The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. There was nothing like this.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

In Germany, where scores have dropped faster than those of many other PISA nations, researchers pointed to a collapsing interest in math as a subject that started around 2012, among other factors. And about 31 percent said they never or almost never asked questions when they didn’t understand the math they were being taught.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2023

These majors were designed for cultures that the vast majority of today’s students would barely recognize, and many have outworn their usefulness. It means that each student works on projects with peers whose cultural context is different from their own. prior to ever enrolling a student.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

Kathryn Toppan switched to a 1-4 scale even before the administration required it, finding it “less arbitrary” than the traditional 1-100. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Many argue that our culture discourages girls from excelling at math. This study analyzed families who started having kids between 1994 and 2002 and sent them to public schools between 2002 and 2012. “Boy bias is in the culture. Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. “Parenting is really hard.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But both are in regions where a drop in the number of traditional-age undergraduates is looming , according to the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, which tracks this. Opening a new domestic campus may lack the complications of politics, currency exchanges and cultural divides, said Kinser. Eighty-four U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

It is just one of a slate of waivers approved by lawmakers, including class size, teacher preparation time, hiring and firing rules, and others, allowing traditional public schools to operate with the same educational requirements as their area charter schools. In 2011-2012, the university had 52 teaching interns. According to U.S.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

There is much disagreement about whether the study of public administration can properly be called a discipline, largely because of the debate over whether public administration is a subfield of political science or a subfield of administrative science (Kenneth 2012) [1].From

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2017

It’s a cultural rebuild,” said Randy Emery, a welding instructor at the College of the Sequoias in California’s Central Valley. It says tradespeople also are older than workers in other fields — more than half were over 45 in 2012, the last period for which the subject was studied — meaning looming retirements could result in big shortages.

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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. His was a brash mission shared by a new breed of charter school leaders who said they could succeed where traditional neighborhood schools had failed.

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Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

Her research agenda focuses on political science pedagogy, campus-based civic engagement, and pop culture & politics. In addition to teaching traditional political science courses, she serves as campaign manager for the campus-wide voter mobilization program Vote Oswego and coordinator of SUNY Oswego’s broader civic engagement efforts.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Many schools rely on counting noses at traditional Back-to-School nights or parent-teacher conferences to gauge whether parents are engaged in their children’s learning. nitially, Malik relied on traditional meetings to get parent feedback. Photo: Caralee Adams for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Caralee Adams for The Hechinger Report.

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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

MARCH 2, 2019

Foxworth-Carter’s ties to Carver reflect a strong high-school alumni tradition in New Orleans that was basically put on hiatus for nearly a decade as the city went through high-profile school reforms. I had been taught that my role was to build school culture from the inside-out,” he said. We Deserve Respect!”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

He hired Wells to overhaul the gifted program in November 2012 even before the judge issued his ruling. In this poster, the association highlights the fact that traditional methods of finding gifted children often miss children who are low-income, nonwhite or do not speak English at home.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

And even if there were standardized measures for traits like integrity and compassion, whose cultural norms should be used to judge the results? “I In addition to traditional academic grades, student report cards include marks from 1 to 4 on qualities such as organization, timeliness and accountability.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

I’ll start with a confession: I am not a cultural anthropologist. According to the NSF-SCSES Survey of Earned Doctorates , of the 1,030 doctorates in archaeology awarded to US citizens and permanent residents from 2012-2022, only 53 (5.1%) were awarded to US-born Latinxs compared to 899 awarded to white individuals (86.3%).

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

The Boston Teachers Union Pilot School, where Snyder has worked since 2012, is a “teacher-powered” school. Teachers can be given more authority over instruction and more input on some school decisions while the school retains a more traditional administrative structure. “We And she was running for the school’s governing board.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

The 945-student school, which opened in August 2012 as part of the City University of New York (CUNY) system, is designed to break the community college model in many ways. From there, Jordan led a discussion that touched on Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, student debt, cultural appropriation and white privilege. But not Guttman.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

BOSTON — When the Boston Public Schools opened the Margarita Muñiz Academy in 2012, it was a first-of-its kind dual-language high school meant to address issues faced by the city’s growing Hispanic population. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Related: Rising popularity of dual-language education could leave Latinos behind.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2016

