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Nov 1, 2024 · 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?
Nov 22, 2024 · Republican Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota late last year introduced a bill to unwind the Education Department and spread its work across other federal agencies. U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky also introduced legislation to abolish the department.. The Hechinger Report tried to answer some of the questions raised by the possible dismantling of the …
Tracking college closures - The Hechinger Report
Oct 21, 2024 · 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.
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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 …
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Dec 3, 2024 · The Bridging the Gap program is one of at least a dozen such initiatives launched at colleges and universities since 2020. Donald Trump’s reelection, and divisions on issues such as Israel and Palestine and LGBTQ+ rights, could intensify the need for such campus programs, experts say. So too could the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ban, said Natasha Warikoo, …
Kids who use ChatGPT as a study assistant do worse on tests
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Nov 5, 2024 · With the right approach to teaching math, everyone can learn and do math. There is no special “math gene” that naturally makes some people better at math than others. It starts with a focus on comprehension and on making math more welcoming.
How could Project 2025 change education? - The Hechinger Report
Jul 23, 2024 · The proposals in the 2025 Presidential Transition Project — known as Project 2025 and designed for Donald Trump — would reshape the American education system, early education through college, from start to finish.. The conservative Heritage Foundation is the primary force behind the sprawling blueprint, which is separate from the much less detailed …
Dual enrollment has exploded. But it's hard to tell if it's helping ...
Oct 28, 2024 · 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 …
Sold a story: How teaching kids to read went so wrong
Oct 20, 2022 · This podcast, Sold a Story, was produced by APM Reports and reprinted with permission. There’s an idea about how children learn to read that’s held sway in schools for more than a generation – even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago.