The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2024

percent or a little more than 1 million people from the previous year, according to the most recent data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Nationally, there were 36.8 million adults like Mims under the age of 65 with some college but no credential as of July 2022, an increase of 2.9

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Brian Johnsrud Director of Education Learning and Advocacy, Adobe Recently, EdSurge spoke with Brian Johnsrud , the director of education learning and advocacy at Adobe , about using educational tools that not only harness the power of AI but also uphold the creative integrity of students and teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2020

Kids should be playing and learning and protected in an environment surrounded by family and friends,” said Nikki Gillette, a researcher with Save the Children. “So Programs & Advocacy. Programs & Advocacy, on a call with reporters. So when children are deprived of that, it launches them into adult roles far too soon.”.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Brian Johnsrud Global Head of Education Learning and Advocacy at Adobe The past two years have witnessed a notable surge in the use of artificial intelligence within education, marked by increased investment, deployment and integration into various educational practices. How would you respond to that?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2022

The country’s next generation of leaders is pushing for racial equity, economic equality, disability justice and gender and sexual liberation; to succeed they will need the observational and analytical skills that can be developed by studying ideas, historical events, aesthetic works and cultural practices.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

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. What does the research say? Well, there is something of a movement, despite an array of challenges.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2021

Students who have paid off all but a small number of completed classes can nonetheless have their entire transcripts held back, said Rebecca Maurer, counsel at the nonprofit advocacy group the Student Borrower Protection Center. A coalition of advocacy groups in New York is encouraging a measure there like California’s.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

School administrators will have to explicitly address the racial biases and stereotyping that stifle black educators’ professional growth, argue researchers Ashley Griffin and Hilary Tackie in a new report from The Education Trust, a national nonprofit advocacy organization. We become the representative for all of those children.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2018

Leila Schochet, research and advocacy manager for Early Childhood Policy at the Center for American Progress, said Head Start is not only important for families, it’s also critical for rural economies. It’s important that children have access to safe and quality childcare while their parents are working,” Schochet said.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 14, 2025

I have fond memories of him regularly calling the APSA Office to share his latest research or to inquire about a recent program announcement. From 1969 to 1972, Holden served on the Social Science Research Council board and held a part-time position on the Presidents Air Quality Advisory board in 1972. Congressional Record.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Researchers characterized this subset of students as “non-submitters.” “Non-submitters” 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.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

Already down by 22 percent between 2010 and 2020, or by more than 650,000 students, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, it has fallen by another 7 percent since then, more recent figures from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center show. Eighty-six percent have to borrow toward a bachelor’s degree.

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ED Surge

MAY 30, 2024

The grant money comes from the CHIPS and Science Act, which passed in 2022 and includes $50 billion to expand semiconductor manufacturing and research in the United States. This issue is not a social issue, it’s an economic issue and frankly, it’s a simple question of math,” Raimondo wrote in an emailed statement to The 19th. “If

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 29, 2017

According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), 36 million adults in this country read at or below a third grade level — a staggering statistic. It has spurred the publication of white papers, launch of incubators and conferences, as well as interest amongst journalists and advocacy groups.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

That’s similar to retention rates in previous years — a report from the Tennessee Education Research Alliance shows that around 1 percent of third graders were held back each school year between 2010 to 2020. But of the roughly 44,000 third grade students who scored low enough to be at risk of retention, just under 900 students , or 1.2

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

He had to get help from an advocacy group called College Possible to pay his rent. An athlete while he was in college, Agyei had to work to pay some of his expenses and needed help from an advocacy group to keep paying his rent as his tuition increased. Your heart breaks that you can’t do more, but there are certain economic realities.

