The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

The Miami-Dade school district, for example, adopted a plan back in 2012 to close the digital divide. Half of the 20 most destructive wildfires in state history have occurred since 2015. And last fall, the Kincade Fire forced the largest evacuation in Sonoma County history.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

It closed its child care center in 2012, citing low demand. Raoul Contreras, a professor who leads the Latino studies program housed in the minority studies department, notes that in the last year, the school cut a Puerto Rican history class he taught. Debra Santiago, CEO, Excelencia in Education. But Debra Santiago, CEO of the D.C.-based

Social Justice 111

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

It’s all part of an awareness campaign called “15 to Finish,” pioneered at the University of Hawaii in 2012, that has taken hold in dozens of states. Let’s say you are a Florida State University student looking for a class to fulfill its history/social science requirement. Some states’ figures are even higher.

Archaeology 82

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All Things Pedagogical

JULY 10, 2024

So this takes me to where my activism and advocacy started from and it is Ruskin, yes problematic fav Ruskin. As Sara Ahmed (2012) notes in On Being Included , those who do diversity, equity and inclusion work become the embodiment of the work the institutions want done. Are they scholar-activists?

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Bachelor of Arts in History from the historic Tuskegee University. In 2011-2012, APSA had an easily accessible online resource listing all the universities that offer doctorate degrees in Political Science and which programs were endorsed by APSA.

Political Science 49

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

If history holds true, however, fewer than half of them actually will. They’re pulling a bait and switch on students,” said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the advocacy group Complete College America. Dropout rates rose in the fall of 2020 to their highest level since 2012, the Clearinghouse reports.

Government 142

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Since 2012, when the department began publishing complete information on how schools are funded, the group of 13 schools has received more than $100 million from the bonus. Since 2012, 13 of New York City’s most coveted high schools have received more than $100 million in additional funding. Kids called in ‘Broken Tech,’ ” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Kast has a long history of distrust with the district, alleging physical and verbal abuse and racial discrimination against her grandchildren by teachers there—her grandchildren are all half-black, and Kast is white. The nurse pulled out her grandson’s hospital attendance log. Public-school Failures. Photo: Imani Khayyam.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Since the information was being filtered through history and politics lessons, it meant he was learning about how an amendment changed women’s right to vote or how Andrew Jackson was able to mobilize the popular vote in the 19th century. Most of his education came through AP courses, Jefferson says.

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ED Surge

JUNE 8, 2023

It was before the Obama administration introduced the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA for short) in 2012 that gave some immigrants who were brought to the U.S. Second, unbeknownst to them, Aguilar applied as soon as she could when the Department of Homeland Security initiated the DACA program in summer 2012.

Education 113

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Mattivi, whose eighth-grade English students discuss articles about the environment, civic life, and American history after using online literacy programs that provide similar material at different reading levels. I could never go back to the old model,” says Ms. But computers are expensive.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Systemic failures allowed special needs students to not receive services, led to severe reductions in black teachers from 74 percent before the storm to 51 percent in 2012 , in a city that’s 63 percent black, and inconsistent delivery of basic services like transportation, not to mention over-the-top disciplinary practices.

Charter School 75

Charter School Advocacy History Research 75

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

The city itself has had a scrappy commitment to existence in its 123-year history, surviving the boom and bust of the timber industry that first gave it life and weathering the 21st century with a fairly steady population of about 2,500. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Credit: Rory Doyle for The Hechinger Report.

Elementary School 145

Elementary School Public School High School Government 145

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

No doubt, there is a long history of violence in the region — including the Oct. One cannot understand this tragedy without acknowledging its history. Students need to examine how the current crisis is shaped in large part by settler colonial history, and the role played by world powers. context and shared cultural history.

Teaching 52

Teaching K-12 Human Rights Social Justice 52

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

There is a long history of underinvesting in education — and economic opportunity operations as a whole — within the department,” Cloud said. An advocacy group called Veterans Education Success (VES) has collected 113 more from veterans and service members, many of which echo Baca’s criticisms about quality and cost. “I

Economics 91

Economics Government Advocacy Education 91

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

State waivers under the old No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) also gave rural schools needed flexibility, said Ellerson, the associate executive director for policy and advocacy at the American Association of School Administrators (AASA). Achievement gaps have narrowed somewhat for minority students, but the differences remain glaring: 72.5

Middle School 76

Middle School High School Government Advocacy 76

The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2017

Homeschooling mom Andrea Forte, right, pauses in her reading to answer a question from her daughter, Elena Forte, left, during Elena and her brother Devon’s language arts and history class time upstairs in the Forte family home on Aug. By 2012, about 1.8 11, 2014 in Wake Forest, N.C. Wire photo: © Harry Lynch/TNS/ZUMA Wire.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2017

Understanding how hard-fought the Pell surplus is requires a look at the program’s recent history. Finally, the 2012 budget trimmed back Pell eligibility even further, to save another $11 billion over 10 years. The 2012 budget cuts alone were estimated to make at least 100,000 Pell recipients ineligible.

Archiving 65

Archiving Advocacy Government Tradition 65

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

In Indiana, thanks to DeVos’ funding of advocacy organizations and her financial contributions to political campaigns, then-Gov. Related: A professor’s proposed Black History Month course for one student: President Donald Trump.

Social Justice 89

Social Justice Advocacy Public School Private School 89

ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

A scholarly book or article about history or philosophy counts. So does a local oral-history project, an art exhibit, or a dinner-table conversation about books, movies, or music. Like air, humanities-driven work is everywhere but taken for granted, so much a part of life its easy to overlook.

Humanities 145

Humanities Archiving Oral History Pedagogy 145

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Americans ages 18 to 24 have historically voted in very low proportions — 15 to 20 percentage points below the rest of the population as recently as the presidential election years of 2008 and 2012 , with an even bigger gap in the 2010 midterm s, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Not all groups of students vote in equally high numbers.

Political Science 138

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