The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2021

“It is incredibly important to be narrowing rather than expanding those attainment gaps,” said Mamie Voight, interim president at the Institute for Higher Education Policy, who called the disparities “startlingly large.”. Mamie Voight, interim president, Institute for Higher Education Policy. That’s how it works.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Fordham Institute , an education policy think tank, which directly linked minutes of social studies instruction to higher reading scores. The researchers controlled for students’ socio-economic status, race, home language and many other other student and school characteristics.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2017

The kindergarten-readiness gap between low-income and high-income students has not closed in a generation, even though parents are more involved than ever in their children’s education and state-funded pre-K, nutrition programs, and prenatal care are more accessible now than in the late 1990s. percent in 1998.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Food and housing insecurity among college students isn’t new, but it has been exacerbated by the pandemic and accompanying economic calamity. With our country poised for years of high unemployment and stagnation, our system of higher education must address this food and housing crisis without further delay.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In the last few years, the American education system has been bludgeoned by changes that have upended decades of progress toward better academic, economic and social outcomes for all. These dangerous culture wars will wreak havoc on education and education policy for years to come.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

But not enough people have taken advantage, despite the economic downturn and spike in unemployment. Emma García, Economic Policy Institute. But some of the policy’s supporters want to make the lowered requirements for subs permanent. “I Would you want to be vaccinated by an uncredentialed, unprepared nurse?

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JUNE 13, 2024

For decades, policymakers, advocates, researchers have been using income to understand economic inequities within higher education,” Eckerson Peters said. This research really shows that we should be looking at wealth alongside income.”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

. “If it does come true, we’re going to see massive changes,” said Mike Griffith, a school finance specialist at the Education Commission of the States, a think tank that aims to inform education policy. Economic uncertainty apparently has this side effect.) “Nobody is talking about this.”

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MARCH 30, 2020

These emergency policies need to be developed in direct relationship to the enduring problem in education: inequality. Economic disparities across education systems mean some students have access to laptops, to regular internet access, to printers. Access to content. Sign up here for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2021

That’s largely because of the daunting economic and life stressors, which worsened during the pandemic. The pandemic is incredibly hard for everyone and incredibly hard in particular for student parents,” said Dr. Su Jin Gatlin Jez, executive director of California Competes, a nonprofit focused on higher education policy and outcomes.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2022

My home county is one of five in Appalachian Ohio designated as “economically distressed,” meaning that we have significantly higher rates of poverty and unemployment and a lower median family income relative to U.S. In my own experience, also echoed by research, completion of college is associated with many social and economic benefits.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

But now a convergence of factors — a dwindling pool of traditional-age students, the call for more educated workers and a pandemic that highlighted economic disparities and scrambled habits and jobs — is putting adults in the spotlight. But in the midst of his studies, he stumbled and had to retake an economics course.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2022

It’s encouraging institutions to make better programs,” said Eddy Conroy, senior adviser in education policy at the left-leaning think tank New America. “If If you come out of any program in higher education you should be able to make more than the average high school graduate.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

An avowed Marxist, deBoer argues unabashedly that he has set out “to demolish the entire meritocratic system and give [underprivileged] kids equal economic circumstances to begin with,” as a Wall Street Journal review of his book summarized. It is a very different thing to ask, “What do we want every child to achieve?”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

For communities like the Bronx, equitable access to college is not just a lofty ideal, it’s an economic necessity. This is what an equity-driven higher education policy could create, not just in the Bronx but throughout the country. Michelle Asha Cooper is president of the Institute for Higher Education Policy.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The focus of our effort— Inclusive Innovation —is supported by research summarized in the report, Making Innovation Benefit All: Policies for Inclusive Growth from Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Economic motivation is a factor,” Ryu said. Leanne Davis, assistant director of applied research at the Institute for Higher Education Policy. For many of these students, life gets in the way, higher education experts say. Plus, the job market plays a role in the increase.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

More than 24,000 of those applicants have enrolled in the program, and 2,000 have completed a degree or a certificate, the state’s Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity says. These become messaging bills a lot of the time,” he said of the preponderance of free college legislation.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2019

