide priority. see College Scorecard ).

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As a math educator at the high school and middle school levels, I lived for the moments when students’ furrowed brows ever-so-slightly began to unfold and smiles emerged. They offer an invitation to analyze how mathematics can be applied to promote civic engagement, advocacy, policy change and increased access to resources.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Personalized learning lets Champlain Valley Union High School sophomore Bella Curtis study toward a certificate in horse management. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

Black, Hispanic and economically disadvantaged students are likely to be affected the most by the most recent version of the law. Parents and teachers have been packing churches , school board rooms and legislative sessions in protest. Lucy Kells, parent While reading is a strong predictor of later school struggles, so is poverty.

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MAY 15, 2023

This story also appeared in USA Today He also knew that the high school he attended on Chicago’s South Side offered few of the advantages that wealthier kids got. When he made it to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the shortcomings of his high school were even more evident. It’s just the way society is.”

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Twice a week, Rofiat Olasunkanmi, 22, heads back to Brooklyn to her alma mater, Kurt Hahn Expeditionary Learning School. Rofiat Olasunkanmi helps high school seniors apply to college. Further, rates varied by school type. Photo courtesy of Olasunkanmi. And many of her students’ parents do not speak English.

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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. We must do this through teaching, learning and advocacy — as well as social activism and civic engagement.

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JANUARY 10, 2022

Without a significant change in the economics of education, changing the grammar of schooling is actually the most realistic approach. How could school work if teachers only taught 4 days out of a 5 day school week? So let’s imagine. But more creative approaches may be necessary.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

Even in high school, Miguel Agyei worried about how he’d pay for college. This story also appeared in USA Today The son of parents who work at a hospital and for UPS, Agyei wanted to go to a school away from his home state of Illinois, but that was too expensive. Miguel Agyei. Meanwhile, costs keep going up.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2020

NEW YORK — Countless ideas about getting students to and through college have come from policymakers, lawmakers and any number of advocacy groups. The campaign includes powerful, short videos from the film’s new partnership with Get Schooled, a free digital college and job adviser.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

Lillian Pace, vice president of policy and advocacy, KnowledgeWorks. Home to the state’s largest school district, with nearly 60 percent of students considered economically disadvantaged, Manchester has consistently performed well below average on state achievement tests.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2019

Students at Walker Valley High School in Cleveland, Tennessee, work with machinery in the school’s mechatronics lab. It’s that fewer than one in five of adults in the entire surrounding Humphreys County have at least an associate degree, according to census data analyzed by the nonprofit advocacy organization Complete Tennessee.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Metro Nashville Public Schools has also hired full- and part-time tutors and contracted with an online tutoring service called Varsity Tutors. Research on retention laws in other states indicates Black, Hispanic and economically disadvantaged students are more likely to be retained. “We

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MARCH 15, 2024

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. She wants colleges to do more to directly help applicants still struggling to fill out the forms.

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MARCH 2, 2023

Her two youngest, both attending Vancouver’s Washington Elementary School, had struggled with remote learning and still lagged their peers in basic math and reading. Her older kids loved their high school sports teams and she couldn’t imagine uprooting them. “‘Oh Please don’t make us go to another school. Oh no, Mom.

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JUNE 26, 2023

Bennett asks the boy what type of music is his favorite (country, he says), and tells him he used to play bass in a high school band; he had hair down to his shoulders. Related: School counselors keep kids on track. They head back to Bennett’s office, where the student calms down by strumming on a guitar.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2019

Bob Casey (D-PA) tweeted , “No child should have to imagine the horror of being ripped away from their parents because their family is struggling economically.” In 2009, students from low-income families dropped out of high school at five times the rate of their high-income classmates.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

Meanwhile, most white students attend selective schools that administer tests that students must pass to be enrolled. In addition, 84 percent of students enrolled in public school were deemed economically disadvantaged in 2014. Schools should get the resources they need to be successful with any population.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

He was a sophomore at Long Island’s Brentwood High School, a few days before Thanksgiving in 2019, when he made a post on Snapchat late one night about hiding an AK-47 at Area 51 in Nevada. Buffalo Public Schools assigned more than 2,200 long-term suspensions over those five years, the highest of any district that provided data.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2017

For example, while nearly two-thirds of a sample of high school seniors in urban Boston public schools said they intended to enroll in a two- or four-year college the next year, less than a quarter actually did so. Related: With consumers pushing back against increased tuition, colleges seek new revenue.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2023

Related: PROOF POINTS: A third of public school children were chronically absent after classrooms re-opened, advocacy group says For people who’ve long studied chronic absenteeism, the post-COVID era feels different. His mother, a high school teacher, enlisted help: relatives, therapists, New York’s crisis unit.

