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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

Even if graduating high school seniors say they are only delaying their educations, and will eventually go to college, “their likelihood of actually enrolling a year or two years later is lower, and therefore their chances of getting a degree is lower,” said Watson Scott Swail, president and CEO of the Educational Policy Institute.

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

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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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More high school grads than ever are going to college, but 1 in 5 will quit

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JULY 4, 2018

There’s a $32 million glass-fronted complex near completion that will house the nursing program and administrative offices, and a new $11 million recreation center that will also have a lab to study kinesiology, or human movement. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education. Choose as many as you like.

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These students are finishing high school, but their degrees don’t help them go to college

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DECEMBER 1, 2017

Candace Cortiella, the director of The Advocacy Institute. Comeaux, who has made it a point to educate herself about the intricacies of special education policy, told administrators she would not be taking her child off the regular diploma track. Who is in Special Education? Higher Education. Weekly Update.

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

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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. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

Meghan Whittaker, director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. I don’t think anyone’s going to say that what we were doing worked or was equitable,” said Meghan Whittaker, the director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. Here’s why they’re not.

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Are Workplace Benefits a Viable Solution to the Child Care Crisis?

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MAY 16, 2023

A version of this story appeared in USA Today But someone has to do all that charming, and not everyone has the magic touch, explains Tim Berry, vice president of human resources for the Dollywood Company. Momentum there is really important.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

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JULY 10, 2019

Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education. His larger argument, though — that the alliance between education policymakers and billionaire technologists could undermine the role of teachers and the public sphere — has only become more relevant. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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

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DECEMBER 17, 2023

Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report Following Meryl’s death, Ketron decided to continue her daughter’s advocacy. The law also limits instruction on and discussion of human sexuality and gender identity in schools. A separate section of the law bans gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth in the state.

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10 years later, goal of getting more Americans through college is way behind schedule

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JANUARY 13, 2019

“The polar icecap we’re seeing melting in higher education is right in front of us,” said Mitchell, who now is president of the largest national association of colleges and universities, the American Council on Education, and who compared the situation to the slow-moving impacts of changes in environmental policies.

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Would proposed borrower-defense rules help or harm indebted students?

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AUGUST 2, 2018

Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: Student debt relief advocacy organizations The Debt Collective and Higher Ed, Not Debt , as well as the higher education policy expert Jen Mishory at The Century Foundation , also oppose the suggested regulations. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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Head Start is turning 60. The federal child care program may not make it to 61

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MARCH 31, 2025

On March 27, the Department of Health And Human Services announced it was cutting a further 10,000 jobs, and reorganizing the Administration for Children and Families, which administers Head Start. Head Start is in every community in America, said Cara Sklar, director of early & elementary education policy at the D.C.-based

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

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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

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Republican platform for higher ed: Less red tape and less money

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JULY 17, 2016

“Obviously what we do legislatively is a statement of our philosophy and our principles,” said Virginia Foxx, Republican chair of the House subcommittee that oversees higher education and co-chair of the GOP platform committee. An enormous amount of hardworking taxpayer money goes into education in this country. (The

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