The Hechinger Report

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. 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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Related: LISTEN: In this Kentucky town, refugees can choose a separate high school. The answer starts in the classroom, where civics education often fails to inspire and engage students. Far too many schools preach, rather than practice, democratic ideals. education policy? Where did we go wrong?

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

The group purposefully uses language to help the public understand that drugs belong to one of two categories: those that are approved for consumption by a government agency and those that are not. Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History. First Class: The Legacy of Dunbar, America’s First Black Public High School.

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The Hechinger Report

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.”

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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! Aaron Pallas is the Arthur I.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The National Partnership for Student Success , Harvard’s EdRedesign Lab and the Brick Education Network encourage approaches that focus on more personalized routes to student academic and broader success by creating new navigator and coach roles to connect students and families to opportunities.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

She’d be a senior right now, preparing for graduation in a few months, probably leading her school’s modern dance troupe and taking art classes. This story also appeared in The Associated Press Instead, Kailani Taylor-Cribb hasn’t taken a single class in what used to be her high school since the height of the coronavirus pandemic.

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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 28, 2022

Reforms in education spread because of peer influence and the globalization of cultural beliefs asserting that education is a right and that sustainable development emerges from schooling. The pursuit of one “best” policy too often contributes to marginalization and deepening inequality.

Education 133

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2024

Then, in 2020, Harvard University’s Center for Education Policy Research announced that it was going to test the feasibility of paying tutoring companies by how much students’ test scores improved. Teachers didn’t like it, and enthusiasm for these teacher accountability schemes waned.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

She drives over an hour each way to teach world history at LaGrange High School in Lake Charles. Every campus in the parish school district sustained damage; internet access has been spotty at best. It’s really not cool, especially in high school, to go to the counselor,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

At a time when parents, politicians and universities all want more students to go to college and graduate on time, the idea of letting them take college courses while in high school seems a great solution. Every well-intentioned policy carries unintended consequence,” said Chester Finn Jr., a former assistant U.S.

Tutoring 93

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

This story about school debt is part of the series Districts in Debt , which examines the hidden financial pressures challenging American schools. In a combined biology/literature class, students at James Lick High School complete assignments using school-supplied Chromebooks. SAN JOSE, Calif. —

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

When Mosi Zuberi learned that his 18-year-old son, Kaja, might not graduate from McClymonds High School in Oakland, he anguished over his parenting missteps, wondering where he had gone wrong. In Detroit, Shoniqua Kemp, a low-income single parent, has struggled to stay informed about her children’s education.

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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

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Trombone players in the David Douglas High School Marching Band march in the Starlight Parade in downtown Portland in June. He’s setting aside most of the money for college, but some goes to feed a school-year habit he just can’t kick: playing the trombone. Anna Medina, a high school flutist in Portland, Oregon. “We

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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

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

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2019

“These schools are wealthy as heck, and they’re getting basically free advertising by claiming to meet need when they’re not meeting need,” said Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of higher education policy and sociology at Temple University. And the thing is, these students are getting screwed.”.

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Sociology Humanities Economics High School 103

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

Dillon was lucky to have the president personally invested in improving its schools. Half a dozen of the 4,100 students in Dillon gathered in a conference room at Dillon High School and said they’re proud of their school and community, which is near the North Carolina border 70 miles northwest of Myrtle Beach.

Middle School 76

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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.

Economics 82

Economics Geography Civics History 82

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2017

The government could use it to give larger scholarships or grants to students in state universities, colleges and technical schools. It’s unclear to me just if there’s any strategy around that unrestricted reserve,” said Jennifer Lee, a higher education policy analyst at the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute. “In

Tutoring 83

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2017

Nevertheless, resistance to spending on preschool runs deep in Idaho and the other hold-out states, not least because they are home to voters and politicians who strongly believe in family autonomy and minimal government intervention. Related opinion: We’re asking the wrong questions about early childhood education. “One

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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. I’m going to make sure they’re going to college. Do we want the kids to stay? Credit: Eric J.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2019

Having a robust higher education plan is now a prerequisite for any 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, and several states have already built public programs that heavily subsidize post-high school tuition. Tiffany Jones is director of higher education policy at The Education Trust.

Tutoring 83

Tutoring Education Policy Government High School 83

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

This story about school segregation was produced by The Texas Tribune , a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that provides free news, data and events on Texas public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Beard is black and had two kids go through Longview schools. Board of Education decision.

Private School 68

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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.

Humanities 87

Humanities Economics Education Policy Government 87

The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2016

You wanna buy a college education? People with college degrees earn about $1 million more over their lifetimes than those with only high school diplomas, and are far more likely to have jobs they enjoy. percent increase in the number of high school students interested in applying. Of course you do!

American History 58

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2017

But experts say dramatic improvement is impossible unless the government does something to make college more affordable. The public has a perception that tuition is rising because schools aren’t managing their money well, said Claire Suggs, a senior education policy analyst at the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute.

Economics 78

Economics Education Policy Government Education 78

ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

On a Friday morning in March, students and teachers gathered at a hip hotel here to reimagine what their high schools could be. The delegation from Calvin Coolidge High School was thinking big — as in, global. Yet measuring whether a redesigned high school is working as intended, and why, is difficult to do.

High School 118

High School Leadership Public School Charter School 118

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2020

Hylton High School in Woodbridge, Virginia, was concerned about how that could happen safely. “I I go to a school with over 2,000 kids that walk through the door every single day,” she said. ” Olivia Sanchez, a rising senior at Chaffey High School in Ontario, California. Credit: Sophia Hammer.

High School 145

High School Psychology Inclusive Curriculum Education Policy 145

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

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. And thanks to an important change in government policy, life got easier after that: She didn’t have to pay.

Government 142

Government Education Policy Economics High School 142

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), today, more than 7 million children, or 14 percent of public school students , are entitled to special services and accommodations to help them learn. Meghan Whittaker, director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities.

Education 145

Education Advocacy K-12 Public School 145

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Durst was an unusual choice given his lack of school experience and the IFF’s hostility to public education. (In In 2019, the president of the IFF called public schools “the most virulent form of socialism (and indoctrination thereto) in America today,” adding, “I don’t think government should be in the education business.”)

Elementary School 142

Elementary School Junior High High School Public School 142

ED Surge

AUGUST 27, 2024

When Tim Walz was announced as Kamala Harris’ running mate earlier this month, his ascendancy helped to elevate the idea of educators serving in public office. Once a Public Servant, Always a Public Servant Plenty of former educators hold public office today, including at the federal level, such as Sen. Chad King Wilson Sr.

Education 116

Education Civics Government Political Science 116

ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2024

“I think that there is a broad and sensible middle-of-the-country who is interested in common sense, popular education policy opinions, [and] that is sometimes not well-represented by two extremes,” Polikoff says. A majority of all groups said it was appropriate for high school.)

Education 145

Education Controversial Topics Civics Elementary School 145

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. The exception was 96-year-old Phillis Wheatley High School.

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