The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Students who have outstanding balances that prevent them from finishing college are often short just a few dollars and a couple of credits. This group of 11 large public universities says individual payment shortfalls of $1,000 or less put 4,000 of its Pell-eligible seniors at risk of dropping out.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Becker College in Worcester, Mass., is one of more than 800 colleges and 9,000 campuses that have closed since 2004. Despite high profile stories about the closing of small liberal arts colleges, such as California’s Mills College and Vermont’s Green Mountain College, college closures have actually declined in the past five years.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2023

But a June 2023 analysis of college students in Michigan highlights a particularly leaky part of the teacher pipeline: teacher preparation programs inside colleges and universities. At the start of college, Michigan’s Black students are almost as interested in teaching as white students, the report found.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

When she thinks about a student going through college, Kristen Renn imagines a seedling growing into a tree: There are a lot of things that could go wrong along the way. One cataclysmic event can do it in,” said Renn, a professor of higher, adult and lifelong education at Michigan State University. Credit: Gregory Shamus/Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2017

In this ongoing series, The Hechinger Report is visiting high schools that have beaten the long odds to learn what’s behind their success in improving graduation rates and sending more students to college. Related: Rural schools join forces to make college the rule rather than the exception. TULSA, Okla. —

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

MINNEAPOLIS — At a late August meeting in a windowless room at Minneapolis College, a handful of students barely a week into classes sat back on couches, took a breath and marveled that they were there at all. Ray Lombardi, 50, listened thoughtfully. What I’m hearing is that we have three things in common: It’s hard to be a parent.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Johnson currently serves as the Executive Officer for Student Services at Springfield Public Schools, where she oversees school counseling and social work services, dropout prevention and graduation improvement strategies, and college access and success initiatives. from The University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2022

OREM, Utah — Of the many things that happen at a university, it seemed among the most mundane: the periodic task of coming up with those “core values” that flash from websites or are splashed on banners hung from campus light poles. At Utah Valley University, or UVU, the process started smoothly. And the conversation skidded to a halt.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

In Tennessee, the education system made headlines a few years back when the state announced the “ Tennessee Promise ”—an initiative granting thousands of high school students the opportunity to attend two years of free community college. And now, adults can get in on the action, too. ). And now, adults can get in on the action, too. ).

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

College took a back seat the moment Izzy B. Then she’d gone straight to online summer school at a local community college near Denver. When in-person classes there started this past fall, she was glad to be back in the classroom and finally experiencing some real college life. called the suicide hotline. percentage points.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2023

Austin Community College is one of 50 community colleges in Texas that researchers analyzed to determine how much ought to be spent educating students. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report Community colleges say they can’t help the neediest students get through college successfully without more funding.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2023

Related: Supreme Court makes its historic ruling in affirmative action cases Many Black and Latino students never make it to college. Only 10 percent of Philadelphia public school students went on to earn a college degree. Supreme Court erred by striking down affirmative action last month.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Joy Malak floundered through her freshman year in college. The hardest part about being a new college student, Malak said, “is not the coursework. Joy Malak, left, changed her major as a freshman at the University of California, Santa Cruz, while balancing grades with work and school. SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Credit: Ki Sung/KQED.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

A Stanford University study finds that dropout rates were lower in Oakland, California, high schools that offered a special class for black students called the Manhood Development Program. But although these programs have increased in popularity and spent an estimated $1.6 “It shows that it works.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

In the spring of 2021, $600 stood between Endele Wilson and his dream of achieving a teaching credential from Long Beach City College. He didn’t qualify for financial aid, he said, because of low grades years ago at another community college. The college would, effectively, force him to drop out. “I

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

She’s among a small number of students at community colleges who have been guaranteed seats at partner four-year universities, with the idea that they’ll go on to earn the bachelor’s degrees to which the vast majority of students like Hall say they aspire. This story also appeared in NBC News. Credit: Image provided by Amoni Hall.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2019

High School Dropout. The title of Anthony Johnson’s book explains why he’s an unlikely educator: it’s called “High School Dropout to Teacher of the Year.” We talked about that and more with Josh Eyler, director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Rice University and author of the book “How Humans Learn.” Rebel ‘Mayor.’

