Meredith Kolodner
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Investigative reporter covering education @hechingerreport, D.C. native, Brooklyn convert, Liverpool F.C. fanatic. DM or email me [email protected]
Brooklyn, NY
Joined November 2012
RT @JCColtin: Mayoral candidate Brad Lander was cuffed and detained by ICE agents after asking to see a warrant for people who were detaine….
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Out of all the states in the country, New Jersey separates young children with disabilities in schools more than any other. I'm deeply grateful to all of the brave parents who spoke with @ReporterMarina and me and for this story.
hechingerreport.org
Students in special education spend more time in separate classrooms in New Jersey than they do in any other state — a situation that can do lasting damage.
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In the midst of all the debate about college, this seems significant -- freshmen enrollment didn't actually drop this fall.
highereddive.com
A methodology error resulted in an undercount of first-year students and an overcount of dual enrollees, the research center’s executive director said.
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RT @jillbarshay: After I wrote about the dual enrollment explosion at U.S. high schools, readers said that too many dual enrollment credits….
hechingerreport.org
A new national analysis tracked 400,000 high schoolers
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Beautiful and deeply reported story by @jackiemader ."The government’s view isn’t that child care is a place to put children so parents can work, or even to prepare children for the rigors of elementary school. It’s about protecting childhood."
hechingerreport.org
Fire, knives and outdoor time: child care for Norwegian children prizes play, quality and equity and makes space for everyone.
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RT @L_willen: As free-tuition programs have multiplied, so have questions and doubts. Are low-income students benefiting? Is free tuition l….
hechingerreport.org
36 states have since followed Tennessee’s lead and offer some version of free tuition to residents
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RT @hechingerreport: This week's Elementary to High School newsletter takes you to North Carolina. Sign up to get this free newsletter sent….
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RT @L_willen: These are not schools where students post the highest test scores, but schools where kids learn more each school year than st….
hechingerreport.org
Nonprofit counts more than 1,300 U.S. schools where students beat the odds
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RT @jackiemader: We were so truly fortunate to get out. I cannot overstate the severity of devastation in western NC. Please don’t forget a….
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The assumption that "young people don't vote" no longer applies -- here's why from @JonMarcusBoston .
hechingerreport.org
After a history of poor turnouts, college students are being driven to vote by issues that affect them directly
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Another drop in Black college enrollment, this time at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The freshman class is 2 percent this fall, down from 3 percent last fall.
wiscnews.com
UW-Madison had anticipated a decrease in minority students following the Supreme Court's affirmative action ruling that barred consideration of race in college applications.
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RT @jillbarshay: There are strange paradoxes when you eliminate remedial ed at college. More students pass gateway courses, and yet more st….
hechingerreport.org
Students earned more credits at first, but graduation rates didn’t increase at Tennessee’s community colleges
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This fall, 12 percent of Columbia University's freshmen class are Black, down from 20 percent last year.
columbiaspectator.com
The share of Black/African American first-year students at Columbia College and the School of Engineering and Applied Science dropped sharply between the classes of 2027 and 2028 as the proportion of...
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RT @hechingerreport: A principal lost her job after she came out. Her conservative community rallied around her - The Hechinger Report htt….
hechingerreport.org
In Vestavia Hills, a wealthy suburb of Birmingham, Alabama, a beloved school leader tests the limits of tolerance in her hometown.
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Interesting that Ed Blum is threatening to sue the universities where the racial composition of the freshman class changed very little, but isn't concerned with the ones where the number of Black and Latino students dropped sharply
insidehighered.com
The affirmative action foe threatened to sue three colleges for allegedly defying the Supreme Court’s race-conscious admissions ban. Should others prepare for the worst?
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A stricter Tennessee law is causing some school library books to quietly disappear, via @ChalkbeatTN .
chalkbeat.org
Recent revisions to Tennessee school library law have created “chaos and confusion” for librarians, while some districts are preemptively removing titles.
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