The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Retrieved from [link] The stats on school staffing might seem like a violation of the laws of supply and demand. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift In the past decade, the population of elementary, middle and high school students in Massachusetts dropped by 42,000 while the number of school employees grew by 18,000.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2022

Slower economic growth. The United States has fallen from third to 12th since 2000 among the 38 member nations of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in the proportion of its population aged 25 to 34 with university degrees. It’s going to be less economically successful. Continued labor shortages.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Text messages to parents about their school-aged children led to better grades and attendance. Based on these early successes, education leaders in government and nonprofit organizations sought to bring the power of text messages to hundreds of thousands of students. 1/2) Hi [first_name].

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 5, 2022

Tom and Emily describe how students can make positive impacts in their local, online, and global communities NOW, not later after they graduate from high school or college. We need more learning opportunities like these because they help our learners find meaning and relevance in their schooling experience.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

About 85 percent of high school graduates in 2019 had taken at least one course in career and technical education, or CTE. Students suit up for medical assistant class at Walker High School in Livingston Parish, Louisiana. Until then, students’ post-high school employment outcomes remain a mystery.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2024

Each year, the federal government budgets billions of dollars for research and development, and gives much of the money to universities and research laboratories that train and support STEM researchers. Many of the women who earn STEM degrees trickle out of academia after receiving years of government investment in their specialized training.

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ED Surge

MAY 1, 2024

But tribal leaders are sometimes wary of doing that: “Making sure there's the true intent of helping build our infrastructure” matters, Mills says, “just because of the historical trauma and federal government and those kinds of things that have happened to our people.” Recently, there has been federal investment. No internet.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2023

That’s taken a dramatic toll on colleges and universities, with severe consequences for society and economic growth — a situation now also being faced by the United States, where the number of 18-year-olds has begun to drop in some states and soon will fall nationwide. million students, from 2010 through this year.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

As a student at Poughkeepsie High School in upstate New York and then as a high school educator in the Bronx, I’ve observed, both inside and outside the classroom, that many of us develop unconscious biases. However, one teacher, my history teacher, seemed bothered that I had worn African attire to school.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Four-year-old children who attended public pre-K in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2005-06 were far more likely to go to college within a couple years of graduating high school than children who did not attend, according to a 15-year study of 4,000 students. But in high school, an advantage for the preschoolers re-emerged.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

When Iowa Wesleyan University announced in March that it would close, its biggest creditor was a federal government agency that had loaned it $26 million and then — in an attempt to help the university survive —softened the terms and extended the repayment period. Iowa Wesleyan, for example, had an estimated $55.1 Dordt has an estimated $43.4

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

public schools required vast support, federal and state government officials appropriated historic levels of help via elementary and secondary school emergency relief funds. We are seeing economically disadvantaged communities starting to lag in their rate of learning as measured by standardized testing.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2023

When she needed money to start college, she was advised to borrow from a private lender instead of the federal government and, because of that, she’s stuck with $81,000 debt. She kept her job at her local Big Lots, where she had worked during high school. I’m frustrated, because, what can I do?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2024

To help with that decision, schools across the country have paid many millions to private companies that display data on the fate of past students. Scattergrams are a bit like looking at horse race results for each school except the names of former classmates aren’t displayed.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

We already have good evidence that school and college rankings can distort normal educational processes , reinforcing social hierarchies that govern who enrolls in a school , how those students are treated and what happens to them thereafter. Even “global authorities” can screw up! The correlation is r = -.68

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 5, 2024

George Hawkins , a 2019 graduate of TAH’s Master of Arts with a Specialization in Teaching American History and Government (MASTAHG) program , was named South Dakota Teacher of the Year in October. Instead, he went to law school, graduating as the 2008 housing crisis threw the economy into recession. My name is Susan. What’s your name?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2021

America’s public schools have enormous energy, infrastructure and transportation needs, which make them an essential component of any plan to improve the nation’s overall infrastructure. Yet the role schools can play — both in economic recovery and in addressing climate change — is often overlooked.

