The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2021

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. 7, districts and libraries had requested $6.4 Subscribe today! The homework gap could worsen for millions of U.S.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 5, 2020

As a former librarian and district leader, I found that success was the best form of advocacy—when the great work of librarians is shared and documented, good things follow for students and library programs. That said, it’s often difficult to effectively tell the story about how librarians make a difference for students and colleagues.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2024

She began her college education in her early 20s, balancing it with raising two sons and working retail jobs. Keischa Taylor, who began her college education in her 20s, balanced it with raising two sons and working retail jobs. You’ve got this. You didn’t come this far to stop. It’s a rare success story. More than a third of the 40.4

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2020

Educators have known about this problem for a long time. Families have, for years, parked outside of businesses that offer free Wi-Fi or taken their children to libraries to find a way to complete assignments that do require the internet. And the level of advocacy and support for a solution has snowballed. Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

The children’s library at the Yale Child Study Center in New Haven, Connecticut. Kathryn Meyer, left, attorney at the Center for Children’s Advocacy, and Christiana Mills, are part of the Yale Child Student Center in New Haven, Connecticut. The center houses the first medical-legal partnership focused on children’s behavioral health.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Traci Chun, a teacher-librarian at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, and junior Ulises Santillano Tlaseca troubleshoot a 3D printing job in the library’s maker space. When my library is quiet, that’s a red flag,” said Chun. based education advocacy group. “It Photo: Kelsey Aske.

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ED Surge

MARCH 10, 2023

Even though it was a virtual environment, I still feel like my education was very unique to the HBCU experience,” she says. “It It’s an undertaking from the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), a philanthropy that supports HBCUs through scholarships to students, grants to higher ed institutions and advocacy for educating African Americans.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 4, 2019

Educators, businesses, and researchers agree: today’s students require a new set of skills to thrive as productive citizens. Events are hosted by a variety of organizations, such as schools, museums, libraries, community centers, and more. Inspire advocacy for more experiential learning in schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

Department of Education promise, and many are calling for an urgent push for help, including through legislation and a marshalling of resources from institutions like libraries and groups such as AmeriCorps. “I It’s a terrible time for anyone who counted on that U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2024

Through the local advocacy of several organizations, the community will have nine Spanish-speaking providers by this summer — including Aguilera. The group, founded in 2017, helps develop quality early care and education programs in Nebraska communities that don’t have enough of them. “If Subscribe for free.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2019

We didn’t pay a parking ticket or a library fine, and our college refused to release our transcript. But imagine that a student’s debt went beyond failing to pay a library fine. trillion in debt, but for many low-income students, even something as comparatively paltry as a library fine can amount to a week’s food budget.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2023

Khloe, who has been diagnosed with autism, ADHD and an anxiety disorder, had no individualized education plan for her disability when she returned to in-person learning after the pandemic. Not being able to attend school regularly has saddened Khloe, stunted her education and isolated her from her peers, her mother says.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 9, 2022

As an education community, we are beginning to understand the depth of the pandemic’s impact, especially on our students of color, our English Language learners and our students with disabilities. We, as an education community, must commit to the principles of Universal Design for Learning for the benefit of all learners.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2021

Nearly all higher education institutions withhold transcripts from students who have even the smallest of balances, according to the higher education consulting firm Ithaka S+R, which has estimated that about 6.6 Critics call it “transcript ransom.”. Deanna Bechard, registrar, Southern New Hampshire University.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2021

million students can’t obtain their transcripts from public and private colleges and universities for having unpaid bills as low as $25 or less, the higher education consulting firm Ithaka S+R estimates. I need my transcript to be able to work in order to continue my education and be able to pay off those debts,” he said, shaking his head.

