ED Surge

JULY 19, 2024

So he felt frustrated, isolated: “I am stranded on this desert island because that site doesn't work [with my screen reader],” Jacob later told a researcher , also adding, “You can't just re-change your whole teaching plan, especially when you've distributed it.” On the Hook Accessibility has become a major focus area in education policy.

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JULY 16, 2021

Alejandra Acosta, a higher education policy analyst at New America and an author of the report, said: “We all knew that the internet was important before the pandemic but didn’t realize how important it was. Alejandra Acosta, higher education policy analyst, New America.

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APRIL 25, 2018

The United States is lagging behind other wealthy nations when it comes to preparing students for workforce changes wrought by automation, according to a new study by a research group affiliated with The Economist magazine. Related: With a focus on equity, Estonia has quietly joined ranks of the global education elite.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

Private tutors long educated the aristocracy and continue to supplement the education of kids whose families can afford it. And researchers have a growing body of evidence showing it’s incredibly effective. Saga Education embeds tutoring into the school day. The results are, as one researcher puts it, “blockbuster.”.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

For decades, education reform around the world has been dominated by the rhetoric that we should use experimental research to figure out “what works.”. If we can just find the most effective solutions using science, the thinking goes, then the best policies can and should be widely used. For example, the U.S.

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JANUARY 21, 2024

Just this month, a group of researchers published their findings on the impact of district capital projects and used test scores to draw conclusions. Teachers and students can point to how the NCLB-related tests have negatively impacted education. And here we are…back at the end of the first paragraph.

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APRIL 30, 2022

Purdue University’s online arm offers a certificate for people who want to become legal secretaries or assistants; new education department data shows that three years after completion, their median salary is $18,495. 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 23, 2020

Rules about how old the student is permitted to be or how many credit hours can be taken, for example, create unforeseen challenges, said Tiffany Jones, Education Trust’s senior director of higher education policy. Tiffany Jones, senior director of higher education policy, The Education Trust.

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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. The researchers and districts shared ideas on how to set performance targets.

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

Now they are demanding a greater role in school policy and the decisions that shape their educations. They are also seeking to use this moment to educate teens about elections and voting and turn them into lifelong voters. Andrew Brennen, National Geographic education fellow.

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AUGUST 4, 2020

Government agencies and accrediting bodies have safeguards to protect students from such abrupt college closures, but the oversight is often weak or too late. In theory, government agencies and accrediting bodies have safeguards to protect students from such abrupt college closures. Credit: Yvonne Mendez. They could have warned us.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

Despite a perception that free college programs are meant for lower-income students, “the only students who would qualify are students who aren’t eligible for Pell — wealthier students,” said Wil Del Pilar, vice president of higher education policy at the Education Trust. Some researchers, including those at the W.

Economics 132

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Education policy leaders at the federal level and beyond were exploring the growing role of competency-based education and non-traditional providers —and calls were growing for stronger connections between universities and the world of employment. To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2023

So when Parks learned during a conference for student-government leaders about a program that teaches young adults to offer mental health support to their peers, she thought it would work well at Marshall—and even beyond, at colleges throughout West Virginia. The commission covered the training fee, making it free to participate.

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MARCH 15, 2017

The figures reinforce earlier findings of smaller, regional studies, including one by the same research group. The 33,000 who did were generally representative of community college students nationwide, though more were female—women generally are more likely to respond to surveys, the researchers said—and attended school full time.

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MARCH 30, 2020

Research on online learning in both K-12 and higher-education settings points consistently to uneven benefits of online learning by student subgroups. Patricia Burch is a professor at the University of Southern California and a co-director of the USC Rossier Center on Education Policy, Equity and Governance.

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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.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2023

Ben Kaufman, director of research and investigations at the Student Borrower Protection Center Make School’s disastrous downfall, as documented by a Student Borrower Protection Center report provided to The Hechinger Report, should sound alarm bells about partnerships like this, advocates for students warn.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The proportion of high-achieving students from families making more than $250,000 a year applying through early decision is nearly twice that of high-achieving students from families that make less than $50,000, research commissioned by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation shows.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

In addition, federal and many local governments are advocating for policies that would make educational data — similar to what Zuberi saw on the California School Dashboard — more accessible, transparent and helpful to parents. “The Researchers tracking state and local district data say Kemp’s situation is not unusual.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2019

Measuring achievement gaps between rich and poor might seem like a straightforward exercise for education experts. But despite this apparent simplicity, two prominent education researchers have arrived at different answers. Reardon is a professor at the Graduate School of Education. It’s important to know.