There are, of course, larger, longer term costs to consider, like the larger toll the traditional vehicle may take on the environment and the health of those living around it. But most people would agree, over the long term, with all things being equal, the innovative electric car is a better way of getting around.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

In 2012, Estonia’s 15-year-olds ranked 11 th in math and reading and sixth in science out of the 65 countries that participated in an international test that compares educational systems from around the world, called the Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA. In fact, many U.S. It has worked.”. Nearly 80 percent of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The Muñiz Academy opened in 2012 as one of Massachusetts’ first “innovation schools,” free from many district policies and granted flexibility with its curriculum, budget, school schedule and annual calendar, among other things. If practice makes you better at painting, there’s no reason why practice won’t make you better at math.

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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

JANUARY 28, 2019

She rattled off students’ responses as they popped up on the smartboard in a colorful word cloud: “Forced relocation, reduced population, disease, warfare, cultural destruction … wow, that’s a powerful term.”. Starting in 2012, an idea floated around Alaska that seemed sort of preposterous.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

They’re adding more faculty who reflect the school’s increasing diversity, introducing cultural programming and establishing counseling and mentoring programs to help Latinx students overcome stubborn academic resource gaps. It closed its child care center in 2012, citing low demand.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Traditional arts ensembles like marching band and big band don’t necessarily resonate,” said superintendent Paul Gausman, a musician and long-time music educator. The data from the earlier survey is available in a detailed 2012 report by the U.S. There is no society, there is no human culture, without the arts.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

When the district won federal Race to the Top funding in 2012, Schauer expanded the strengths program. You have to actually have a culture of strengths built into the school,” Waters said, claiming that her research shows that you can’t just teach strengths to students; the adults in the schools must also learn the method and model it.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

For her, it seems like being a “real Chinese” is not simply about having Chinese “heritage,” sharing a Chinese blood tie and celebrating Chinese culture. Following the launch of the app Weixin, targeted for mainland China, in January 2011, WeChat went to market in August 2012, created by Chinese tech company Tencent.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

In 2012, the district was in “financial freefall,” according to a news release quoting then-state Superintendent Mike Flanagan. It, in turn, provided a 2012 news release in which Flanagan said, “We must do everything we can to protect the students and educators from feeling the brunt of the impact.”. The Ford plant stands empty.

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 23, 2024

Scholars have long debated the cultural significance of these statues and the methods used by a Stone Age society to transport them, with some weighing as much as 92 tons. Arian Zwegers/CC BY 2.0 The Ecocide Theory Under Scrutiny Easter Island is renowned for its monumental statues, called moai, created approximately 800 years ago.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

” To turn things around, Middletown decided to go beyond the school district’s traditional role in addressing poverty, and tackle it head-on. In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S. But for a traditional public school district, the breadth of its work to reduce the educational effects of poverty is extensive.

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All Things Pedagogical

JULY 10, 2024

I am joining you from the traditional land of the Haudenosauneee and Anishinaabe peoples, but I grew up on the traditional land of the Abitibiwini Aki and lived for 30 years on the traditional land of the Mississaugas of the Credit. We become a title, “stuck in institutions by being stuck to a category” (Ahmed, 2012, 4).

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas, dozens of taxpayer-funded public charters enroll far more white students than any of the traditional public schools in their areas. She liked the people and the culture and the history. Elsewhere in the Deep South, charters have lived up, or rather down, to that fear.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Many are taking steps to diversify their faculty and staff and training them in “cultural competency.”. Between 2012 and 2015, more than two thirds of students in the accelerated developmental education model passed their college composition classes, compared to fewer than half in the traditional sequence.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

During the 2012-13 school year, Renaissance had one of the highest suspension rates in the city. At the center of his strategy was reducing sky-high teacher and student turnover by creating a school culture that made students and educators want to stick around. College vs. culture.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

To turn things around, Middletown decided to go beyond the school district’s traditional role in addressing poverty, and tackle it head-on. In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S. But for a traditional public school district, the breadth of its work to reduce the educational effects of poverty is extensive.

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