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PROOF POINTS: Could more time in school help students after the pandemic?

The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

Indeed, many advocacy groups, including the Learning Policy Institute and Ed Trust , are recommending extending learning time next year. Devoting the extra time to a daily dose of tutoring seems most promising. But tutoring can work equally well even when the school day isn’t lengthened. What you do with the time matters.

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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

The Hechinger Report

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. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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Some schools cut paths to calculus in the name of equity. One group takes the opposite approach

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

One out of 10 Black students in the eighth grade math scores were scoring basic or above,” saidKristen Hengtgen, a senior policy analyst at the nonprofit advocacy group EdTrust, referring to last year’s National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the Nation’s Report Card.

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An After-School Education Program Aims to Diversify the Tech Industry

ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2023

“We see that advanced math coursework is a huge predictor of college success, but this stuff is all foundational,” said Lakisha Young, founder and CEO of The Oakland Reach, a parent-led advocacy group focused on better supporting low-income students of color in Oakland. Kids get cut off from these opportunities from an early age.

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Coronavirus is the practice run for schools. But soon comes climate change

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Those efforts allowed the district of 520 schools and educational centers to transition relatively smoothly from traditional learning to distance learning when the school system shut on March 16, Carvalho said. By mid-April, about 111,000 devices and 11,000 hotspots had been distributed, he said.

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More high school grads than ever are going to college, but 1 in 5 will quit

The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

While a larger percentage of high school graduates are going on to higher educations, their actual numbers have declined dramatically, and the number of older-than-traditional-age adults on campus is also down as more are drawn back into the thriving labor market. These trends together mean that there are nearly 2.9

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Universities try to catch up to their growing Latinx populations

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

And given the former abundance of well-paying, blue-collar jobs in this corner of Indiana, the university is also up against a regional tradition that doesn’t necessarily place a high value on a college degree, she said. Debra Santiago, CEO, Excelencia in Education. But Debra Santiago, CEO of the D.C.-based

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Critics warn that well-meaning reforms may be lowering the quality of college

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. It’s an innovation that’s increasingly crucial to colleges, too.

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Mysterious bonus makes rich schools richer, critics say

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The education department defends allocating the funds to the 13 schools, saying that they incur more costs by exceeding the academic requirements of traditional high schools. The money, she said, pays for bilingual teachers for English-language learners, case managers for special education students and extra tutoring for struggling students.

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At some colleges that recruit veterans and their GI Bill money, none graduate

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2017

That’s in spite of extra challenges confronting student veterans, who are usually older than traditional-aged students and more likely to be juggling college with families, jobs and service-related disabilities, and who often face significantly more red tape. Things do not appear to be improving. Chaz Painter, 25, a U.S. Photo: Peggy Peattie.

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Is California saving higher education?

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Fueling the reforms and the funding behind them are a projected shortage of workers with the necessary degrees to fill the jobs of the future, a public backlash in response to budget cuts made during the recession and a concern that the state had been abandoning its long tradition of high-quality, low-cost education.

Education

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Arizona gave families public money for private schools. Then private schools raised tuition

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. This doesn’t help low-income families.” This doesn’t help low-income families.”

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How one Mississippi community copes with influx of Hispanic students

The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

When Hispanic students first began attending schools in Mississippi, many school districts refused to enroll them if they didn’t have immigration papers, said Bill Chandler, executive director of the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance, or MIRA, a nonprofit advocacy group. They have found help from an unlikely source — the Sisters of St.

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How a tribe won a legal battle against the federal Bureau of Indian Education — and still lost

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Her teachers at Havasupai Elementary School often asked Siyuja to tutor younger students and sometimes even let her run their classrooms. A year later, the Nations Report Card found Native students in traditional public schools performed much better than those in BIE schools. She graduated valedictorian of her class.

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PROOF POINTS: Could more time in school help students after the pandemic?

Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

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Some schools cut paths to calculus in the name of equity. One group takes the opposite approach

An After-School Education Program Aims to Diversify the Tech Industry

Coronavirus is the practice run for schools. But soon comes climate change

More high school grads than ever are going to college, but 1 in 5 will quit

Universities try to catch up to their growing Latinx populations

Critics warn that well-meaning reforms may be lowering the quality of college

Mysterious bonus makes rich schools richer, critics say

At some colleges that recruit veterans and their GI Bill money, none graduate

Is California saving higher education?

Arizona gave families public money for private schools. Then private schools raised tuition

How one Mississippi community copes with influx of Hispanic students

How a tribe won a legal battle against the federal Bureau of Indian Education — and still lost

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