Sociology 109

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2017

Bristol, who examines national, state and local education policies that affect the recruitment and retention for teachers of color in schools, has been much in demand lately to talk about his research. Color-blind reform policies haven’t done black folk favors in places like New Orleans, Washington D.C. In 2015, a U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The commission will oversee research and conduct a listening tour to determine the best next steps to improve the Jackson’s schools , and avoid a state takeover. But how common is this governance-by-coalition model across the country? Phil Bryant’s office, Jackson Public Schools, the City of Jackson, and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

There are many complicated factors ranging from a deep-seated American reluctance to let government into family life to a commitment to taxes that are lower than many of our European counterparts, which makes spending on social programs difficult to justify. I dug into the history and research on Head Start. Little to Nothing.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2016

Negative quality of life outcomes and racial strife evidence our failure to learn how to live together, which compromise our national security making diversity a federal education policy issue. The federal government has a very limited set of carrots and sticks to encourage diversity.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2016

1 is guaranteed 15 hours a week of free child-care or preschool for 38 weeks a year, or 570 hours total, paid for by the national government. “We Apparently, so do most parents, 94 percent of whom take the government up on its offer of free education starting at age 3, according to government data. Like the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2017

A significant body of research shows that high-quality preschools produce long-term academic and social benefits for children. Only 3 percent of Idahoans under age 5 are served by Head Start, the federal early education program for children living in poverty, according to a report by the National Institute of Early Education Research.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Several education policy experts, however, says these plans — regardless of how they’re used — are flawed. For one, 529 plans can be costly for federal and state governments, according to the Pew report. Currently, any capital gains or dividends produced by 529 savings plan investments are not taxed.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Residents say the federal government has been slow to respond, and with so much rental housing destroyed , housing options are limited. In many ways, teachers are frontline mental health workers,” said Betty Lai, a psychology professor at Boston College who researches the mental health impacts of natural disasters on children.

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APRIL 9, 2018

based research organization, is planning to calculate “demographically adjusted” scores for each state later Tuesday, showing how each state would stack up if it educated a similar mix of students with the same racial and economic backgrounds. “We We must do better for all children.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Each student represents money from the city, state and federal governments. Gone is the urgency to find the students who left — those eligible for free public education but who are not receiving any schooling at all. Early in the pandemic, school staff went door-to-door to reach and reengage kids. No one,” he said, “is forthcoming.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The highest-income families pay, on average, 15 percent of their earnings for college, according to earlier research by the Institute for Higher Education Policy , or IHEP, while low- and moderate-income families are expected to finance an amount equivalent to 100 percent of what they make in a year.

Economics 112

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Rolling cabinets stocked with dozens of the laptops sit in classrooms where teachers assign them to students for everything from researching hereditary DNA to writing essays. Using computers and online resources in the classroom is part of a growing trend in education. We need a coherent governing structure and we don’t have that.”.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Researchers estimate that dyslexia affects one in five individuals. They are just the first step in a process that prompts educators to do further diagnostic assessments to determine foundational skill gaps for students. Yet, it is often misdiagnosed or missed entirely. As of July 2023, 32 states and Washington, D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2016

“If you’re making $10,000 to $30,000 a year, and you need 10 percent to 15 percent of family income to attend community college, it’s just not going to happen,” said Joni Finney, director of the Institute for Research on Higher Education at the University of Pennsylvania and coauthor of the study.

Economics 75

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

“I don’t know anyone who doesn’t want to improve education, but our good intentions can make us unintentionally do the wrong things,” said Frederick Hess, founding director of the education policy studies program at the Washington think tank the American Enterprise Institute. Higher Education. Choose as many as you like.

Tutoring 93

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

Additional research from the National Center for Education Statistics provides evidence that the smaller, more specialized programs available at private institutions are often more successful at graduating and launching those who come from historically underserved backgrounds. The maximum award , however, is $6,095 per year.

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