The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2016

In a speech in Columbus, Ohio, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said high college costs are being propelled in part by the cost to universities of complying with government regulation, and cited a report that this expense was $150 million at Vanderbilt University alone. The details appear more nuanced.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2017

It also does not propose to reverse the idea, which has bipartisan support, to let those students to use Pell Grants for courses in the summer and thereby speed up the time it takes for them to get degrees, as we reported in this story from the archives. This story originally ran June 3, 2014. Reproduction of this story is not permitted.

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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.” government. From the Archives 1948: To the Editors of The New York Times by Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Sidney Hook, et al. This dehumanization fuels violence and oppression.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Steel Valley School District Superintendent Edward Wehrer, whose daughters attend Park Elementary, said he’s aware of the disparity between the elementary schools — a situation he inherited when he was named superintendent in June 2012. “We Board of Education decision.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2017

Related: Just as it wants students to speed up, government won’t pay for summer courses. Finally, the 2012 budget trimmed back Pell eligibility even further, to save another $11 billion over 10 years. And just this month, Congress restored year-round Pell as part of the agreement to fund the government through September.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2025

Now, this work is under threat because of cuts by the Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE. There are things that the Department of Education does that probably should be better left to the states, or, quite frankly, the federal government shouldn’t be involved in, he said.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

Coming out of the end of slavery, Black people made their freedom dreams manifest in attempts to own property, to negotiate their own labor agreements, to build institutions, to take their role in governance, both in state legislative houses as well as in Congress. Muhammad: It’s another part of the archival record. They went nowhere.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

The humanities study the things humans makeour art, writings, thoughts, religions, governments, histories, technologies, and societieshelping us understand who we are, what we do, how we do it, why, and with what consequences, write the founding editors, Jeffrey R. and elsewhere. According to Bulaitis and Wilson, thats the plan.

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