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

When the coronavirus hit in the spring of 2020, student surveys indicated that four-year colleges would be hit the hardest this fall, with many students turning to cheaper two-year community colleges until the pandemic ended. That’s an estimated 600,000 fewer college students nationwide if these partial enrollment trends continue.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2022

It was the first day of freshman orientation at the University of Maine, and students were arriving in droves. New students checking in at freshman orientation at the University of Maine get nametags are color-coded to show which state they came from among those where the university aggressively recruits.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Kameshwari Shankar watched for years as college and university courses were increasingly taught online instead of face to face, but without a definitive way of understanding which students benefited the most from them, or what if anything they learned. This story also appeared in The New York Times.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

And that’s what the Roux Institute is: a brand-new university campus backed by $200 million of donated money. At a time when other higher education institutions are closing or merging because of a decline in the supply of high school graduates, the Roux is among a small but largely unnoticed number of new colleges that are opening.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2021

I taught basic English writing at two community colleges in New Mexico before I retired in 2019. My students tended to be motivated; otherwise, they wouldn’t have been in college at all. percent literacy rate , the seventh-lowest among the 50 states, and one of the highest school dropout rates. In 2017 New Mexico had an 83.5

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Several studies in the mid 2000s found that cell phone messages were surprisingly effective at reminding students to fill out financial aid forms, as well as to apply to and enroll in college. College enrollment didn’t budge, nor did the amount of financial aid that students received. 1/2) Hi [first_name]. It is useful in some cases.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

Texas A&M University at Texarkana has one of the lowest retention rates of public higher-education institutions; 55 percent who started in 2012 were gone by 2016. TEXARKANA, Texas — New buildings are shooting up around the sun-baked grounds of the Texas A&M University System’s northernmost outpost here.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In 2020, according to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the high school dropout rate was 5.3% In 2020, according to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the high school dropout rate was 5.3% Students can apply on a rolling basis throughout the year and complete coursework on their own timeframe.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2023

As public confidence in the value of higher education wanes, state and national higher education leaders must do more to invest in programs that have demonstrated success at improving college completion rates and helping students find well-paying jobs. Related: Many community college students never earn a degree.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

When Alexandra Logue served as the chief academic officer of the City University of New York (CUNY) from 2008 to 2014, she discovered that her 25-college system was spending over $20 million a year on remedial classes. Nobody could tell me if we were doing it the right way,” Logue said. Department of Education.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Recent research has revealed that a staggering 75 percent of high school graduates do not feel confident or prepared enough to make decisions about college or their careers once they graduate. The selection of schools can include vocational, trade, or technical schools, as well as colleges and universities. million by 2030.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Largely low-income, Hispanic and with parents whose own educations didn’t get past high school, the young people in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas started over the last decade doing something few of their predecessors had done: going to college. This story also appeared in Wired. Then the pandemic descended.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

WASHINGTON — Like many high school seniors, Grant Austin Robert Simms was bombarded with marketing materials from colleges that showed euphoric students enjoying athletics, extracurricular clubs and the excitement of living on campus. A handful of conventional colleges and universities are coming to the same conclusion.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Each new day brings another round of headlines about the struggles of the nation’s colleges to adapt to the coronavirus pandemic, the arrival of freshmen in reduced-occupancy dormitories, the limitations of remote learning and a sports season that seems unlikely to get off the ground.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2020

That’s much like the radically new way Nelson and a small number of other pioneering students have been experiencing college. . — The menu at the diner where Amy Nelson likes to take a break from work is notable for its side dishes, including caramelized bananas, cinnamon apples and mushrooms and onions. This story also appeared in Wired.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Desirée Morales Díaz, who was accepted to American University but couldn’t afford to go there. “My SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Desirée Morales Díaz didn’t choke up when she recounted how her high school counselor hadn’t heard of the common application, the form widely used by college admission offices on the mainland.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Department of Education earlier this month points out that a college education can still be a lever of social mobility. Even college graduates whose parents had never attended any college at all were still working at the same rates and earning the same salaries, on average, as their peers with better-educated parents.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

Arriving in Columbia, Missouri, at 18, Mateusz Haruza saw the University of Missouri as a stepping stone to a career in tech. Then, last year, friends guided Haruza to a fledgling IBM program that pays new workers as they receive classroom instruction and on-the-job training — no college degree needed. He’d hit “absolute rock bottom.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2018

Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi. The state’s Complete 2 Compete campaign is trying to get adults to go back to college and finish their degrees. When Laken Blount got a call from a man who claimed she’d earned enough college credits to earn an associate degree, she was skeptical. “I

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

Given current circumstances, Richard Vedder, an economics professor emeritus at Ohio University, has decided to teach his fall course, “Economic History of Europe,” for a salary of $1. Richard Vedder, an economics professor emeritus at Ohio University and national expert on higher education finances, began teaching at O.U.

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