The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2016

“It’s disheartening to families, and it fosters the ‘check mentality,’ ” said Carrie Guiden, executive director of The Arc of Tennessee, a nonprofit disability advocacy group, referring to government checks. Her daughter, Hannah, is on the autism spectrum and graduated from high school in 2012. More advocacy.”. More paperwork.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2023

I entered college in 1989 with an interest in human rights advocacy, planning to be a lawyer. I’m president at Minerva University , established in 2012 and one of the few institutions of higher education that, in recent memory, has asked the question, “What would we build if we could build it from scratch?”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

We know that these obstacles exist, and we haven’t addressed them,” said Wil Del Pilar, vice president for higher education policy, practice and research at the Education Trust, a nonprofit organization that focuses on helping students of color and low-income students.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

The nation’s school districts spend about $46 billion less per year on facility upkeep than is needed to maintain “healthy and safe” learning environments, according to a 2016 report from the 21st Century School Fund, a research and advocacy organization. million in 2012. Related: Switching sides in the teacher wars.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The same is true of the Muñiz Academy, which opened in 2012 as the city’s first such high school. Extensive research shows that is not right. Since then, other studies have confirmed their findings and brain research has shown the wide-ranging benefits of being bilingual. The rest only speak English or are already bilingual.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

The only thing most everyone agrees on is this: The roll out of the 2012 law, LD 1422, was a disaster, plagued by insufficient funding and inadequate guidance from the top. million to train additional Alaska school districts and to create a research and development program. We’re not ready for this.”. That was my vision.”. $13

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Research findings leave room for debate about just how bad corporal punishment by teachers is for kids, especially in the United States. Still, researchers say they can draw parallels. The research does not support that at all,” she said. She has also analyzed data about corporal punishment use in schools. And we can say yes.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

The point of the public program, as it was presented to voters in 2012, is to boost long-term educational outcomes and eventually improve the citywide workforce. Pre-K 4 SA uses a research-based curriculum called High Scope, which stresses a hands-on approach to developing memory, creativity, problem solving, and self-control.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

When Mary Fair became a teacher in 2012, her classes often contained a mix of special education students and general education students. Some research shows as many as 85 percent of students with disabilities can master general education content if they receive educational supports. Photo: Jackie Mader. BLOOMFIELD, N.J.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2017

Between 2013 and 2015, more than 56,000 students who took out federal loans to pay for Georgia’s four-year regional, state and research universities dropped out before graduating, as did 44,000 people at the mostly two-year state colleges and technical colleges. In fact, nothing has been done to restore HOPE to the pre-2011 levels.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

But finishing in four years matters, because research shows that the longer it takes, the less likely a student is to make it to graduation. A quarter of students drop out after four years, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Taking more credits has benefits other than cutting time to a degree.

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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. People are talking about shortages in the workforce,” said Zoë Corwin, a researcher at the Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of Southern California.

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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. Academic spaces are very much about what they can take from community, as seen in extractive research models, instead of what it can give back or create as community. Are they scholar-activists?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

But the success rate that resulted in those savings has been questioned by some researchers, including Robert C. Related: New research finds it hasn’t gotten easier for poor kids to catch up. Matthew Eldridge, a research product manager at the Urban Institute, which is spending $8.4

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

That’s due to a new teaching approach here called “proficiency-based education,” that was inspired by a 2012 state law. Erika Stump , a research associate at the Center for Education Policy, Applied Research and Evaluation at the University of Southern Maine, has written seven reports on proficiency-based education in the state.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Lewis (he/him/his) is an identity politics researcher, social justice activist, and Associate Professor of Political Science at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. This has led to original research on the sociopolitical reality of African Americans across reputable peer-reviewed journals. My research is theoretically robust.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

“We can’t leave behind families who need more assistance to close that financial gap,” said Ian Rosenblum, the executive director of Education Trust–New York, a nonprofit education advocacy group that published a report about the Excelsior Scholarship. Related: In one country, anger over soaring college costs has led to violent protest.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Research suggests average families need twice the poverty level amounts to meet their basic needs, the report says. 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.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Challenging the Gentrocacy Compared to test scores and academic performance, people often forget about how vital civic development is, says Jilli Jung, a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University. School also taught Ta to conduct research, which was helpful. And how useful is civic education for those who chose to get involved?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Researchers, policymakers and journalists have largely unquestioningly used six years as a measure of how long it takes students to earn four-year degrees. Researchers, policymakers and journalists have largely unquestioningly used this measure. Credit: Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Image.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 14, 2025

I have fond memories of him regularly calling the APSA Office to share his latest research or to inquire about a recent program announcement. From 1969 to 1972, Holden served on the Social Science Research Council board and held a part-time position on the Presidents Air Quality Advisory board in 1972. Congressional Record.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2017

New research shows that failing to get more Hispanics to go to college will lower incomes for all Americans. This story from the Hechinger archive lays out what researchers project will happen if there is not an increase in the number of nonwhites going to and through college. And they’ll all be hurtling toward college age.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

New research shows that failing to get more Hispanics to go to college will lower incomes for all Americans. By 2060, more K-12 students will be Hispanic than any other race — 38 percent — while the proportion that is white drops from half to one third, according to projections by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin.

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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

APRIL 21, 2017

The findings “demonstrate more can be done to support the needs of these non-traditional students,” said Barrett Bogue, spokesman for the advocacy organization Student Veterans of America. And San Diego State’s figures go through 2012, while Florida State’s cover the period through 2015. Things do not appear to be improving.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2020

More than one in five college students are parents , according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, and some 42 percent of them attend community colleges. Such students are also the most likely to change their plans, recent research shows. One day in June 2012, Hernandez told him to leave. There were more setbacks.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

Teachers experimented, made their lessons more hands-on and followed the latest research. Grimes received a state award for his “remarkable contributions and tireless advocacy for English Learner funding in Alabama schools.” Grimes had started to clash with the city’s mayor, David Grissom, who was first elected in 2012, about funding.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2019

At this rate, the target won’t be met until at least 2041 , the research arm of the nonprofit Educational Testing Service, or ETS, predicts. We have a supply in our state” of prospective college graduates, said Mark Wiederspan, executive research officer at the Iowa College Student Aid Commission. The supply is our minority students.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

The students learn how to use industry-approved software programs and are often granted paid internships at local design firms and research labs, and Greeley’s planning and development departments. Research about the effect of technology on children’s lives is, in fact, mixed. They also take field trips to area manufacturing firms.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

“The information presented was based on the most current research available at the time.”. The 32 print and digital books we examined were published between 2012 and 2020, although most – some 84 percent – were released in 2015 or later. It’s very common to face backlash in the classroom.”.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Most of this money turns out to have been spent conforming with rules that govern research grants, for instance, which is generally unrelated to tuition, and does not affect the majority of universities and colleges that don’t do research. Vanderbilt got $473 million in federal research money in 2013.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2025

In the past, said Deborah Santiago, chief executive officer of the Hispanic advocacy organization Excelencia in Education, higher education institutions could hit their [enrollment] numbers without engaging this population. Related: Interested in innovations in higher education? Subscribe to our free biweekly higher education newsletter.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Visualizing Palestine was established in 2012, and is dedicated to using data and research to visually communicate Palestinian experiences, such as the graphic to the right , to provoke narrative change. “VP VP envisions a liberated future for Palestinians in a world free from oppression. military spending.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

A large body of research, known as the science of reading, stresses that all students need instruction in phonics and other reading skills. Nationwide, researchers are calling for teachers to embed reading instruction into content classes. Related: A researcher said the research on special education was flawed.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2017

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. That cut was estimated to save $18 billion over 10 years. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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