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JULY 4, 2018

These and other challenges mean that, at a time when growing proportions of high school students have been successfully encouraged to go on to college, more than one in five full-time freshmen nationwide fail to return for a second year, according to the data. That’s the conundrum we still haven’t gotten figured out yet.”.

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MARCH 15, 2024

Related: Simpler FAFSA complicates college plans for students and families “As much staff as government has, it’s not enough for students right now,” said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the national advocacy group Complete College America. She wants colleges to do more to directly help applicants still struggling to fill out the forms.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

By traditional measures of well-being, America’s children and teens should be doing well. Consider that Over the past two decades, high school graduation rates have gone up. Subscribe today! Fewer teens are taking up smoking. The birth rate among 15-to-19 year olds is at a record low. What climate education look like in the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

We must do this through teaching, learning and advocacy — as well as social activism and civic engagement. Related: Teachers, deputized to fight the culture wars, are often reluctant to serve There is a critical need to prepare teachers to be intentional voices calling out the oppression that continues to plague our education system.

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AUGUST 22, 2023

I do miss having a social life a little bit,” she said of forgoing the traditional long summer break. The University of Minnesota Rochester is relatively small and new — it graduated its first class in 2013 and has 617 undergraduates — freeing it from some of the entrenched traditions that can stifle change in higher education.

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JUNE 11, 2020

These are the findings of a new report released by Save the Children, which analyzed data on food insecurity, high school graduation rates, adolescent birth rates, and child death and infant mortality rates for counties nationwide. Programs & Advocacy. Programs & Advocacy, on a call with reporters.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

According to the most recent data from 2020-21 school year, two thirds of the 7 million students with disabilities who receive special education services spent 80 percent or more of their time in traditional classrooms. It’s particularly cost-prohibitive in middle and high school as teachers specialize in subjects.

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MAY 24, 2021

Indeed, many advocacy groups, including the Learning Policy Institute and Ed Trust , are recommending extending learning time next year. I haven’t heard about many school districts announcing longer schedules yet but I was curious to learn what research evidence shows for students at schools that have extended the day or lengthened the year.

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OCTOBER 30, 2018

Personalized learning lets Champlain Valley Union High School sophomore Bella Curtis study toward a certificate in horse management. 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.

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AUGUST 13, 2021

Once considered a boutique form of education overly reliant on technology, competency-based education is increasingly seen as a way to solve a host of problems with traditional schooling, problems that became more apparent when learning went virtual. Lillian Pace, vice president of policy and advocacy, KnowledgeWorks.

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JULY 19, 2023

She makes a concerted effort to encourage Latino students at her high school to take computer science classes. And then when you go into more affluent communities or communities where there's stronger advocacy, you're gonna see projects and you're gonna see stories and you're gonna see kids sharing their own voices.

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

In that role, she visited schools around the city and was shocked by the disparities in school building facilities and resources, she said. Who is the school board really representing? Vida Mendoza, high school freshman, Oakland, California. Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.

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DECEMBER 21, 2021

Nearly 80 percent of young children who attend the Lourie Center’s therapeutic nursery program will ascend to a traditional kindergarten setting. While legislative discussions have recently stalled , advocacy efforts continue to mobilize toward an ambitious policy package that would impact millions of little learners and families.

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JANUARY 23, 2019

While Vertus High School doesn’t assign homework, Clovis Meikle, 17, says he works on his online classes at home to get ahead in advance of basketball season. Before Michael Mota goes to sleep each school night, the 17-year-old lies in bed thinking through his plan for the next day. Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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MARCH 19, 2021

The strategy of adding career and technical education is being quietly rolled out by several traditional higher education institutions, including a growing number of liberal arts colleges that are responding to student and parent demands for a return on their tuition investment by adding practical training that has proven value to employers.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Edgecombe is still a rural district with a high-poverty student body, but a new staffing model has made its schools newly desirable for teachers who want to be school leaders without leaving the classroom. Next year, the remaining five schools will do the same.