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APRIL 7, 2020

That’s one of the biggest reasons students who get bachelor’s degrees end up having paid for an average of 15 credits that didn’t count by the time they graduate, or a full semester’s worth, the advocacy group Complete College America has calculated. Many never get that far and just drop out. The student ended up going somewhere else.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2022

When lots of 18-year-olds were pouring out of high schools, “it was easy to wait on the applications to come in,” said FAU President John Kelly, in his office overlooking the campus ornamented with palm trees. That’s not the case anymore.”. At community colleges, nearly half the students quit after their first year.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

The first time Hsiulien Perez attended Indiana University Northwest, in the early 1990s, she had just graduated from high school and given birth to her first child. The steel mills where Perez’s father worked paid good wages to people straight out of high school. Aaron Cantú, for The Hechinger Report. GARY, Ind. —

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

Freshman Kylee Elderkin works on an assignment in English class at Nokomis High School in Newport on Friday, June 2, 2017. The Nokomis Regional High School ninth grader said she used to routinely miss key skills and do poorly on tests. Kylee Elderkin, student, Nokomis Regional High School.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2021

It’s also the only way we are going to reach an actual inclusive economic recovery.”. an advocacy group in Oakland, California. “We At her high school in Beaverton, Oregon, “they never talked about the trades,” she said. Related: The jobs where sexual harassment and discrimination never stopped.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

The university has added certificate programs to teach people to be radiographers and CT, ultrasound, MRI and mammography technicians, who are in high demand. The economic churn triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic “has increased the demand” for courses that can help people quickly learn what they need to find work, Paliwal said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Educators can be good at teaching and bad at teaching reading, said Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), an advocacy group that studies teacher preparation. That is a testament to what is done here, and it continues on to that next school.”. It sounds complicated because it is.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A Center for Public Integrity analysis of district-level federal education data suggests roughly 300,000 students entitled to essential rights reserved for homeless students have slipped through the cracks, unidentified by the school districts mandated to help them. Advocacy groups and researchers , too, have surfaced examples.

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ED Surge

MARCH 10, 2023

“It comes down to the curriculum — being able to talk about the Black experience in class, even if it is online, in almost every field, from economics to political science.” It’s a contrast to her high school in Phoenix, where she didn’t have many Black classmates in her International Baccalaureate classes. But college courses?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It’s unfair, it’s discriminatory, and it disadvantages already economically disadvantaged kids,” said Jack Fletcher, co-founder of the Texas Center for Learning Disabilities in Houston and one of the first scientists to question the discrepancy model’s validity. Often these schools also use the discrepancy model to determine whom to admit.)

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

In this day and age the bachelor’s degree is what the high school diploma used to be and the master’s degree is what the bachelor’s degree once was,” said Armstrong. The National Association of Graduate-Professional Students and other advocacy groups are lobbying Congress to mandate training for graduate mentors and advisors.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2018

Related: Economics, culture and distance conspire to keep rural nonwhites from higher educations. The United States is facing a dramatic shortfall of skilled workers , and the economic-modeling company Emsi says a huge wave of retirements will hit blue-collar industries particularly hard in the next few years. Rural ones.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

6, 2018, in front of Lincoln High School in Tacoma, Wash. Between 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S. In addition, the report references the anti-tax revolution , which began in the ’80s and continues today, and promotes the idea that government-imposed taxes are unfair or that they stifle innovation and economic growth.

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JUNE 10, 2016

LIVERPOOL, England — Covering much of one wall of Paul Richards’ office at the Calderstones School is an impressive collection of thank-you notes. Many are from students Richards, in his role overseeing the equivalent of the American junior and senior grades of high school, has successfully prodded into college.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Consider that Over the past two decades, high school graduation rates have gone up. And then there are other social factors, such as economic precarity, a greater societal willingness to talk about mental health, so-called helicopter parenting, and the opioid epidemic, among many others. “I Subscribe today!

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