Remove Education Policy Remove High School Remove Sociology
article thumbnail

Reality check: After four years of tough college prep, high school seniors grapple with gaps in financial aid

The Hechinger Report

This story is the third in an occasional series looking at six members of the senior class at Match High School, a college preparatory charter school in Boston. BOSTON — Every April, Match High School principal Hannah Larkin and the staff celebrate a few major college admission victories in the senior class.

article thumbnail

What happened when a South Carolina city embraced career education for all its students

The Hechinger Report

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. The Education Department did not respond to a request for comment about Cardona’s tweet.).

educators

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

OPINION: Why school ratings can backfire

The Hechinger Report

Gates Professor of Sociology and Education and chair of the Department of Education Policy and Social Analysis at Teachers College, Columbia University. This story about school ratings was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

article thumbnail

When the man behind the curtain is female: More women now hold key education policymaker jobs

The Hechinger Report

“Please ignore the airplane,” she recalled telling her colleagues as her younger son climbed into her lap, miniature jet plane held high. We were our own experts,” said Kelley, a principal consultant to the California State Assembly Committee on Education. in sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Education 143
article thumbnail

We don’t know how many students in college aren’t ready for college. That matters

The Hechinger Report

Each year, when they get to campus, more than half a million American college students have to take so-called remedial or developmental education classes to teach them basic math and English skills they should have learned in high school. The problem affects high school reform as well.

K-12 108
article thumbnail

Economists find free community college can backfire

The Hechinger Report

The assumptions here are derived from research findings that previous scholars have calculated on smaller groups of people around the country and then applied to this larger national database of students who graduated high school in 2007. And small changes in these assumptions can sometimes generate different results.

Sociology 100
article thumbnail

For adults returning to college, ‘free’ tuition isn’t enough

The Hechinger Report

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. Yet, higher education has been a tough sell in Kentucky.

Economics 144