The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2023

I managed people, built schools, designed programs and lobbied at the highest levels of government; I raised money from philanthropy and created complex strategic plans. These majors were designed for cultures that the vast majority of today’s students would barely recognize, and many have outworn their usefulness.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2018

Temple has started a master’s degree in sport business, among the 41,446 degree or certificate programs colleges and universities have added since 2012. The federal government tracks only the total number of bachelor’s, associate and certificate programs, not the subjects they cover. Photo: Matt Rourke/The Associated Press.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2023

Museums have largely escaped the culture wars roiling many school districts and are still seen as trusted institutions. government, according to data from the American Alliance of Museums. More than 150 teachers have graduated from the program since it started in 2012. “I Futter, president emerita of AMNH. “We

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

And she was running for the school’s governing board. The Boston Teachers Union Pilot School, where Snyder has worked since 2012, is a “teacher-powered” school. Today its relationship with the union is limited to having one union official on the school governing board.) charter schools are also adopting it, according to Junge.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

GeoCapabilities began in 2012 with a pilot project led by the American Association of Geographers. We need to counter the tide of fake news, which is lifted by AI and the actions of governments in more than one country. All of these are referenced in the book. This work is summarised in the online journal RIGEO. As Richard says on p.22,

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

Since its launch in 2012, the city’s high school graduation rate has climbed 15 points, to 64 percent, according to New York State education department figures , the highest rate the city has achieved in more than a decade. It’s about shifting a culture. This is about shifting a culture. It hurts.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2018

In 2012, a Times-Picayune reporter, Andrea Chen, dubbed Louisiana the “ world’s prison capital ” because of its uncommonly high incarceration rates. But the state has to give up the cultural practice and business of punishing black people through mass incarceration. Profit played a part in the state’s penal excess.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She watched from the backseat in August 2012 as the city gave way to the causeway, miles and miles of concrete bridge she hoped would ferry her to the future she’d been promised. As Williams and her classmates moved away in the summer of 2012, Marcovitz expected they’d all have “a happy ending with college.”

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

Between 2012 and 2015, thousands of P2P platforms emerged, only to crumble within a few years, destroying the life savings of countless middle-class families. In 2012, they started selling wealth management products, the borrowers’ debts bundled by the platform, to the lenders. Meng’s experience was just one among millions.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Since 2012, when the government exhorted more écoles maternelles to open their doors to 2-year-olds, the rate of participation in France’s “priority education networks”—networks of schools that serve heavily low-income, immigrant communities that are targeted for extra social support—has steadily risen.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2022

in 2012 to 16.9% A number of precollegiate government and university programs have been established to funnel more young people to higher education. According to the university, it increased the share of Latino in-state incoming-class students from 11.8% But she wasn't planning to apply. A Latino alum on a mission.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

In contrast, Onalaska’s population rose from 731 residents in 2012 to 772 residents in 2016, according to U.S. It’s an unincorporated, census-designated place — large enough to have its own name, but not to have its own government. But that changed in in 2012, when the Onalaska Alliance purchased the 72-acre property.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2016

From 1987 to 2012, it doubled, far outpacing the growth in the numbers of students and faculty. I will be very honest: It took a while for the campuses to catch up that we weren’t having separate governance,” Sciple said. “It It does take a few years to change a culture.”. They’re still not easy, she said. “I

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Edmondson Elementary Principal Trish Malik, who has been at the school since 2012, visits with Cheryl Cook and Michelle Myers, who work on family and community partnerships at the Thompson School District, before a January family event. Photo: Caralee Adams for The Hechinger Report. One that centered on listening.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Still in its early stages, this ambitious project relies on a little-known public resource — a slice of electromagnetic spectrum the federal government long ago set aside for schools — called the Educational Broadband Service (EBS). There’s been a real positive change in the culture.”. We can flip the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

million people live in places where state officials took over entire districts or individual schools in the past six years, according to News21 data collected from state government agencies. In 2012, the district was in “financial freefall,” according to a news release quoting then-state Superintendent Mike Flanagan. More than 5.6

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

But it looked like the teenagers would have to do without the advantages sports participation could bring: The nonprofit that governs Louisiana’s high school sports won’t allow most of the Central American students to play. When the charter management organization New Orleans College Prep took over in 2012, it inherited a troubled school.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

Jared Maymon, a Nichols College junior and a student government vice president, has become convinced that Nichols will survive. Engelkemeyer conceded that it still takes time to change an academic culture that has enjoyed an almost uninterrupted supply of students since she started teaching in 1990. DUDLEY, Mass. —

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The data from the earlier survey is available in a detailed 2012 report by the U.S. The federal government collects data on the fine arts only about once every 10 years and it tells us more about who is teaching music than which students have the opportunity to play it. If we dug up a buried culture, we’d still find their art.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2016

