Tracking college closures - The Hechinger Report
2024年10月21日 · From 2008 to 2011, an average of seven colleges and universities shut down each year in the wake of the financial crisis. That four-year average had doubled to 14 by 2014 before reaching 32 by 2018.
Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles student
2022年6月6日 · During the 2017-18 school year, more than 69,000 students received corporal punishment almost 97,000 times nationwide.. Corporal punishment has been on the decline in the United States for the last several decades, in part because of growing evidence that it harms students’ wellbeing and academic performance while also failing to improve their behavior long …
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2024年11月1日 · The College Welcome Guide is a collection of interactive charts and maps that help you assess campus culture. They list the demographics of faculty and students, services for veterans or students with disabilities and more. The maps outline the state-level laws that might be most relevant to matriculating students, such as restrictions on teaching Critical Race …
What might happen if the Education Department were closed?
2024年11月22日 · Republican Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota recently introduced a bill to unwind the Education Department and spread its work across other federal agencies.. The Hechinger Report tried to answer some of the questions raised by the possible dismantling of the department, consulting experts and advocates on student loans, special education, financial …
Colleges are now closing at a pace of one a week. What happens …
2024年4月26日 · About one university or college per week so far this year, on average, has announced that it will close or merge. That’s up from a little more than two a month last year, according to the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, or SHEEO.. So many colleges are folding that some students who moved from one to another have now found that …
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More tools. The Offer Letter Decoder helps college applicants understand the financial aid offer letter they receive from a college or university.; The Hechinger Report created the College Closure Tracker to document the more than 800 colleges …
A decade of research on education inequality in America
2020年6月29日 · That didn’t mean there was a giant 70 percent improvement from $1,500. The Trump administration added together all sources of funds, including federal funding, which amounts to 8 percent of total school spending, while the Obama administration excluded federal funds, counting only state and local dollars, which make up more than 90 percent of education …
Dual enrollment has exploded. But it’s hard to tell if it’s helping ...
2024年10月28日 · Exactly how much all of this is costing the nation isn’t known. But the state of Texas, which accounts for 10 percent of high schoolers who are taking these college classes, was investing $120 million annually as recently as 2017, according to one estimate. It wouldn’t be far-fetched to extrapolate that over $1 billion a year in public funds is being spent on dual …
A theory for learning numbers without counting gains popularity
2024年11月25日 · Counting from 7, of course, is another approach. But it can be mentally taxing to keep track of five more as a child counts up from 7 to 12. Children who know how to add only through counting soon realize that they do not have the time to count when presented with a long addition worksheet.
PROOF POINTS: New higher ed data by race and ethnicity
2023年2月20日 · Students’ race and ethnicity affect their chances of earning a college degree, according to several new reports on higher education released in January and February 2023. College degrees are increasing among all racial and ethnic groups, but white and Asian Americans are far more likely to hold a college degree or earn one than Black, Hispanic or …