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JANUARY 27, 2019

Students at Walker Valley High School in Cleveland, Tennessee, work with machinery in the school’s mechatronics lab. It’s that fewer than one in five of adults in the entire surrounding Humphreys County have at least an associate degree, according to census data analyzed by the nonprofit advocacy organization Complete Tennessee.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2017

The Windsor Locks High School freshman belongs to the first cohort of students going through middle and high school under a new system. Traditional grades no longer exist, children get extra help based on their individual learning needs and classrooms run very differently. WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

Ragan Toppan, a junior at Deering High School, took part in a walkout last fall to protest a change in the school’s grading policy. This past fall, Ragan Toppan, 16, walked out of her Algebra II class at Deering High School to protest her school’s recent switch to standards-based grading.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Brian Stack is the principal of Sanborn Regional High School in Kingston, N.H. But the state line does make a difference in the schools. “At Stack is the principal of Sanborn Regional High School in Kingston, New Hampshire. Photo: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Virtual for-profit charter schools got started in the early 2000s, as the companies that run them seized on a business opportunity in online education pioneered by traditional public schools a half-decade earlier. Advocates want to move toward funding virtual schools based on performance. Stride Inc., formerly K12 Inc.,

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Senior Remi Savard is part of the last class at Montpelier High School that experienced the system before the school’s switch to a proficiency-based model. Remi Savard is one of the last students at Montpelier High School who remembers what class was like before the school switched to a proficiency-based model three years ago.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Traditional language learning in the U.S. Yet we want our babies to be bilingual and our grade-schoolers to be surrounded by second languages — and one signal of a quality high school is how many languages it offers (and how exotic). is in trouble. Is this approach an answer? Photo: Jon Reis for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2016

But some school districts that arguably have no reason to change are shaking things up, too. Trace Pickering, associate superintendent of the Cedar Rapids Community School District, founded Iowa BIG, a district program that gives students an alternative to the traditional school day. It backfires on you.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Dzindzichashvili enrolled at the University of Massachusetts Boston in 2005 after graduating from high school, commuting across the city from her family’s duplex in East Boston for class before heading home again to work at a law firm. More than 1,000 students have taken the state up on the offer since it began three years ago.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Jamar McKneely (background) tours a science and technology event at Edna Karr High School, one of the schools in his InspireNOLA charter school network. Credit: Photo: Shandrell Briscoe for InspireNOLA Charter Schools. By mid-April, about 111,000 devices and 11,000 hotspots had been distributed, he said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

At a time when parents, politicians and universities all want more students to go to college and graduate on time, the idea of letting them take college courses while in high school seems a great solution. Related: More high school grads than ever are going to college, but 1 in 5 will quit. a former assistant U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

Hoffman’s ED, Walker, is a New Orleans native who attended a mix of public and private schools growing up. There’s a historical and cultural tradition of going where your family has been,” she said. Referring to the white- and middle-class flight to Catholic schools in the aftermath of Brown v.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Speaking of the state’s flagship campus, the University of Georgia, he added, “When I go to visit a school like UGA, which has way more white students, it doesn’t feel the same. Only about 7 percent of UGA students are African-American in a state where 34 percent of high school graduates are black. It feels normal.”.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2018

And eighth-grade co-teachers Abby Jolma and Toni Giebel let kids sit on wobbly chairs — short stools with a curved base — yoga balls, or traditional chairs while they learn math and science. At least we’re at the table now,” said Carly Wright, advocacy director for SHAPE. “It They need it so bad.”. Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Hernandez, a 33-year-old mother of four and high school dropout, had already overcome an array of obstacles on her nearly five-year journey. “No They lived in various apartments in the Bronx, where Hernandez excelled in school. Pius V, an all-girls Catholic high school (since closed). Plenty of obstacles await.

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MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. We fill an entire school here.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Even the high school credits I got didn’t mean anything,” he said. Leave this field empty if you're human: La Verne takes more than 250 undergraduate transfer students per year and about 500 older-than-traditional-age adults who also cash in prior credits. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2023

And the effects of online learning linger: School relationships have frayed, and after months at home, many parents and students don’t see the point of regular attendance. For almost two years, we told families that school can look different and that schoolwork could be accomplished in times outside of the traditional 8-to-3 day.

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APRIL 26, 2022

Several states that previously required substitutes to have a bachelor’s degree lowered that threshold and now allow candidates with only a high school diploma to apply for emergency certification. A lot of substitutes only need a high school diploma and know very little about education,” Basile said.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

A high school senior with long curly hair who participates in a vocational program, Bradley spends about half the day at culinary school and then half in “at-home instruction” through a nearby high school run by a statewide public education service. Bradley loves baking lava cakes.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2023

Code Next is a free after-school program designed to make tech more accessible to students of color, many of whom lack opportunities to explore STEM fields in middle and high school. It's like kids are already getting knocked out for the count in elementary school.”

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