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APRIL 30, 2022

Certificates are the fastest-growing kind of credential in higher education, touted as solutions for the growing number of people who want workforce training fast and don’t have time for a degree. A certain high ratio of student loan debt to earnings would also trigger such a cutoff. Some certificate programs pay off.

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AUGUST 5, 2021

Seeing that “things could literally end in a split moment” pushed her to revisit an old goal: going to college, maybe to become a high school English teacher. Free college” or “promise” programs have long focused on recent high school grads. that pay college tuition for adults. ? After her pay rose by just $1.60

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Aya Hamza’s academic and extracurricular record at Coral Gables Senior High School near Miami should have made her path to college relatively effortless. Aya Hamza, a high school senior, with her father. Coral Gables Senior High School near Miami, which has nine college counselors for 3,000 students. “I

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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

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Personalized learning lets Champlain Valley Union High School sophomore Bella Curtis study toward a certificate in horse management. Just 48 percent of Maine’s 11 th – graders and only about 32 percent of economically disadvantaged students were proficient in reading and math. Photo: Austin Haeberle. NASHVILLE, Tenn. –

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Twice a week, Rofiat Olasunkanmi, 22, heads back to Brooklyn to her alma mater, Kurt Hahn Expeditionary Learning School. Rofiat Olasunkanmi helps high school seniors apply to college. Further, rates varied by school type. Photo courtesy of Olasunkanmi. But this strategy had a fundamental error.

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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. Right now, there are about 460,000 adults in the Bronx with a high school diploma or its equivalent but not a bachelor’s degree. Michelle Asha Cooper is president of the Institute for Higher Education Policy.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Black students are less likely to apply and be admitted to the state’s top tier schools. Black Virginians were more likely to have grown up in poor neighborhoods and attended elementary, middle and high schools with other poor students, less experienced teachers and fewer resources.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

They attended Loma Alta Elementary, a racially diverse school in Altadena, Calif., that stood out from many others in the Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD), especially its high schools, which were more racially homogenous. “I Pasadena High School. Pasadena High School.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Aboubacar Konate graduated second in his class from high school, took Advanced Placement classes, speaks four languages and played three sports. Konate graduated second in his class from The English High School in Boston with a 4.5 College was my dream and my goal,” he says. Photo: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2017

Despite what many high school seniors think, getting into a good college is likely to get even easier in the future Photo: Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Albuquerque Journal via ZUMA Wire. Headlines like these strike fear in the hearts of high school seniors and their parents every year around this time. Who loses this race?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2021

Half a dozen nervous-looking high school students and their parents browse a table of pamphlets and freebies, then settle into molded plastic chairs to hear a hyper-enthusiastic admissions officer sing the praises of the Colorado School of Mines. The campus of the Colorado School of Mines. GOLDEN, Colo.

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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

JUNE 10, 2017

Freshman Kylee Elderkin works on an assignment in English class at Nokomis High School in Newport on Friday, June 2, 2017. The switch to a proficiency-based education, which focuses on making sure students can demonstrate what they know, has helped students like Elderkin. Kylee Elderkin, student, Nokomis Regional High School.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

He was a sophomore at Long Island’s Brentwood High School, a few days before Thanksgiving in 2019, when he made a post on Snapchat late one night about hiding an AK-47 at Area 51 in Nevada. 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

AUGUST 28, 2017

Since last school year, I have been advocating on behalf of school children of a top ten, predominantly white, rich public high school. Since 2000, at least 36 school districts have seceded from larger ones, according to EdBuild , a nonprofit that works on creating fair school financing structures.

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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 14, 2016

More of the teenagers graduating from high schools in Appalachia look like Janeth Barrera Cantu, and fewer, like the middle- and upper-class whites from which local colleges and universities including Lenoir-Rhyne have historically drawn their enrollments. Miramontes graduated from high school with a near-perfect 3.93

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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. And Johnson found that the more years of desegregated schooling their parents had experienced, the better outcomes these kids had.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Rural Realities: Education, Workforce, and Progress More rural residents are graduating from high school, but people in those communities remain less likely than their suburban and urban peers to continue their education. A 1988 newspaper article notes Issaquena’s 13 public schools closed, too. Credit: Eric J.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2019

Reardon, a sociologist, says the growing achievement gaps he has found stem from increasing income inequality in our society and the decisions of many rich parents to invest more in their kids, from private tutors to after-school programs. Reardon is a professor at the Graduate School of Education.

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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.”. She said her high school internship was relevant to her Cornell major in labor relations.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2019

The charter school that was closing was 98 percent black. Rabalais dreamed of a diverse campus that would cater to his diverse neighborhood and draw kids from across the racial and economic chasms that have long divided New Orleans. Related: Marching in Mardi Gras, a New Orleans school that once struggled shows off.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2017

The problem is particularly acute for those seeking a bachelor’s degree: Median federal loan debt for these Georgia students who withdrew has more than doubled over the last decade at most four-year schools, ranging from $5,500 at the University of North Georgia to more than $18,000 at Albany State University.

Economics 78

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2016

Adult students who seek additional credentials can find it difficult: Paraprofessionals who re-enroll face additional hurdles to completing a degree, particularly if they enroll part time, work more than 35 hours a week, have dependents, or have a GED rather than a high school diploma.

Psychology 59

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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

MAY 9, 2017

Parker Charter Essential School in Devens, Massachusetts, believe multiage education fosters cooperation and collaboration between students, like these ninth- and 10th-graders working together on a Holocaust-related history project. It looks like a typical class in a suburban high school. Photo: Stuart Miller.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Having an associate degree means earning $200,000 more over their lifetimes than people who have some college credits but never graduated, according to the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce , and $400,000 more than high school graduates who didn’t get any further educations.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

While every classroom has students of varying abilities, this problem is often more acute in schools with high levels of poverty. In New Orleans, 81 percent of public school students are economically disadvantaged, according to data from the Louisiana Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2021

DENVER — Brandon Navejas earned a nearly perfect grade-point average at his inner-city high school, even as he simultaneously racked up a year’s worth of credits at a community college in subjects including physics, astronomy, trigonometry and algebra. Mamie Voight, interim president, Institute for Higher Education Policy.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Now the perk will run out for her before she finishes her education. SANTIAGO, Chile — So poor was the education she received at her public high school, Pilar Vega Martinez had to take an extra year to study for the Prueba de Selección Universitaria — the Chilean version of the SAT. Photo Elissa Nadworny.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2022

While many factors play into this relative lack of rural postsecondary education, there are concrete, commonsense policies that school districts can put in place to change it, including increasing high school rigor and providing more Advance Placement and dual-enrollment courses. My own journey was difficult.

Economics 99

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

One day this spring, Victoria Trice’s high school students in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, peered through virtual reality headsets as part of a lesson on Afrofuturism. LOUISVILLE Just blocks from where hundreds of protestors gathered near the Ohio River waterfront after the death of Breonna Taylor in 2020 sits Central High School.

History 98

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The Hechinger Report

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

MAY 16, 2022

But while plane tickets vary by carrier, date of purchase and luck, college costs hinge on reported family income, assets, the grades a student got in high school, the type of institution they want to attend and mastery of a complicated application system. Phillip Levine, economics professor, Wellesley College.

Economics 115

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The Hechinger Report

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 Austin Senior High School, in Houston. If ever there was a school board that needs to be taken over and reformed it’s HISD.”

Charter School 98

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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.

Elementary School 81

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