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Doing Social Studies

JANUARY 27, 2022

So whether you’re wanting to dive deeper into learning about indigenous Identity with Dr. Brandon Haddock, explore geography through the lens of a zombie apocalypse, dive into economic policy, or attend a wide variety of other breakout sessions with teaching strategies to help you “take it up a notch,” we’ve got something for you.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

Related: Simpler FAFSA complicates college plans for students and families “As much staff as government has, it’s not enough for students right now,” said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the national advocacy group Complete College America. She wants colleges to do more to directly help applicants still struggling to fill out the forms.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Our task force consists of students, faculty, college presidents, business leaders, climate leaders and former government officials working together to build on the important leadership that we have seen emerging in our sector.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Two graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program submitted essays on how they teach these skills to the Bill of Rights Institute’s 2023 National Civics Teacher of the Year Award , placing among the top ten finalists. They teach self-government as a cooperative activity. Yet both go further.

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ED Surge

MARCH 28, 2022

Part of the difficulty comes from trying to define what exactly counts as “quality,” says Stephanie Riegg Cellini, a professor of public policy and economics at George Washington University who studies for-profit higher education. Is success a high program-completion rate? A strong job-placement rate? Opting Into Accountability?

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The most high-achieving students would be funneled there, too, where they could do worksheets at their own pace and free up teachers to focus on everyone else. Taylor Hill, a student at Wheatley High School, would experience the change firsthand. Do they have a better life after high school? We don't know.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2024

An equal number of high-poverty districts received less than $3,700 per student. These surprising differences for places with similar poverty levels occurred because pandemic aid was allocated according to the same byzantine rules that govern federal Title I funding to low-income schools.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2020

To support herself (she moved in with an older brother) in high school she worked 30 hours a week at an Arby’s next to a weed-studded field in a retail park, earning $8.20 forcing a choice: Go to school exhausted or skip classes and learn the material on her own. She lost her mother at age 8. She closed, at 1 a.m.,

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2021

But overcoming the pandemic-driven economic crisis will require much more than good intentions and billions in new spending. An economic recession is now making this worse. But it turned out that its school system had inflated its high school graduation rates, and few of those students who did finish went to college and earned degrees.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Alphina Kamara wonders what might have happened if she’d been introduced to science and engineering careers at her Wilmington, Delaware, high school. Alphina Kamara, now a junior at Wesleyan University, wishes she would have been encouraged to take her school’s engineering course in high school. Perkins Act.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2023

After the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in 2021, tens of thousands of girls were banned from attending school beyond sixth grade. When I was 6 years old, I started studying in school. I continued my school and course lessons until our economic situation deteriorated and I could not study English anymore.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Tameka never graduated from high school and has worked occasionally as a security guard or a housecleaner for hotels. Suddenly, she had four young children to care for by herself, with only government cash assistance to live on. One government agency has been able to reach Tameka. She has never gotten a driver’s license.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2022

On average, workers with certificates earn about 20 percent more than those with only a high school education, according to the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. The analysis used data from 2015, the latest available at the time, though more recent government statistics produce a similar conclusion.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

You’re not enabling economic mobility at $12 an hour. How do they resolve that tension between economic development and individual mobility?” Thinking Strategically About Early Ed How do they resolve that tension between economic development and individual mobility?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2020

For people who have been involved with the justice system as defendants, prioritizing higher education is a necessary safeguard for social and economic success, both during and after incarceration. Americans who have earned at least a bachelor’s degree experience half the unemployment rate of those with high school diplomas alone.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2021

She’d married not long after graduating from high school in 1981, had three children soon after that, and then gone to work for McDonald’s to make ends meet after her marriage ended. Despite recent talk of debt relief and free college, little government help has been forthcoming, especially for working adults.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2022

Larry Hogan announced in March that the state government would strip bachelor’s degree requirements from thousands of job listings. Jared Polis directed government agencies in his state to embrace hiring workers for skills , not degrees. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. requirements too. will be able to land a good job.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2021

We have to market these jobs and make sure high school kids who are smart consider it.” About a quarter of the workforce in industries such as power generation and water and sewer operations is 55 to 64 years old, according to the economic modeling firm Emsi.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Their multifaceted mission s are enduring and essential; these institutions are focused on increasing college attainment for Native Americans, nation-building and counteracting the deleterious and lasting effects government-forced assimilation. billion in economic activity.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Embargos usually refer to government orders to restrict commerce or block the exchange of goods with another nation. The intent of these punitive measures is to isolate a country and create difficulties for its governing body.

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