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OPINION: Black principals play a key role in transforming education. We need more of them

The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2024

Horace Tate is no relic of history; Black principals are still fighting that fight today. We worked with the legislature to amend the law to include more entry points into teacher education programs by adding a provision that takes into account prospective teachers’ GPAs, instead of relying solely on ACT and Praxis scores.

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OPINION: Educators must be on the frontline of social activism

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Politicians around the country have been aiming to demolish progressive policies by targeting teaching about race and ethnicity, the LGBTQIA+ community and women’s reproductive rights. These dangerous culture wars will wreak havoc on education and education policy for years to come.

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Amid clampdown on DEI, some on campuses push back

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

Several weeks ago, for example, staff offices at Florida Atlantic University’s Center for Inclusion, Diversity Education and Advocacy in Boca Raton were vacant, with name plates blank and abandoned desks, plus LGBTQ+ flags, posters and pamphlets left behind. There is also mounting resistance to the laws.

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Despite mediocre records, for-profit online charter schools are selling parents on staying virtual

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Overall, about 63 percent of virtual for-profit schools were rated unacceptable by their states in the latest year for which data was available, according to a May 2021 report by the University of Colorado’s National Education Policy Center (NEPC). Murphy teaches business education at a middle school in a neighboring county.

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Colleges Are Missing Out on Students Who Start — But Don’t Finish — Their Applications

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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

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Community colleges tackle another challenge: Students recovering from past substance use

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

The downturn has pushed community colleges to broaden their approach to recruitment, resulting in an increase in the number of students requiring more support and services, said Taylor Odle, an assistant professor of education policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The price tag is not the same,” he said.

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In New York state, students can be suspended for up to an entire school year

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

He had a passion for drawing that made art class his favorite, followed by math and history. As a history buff, he liked sharing what he already knew from videos he had watched on his own. Prior to his suspension, Martinez enjoyed school. He liked getting to see friends every day. And then, just like that, he was cut off.

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While focus is on fall, students? choices about college will have a far longer impact

The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

Students who take time off from four-year universities, opt for community colleges instead or shift to part time all could end up spending longer in school and are more likely to drop out, history and research show. That’s the inescapable lesson of history and research. Credit: Gregory Shamus/Getty Images.

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Critics warn that well-meaning reforms may be lowering the quality of college

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

“I don’t know anyone who doesn’t want to improve education, but our good intentions can make us unintentionally do the wrong things,” said Frederick Hess, founding director of the education policy studies program at the Washington think tank the American Enterprise Institute.

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Consumers get more information about a purchase they once made on trust: college

The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2016

There is a consumer protection strand of American history, and now it’s higher education’s turn,” said Daniel Greenstein, director of education and postsecondary success at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has been pressing for better information to be made available to students and their families.

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One state is poised to teach media literacy starting in kindergarten

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2022

A 2019 report from the Stanford History Education Group found that high school students had “difficulty discerning fact from fiction online.”. In 2016, Polites, the state advocacy leader for nonprofit Media Literacy Now, began to contact her state legislators, advocating for an “information literacy” bill being proposed at the time.

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Interactive: Explore who gains most from canceling student debt

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Throughout most of the Department of Education’s life as a guarantor of loans and a direct lender, student borrowing remained below $20 billion per year , according to a 1998 report from the Institute for Higher Education Policy. That shifted with the 1992 reauthorization of the Higher Education Act.

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Is the pandemic our chance to reimagine education for students with disabilities?

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), today, more than 7 million children, or 14 percent of public school students , are entitled to special services and accommodations to help them learn. Meghan Whittaker, director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities.

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School clubs for gay students move underground after Kentucky’s anti-LGBTQ law goes into effect

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report Following Meryl’s death, Ketron decided to continue her daughter’s advocacy. Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report Across the country, the number of GSAs is at a 20-year low, according to GLSEN, an LGBTQ+ education advocacy nonprofit.

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The rural school district Obama fought to save

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

State waivers under the old No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) also gave rural schools needed flexibility, said Ellerson, the associate executive director for policy and advocacy at the American Association of School Administrators (AASA). Dillon was lucky to have the president personally invested in improving its schools.

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One school district’s ‘playbook’ for undoing far-right education policies

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

It hit us like a ton of bricks,” said Laura Foster, a local mother who helped create the progressive advocacy group the Ridge Network to fight the right-wing dominance of Pennridge’s schools. If we don’t make the most of this chance,” he said, “we’re not going to get another one.” “It Then there was the curriculum.

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OPINION: I’d love to predict what a Kamala Harris presidency might mean for education, but we don’t have enough information

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2024

In the case of forecasting what education policies Kamala Harris might pursue as president, though, a more apt analogy might be reading her mind. Frankly it’s anyone’s guess what her education policies would be given how few clues we have. Predicting the future is often compared to reading tea leaves. Bush administration.

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Amid clampdown on DEI, some on campuses push back

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Colleges Are Missing Out on Students Who Start — But Don’t Finish — Their Applications

Community colleges tackle another challenge: Students recovering from past substance use

In New York state, students can be suspended for up to an entire school year

While focus is on fall, students? choices about college will have a far longer impact

Critics warn that well-meaning reforms may be lowering the quality of college

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One state is poised to teach media literacy starting in kindergarten

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School clubs for gay students move underground after Kentucky’s anti-LGBTQ law goes into effect

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