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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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AUGUST 23, 2016

1 is guaranteed 15 hours a week of free child-care or preschool for 38 weeks a year, or 570 hours total, paid for by the national government. “We Apparently, so do most parents, 94 percent of whom take the government up on its offer of free education starting at age 3, according to government data. think tank.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2017

But how common is this governance-by-coalition model across the country? Not very, according to Kenneth Wong, director of the Urban Education Policy Program at Brown University. In the past, such takeovers have produced spotty and inconsistent results in struggling Mississippi districts , (The W.K.

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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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FEBRUARY 19, 2021

This continued a trend that was underway before Covid, when students from families earning $120,000 a year or more were receiving an average of $9,400 in financial aid from bachelor’s degree-granting colleges in excess of what the government says they needed to afford to pay, according to the College Board. It’s a triple whammy.”.

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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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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. We must do better for all children.” Related: Is it time to update NAEP?

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MAY 27, 2019

Hanushek, an economist, believes that the inability to close the achievement gap shows the failure of our education policies to help the poor, especially the $26 billion a year the federal government spends on Title I funding on poor schools and for Head Start preschool programs.

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AUGUST 10, 2017

Without a degree, those who leave college often can’t get decent-paying jobs to make a dent in their loans, hurting their economic futures and that of the state as a whole. . But experts say dramatic improvement is impossible unless the government does something to make college more affordable.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

New York City’s public schools, like those in the state’s other big cities, educate large numbers of (traditionally struggling) poor black and Latino students, and sometimes those students outperform even their white and more affluent peers in Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo and Yonkers on state tests. In Rochester, for example, just 6.7

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JUNE 10, 2017

Five of the state’s 124 high schools are on target to hand out the new diplomas next spring, according to a spokesperson for the Maine Department of Education, while others have barely started to make the transition. There was a sense that we needed to swing for the fences to make the economic transition the state needs to make.”. “In

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

So, as Congress considers how to respond to this deepening public health and economic disaster, it must take into account the pain that’s being acutely felt by black Americans. How higher-ed policy exacerbates this crisis. State higher-education policy isn’t helping matters. And that was before the coronavirus crisis.

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DECEMBER 27, 2023

Outside of local government and a prison, the primary source of jobs are the farms that have existed since before the Civil War. 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. Do we want the kids to stay?

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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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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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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

For many reasons, graduate programs make up a particularly attractive market both for these companies and for universities looking to shore up their bottom lines, said Kevin Carey, vice president for education policy and knowledge management at the think tank New America.

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OCTOBER 13, 2017

Reverse transfer gives them — and their states, which subsidize public higher education and benefit economically by having more residents with postsecondary credentials — something to show for the time and money they’ve already put in. These students have earned the degree.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2019

And the University of Pennsylvania “is committed to making its practical, powerful and flexible Ivy League education available to the best and brightest students, regardless of their economic circumstances.”. And the thing is, these students are getting screwed.”.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

But France hasn’t erased the all the barriers that prevent lower-income families from accessing the best schools, even with huge amounts of government money poured into helping them get a leg up. They also agree to regular government inspections. Her school has a diverse mix of students, both racial and economic.

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DECEMBER 7, 2017

“There is a very seriously warped view among many Americans, and particularly more affluent Americans, about where the money is actually going,” said Richard Reeves, a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution and author of “ Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust.”. “I

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JULY 18, 2016

Here is something worse than the current racial tensions in New Orleans and other cities: The outcomes caused by racial biases in our policing, schooling practices and stark economic inequality between black and white families. The federal government has a very limited set of carrots and sticks to encourage diversity.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2017

Pay discrimination against junior teachers cannot be rationalized as good education policy. Unfortunately, the perverse economic and political incentives that preserve this system of discrimination are not only entrenched but growing stronger. Alas, what’s good for senior teachers is not necessarily good for all other teachers.

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AUGUST 18, 2023

Congress regarding the importance of education. Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education,” stated President Kennedy. In his address, the president even spoke to the financial realities of higher education and institutional sustainability. trillion in student debt.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The Higher Education Act, first passed in 1965 and revised perodically, regulates how the federal government financially assists postsecondary institutions and students. Overwhelming economic evidence is suggesting that heavily subsidizing federal student loans has led to college tuition increases,” Amselem said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

The lack of attention to education during the run-up to the presidential election left many to wonder just how much of a priority quality educational opportunity is for most Americans. We didn’t hear much in the way of education policy from either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton along the campaign trail.

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OCTOBER 1, 2021

If it’s included in the reconciliation package, it could fund programs like Degrees When Due, the umbrella initiative organized by the Institute for Higher Education Policy that Bishop State was participating in to reenroll students. The program would run from the 2023-2024 academic year, through 2029-2030.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 14, 2021

Wyoming prides itself on being a red state, it just doesn’t realize which red it is,” said Richard Seder, an education policy consultant who has worked for the state. Richard Seder, education policy consultant. But steady economic decline has left the town with one place to buy food: The Fast Lane Inc. Highway 20.

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MAY 18, 2018

Allowing DACA recipients to get higher education and better-paying jobs translates into them paying more taxes — which in turn helps pay for the state’s public school system and other government services, said Andrew Lim, director of quantitative research at the New American Economy.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2017

Both have seen their governments investing less in higher education and students and families struggling to pay more, with many of the poorest ending up at campuses with low success rates while those who are wealthier and white have access to the best universities. The “Rhodes Must Fall” campaign gave way to “Fees Must Fall.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

This story also appeared in Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting State leaders promised families roughly $7,000 a year to spend on private schools and other nonpublic education options, dangling the opportunity for parents to pull their kids out of what some conservatives called “ failing government schools.”

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OCTOBER 24, 2021

Education Secretary, Miguel Cardona? Typically, the federal government has contributed only about 8 percent of the funds schools receive each year from local, state and federal governments. The federal government is better at protecting civil rights than state or local governments, he contends. he said.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2017

DeVos should know that taking away real income, job opportunities and community development resources from the people who need it most in exchange for the hope of “choice” is foolish, educationally and economically. DeVos and Trump regularly criticized the federal involvement in education. It’s also immoral.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

There are many complicated factors ranging from a deep-seated American reluctance to let government into family life to a commitment to taxes that are lower than many of our European counterparts, which makes spending on social programs difficult to justify. Why don’t we invest much in the early years? Sign up for our weekly newsletter.

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AUGUST 4, 2023

Now red-state governors increasingly use the takeovers to undermine the political power of cities, particularly those governed by Black and Hispanic leaders, according to some education experts. “I’ve In other districts where state-appointed boards have taken over, academic outcomes haven’t improved.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

German university enrollment rose by 22 percent as tuition disappeared, the Ministry of Education and Research reports — much faster than in other member countries of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, or OECD — while the number of Germans who opt instead for vocational education has declined.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2016

CHICAGO — If, in fact, much of the anger that helped boost Donald Trump to his victory in the presidential election is economic, higher education may be vital to reversing it. Trump gave only a few clues during his campaign about his likely higher-education policies. Read more about higher education.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Such outcomes remind us that we need to keep the needs of all children in mind when we craft educational policy. Traditional public schools educate 90 percent of the kids in America. Does it really make sense to pursue policies that will make our educational system more unequal than it already is?

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