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Racial diversity as a financial necessity at state universities
In Louisiana, a university president argues the lack of diversity on college campuses isn’t just a moral problem; it’s bad for the financial future
OPINION: "They said I only got in because I 'checked the black box'"
Five ways to acheive social justice in college access in the wake of the recent college-admissions scandal
While focus is on the fall, students’ choices about college will have a much longer impact on who and how many earn degrees.
Now, just as happened in the last recession, it is likely to take students even longer and cost more, while dropout rates rise and graduation rates fall.
Enrollment and financial crises at public universities threaten a growing list of academic disciplines including philosophy, languages, the arts and women’s and black studies. (In partnership w/ WLRN Public Radio and Television)
Even before coronavirus, public universities were cutting programs with small enrollments, or that politicians said they didn’t think led to jobs.
"If this is our chance to reimagine schools, remembering this history and prioritizing the protection of the black teaching force will be essential to create better places for black students to learn." An excerpt from columnist Andre Perry Page's new book #KnowYourPrice.
Having a black teacher in classrooms has a lasting impact on students, especially on Black students' future outcomes and worldview.
Higher education has never been fair, but now a book has some big ideas for change and reform. Coronavirus might help finally move the needle, but the system may still be gamed by those with means.
The coronavirus has created a huge higher education crisis, but will it transform or destroy higher education as we know it?
After years of neglect, Mississippi takes baby steps to boost school readiness
Advocates maintain more state support for Mississippi early childhood education belongs on the front lines in state battle against low academic performance.
Test prep to get into vocational education? Yup, it's a thing
County-run vocational high schools in NJ are helping to revive vocational education — but critics say some cherry-pick the best and the brightest
With higher ed in limbo, students at four-year universities are switching to community colleges.
Students at or destined for four-year universities are signing up at or considering going to community college for the summer and fall.
Misleading research claims are increasingly common in the world of education software. A Hechinger Report review found dozens of companies promoting their products’ effectiveness on their websites, in email pitches and in vendor brochures with little or shoddy evidence to support their claims.
A Hechinger Report review found dozens of education software companies promoting their products with little or shoddy evidence to support their claims.
Quarantine campuses: College students are designing their own activities to replicate campus social life virtually.
Impromptu innovations, from satellite housing to an app for mental health, help preserve and replicate social connections and campus life virtually.
Many Mississippi children were already at risk of starting kindergarten behind; coronavirus shutdowns have put them at a further disadvantage
A Utah-based nonprofit is expanding its online kindergarten readiness program to families across Mississippi and other states in an effort to fill the gap.
OPINION: We must close college counseling's equity gap
Ask people of color if they are surprised by the alleged college admissions bribery case in the news, and they will likely laugh out loud. For years, the refrain has been that rich white students can...
Fighting for Mississippi's struggling 5-year-olds, one student at a time
The fledgling Mississippi pre k program served just 3 percent of eligible 4-year-olds, reaching only a fraction of the state’s preschoolers.
Nationwide, the coronavirus pandemic has devastated the child care industry: an estimated 50 percent of licensed child care centers in the nation are at risk of closing permanently.
Without enough federal funding, local organizations and officials have stepped up to save child care centers. But even that isn’t enough.
In another measure of the massive economic toll of the pandemic on higher education, the resulting shutdowns have been singularly devastating to the college towns in which these campuses are situated.
In another measure of the massive economic toll of the pandemic on higher education, the shutdowns have been devastating to the college towns.
Coding in kindergarten, tablets for all and digital badges spearhead innovation in suburban village, but even in a place where technology permeated education educators are finding limits to how much it can do during the coronavirus crisis.
In Mineola, NY kids have spent hours a day on screens as, over the past decade, educators have sought to transform learning with technology in schools
How school counseling in Arizona, where counselors already served the highest numbers of students in the nation, works during an age of campus closures and social distancing.
How school counseling in Arizona, where counselors served the highest numbers of students in the nation, works during the Coronavirus pandemic.
Coronavirus fears are about to produce the biggest-ever gap year for college students. But travel restrictions and a looming recession will restrict what they can do with that time.
Roughly 1 in 6 seniors say they definitely or most likely won’t attend college in the fall due to coronavirus; of those 16 percent plan to take a gap year.
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Inspirational stories emerge even as new concerns over food, housing and child care risk derailing college plans
Community colleges and other organizations are reaching out to help student parents in college and encourage them to stay in school.
This is a critical time for The Hechinger Report’s distinctive style of education journalism — stories that humanize, whether they are long-form narrative stories, ambitious data investigations, multipart series on a single topic, or pointed, argument-driven news analyses or op-eds about the topics we cover.
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A case study for the coronavirus era: What has happened when campuses were closed in the past due to disasters like fires, floods, hurricanes
Before the coronavirus shut down colleges and universities, some had already suffered the impact of natural disasters with worrying results.
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The Summit Learning Program has its challenges, but offers big potential for schools that use it well.
Nearly 400 schools use Summit Learning to personalize learning for students but there has been criticism over its ties to Zuckerberg and screen time.
Enrollment in the state’s teacher prep programs, Mississippi’s main pipeline for new teachers, could swell thanks to the new rule freezing gateway tests for teacher recruits.
Enrollment in the state’s teacher prep programs could swell thanks to a temporary rule suspending the requirement that teachers pass the Praxis Core exam.
The coronavirus-induced shift of learning off campus was dramatic, but it accelerated a trend that has been growing over the past several years.
The coronavirus-induced shift of learning off campus was dramatic, but it accelerated higher education's trend of growth in online college enrollment
School districts, thrust into turmoil by Covid-19, are slowly finding ways to cope
Almost no district was truly ready to plunge into remote and distance learning full time. There is no one-size-fits-all remedy.
