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. Although she earned a bachelor’s degree and teaching certificate in math instruction for both elementary and middle school, she never had to take a class about students with disabilities.

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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. To build public support for the changes, the foundation also gave smaller grants to youth and immigrant advocacy groups in the districts.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

After attending the district’s schools and inheriting a love of teaching from her mother, she went to college and put her degree to work in her hometown. The Nollie Jenkins Family Center led a fight against school-based corporal punishment here in rural Holmes County from 2012 to 2018, when a new superintendent asked for a policy change.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2023

Since the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, Negrón, who grew up in Puerto Rico, had become convinced mainland American schools were dangerous. Families got used to that,” said Elmer Roldan, of Communities in Schools of Los Angeles, which helps schools follow up with absent students.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

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. EducationSuperHighway’s advocacy supported the district’s efforts perfectly. It was a well-timed initiative.

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All Things Pedagogical

JULY 10, 2024

Now it is not a coincidence really that 2 of the 4 people on this panel really are not in any sort of teaching roles anymore and are doing more alt-ac work. So this takes me to where my activism and advocacy started from and it is Ruskin, yes problematic fav Ruskin.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

The cuts endanger the school’s unique mission of equipping its students with the language skills and self-advocacy that enriches their Deaf identity, the school’s administrators and teachers say. The rest of MSD’s 238 children are K-12 students. “They’re not broken,” she said. Deaf Identity.

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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. In lower level classes, some would have to repeat the whole course. This year Payne doesn’t expect to lose Kylee or anyone else. I think it’s going to raise our graduation rate,” said Nokomis Principal Mary Nadeau.

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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. The line between Texas and Arkansas in front of the bi-state federal building, which straddles both. Photo: AP photo/Jeannie Nuss. Many students balance college and jobs.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

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. My equity-forward teaching was recognized in 2023 with the Ed Roberts Faculty Defender of Equity Award. 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

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. Photo: Della Hasselle.

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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. It’s because of the staff here.

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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. While the controversy pushed some people away, Ta found they enjoyed having critical conversations. It seemed like good resume padding, Ta says.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Cardona said the values instilled in him — “hard work, service to others, relationships first, treating people with respect” — have helped him achieve what can only be called a meteoric rise from his first teaching job in Meriden in 1998 to his appointment last month as state education commissioner. New Haven Mayor Toni Harp.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The special education system can be “incredibly difficult for everybody,” said Ramona Hattendorf, director of advocacy for the Arc of King County , which promotes disability rights. About 791,000 English learners participated in special education in 2020, a jump of nearly 30 percent since 2012.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2016

A pilot program on five campuses at the City University of New York, where the number of students who disclosed that they are on the spectrum has more than doubled since 2012, has shown promising results. Classes have also discussed self-advocacy, including if, when and how to disclose a disability. It was confusing.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2022

Although they typically hire and technically supervise superintendents, in recent months school boards have been at the center of public fights over mask mandates, Covid-19 vaccines and teaching about race. He has worked under four superintendents since he started with the district as a substitute teacher in 2012.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

This nine-part series explores how we’re teaching through climate change. The Miami-Dade school district, for example, adopted a plan back in 2012 to close the digital divide. One big step forward would be universal broadband access, said Lillian Pace, vice president of policy and advocacy with the nonprofit KnowledgeWorks.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

Lindsey Johnson and Yesenia De La Rosa were taking different approaches to teaching the same English lesson on silent letters as they sat at opposite ends of this first grade classroom in West Elementary School. They were never not teaching,” she said. Slowly, educators began sharing strategies and co-teaching classes.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

This nine-part series explores how we’re teaching through climate change. 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. Teachers need to find their own ways of teaching that topic because the books and TEKS are not doing it.”.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

She says she is deeply committed to computer-assisted teaching because it gives students with limited tech experience exposure to digital tools. It also allows her to teach students who arrive in her classroom with vastly different skill levels. District teachers such as Mallory Mattivi agree.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

While many education groups provide resources for teaching about the crisis as a “conflict” rooted in antisemitism and Islamophobia, that sole emphasis is misleading. As educators, let us recommit to teaching and working for the dignity of all peoples. Teaching the Seeds of Violence in Palestine-Israel by Bill Bigelow.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

We teach them that a phoneme is a single speech sound so they know how to break it up. And advocates for special education, including Katy Neas, CEO of advocacy group The Arc of the United States, say theyre concerned that a no-strings attached block grant would weaken protections for students with disabilities. We do rhyming.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2025

19, the Education Department canceled a contract to administer one of the NAEP tests, a long-term trend assessment of 17-year-olds that hasnt been administered since 2012. But NAEP includes a large basket of assessments, and nine days later, on Feb. About that $1.4 million to observe mailing and clerical operations at a mail center.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

Wilson, a Shakespeare scholar who teaches at Harvard University, and Zoe Hope Bulaitis, an assistant professor of liberal arts and natural sciences at the University of Birmingham, in an essay in the first issue. They're infused in everything that we do, everything we become, and they carry with us into whatever career we decide to pursue.

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