The Hechinger Report

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. But you want them to have a kind of better, more full understanding of careers.”. Joel Vargas, Jobs for the Future (JFF).

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 11, 2017

High School Graduation. One in six children who can’t read on grade level by third grade fails to graduate from high school on time— four times the rate for children with proficient third-grade reading skills. (24). Economic Growth. That’s the population of Spain, Italy, and the United Kingdom combined. (15).

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2022

Relatively few high school graduates have the education — or the inclination — for the years of college math and physics that engineering requires. And among those who take on those challenges, simply making that single decision does not mean they will wind up in a high-paying STEM career. Daniel Chambliss the Eugene M.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

billion in economic activity. Sara Goldrick-Rab is Professor of Sociology and Medicine at Temple University, and Founding Director of the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice. Now, due to the pandemic, Tribes are dealing with an estimated loss of more than $4.4

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The Hechinger Report

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 28, 2021

The desperate search for substitute teachers has led some states and school districts to lower qualifications for the people entrusted to educate and supervise America’s schoolchildren at a moment when learning losses are already stacking up. But not enough people have taken advantage, despite the economic downturn and spike in unemployment.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2022

If I was still a high school senior, I wouldn’t come here,” she says. If I was still a high school senior,” said Witherspoon, who is scheduled to graduate in the spring, “I wouldn’t come here.”. Eastern Kentucky University shut down theater, economics and other majors. Credit: Ji Stribling for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Angie Rawls, choral director at Pearl High School in Mississippi, leads students in a vocal exercise. On the first Wednesday of December, the stage risers were out and the backlights were on as the women’s choir rehearsed in the Pearl High School Performing Arts Center. Photo: Sarah Warnock/The Clarion Ledger.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2022

Nearly three-fourths of students at New York City’s elite Stuyvesant High School are Asian American. born white parents living in the same affluent East Coast suburb for my new book, “ Race at the Top : Asian Americans and Whites in Pursuit of the American Dream in Suburban Schools.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Jon: But the decline in college opportunity for rural high school graduates is only widening social, economic and political divides between rural America and the rest of the country. They have an economic impact. STARS was started when recruiters from a few elite universities finally started to visit rural high schools.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2021

When 18-year-old Ernesto Rubio graduated from high school in June, he knew what he wanted to do next: take a summer class in the basics of becoming an emergency medical technician, the first step toward his dream job as a paramedic. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. The challenge? Getting to the class.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Neither is Natasha Warikoo, a sociology professor at Tufts University and the author of The Diversity Bargain. “I The pandemic has dealt additional economic blows to colleges during a time when they were already worried about declining enrollment and the fiscal health of their institutions. It should all be a level playing field.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Alondra Piña Mota remembers being too embarrassed to talk to her high school teachers or college counselors about how her family’s reluctance to borrow money might prevent her from going to college. One of his memories of school: “I was always raising my hand, waiting for them to call on me.”. NASHVILLE, Tenn.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2016

But instead of offering out-sized athletic scholarships or perks to potential out-of-state students, the university is doubling down on a bid for students who are often ignored — low-income, urban, public high school graduates with mediocre test scores. There’s sociological, economic, political issues in it.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2022

When lots of 18-year-olds were pouring out of high schools, “it was easy to wait on the applications to come in,” said FAU President John Kelly, in his office overlooking the campus ornamented with palm trees. That’s not the case anymore.”. At community colleges, nearly half the students quit after their first year.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics. Additionally, we could make our own sets related to local class topics and presentations using a friendly curation tool like Educlipper. .

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2019

Reardon is a professor at the Graduate School of Education. Hanushek is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a politically conservative center for research on economic and social issues based at the university. And it uses different reading and math tests than this one that begins tracking high school students in 1980.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

With people of color expected to make up a quarter of the state’s population by 2035, these gaps represent an economic threat to Minnesota; unless more residents get to and through college, there won’t be enough qualified workers to fill the jobs that require a post-secondary degree or certificate. Will jobs go begging?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2018

By her senior year of high school, she had taken every Advanced Placement course the school offered. New research backs up the idea that low-income first gens experience familiar economic, social, and cultural barriers when they get to the workplace. But Brown liked numbers. She had a 4.0

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

In this day and age the bachelor’s degree is what the high school diploma used to be and the master’s degree is what the bachelor’s degree once was,” said Armstrong. People expect that once you finish your undergrad, you go to grad school.” You have to have those letters after your name for people to open the door to you.”.

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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

JUNE 27, 2019

Amarachi Orakwue felt stifled during high school in Minnesota, having immigrated to the United States from Nigeria in 2010. On a late April afternoon in the residence building, Madison Ousley, a junior who finished high school in Apple Valley, Minn., billion economic development initiative centered on health and wellness.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

FIRST STEP TO THE MIDDLE CLASS: More than 27 million Americans age 25 or older don’t have a high school diploma or GED, the basic credential needed to qualify for nearly 80 percent of jobs in this country. Getting students to class is just the first step toward Jacobs’ ultimate goal: increasing the school’s graduation rate.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Although many schools are still crunching the numbers, about a third of all HBCUs have seen spikes in freshmen enrollment this year, said Marybeth Gasman, higher education professor at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions. There’s obviously something happening at a societal level.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

With economic segregation in the United States worsening, there is likely to be a growing number of school districts where poor children, and poor parents, predominate. Yet, economic segregation, which is more pronounced among families with children, also creates public school districts where affluent families predominate.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

About 3,500 people attended the conference, among them K-12 and higher ed educators who teach the subjects that constitute social studies — including history, civics, geography, economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, law and religious studies.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2019

A college education is supposed to accelerate economic mobility, not throttle it. A college degree gives most young people their best shot at the American Dream; it should be as easy to access as elementary or high school. With 45 million borrowers owing $1.5 ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images. Black students struggle with 85.8

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2023

North Dakota helps repay the student loans of graduates from eligible universities and colleges there trained in any of a long list of high-demand occupations , including teaching, engineering, architecture, finance, healthcare, information technology, social work and firefighting. Unemployment in Vermont is just 1.8

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

That same year, the state adopted a master plan for higher education: The UC would serve the top eighth of graduating high school seniors while the top third would be eligible to attend a CSU campus, and the community colleges would be open to all. Not all of the initiatives to solve these problems have succeeded.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

She’s a sociology professor at the University of Virginia and coauthor of the book Academically Adrift. Some students just aren’t going to college straight out of high school. And I didn’t take a lot of that in high school. And that has consequences for how much they learn in higher education.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

We share the text of their conversation for discussion in high school classrooms and professional development workshops. Wells-Barnett, is increasingly becoming a household name and being taught more commonly in high school, especially in Chicago, where I’m from. They are killed for the crime of their economic success.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

LaTavia BigBack was 17, a high school junior, when she and her friends were in a car crash. Some educators still believe that having pregnant or parenting teens in school or providing services like nurseries will encourage other students to get pregnant. BigBack said no; she thought maybe she had a concussion.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Even the outside experts who reviewed the Integrated Business and Humanities program for accreditation purposes, including a member of the McMaster sociology department, unanimously recommended dropping the word “humanities” from the name. China and other economic rivals add them. Related: While liberal arts decline in U.S.,

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

I got the chance to connect with high school students in my breakout room and it was a refreshing reminder that the Black Freedom Struggle is not only being taught despite truth-teaching being criminalized, but also it is being learned and put into practice! They are killed for the crime of their economic success.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Hall, a busy senior majoring in sociology who is also the president of the Black Student Union at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, cast her first presidential ballot for Clinton. Murrow High School on time and was admitted to John Jay the next fall. I’m one phone call away from losing part of my family.”.

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