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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ED Surge

APRIL 13, 2022

Digital innovation did not bring traditional higher education to its knees. Colleges are under plenty of stress, but competition from online alternatives to traditional campuses are low on the list of pressures. million from fall 2012 to fall 2020. colleges, entirely destabilizing the university.

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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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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Graeber also analyzes the “bullshitization” of “real jobs,” such as in education, where new cultures of neoliberal “managerialism” have seen teachers and academics doing increasing amounts of administrative work, taking up more and more of the time that, most agree, would be better spent doing actual teaching or research.

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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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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

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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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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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

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

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

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

College is geared more toward the traditional student,” he said. When he reentered school at Olympic College in Washington State in 2012, Jackson was elected class president and made the dean’s list. But Castillo said that getting a higher education is probably the hardest thing he’s ever done.

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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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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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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

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

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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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

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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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 5, 2017

the anti-free-speech charge, applied broadly to cultural criticism and especially to feminist discourse, has proliferated. Sarkeesian has been relentlessly stalked, abused and threatened since 2012, when she started a Kickstarter campaign to fund a series of YouTube videos critiquing the representation of women in video games.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

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. But clearly there is a college-going culture among the Hispanic population.”.

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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

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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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

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

JUNE 9, 2016

In 1978, just a few years before Helgeson’s birth, the American Indian Religious Freedom Act became law, finally affirming the right of country’s indigenous people to access sacred sites, worship in traditional ceremonies and use materials they consider sacred artifacts, like eagle bones, that are restricted to non-Indians.

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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. She knows what’s possible with the right combination of support and school culture. In this job, she has seen traditional family structures turned upside down. But this one not,” said Walker in a meeting with his teachers in May.

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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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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month April 29, 2024 • Studies Weekly Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is a great opportunity to incorporate culturally responsive teaching into students’ learning experience. He was CEO and “Chief Yahoo” until his departure in 2012. Inc, according to ilctr.org.

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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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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A Shuar warrior marched in 2012 during a protest organized by the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador and the Shuar Federation. The courage and bravery that shamanic plants offer—succinctly captured by the Spanish word valor—are prized qualities within Shuar conceptions of personhood and leadership.

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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 18, 2017

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. But clearly there is a college-going culture among the Hispanic population.”.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Thirteen US residents—Black, white, and brown—mixed among about 30 community members sipping tinto , a traditional sweet Colombian coffee, and listening to testimonies of those who had been threatened or lost loved ones due to illegal armed groups or mining projects.

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