The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: But after years working seasonal jobs sorting equipment at the local Ford plant and dealing blackjack at nearby casinos, Perez wanted to rise to a management position — and she couldn’t without a bachelor’s degree. It closed its child care center in 2012, citing low demand. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: It’s not too often people announce big problems solved. The nonprofit launched in 2012, and when it explored school connectivity data the following year, it found that just 30 percent of school districts had sufficient bandwidth to support digital learning, or 100 kbps per student.

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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. Leave this field empty if you're human: “It was my job to get student enrolled, and if you didn’t enroll them your job could be on the line,” he said. Weekly Update.

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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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2020

One day in June 2012, Hernandez told him to leave. She also referred Hernandez to an advocacy center at BMCC where she could apply for food, counseling and emergency funds. He was diagnosed with autism at 18 months, and needed special services and early intervention programs. There were more setbacks. The couple argued.

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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. Archaeology of Human Origins” may sound interesting, but if you wait too long to focus on your economics major, you may not get in all the requirements you need.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

More than 2 million people in the United States were thought to be struggling with an addiction to prescription opioid pain relievers in 2012, according to the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control , which also found that the number of accidental overdose deaths from prescription painkillers had more than quadrupled since 1999. $4

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

According to a 2015 report by the advocacy non-profit Child Care Aware, the average cost of center-based infant care in Louisiana—one of the four poorest states in the nation—was roughly $110 a week in 2014. More centers are becoming like Beary Cherry Tree thanks to a 2012 law that raised standards in early care.

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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. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

Todd Ziebarth, senior vice president for state advocacy and support at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, says that, in some parts of the country, organizations that oversee charters have started to take a more active role in ensuring that the schools enroll a diverse student body. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: The model has elicited spirited accolades from pro-business conservatives and centrist Democrats. Child advocacy groups and other non-profits, who often oversee the deals and sometimes serve as guarantors, say the arrangements encourage officials to embrace interventions with good track records.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Later on, Ta opened an email from their school that mentioned the Kentucky Student Voice Team, a state-level group that was started in 2012 to bring students into the advocacy process. From there, now a freshman in high school, Ta joined the team as a student journalist, where they tried to put a “human touch” on complex issues.

Civics 123

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Lisette Martinez worked on a house for Habitat for Humanity during her senior year at Jefferson High School in Greeley, Colo., In 2012, for instance, researchers found that only 26 percent of low-income teens attending a science and technology camp wanted to become chemical engineers. We would love to have that problem.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Covington County Superintendent Babette Duty chalks those cases up to human error. Certainly, as long as human beings are running schools, you’re going to have that possibility,” she said, adding that the goal is to have policies and procedures in place that uphold the law and protect kids, while keeping parents informed.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

We see this hierarchy of human worth playing out now in Gaza and the West Bank, as Israeli government ministers call Palestinians “human animals.” Projects and Organizations Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel Adalah (“justice” in Arabic) is an independent human rights organization and legal center.

Teaching 52

Teaching K-12 Human Rights Social Justice 52

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2019

The real downside comes in 10 years or 20 years, when this incredible human capital engine that has fueled our economy over the last century starts to sputter,” he said. The real downside comes in 10 years or 20 years, when this incredible human capital engine that has fueled our economy over the last century starts to sputter.”.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

Like air, humanities-driven work is everywhere but taken for granted, so much a part of life its easy to overlook. Published by Cambridge University Press, Public Humanities is pitched as a very large tent. Its open to all disciplines, geographies, periods, methodologies, authors, and audiences across the humanities.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

A high school social studies book, also used in Texas, says of rising temperatures, “Some critics say that this warming is just part of the Earth’s natural cycle,” though, in truth, there’s overwhelming consensus among climate scientists that the current warming is due to human activities. It’s much stronger than a hypothesis,” wrote another.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Louisiana Key Academy is one of 176 specialized charter schools in 23 states that focus on students with disabilities, according to an October report by the Center for Learner Equity that relied on 2020-21 data, and the number of students with disabilities served by these schools has more than doubled since 2012.

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