Traditional higher education will be upended if high school seniors stay home. We talked with students from across the country to see how they are handling college decisions in the coronavirus era:
High school seniors are stuck at home finishing classes online, stripped of graduation rituals and making college decisions amidst coronavirus uncertainty.
Teachers, those wise souls who deal with kids as a professional responsibility, offer their wisdom to parents now tasked with non-stop child behavior management
Teachers, who deal with kids as a professional responsibility, offer wisdom and help to parents now tasked with non-stop child behavior management
Teachers struggling to reach English-language learners at home use high- and low-tech means, spanning everything from Google Classroom to hand-written letters in an attempt to overcome the digital divide and parental illiteracy.
Teachers struggling to reach ELL students at home use high and low-tech means in an attempt to overcome the digital divide and parental illiteracy.
After scrambling to teach remotely, faculty may permanently adopt some online tools, but students don’t want total transformation. (Co-published with The New York Times)
After scrambling to teach remotely, faculty may permanently adopt some virtual education tools although students don’t want total transformation
After all the fuss about getting in, how do poor students survive on elite campuses?
A new book details obstacles economically disadvantaged students face on elite campuses, from encountering closed cafeterias to cleaning clogged toilets
Higher salaries for 'breaking bad' in the classroom
A working study found rich kids with externalizing behavior in school tended to make more money as adults than their well-behaved school mates.
Free classes! Free parking! Prime dorm rooms! More cash! Admissions officers responsible for filling seats at colleges and universities resort to previously banned recruiting tactics. Co-published Washington Post:
Worried about whether students will show up in the fall, colleges and universities have started offering college admission incentives to entice them.
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What is it like to attend school in a refugee camp? For more, read Sarah Butrymowicz's latest story here: https://hechingerreport.org/refugee-girls-want-to-improve-the-world-will-we-let-them-do-so/
Which jobs are safe from robots? Here's what experts say...
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to reunite all separated families within 30 days. In the meantime, thousands of children are still separated from their parents and other family members, which pediatricians and child development experts say can lead to severe trauma. Here is what happens in a child's brain when they face trauma and other adverse experiences like poverty.
Migrant children who are separated from their parents and guardians are at risk of experiencing "toxic stress," which impedes the brain's development. Here's what happens to the brain during these times of trauma:
How students learn from super green schools that use zero energy. Read more: http://hechingerreport.org/schools-lead-the-way-to-zero-energy-buildings/
Eligible for financial aid, nearly a million students never get it. Read more: http://hechingerreport.org/eligible-for-financial-aid-almost-one-third-of-students-never-get-it/
States run out of money and aspiring low-income college students feel the pain. READ MORE: http://hechingerreport.org/eligible-for-financial-aid-almost-one-third-of-students-never-get-it/
We're live at The Atlantic's Education Summit discussing the hard and soft skills needed to complete Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs and go on to thrive in these high-demand fields. This #AtlanticEDU conversation features Karen Amaker of Norwalk Early College Academy, Jeffrey Elkner and Catherine Steinmetz of Arlington Public Schools and Gabriel Rosa of IBM in conversation with our own Liz Willen.
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In a district where 90 percent of students are of color, and the achievement gap is wide, a superintendent is betting that the Black Lives Matter movement can make a difference. Teachers in Rochester, New York — three quarters of whom are white – are getting cultural training and discussing anti-racist strategies. By Emrys Eller
#FREECOLLEGE on Wbok 1230 Am with Dr. Adrienne Dixon and Prinsey Walker talking about Betsy Devos Fail
Donald J. Trump's proposed after-school cuts could lead to more hungry kids, lower test scores. WATCH the full documentary here: http://hechingerreport.org/video-fighting-hunger-mississippi-delta/
WATCH: Donald J. Trump's proposed after-school cuts could lead to more hungry kids, lower test scores.
Sarah Butrymowicz is in New Zealand talking with Ann Brokenshire, principal or Hillmorton High School in Christchurch.
Time for #FREECOLLEGE ON WBOK 1230AM . Dr. Perry is talking about how America has never had a merit-based system for college.
Should we let young boys play tackle football? A new study shows repeated blows to the head causes a degenerative brain disease. Andre Perry weighs in.
Should we let young boys play tackle football? A new study shows repeated blows to the head causes a degenerative brain disease. Andre Perry weighs in.
New study finds that multiracial high schoolers show no test score gap with white students WBOK 1230AM
Amanda Aiken is here with me on #FREECOLLEGE to talk about Chicago's Graduation Plan for students call in 504.260.9265
We're on WBOK 1230AM talking racism, eduction and confederate monuments
Calvin Mackey on #Freecollege with Andre Perry on Wbok 1230 Am talking #STEMNOLA
Calvin Mackie is on #FREECOLLEGE on WBOK 1230AM with Andre Perry talking #STEMNOLA
Dr. Andre Perry is here with Calvin Mackey talking #Stemnola #Freecollege WBOK 1230AM
It's time for #FREECOLLEGE with Andre Perry! We are talking how to grow your own teachers WBOK 1230AM Let's go!
Today on @WBOK1230 we discuss what happened to #NOLAEd fired teachers and #ParisAccord with Andre Perry
#FREECOLLEGE is with Andre Perry on! Today we are taking about how college is not for everyone!
It's time for #FREECOLLEGE ! We are with Brian Turner talking about how schools play a role in student suicide. WBOK 1230AM call in at 504.260.9265
Time for #FREECOLLEGE with Dr. Andre Perry ! We are talking monuments and schools WBOK 1230AM call in and join the conversation 504.260.9265
Time for #freecollege on WBOK 1230AM Today's Column: What's wrong with White Teachers? #poetryontheave
We are talking #tops on #FREECOLLEGE with Dr. Perry on WBOK 1230AM
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