The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

While the tutoring and on-the-run support that have replaced it may smooth their paths, at least one university president wonders whether future engineers will sufficiently master the calculus they need. Leave this field empty if you're human: Among those standards is the one that governs who provides these classes. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

government in 1977 asked that schools look for a “severe discrepancy between levels of ability and achievement” when screening children for learning disabilities. In 2004, the federal government reversed course on its 1970s guidance, strongly recommending that states consider alternatives. “I Guidelines put out by the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Undergraduates, on average, end up taking 15 credits more than they need to get degrees — a full semester’s worth — according to the advocacy group Complete College America. Not only do advisers, tutors, career counselors and coaches reach out; even the student government is alerted, said Liz Rainey, executive director of student success.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2018

In 2011, federal figures show, 201 of its incoming freshmen got Pell Grants, part of more than $325 billion the Congressional Budget Office estimates the government has paid out through that program in the last decade to help low-income students nationwide earn degrees. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Public Schools offer on-demand online tutoring sessions. of the Aurora Institute, formerly known as iNACOL, an advocacy organization promoting competency-based education. The government has since relaxed many of those regulations, offering waivers for educators scrambling to serve their communities. The Richmond (Va.)

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

Decades of chronic underfunding is often at the root of the struggles in districts like Cleveland to serve high proportions of Black and Latino students from low-income backgrounds, said Allison Rose Socol, a vice president at The Education Trust, an education advocacy group. Student outcomes improved.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. The Oakland Reach, a parent-led advocacy group that works with underserved communities, also joined the partnership. And a lot of times [my child] has tutoring.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

The Puerto Rican rate is from 2009-2010, the latest available in a territory whose government produces few up-to-date statistics, and which federal counts often don’t include; experts say it’s likely only gotten lower since then. Department of Education says. A counselor advises a high school student at Kinesis headquarters in San Juan.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Have governments spent enough money to meet the unexpected and very steep costs of the last year? Experts — and history — suggest that school districts need much more than what federal and state governments have provided so far. Any decline in revenues for state and local government is going to be a huge hit to K-12 schools.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Jennifer Pokempner, director of child welfare policy at Juvenile Law Center, a legal advocacy group in Philadelphia, said the Seita program is “seen as a model.” Peter, a math whiz, tutored her in pre-algebra; Mallory and Elise helped with her writing assignments. Government programs have also freed up some financial support.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2024

I’ll get back to you,’ ” said Marjorie Sims, managing director of Ascend at the Aspen Institute, one of a growing number of research, policy and advocacy organizations focusing on student-parents. “Ask community college presidents what percentage of their students are parents, and they’ll say, ‘That’s a really good question.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2017

At those 20 institutions with 100 or more GI Bill recipients eligible to finish in 2014, the government data disclose, even the ones with the highest veteran success rates managed to graduate only one in five. There are several reasons why things are working for them. Photo credit: Peggy Peattie Photo: Peggy Peattie. Photo: Peggy Peattie.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

This story also appeared in Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting State leaders promised families roughly $7,000 a year to spend on private schools and other nonpublic education options, dangling the opportunity for parents to pull their kids out of what some conservatives called “ failing government schools.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2017

The government could use it to give larger scholarships or grants to students in state universities, colleges and technical schools. Government officials and residents from all sides of the political spectrum tend to agree that HOPE has made college more affordable for hundreds of thousands of Georgians. It’s our money.

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