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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. Research says if students are behind in reading by the end of third grade, they are unlikely to ever catch up with their peers. The research on retention is mixed. Because I email, I call.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2021

It’s the pig in the python,” said Steven Barnett, co-director of the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER). In Virginia, where enrollment fell by 13 percent , researchers found equal declines among families of different socio-economic status. Related: Where have all the kindergarteners gone?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2017

New research shows that failing to get more Hispanics to go to college will lower incomes for all Americans. This story from the Hechinger archive lays out what researchers project will happen if there is not an increase in the number of nonwhites going to and through college. And they’ll all be hurtling toward college age.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Even as FAST Funds help to fill gaps in social services today, labor leaders think that in the future, the movement has the potential to organize faculty and staff around advocacy for campus policies that actually close those gaps for low-income students and educators. Yet the researcher also described the program as a “band aid.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2020

Related: Canceled research, sports, recitals — college students are coping with more than closed campuses. Nearly 4 in 10 college and university students transfer at least once , according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Many never get that far and just drop out.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Unlike after previous economic downturns, state spending on higher education has not bounced back as the economy rebounds. One nonprofit advocacy group calculates that 10 states spend more on employee pensions than on higher education; in Illinois, more than half of the $4.1 It’s improved only slightly since.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

It is a research-based approach that experts say is essential for helping children — especially those who struggle — learn to read. Related: What parents need to know about the research on how kids learn to read. Erin Roberts, a teacher leadership specialist. 1 in the nation for growth in reading. It sounds complicated because it is.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2019

His “quiet and relentless advocacy brought hundreds of African Americans into space industry jobs in the Deep South, helping to shift perceptions of black people in ways both subtle and profound,” wrote Michael Fletcher in the story. In that role, he actively recruited hundreds of black students into the space program.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

Fewer students equal less revenue for community colleges, which could lead to cuts at the very institutions so many depend upon as a first step toward economic mobility. Davis Jenkins, Community College Research Center. Related: Number of rural students planning on going to college plummets.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

Eboni Walker, executive director of the Hoffman Early Learning Center, is currently recruiting “families who value the research that shows children learn best in these diverse environments.”. We want families who value the research that shows children learn best in these diverse environments.”. This effort does that.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

In a survey conducted by Quest Research and the Kaplan test-prep company, they were four times more likely to say they’d hire an English major with a credential in cybersecurity than an English major without one. Only 26 percent of working U.S. Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report. Fifteen U.S. Only 26 percent of working U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

Schools were unable to cover teacher absences some 20 percent of the time in 2018-19, according to the Frontline Research and Learning Institute , a research firm. Around 60 percent of large school districts surveyed by the National Council on Teacher Quality, an advocacy group, increased pay for subs during the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2023

I entered college in 1989 with an interest in human rights advocacy, planning to be a lawyer. I am a poster child for the English major. I quickly fell in love with poetry in a class I’d somewhat randomly taken on John Keats and William Butler Yeats.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

New research shows that failing to get more Hispanics to go to college will lower incomes for all Americans. By 2060, more K-12 students will be Hispanic than any other race — 38 percent — while the proportion that is white drops from half to one third, according to projections by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

Research continues to show the harmful impact of housing instability on kids’ learning: Each time students switch schools, for example, they are more likely to fall behind academically and less likely to graduate. Low-income housed students, meanwhile, performed much better.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

“No one has ever asked them that,” said Julio Garcia, a consulting senior research psychologist at Stanford who studies how assumptions people make about them — largely based on stereotypes — have as much of an impact on the success of students as their aptitude and preparation. . “Where do you want to go to college?”

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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.” million in missing resources ,” according to a 2015 report on education funding by the nonprofit advocacy group EdTrust. For a 1,000-student high school, it means $1.2

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

It’s also the only way we are going to reach an actual inclusive economic recovery.”. Women’s share of construction trades jobs increased from about 3 percent to 4 percent over the past five or so years, according to Ariane Hegewisch, a senior research fellow at the nonprofit Institute for Women’s Policy Research.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2018

Norphlet-Thompson said that in Mississippi’s rural, under-resourced, economically challenged communities, Head Start is critical for providing child care as well as medical care that children may not otherwise receive.

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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.” Digital tools may not fully convey the experience of going to HBCU football games and step shows, then. But college courses?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2022

More than a quarter of students dropped out between their first and second years in college in 2020, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center — the highest level in nearly a decade. At community colleges, nearly half the students quit after their first year. A hold would be placed, and then another hold,” Capp said.

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