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JANUARY 12, 2023

Across the country, schools have shifted toward career-focused education in recent years, reviving a long-running debate on whether the purpose of education is to prepare students for jobs or to be well-rounded citizens. One week per month, engineers from local industries visit the classrooms and talk to students about their careers.

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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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APRIL 15, 2022

Now a doctoral student in education leadership policy at Texas Tech University, Williams often thinks about the student loan debt she is still accruing. And for Williams, a higher education senior policy analyst at the advocacy group Education Trust, the personal is also professional. Ivory Toldson, NAACP.

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APRIL 9, 2018

The average performance of the nation’s fourth- and eighth-graders mostly held steady in math and reading from 2015 to 2017, now marking a decade of stalled educational progress, according to the results of a test released Tuesday. educational system is deteriorating. Related: Is it time to update NAEP? Concerns over computers.

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

Although USN&WR has proclaimed itself “the global authority in education rankings,” a healthy degree of skepticism is appropriate. Moreover, those proficiency levels are closely tied to students’ family economic status and their entering levels of proficiency in English and math. Even “global authorities” can screw up!

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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. Related: How higher education lost its shine.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2018

A House bill to revamp the Higher Education Act has moved out of committee for debate, while the Senate is still discussing reform ideas in committee. 4508, becomes law, college affordability would go from bad to worse, say many higher education experts, and students from low-income backgrounds would suffer most.

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APRIL 25, 2018

Higher Education. 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. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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JUNE 10, 2017

The switch to a proficiency-based education, which focuses on making sure students can demonstrate what they know, has helped students like Elderkin. That’s due to a new teaching approach here called “proficiency-based education,” that was inspired by a 2012 state law. Photo: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald.

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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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OCTOBER 5, 2020

Education journalist Emily Hanford has argued that the failure to teach phonics in the early elementary years may be the problem. Fordham Institute , an education policy think tank, which directly linked minutes of social studies instruction to higher reading scores. Department of Education tracks.

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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. There is no time to waste.

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JUNE 13, 2024

And it identified a self-perpetuating cycle in which the nation’s pervasive racial wealth gap both contributes to and is exacerbated by disparities in higher education. Related: Interested in innovations in higher education? And the report argues that something can be done about it.

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AUGUST 12, 2021

Over the last several years, the Warren-Sanders wing of the Democratic Party has succeeded at reshaping the higher education policy debate. The Pell Grant program traces its roots to the Higher Education Act of 1965 and has required appropriate updates and revisions over time. In issuing its $1.8 What to make of this?

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MARCH 30, 2020

They play out in education systems with deeply embedded patterns of inequality, determined by where students live, by family income, by race and by ethnicity, among other factors. These emergency policies need to be developed in direct relationship to the enduring problem in education: inequality. Access to content.

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AUGUST 5, 2021

Emily House, executive director, Tennessee Higher Education Commission and the Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation. “It It’s a real barrier,” said Zora Mulligan, the state’s commissioner of higher education.) Laura Perna, executive director, Alliance for Higher Education and Democracy at the University of Pennsylvania.

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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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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.” Credit: Ross D.

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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. 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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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. Higher Education. percent in 1998.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The challenge is equity efforts in public education often fall short of their intentions. The world is inequitable by design—therefore, so is our education ecosystem. At Digital Promise our mission is to accelerate innovation in education to improve opportunities to learn with the goal of closing the Digital Learning Gap.

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APRIL 16, 2018

Federal lawmakers are debating the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act against the backdrop of sobering forecasts about the nation’s future workforce demands. To prepare the workforce of tomorrow, lawmakers must ensure that all students can access and succeed in higher education. Higher Education. Weekly Update.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2017

As public leaders seek to educate these students equitably, a lively debate has ensued over how to best instruct these students. Forward-thinking reform for English learners increasingly goes hand-in-hand with a push for the latter approach: expanding bilingual education. Bilingual education is no different.

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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. They can motivate students to look into and eventually pursue a higher education, whether or not they actually end up making any difference in the price.

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JUNE 12, 2016

President Bush promotes his “No Child Left Behind” education agenda during a visit to Kirkpatrick Elementary School in Nashville, Tenn., But hindsight is a very different vantage point for Cassellius, who is now Minnesota’s commissioner of education. “It Monday, Sept. Photo: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

No more simply “sitting on your butt in class,” as one educator put it. Just 48 percent of Maine’s 11 th – graders and only about 32 percent of economically disadvantaged students were proficient in reading and math. Related: How diplomas based on skill acquisition not credits earned could change education.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

That was the message by state higher ed leaders who gathered this summer at the Reagan Institute Summit on Education in Washington, D.C. Leaders noted that although these aren’t totally new concerns, the health crisis exacerbated them—as did, they argued, years of weak state funding for higher education. she asked. “If

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education. In December 2013, there were 29 million people with some college education but no degree. These data alarm the experts, considering all the messaging about the need for postsecondary education. Economic motivation is a factor,” Ryu said. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Department of Education. Private college counseling cost an average of $200 an hour in 2017, the last year for which the figure is available from the Independent Educational Consultants Association. All of these things threaten to further widen class and race divides in American higher education. Credit: Beth J.

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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.”. Department of Education.

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JUNE 2, 2019

They were at Boston University to visit “ The Wonder of Learning ,” a traveling exhibit highlighting a pedagogical approach to early childhood education known as “ Reggio Emilia.” Now, with the announcement in April that Boston Mayor Martin J. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2021

“Unfortunately, we are a high-cost state when it comes to community colleges and public education. 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. Economics. “I

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

This story was based on data from Tuition Tracker, a tool produced by The Hechinger Report and Education Writers Association for students and their families. For them, after years of escalating college costs and stagnant earnings, the higher educations they desire for their children are conclusively, decisively and categorically out of reach.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

This segregated sorting in higher education is somewhat understandable. Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: But another way to think about educational inequality is to analyze how students fare at the same institution. If we want more college-educated Americans, we need to do something about it.

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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. The only educational institution in Issaquena County, Miss., Credit: Eric J.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Online higher education may cost more than it could for students and earn less for universities thanks to a little-known $1 billion industry of for-profit middlemen that gets as much as 80% of the proceeds in commissions. revenues of $1 billion annually, may be thwarting the innovative potential of online education.

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AUGUST 28, 2017

Online support groups like #educolor and #hiphoped can provide advice from teachers and educators across the country. 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. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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