The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2020

Simón López, the Coordinator of Special Education at the Sarah Greenwood Elementary School for Dual Languages, is calling attention to the failure of Boston Public Schools’ dual language programs to accept students with certain types of disabilities – a violation of the spirit, at least, of state and federal laws.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The school’s website promised a “rigorous education experience” delivered by highly qualified teachers. the nation’s biggest for-profit operator of charters, enrollment grew by 45 percent, to almost 157,000, and revenues in its general education division rose 37 percent. Nemergut enrolled all three girls. At Stride Inc.,

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! Phil Murphy’s desk for a signature. .

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. The newly released National Education Technology Plan from the U.S. Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

No more simply “sitting on your butt in class,” as one educator put it. 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. Why are we so stuck in an age-based, grade-based era?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2020

Because CARES Act money can be given only to students eligible for financial aid, Deborah Santiago, chief executive officer of Excelencia in Education, is worried about the many low-income or first-generation students who don’t know how to properly apply for aid. Credit: Delece Smith-Barrow/The Hechinger Report. WASHINGTON, D.C.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 4, 2015

’ It’s not that you don’t have enough money due to four historic years of inadequate education funding , it’s that you don’t spend it wisely… I completely agree. That bonus you didn’t get at work (aka Iowa education reform in 2015). That bonus you didn’t get at work (aka Iowa education reform in 2015).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

The switch to a proficiency-based education, which focuses on making sure students can demonstrate what they know, has helped students like Elderkin. That’s due to a new teaching approach here called “proficiency-based education,” that was inspired by a 2012 state law. Photo: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Non-submitters” were more likely than students who submitted applications to have lower educational-occupational aspirations, be racial minorities, have parents who completed lower levels of education and live in communities with lower socioeconomic status — but they were not less academically qualified. Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2016

There is an empathy gap between far too many educators and students like me, and I think it may explain why I so often felt disenfranchised in school. My story is a testament to what can happen when students are given ownership over their education. My story embodies the idea that education is freedom.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Now they are demanding a greater role in school policy and the decisions that shape their educations. They are also seeking to use this moment to educate teens about elections and voting and turn them into lifelong voters. “The Andrew Brennen, National Geographic education fellow.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 9, 2015

A few folks know that I was one of the three finalists to be the next Director of the Iowa Department of Education. I shared some big ideas about where I thought Iowa education could / should go. I blogged in March that it was really tough to feel positive about education politics in Iowa this year and I was proven right.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

Gifting myself with an education is a part of my recovery,” said Nomi Badboy, 43, one of three students attending this week’s meeting of the school’s collegiate recovery program. Education is an example of what’s called “recovery capital,” something earned that makes long-term recovery more likely.

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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. Camilla Forte contributed reporting to this story.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

“One cataclysmic event can do it in,” said Renn, a professor of higher, adult and lifelong education at Michigan State University. For them, and for employers who need educated graduates, that means the effects of this crisis will be felt not just for one semester, but for six or more years. The empty campus of Vanderbilt University.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Today the Iowa Department of Education issued its first-ever school report cards. Here are the number of Iowa schools in each of the six possible report card categories: For this first year, the Department of Education distributed schools along a normal curve. That bonus you didn’t get at work (aka Iowa education reform in 2015).

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Online higher education may cost more than it could for students and earn less for universities thanks to a little-known $1 billion industry of for-profit middlemen that gets as much as 80% of the proceeds in commissions. revenues of $1 billion annually, may be thwarting the innovative potential of online education.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

Texas A&M University at Texarkana has one of the lowest retention rates of public higher-education institutions; 55 percent who started in 2012 were gone by 2016. Department of Education data analyzed by The Hechinger Report. The line between Texas and Arkansas in front of the bi-state federal building, which straddles both.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. Candace Cortiella, the director of The Advocacy Institute. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

But it’s among the ways critics warn some well-meaning reforms designed to solve the many challenges in higher education are threatening to water down its quality or benefiting students who don’t need help. Every well-intentioned policy carries unintended consequence,” said Chester Finn Jr., Higher Education.

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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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

The New York State Education Department does not collect data on suspension lengths, but public records requests to 17 of the state’s largest school districts uncovered more than 6,200 suspensions of more than 20 days from 2017-18 to 2021-22. At least 15 states already have similar laws in place. You could have learned your lesson.”

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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. Syracuse’s Washington Square Neighborhood.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Under a set of new standards adopted by the Vermont State Board of Education in 2014 , the class of 2020 will be eligible for graduation when they’ve demonstrated “evidence of proficiency” in the curriculum. said State Board of Education Chair Krista Huling. “I Moving in this direction is really a paradigm shift.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2016

You wanna buy a college education? At least, that’s how things turn out for the average American graduate, according to the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. Department of Education reports, or 13 times as many as visited a previous federal website without postgraduate incomes listed. Of course you do!

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2020

But when schools shuttered for the coronavirus last spring, Vaughn gained a slew of new responsibilities, like helping her kids access virtual classrooms and coordinating the special education services they receive. Meghan Whittaker, director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities.

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ED Surge

MARCH 24, 2022

It was the Fall of 2020, and I delivered my testimony on Zoom to the Texas State Board of Education. This was the first time in many years that Texas was revising its sex education standards, which would impact millions of students in Texas for many years. This pattern is not unique in education policy spaces.

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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. There is also mounting resistance to the laws.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

The racial disparity comes from the gap in wealth between Black and Latino and white families as well as discrimination in hiring, Steinbaum said, and discrimination in higher education. Higher education segregation is specifically why Black borrowers have so much more debt,” he said. Sign up for our higher education newsletter.

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ED Surge

MAY 16, 2023

For years, Dollywood has been building out a suite of benefits for its employees, which includes an on-site family health center, a park chaplain, and full tuition coverage for anyone interested in furthering their education through the company’s partner program GROW U.

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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 The principal consultant focused on education for Assembly appropriations is female.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Since she was gathering perspectives from numerous educators, I wanted to avoid the well-known tools such as ChatGPT and Gemini. Consensus AI is an advanced artificial intelligence platform designed to help educators find and understand complex research. Stronger Advocacy : Use data to advocate for effective policies and programs.

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JULY 10, 2019

Danusis and her teaching staff practice personalized learning, an individual-comes-first approach, usually aided by laptops, that has become a reformist calling card in education. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning.

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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 Elizabeth Bartholet, professor of law at Harvard Law School and faculty director of Harvard’s Child Advocacy Program.

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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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