But over the past several years, the Department of Early Childhood in the Boston Public Schools (BPS) has been working to change the view of play-based learning as being available exclusively to the wealthy by bringing the philosophy of Reggio Emilia to its large, urban school system where over two-thirds of students are economically disadvantaged.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Districts across the country have been ramping up career education programs spurred, in part, by federal legislation updated in 2018 that provides funding for career education (commonly referred to as Perkins V ), said Matt Giani, a research associate professor in sociology at the University of Texas at Austin who studies education policy.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2017

Government Accountability Office found the percentage of all schools with racial or socio-economic isolation grew from 9 percent to 16 percent from 2001 to 2014. Consequently, anti-racist teachers like you and me must organize like-minded educators to form our own community. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Just 48 percent of Maine’s 11 th – graders and only about 32 percent of economically disadvantaged students were proficient in reading and math. Some are simply suspicious of change: Philanthropy-backed education reforms have in the past angered and confused parents and teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2018

According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress , the only standardized way to measure reading proficiency across the nation, there is a 34 percentage-point gap in fourth-grade reading proficiency between black and white students, and a 23 percentage-point gap between Hispanic and white students.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2021

The study focused on Harvard, which was forced by that lawsuit to disclose admissions statistics that are normally kept secret, but coauthor Tyler Ransom, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Oklahoma, said he’d be “shocked if we didn’t see similar figures at all of the Ivies.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2021

“They were already struggling to pay the bill, and now that it’s accruing it becomes impossible,” said Sosanya Jones, a Howard University professor who teaches courses on higher education policy. Jones said it’s hard to tell whether these transcript hold and collection policies are effective, but she’s skeptical. “In

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2018

To Goodson, who has specialized in early childhood education research for 40 years, the problem is that learning is ultimately about changing human behavior and that is always difficult for adults and children. “We’ve known for the longest time that economic background characteristics swamp any education intervention,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The best deal he could get was from a private engineering college that offered Konate little to no financial aid, despite his high school record and economic situation; he would still owe more than $30,000 a year, even after subtracting his González scholarship. He couldn’t afford it. “I I lost all hope,” Konate said. “My

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2016

College is less affordable now, when adjusted for inflation, than it was before the economic downturn, student financial aid no longer is enough to fill the gap, and low- and middle-income families already are having trouble making ends meet just to cover living expenses, the report said.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Many in higher education broadcast their commitments to diversity at the time, said Dominique Baker, an assistant professor of education policy at Southern Methodist University who studies college access and success. Related: ‘It’s just too much’: Why students are abandoning community colleges in droves.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

-based research organization, is planning to calculate “demographically adjusted” scores for each state later Tuesday, showing how each state would stack up if it educated a similar mix of students with the same racial and economic backgrounds. Related: Is it time to update NAEP? Concerns over computers.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Black and Latino students also often encounter more financial hardship in college and drop out for economic reasons. Students with weaker academic preparation might be more likely to fail classes and drop out of college. This is where the Urban Institute analysis gets really interesting.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Yet Issaquena County has continued to pay taxes to support three public schools – more than $937,000 last year alone – that provide scant economic benefit to the county itself. Shelton/Mississippi Today The Mississippi River, he says, is Mayersville’s “golden opportunity for economic development,” but the town doesn’t even have a port.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2022

As young people, families and educators near the end of yet another hectic pandemic school year, new research studying the early impact of remote learning offers a sobering look at experiences and outcomes, including interrupted and incomplete learning. million students across the country.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Longer term, state leaders are trying to improve internet infrastructure across the state, said Sarah Armstrong Tucker, chancellor for the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission. But he tries to make clear to Kentucky lawmakers how improving equity in higher education connects with the state’s economic goals.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2017

At the same time, the economic recovery and low unemployment mean that fewer older students are returning to campus, Shapiro said. It’s all part of the “arms race of selectivity,” said José Luis Santos, vice president of higher education policy and practice at The Education Trust. Last year alone, it dropped 1.4

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2016

According to a February 2016 paper published by Stanford’s Center for Education Policy Analysis, income segregation between different school districts increased 15 percent between 1990 and 2010. Rich families are increasingly pulling away from poor ones, and sending their kids to different schools.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

It’s one relevant to past research about barriers preventing students from enrolling in college, said Taylor Odle, an assistant professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and co-author of the “non-submitters” study. But this strategy had a fundamental error.

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