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. Hirsch, Jr. Refreshing those ideals may offer one path forward.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The already converted policymakers, school leaders and teachers ready to transform traditional schooling came to this annual conference last week from around the world to share a common refrain: Out with the old. In a nutshell, here’s some of what the Mainers have been saying: Stop shoving new ways of education down our throats.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2021

After a spirited welcome and a reminder to stay hydrated at this elevation (5,675 feet), she plays a video with peppy music, scenes of happy undergraduates enjoying fun traditions and the inevitable soaring drone footage of majestic campus landmarks. Credit: Sara Hertwig for The Hechinger Report.

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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

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. For that reason, it has traditionally benefited students from higher-income families. It’s a triple whammy.”.

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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

APRIL 9, 2018

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has frequently praised the state as a model of “school choice” with a taxpayer-funded voucher program for students to attend private school and many charter school options. The NAEP scores showed stellar gains within the traditional public school system. Related: Is it time to update NAEP?

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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

AUGUST 3, 2016

There is something of an annual tradition among New York City mayors and school chancellors. But the annual celebrating of New York City’s feats ignores deeper differences, say educators and education policy experts, who contend that those upstate cities exist in an entirely different world. Photo: Emmanuel Felton.

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The Hechinger Report

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. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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AUGUST 23, 2016

Redcliffe leaders, in the long tradition of English nursery leaders, believe children learn best when they are taking the lead and exploring the world on their own, complete with the risks that independence carries like, say, a bump on the head from a wooden swing. And, as recently as the mid-1990s, the early education policies of the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Pane predicts that if the personalized learning trend continues, it could upend traditional notions of what a classroom looks like. “I 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

DECEMBER 27, 2023

That’s your tradition, that’s just your Southern tradition.” The only educational institution in Issaquena County, Miss., 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. Credit: Eric J.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2022

Levine and other college access experts are now on a mission to make the road to college smoother — and ultimately more affordable — especially for families who have traditionally had a harder time accessing higher education. Phillip Levine, economics professor, Wellesley College.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

The OPM industry started in earnest about 15 years ago, as more public and nonprofit colleges were looking to ramp up their online programming, and educational technology companies saw a business opportunity in helping them. That’s substantially less than overseas undergraduates pay to attend the London School of Economics in person.

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MAY 9, 2017

Though there are no hard numbers, educators acknowledge the total is miniscule.). Yet multiage advocates say the traditional approach of dividing students into single grades based on an arbitrary birthdate range is illogical.

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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. Traditional institutions have treated adults “as a kind of afterthought,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Elizabeth Warren released a federal education policy proposal that recognizes a fundamental truth about students: Kids don’t live in schools, they live in communities. Education policy that ignores neighborhood conditions misses the point of why we ultimately go to school — to improve our community.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2019

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. Celeste Lay, a Tulane political science professor who studies education policy, sees a pattern in who is succeeding in this new era.

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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

JANUARY 13, 2019

And the United States remains stubbornly in 13th place in the world in the proportion of its 25- to 34-year-olds with degrees , according to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, behind South Korea, Canada, Japan, Russia, Ireland, Lithuania, Norway and other countries. And for the most part, that has not happened.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2019

In other words, only about a third of the real rise in economic productivity showed up in median family incomes. Of course, as incomes inched up and housing costs climbed, postsecondary education costs skyrocketed. Many existing financial-aid programs are designed to benefit traditional, full-time students.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Lisa Snell, a senior fellow of education at Stand Together Trust, a libertarian think tank, said that over time more private schools and educational providers will open in the state, creating greater market competition and pushing down costs. It makes complete economic sense,” Lewis said. “If

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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. Charter schools on average don’t distinguish themselves from their traditional school peers. It’s also immoral.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

Domingo Morel, New York University professor and author of a book on state takeovers By 2018, four of Houston’s 274 schools, all of them in the city’s economically distressed north and east sides, hadn’t met the standards for four years running, putting the district at risk of a takeover.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 29, 2016

In her acceptance speech at the Democratic national convention in Philadelphia Thursday night, Hillary Clinton pledged to create new economic opportunities for all Americans by generating more and better jobs; expanding affordable childcare and preschool programs, and making higher education “debt-free for all.”. Convention coverage.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

In 2020, in the early days of the pandemic, Trump signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security, or CARES, Act, which allotted an additional $3.5 The government does have regulations that these entities must follow, but revoking their recognition would require a lengthy Education Department review.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Like many education reformers, Trump argues an estimated $620 billion spent on public funding has not translated to educational success, but for the Republican nominee it shows “obviously Common Core doesn’t work.” Related: Why the presidential election matters for immigrant students. Voucher programs provide insight in this regard.

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