ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The results are particularly important at a time when more colleges are struggling to remain open , says Riley Acton, an assistant professor of economics at Miami University in Ohio and one of the researchers who worked on the new study. “If

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As education leaders continue to engage in conversations on transforming assessment and accountability for our nation, they must prioritize elevating voices excluded from past education change efforts, including voices of young learners, especially those from communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities.

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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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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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. In New Orleans, 81 percent of public school students are economically disadvantaged, according to data from the Louisiana Department of Education. DeVonté Trask, 11.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

Fifteen years ago, Brenda Cassellius was an assistant principal at a Minneapolis high school when a local reporter asked her about the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the brand-new congressional overhaul of federal education policy. That data has become a valuable tool for educators, policy makers and researchers.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

While attention is often paid to for-profit universities and colleges whose students sometimes end up with worthless degrees or no degrees at all, this other kind of profit-driven business has more quietly inserted itself into higher education.

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