The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: “Very few countries are taking the bull by the horns when it comes to adapting education systems for the age of automation,” Saadia Zahidi, head of education, gender and employment for the World Economic Forum, said in the report.

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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

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

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

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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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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JULY 21, 2023

Colleges must put economic mobility at the center of their mission,” declared an April report by the Project on Workforce at Harvard. Hollweck — a pracademic herself, who works two jobs at education policy organizations on top of her presence in the classroom — said, with some frustration: “It’s not valued.

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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

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

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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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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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

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

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

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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MARCH 6, 2023

Research indicates that policy makers, school leaders and Geography teachers need to recognise the interests of staff and young people alike (Dunlop et al., These experiences enable people to explore the long-term climate impacts of global policy and investment decisions. Doing this is difficult.

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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 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

MAY 21, 2024

But the moms in the community who support public schools have organized to create a more equitable and diverse educational landscape. They have teamed up with local educational organizations to advocate for the school district, and by extension, for racially and economically diverse schools.

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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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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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

From 2017-18 to 2021-22, districts with more economically disadvantaged students and Black and Latino students gave out more such suspensions per capita than their more affluent, whiter counterparts. Buffalo Public Schools assigned more than 2,200 long-term suspensions over those five years, the highest of any district that provided data.

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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

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

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

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

OCTOBER 6, 2022

As an assistant professor of economics at City College in New York, Shankar knew that one of the most important requirements of scientific research was often missing from studies of the effectiveness of online higher education: a control group. “You This story also appeared in The New York Times.

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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

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Not very, according to Kenneth Wong, director of the Urban Education Policy Program at Brown University. Kellogg Foundation is among the funders of The Hechinger Report.). But how common is this governance-by-coalition model across the country? Battle Creek, Michigan: Earlier this year, t he W.K.

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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

AUGUST 23, 2016

This is even more remarkable when contrasted with the economics of child care in the U.S.: Still, England shares many cultural and economic similarities, certainly more than the Scandinavian countries often cited as having ideal educational systems. And, as recently as the mid-1990s, the early education policies of the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

But that impressive statistic masks severe racial disparities in degree completion: The state has the second largest attainment gap between whites and blacks in the nation, according to the Education Trust. He estimated that nearly one in three new jobs created through 2026 will require education beyond high school.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Teacher education programs must recruit, support and prepare aspiring teachers who are racially, culturally, linguistically and socio-economically diverse. Lin Goodwin is vice dean and Evenden Professor of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Ensure that our teaching force mirrors students’ diversity.

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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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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

MAY 23, 2016

And he’s concluded that integration has been a powerfully effective tool for raising the educational levels and living standards for at least two generations of black families. The first-generation study began as a working paper of the National Bureau of Economic Research , most recently revised in August 2015 with data through 2013.

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