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MARCH 14, 2025

renowned political scientist, distinguished educator, and cherished mentor, passed away on January 26, 2025, at the age of 93. He was deeply engaged in public service and community advocacy, lending his voice and expertise to advance policies aimed at creating a more equitable society. Dr. Matthew Holden Jr. Congressional Record.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 3, 2019

CLX is part of a region-wide Education Innovation Cluster —a local ecosystem of organizations working across sectors and silos to advance transformative teaching and learning. CLX now has substantial, informative data they can use as a foundation or justification when making decisions around funding, advocacy, partnership, and expansion.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2024

Those could include making multilingual posters and brochures available at libraries, parks and recreation services; technical assistance in navigating digital applications; and tax guidance so the caregivers don’t have to worry about jeopardizing other forms of government aid to access the subsidies. She wants them to see it as a real job.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 12, 2022

This week, the Aspen Institute announced its 2022 Ascend fellows, a cohort of 22 individuals hailing from a range of disciplines including medicine, research, entrepreneurship, government and policy, and nonprofit leadership and advocacy. This is a pivotal moment for early childhood education,” Robinson notes. “We We must invest.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2020

Photo: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. In the midst of such disruption — with hastily prepared classes delivered remotely, and without professors’ office hours, libraries or advisors — students were demanding the option to pass or fail their courses this semester, instead of getting letter grades.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

He’s encountered subs in the hallway, looking for the library or a place to make copies of classwork. Much like bus drivers and custodians, substitutes have long been among the lowest-paid workers in education but remain critical to keeping schools open day to day. Substitute teachers are an essential part of education.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. We have this huge digital divide that’s making it hard for [students] to get their education,” she said. OAKLAND, Calif.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

million students from fall 2019 to fall of 2021, according to state data leaving campuses worried about their future and potential students with fewer of the opportunities offered by higher education. Other times, they’ve paid tuition in full, but owe money for overdue parking, library or housing fees.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2021

For low-income kids it’s really hard for programs to run in person,” said Jodi Grant, executive director of Afterschool Alliance, a nonprofit advocacy group. “It And a year into the pandemic, federal financial support has only now begun to arrive in the form of public education dollars set aside for enrichment.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

It coincides with what polls disclose is falling public confidence in higher education. Higher education has become a popular public target. And a Gallup poll found that more than half of Americans have only some, or very little, confidence in higher education. Endowment returns were 12.2 percent, NACUBO and Commonfund report.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

In the past, said Brandon Stokes, director of retention and student success at Meredith, “some students, especially considering how anxiety has crept into higher education, would have a horrible experience and even be paralyzed by the stress” of picking their own schedules. A lot of students can’t make up their minds about a major, either.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

“Last year I thought about it a lot because as a junior you start to realize how fast things are going,” she said in the library, otherwise empty but for students playing cards. Fewer than one in five children of parents without higher educations end up getting degrees. Only later did he become an educator.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2021

To the surprise of many students and parents, public colleges in every state in the country except Louisiana use for-profit debt collection agencies to retrieve overdue tuition, library fees and even parking fines. State officials often bemoan a lack of college-educated workers for their economies, yet very few states track this problem.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

They stayed at the library working until closing time because they didn’t have laptops. Moises has his own laptop, bought for him by the nonprofit that helped him apply to college, but he was also at the library till they kicked him out most nights. But some higher education experts say the proposal misses the point.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

Angie Perez and some of her classmates are studying together in a covered plaza that connects a classroom building with the law library at St. Graduate students can also borrow an unlimited amount toward their educations, unlike undergraduates, whose borrowing is capped. Department of Education. MIAMI GARDENS, Fla.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

But providers will close, said Lauren Hogan, the managing director of policy and professional advancement at the National Association for the Education of Young Children. It’s been about the back-to-school potlucks for all the parents and the Halloween open house, the library art show. It is going to suck people under,” Hogan said.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

And a slightly higher percentage of nonwhite teachers than white ones—45 percent vs. 42 percent—said that they were considering leaving their position last school year, researchers at the University of Arkansas’ College of Education & Health Professions found.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

On windswept fields outside Fargo, North Dakota, a bold experiment in education has begun. Some school leaders insist that competency-based education can survive and even thrive within grade levels, or a modified version of them. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. HUNTER, N.D. — We’ll do whatever we have to do for testing.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

A student walks past the Bender Library on the American University campus in Washington, D.C. 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. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

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. Higher Education. EducationSuperHighway’s advocacy supported the district’s efforts perfectly. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

“Nobody knows the right path forward,” said Robin Lake, director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education , a nonpartisan education research center in Seattle that has compiled an online database of coronavirus response plans provided by scores of districts across the country as a resource for other educators.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Johnson is the principal of Mississippi’s Collins Elementary School, where the paddle remains a staple of the educational experience. As of late April, educators pulled out the paddle 20 times on kindergartners, twice on first graders, 31 times on second graders, 16 times on third graders and 10 times on fourth graders.

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