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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

We know that these obstacles exist, and we haven’t addressed them,” said Wil Del Pilar, vice president for higher education policy, practice and research at the Education Trust, a nonprofit organization that focuses on helping students of color and low-income students.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 16, 2015

So we now have an Iowa school report card system that confirms what we already knew from the peer-reviewed research and from other locations, which is that schools with higher poverty levels tend to do less well on indicators of school success. State department educational policy advocacy: “Evidence-based” or puffery?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In recent years, the group’s advocacy has led to changes in the district’s graduation requirements, to align them with admissions requirements for California’s university systems, and an expansion of funding for an after-school meal program that had been cut by the school board. Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

That, in turn, contributes to the fact that more than a third of students who start college still haven’t earned degrees after six years, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center reports , often piling up loan debt with no payoff. At some types of institutions, they’re flat or getting worse, according to the data.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Candace Cortiella, the director of The Advocacy Institute. However, there is not much research on the life outcomes of students with disabilities who attain high school diplomas versus those who get alternative exit documents. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem. Who is in Special Education?

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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2016

Too many students in virtual and blended learning schools are performing poorly, according to a new National Education Policy Center report , released last week, by Gary Miron, a professor at Western Michigan University, and Charisse Gulosino, an assistant professor at the University of Memphis.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

University research and policy in an era of advocacy philanthropists and agenda-setting organizations. Foundations such as Gates and Lumina are bigger, more influential, more strategic, and directly involved in shaping federal and state education policy (K-16). Christopher Morphew , U. Complete College America).

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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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

Five of the state’s 124 high schools are on target to hand out the new diplomas next spring, according to a spokesperson for the Maine Department of Education, while others have barely started to make the transition. Erika Stump, researcher, University of Southern Maine. Photo: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

That’s because as the companies add more programs, they need to shell out large sums to ramp them up, said Brett Knoblauch, an equity research analyst at Berenberg Capital Markets, who follows companies like 2U. Howard Lurie, principal analyst, Eduventures Research. It takes a few years for the programs to turn profitable, he said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

The idea, popular among well-funded education philanthropies and education advocacy groups, is gaining ground across the United States. Another 13 were in “developing” stages of adoption, according to Competency Works , an online project of iNACOL, an education research nonprofit. percent to 89.1

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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. Launch My Career.

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The Hechinger Report

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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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. My area of research is Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Movement,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

And new research shows the problem is worsening. In 2019, 62 percent of 18- to 35-year-old borrowers living in ZIP codes that were “majority minority,” meaning where the majority of residents were people of color, owed more than they originally borrowed, up from 34 percent 10 years earlier, according to research by the Jain Family Institute.

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ED Surge

MAY 16, 2023

In February, about six months after the CHIPS and Science Act was passed to strengthen research and manufacturing of semiconductors and other technologies in the U.S., That slow, organic trend accelerated earlier this year. Momentum there is really important.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

Kids were busting into Zoom meetings across the country at that point in the pandemic, but for Kelley, whose job is to help design California’s statewide education policy, and her female colleagues, the situation held special resonance. “We According to research , she’s right. Hers is a distinctly powerful position.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

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. For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 8, 2024

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Elizabeth Warren released a federal education policy proposal that recognizes a fundamental truth about students: Kids don’t live in schools, they live in communities. Education policy that ignores neighborhood conditions misses the point of why we ultimately go to school — to improve our community.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2020

Parents would be responsible for bringing kids on and off, on and off, on and off,” said Mancha-Sumners, the associate director for the Texas Center for Education Policy at the University of Texas at Austin. “I Emma Mancha-Sumners, a research scientist and mother of three. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift. I can’t do that.

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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 Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The campaign to reinstate the exemption was the result of legal action by many elite four-year institutions and advocacy groups, notably Harvard University and MIT. Dan Kent is a senior policy analyst at Research for Action, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit education research organization.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

But though advocates applaud this transparency — while also largely decrying the rollback of regulation — researchers are discovering that some of the data being made available through or linked from the College Scorecard, the principal federal higher education consumer website , is inaccessible, inaccurate or out of date.

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MPSA

OCTOBER 24, 2024

As a university professor, I have access to databases (so I can easily find a quote or a photo out of copyright) and I’ve spent almost 40 years learning to research.” in International Education Policy and Management with a focus on Latin American Studies from Vanderbilt University in 2017. She received her M.Ed.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2022

I am an education policy professor who has spent almost two decades studying programs like these, and trying to follow the data where it leads. I started this research cautiously optimistic that vouchers could help. It’s more than the research though. We’re talking about kids’ lives. Twitter: @joshcowenMSU.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The Network for Public Education, an advocacy group, last month published an interactive feature chronicling “voucher scams.” Speakers at last week’s conference, sponsored by Harvard’s Program on Education Policy and G overnance, offered no such dissenting views. Enlow, president and CEO of the advocacy group EdChoice. “To

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

“The average amount of tuition is going to be more than the actual voucher, not to mention transportation and uniform costs,” said Nik Nartowicz, state policy counsel for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a legal advocacy group. Hungerman’s own research, conducted in partnership with an economist at the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2019

Lawmakers are eager to score political points for proposing a “big solution” to the nation’s college affordability crisis, said Tiffany Jones, director of higher education policy at the think tank Education Trust. Tiffany Jones, director of higher education policy, Education Trust.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2017

It’s unclear to me just if there’s any strategy around that unrestricted reserve,” said Jennifer Lee, a higher education policy analyst at the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute. “In It’s money that the state told people… we’re going to spend on education.”. That’s obviously a huge component to the student loan debt.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

When our political leaders don’t believe that our education policies must help reverse the legacy of centuries of exploitation of black folk, then it’s not surprising that so many children of color lack access to high-quality, state-funded preschool programs.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2019

At this rate, the target won’t be met until at least 2041 , the research arm of the nonprofit Educational Testing Service, or ETS, predicts. It will take until at least 2056 for 60 percent of all working-age Americans — not just 25- to 34-year-olds —to have college educations of some kind, ETS calculates.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2025

Head Start is in every community in America, said Cara Sklar, director of early & elementary education policy at the D.C.-based But I will say this: We have great research. Credit: Anya Kamenetz for The Hechinger Report Still, for many of the families who do manage to make it through the doors, the program is life-changing.

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