1 is guaranteed 15 hours a week of free child-care or preschool for 38 weeks a year, or 570 hours total, paid for by the national government. “We Apparently, so do most parents, 94 percent of whom take the government up on its offer of free education starting at age 3, according to government data. Like the U.S., and the U.K.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

La Toma is an Afro-Colombian community that has long sat at the intersection of extractive industries—especially gold mining—and violence from right-wing paramilitaries, guerillas, and government forces. Many older activists today involved in US Latin America solidarity were trained in techniques and tactics during this movement.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

That means a family of four with two children survived on $24,008, the income level at which a family is considered to be extremely poor by the federal government. When the federal government overhauled America’s welfare system 20 years ago, TANF replaced the former cash-assistance program. They are really what give you success.”.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

“I think we all sometimes want to crave a benevolent dictatorship, like Singapore, where they're generally doing good stuff for the people, and it's all orderly, and no one's yelling at each other and there's a high degree of trust in the government,” Khan says. It seemed like good resume padding, Ta says. That’s how he got involved.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2020

Schools hold the history and culture of a place through yearbooks, trophy cases, and photo archives. In 2013, the federal government estimated that schools nationwide needed a $550 billion investment to bring them up to standard, just for deferred maintenance issues — damage from postponing repairs.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Cultural and linguistic differences can convince some parents not to question what’s happening at school — a power imbalance that, advocates say, means some children miss out on critical support. Despite promising in 1974 to cover nearly half the extra cost for schools to provide special education, the federal government has never done so.)

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Strange Maps

MAY 28, 2024

But even without a government, a flag, and most other trappings of actual nationhood, Baltoscandia has a history, a raison d’être , and perhaps even a future. You’ve probably never heard of Baltoscandia. It sounds like a made-up country, and that’s because it is a made-up country. Scandinavia is not the same as the Nordics, for example.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

It’s built around a skills-based model that prioritizes student mastery, extensive community outreach and a culture that views college enrollment as an expectation rather than a long shot. 84 percent of this Chicago high school’s students graduate on time and 52 percent of them now go to college, an 11-point increase from 2012.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Related: Government data single out schools where low-income students fare worst. While there’s been a seemingly huge increase in the number of Hispanics going to college — college enrollment among Hispanics aged 18 to 24 more than tripled between 1996 and 2012, the Pew Research Center reports — it’s still not on pace to close the gap.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2019

We talked about the shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin in 2012, the murders at a historic black church in South Carolina in 2015, the mosque fires in California, and the synagogue shootings in Pittsburgh and Poway in the past six months. We need to teach about religions just as we teach about culture — boldly, and with sensitivity.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Foreign investors working with the Ecuadorean government started planning to extract minerals in the region on an industrial scale in the early 2000s. Since then, most of the promises that investors and government leaders made have soured; very little economic growth is visible among Shuar communities.

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Political Science Now

JANUARY 26, 2024

The authors focus on recruitment practices in the United Kingdom and center their discussion on four common features of recruitment: the young age of recruits, the focusing of recruitment in disadvantaged areas, the involvement of the military in educational settings, and a wider culture that celebrates the military.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

By 2012 the conditions were ripe for the predictive analytics industry to take off on campuses around the country. Government had created pressure for accountability. There’s really no culture of informed consent when it comes to educational technologies and higher education. Foundations had given seed money.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

Knowing his culture and practicing his religion help ground him, Helgeson said. As a teacher at Hays-Lodge Pole High School on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Montana, Helgeson works hard to pass on that cultural knowledge. It also moved his grandmother to teach him, her youngest grandchild, to speak Nakoda.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2017

Related: Government data single out schools where low-income students fare worst. While there’s been a seemingly huge increase in the number of Hispanics going to college — college enrollment among Hispanics aged 18 to 24 more than tripled between 1996 and 2012, the Pew Research Center reports — it’s still not on pace to close the gap.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

In Leslie County, few people think that industry or the government will help. obert Roark, the son of a coal miner, became principal of Leslie County High School in 2012 after most of the mines had closed. The culture was pretty toxic when we got here,” said Roark, who began at the school as a guidance counselor in 2008. “To

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Steven V. Miller

DECEMBER 27, 2023

I’ll give a simple example using simulated data before going to a (kind-of) real-world case analyzing the cross-national correlates of violent riots against the government. An Actual Example: Anti-Government Riots and the “Youth Bulge” The example above is a simple toy example to get you acclimated to the Poisson model. Sawyer et al.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2018

Between 2012 and 2016, the number of kids in foster care around the country rose by 10 percent. And while new requirements in the 2015 federal law governing education, the Every Student Succeeds Act , are designed to help this population, a Hechinger Report/HuffPost survey has found that many states are not living up to the law’s promise.

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