Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Teaching quality has been defined as “instruction that enables a wide range of students to learn” ( Darling-Hammond, 2012 ), and it is the strongest school-related factor that can improve student learning and achievement ( Hanushek, 2011 ; Nye, Konstantopoulos, and Hedges, 2004 ; Rivkin, Hanushek, and Kain, 2005 ).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

That dramatic transformation took four years of summer learning academies, college-preparation programs, scholarship coaching, and leadership workshops, all provided by area nonprofits, plus a 3.8 grade-point average and enough financial aid to cover all of her tuition for at least her first year.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

Instead of attending neighborhood schools with students of the same race and economic status, as most children do in Mississippi, Osborn went to school with an even mix of black and white classmates, some from the town’s wealthy subdivisions and others from Clinton’s poorer areas. They’re also extremely successful.

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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. He said that “there’s always resistance from what I call the elite … who think that gifted children look a particular way.” Absolutely,” districts can diversify gifted education without a lawsuit, he said.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Robert Kelchen, head of the Department of Education Leadership and Policy Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. We can be creative about things like trying to minimize food waste and about the menu choices to be more economical when prices are up on certain items. They have to look at other ways to cut costs.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

With people of color expected to make up a quarter of the state’s population by 2035, these gaps represent an economic threat to Minnesota; unless more residents get to and through college, there won’t be enough qualified workers to fill the jobs that require a post-secondary degree or certificate. Will jobs go begging?

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Political Science Now

APRIL 4, 2024

At this pivotal moment in our nation’s democracy, we must look to social science thought leaders to help us reimagine American world leadership and secure economic opportunity for future generations,” said Marta Tienda, AAPSS president. “It She is Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland.

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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. There was a sense that we needed to swing for the fences to make the economic transition the state needs to make.”. “In In lower level classes, some would have to repeat the whole course.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2017

That dramatic transformation took four years of summer learning academies, college-preparation programs, scholarship coaching, and leadership workshops, all provided by area nonprofits, plus a 3.8 grade-point average and enough financial aid to cover all of her tuition for at least her first year.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

They ran into an economic wall that has hit communities of color the hardest, but which has also blocked many residents of this 98 percent white county. obert Roark, the son of a coal miner, became principal of Leslie County High School in 2012 after most of the mines had closed. Photo: John Flavell for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

In between those two jobs, Cardona had the distinction of being the youngest principal in the state at age 28, was named principal of the year in 2012, and served as co-chairman of the Legislative Achievement Gap Task Force. Housing insecurity, hunger, you know, economic instability,” he said. “So He’s not a General Patton.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

In the small district, 88 percent of schoolchildren are economically disadvantaged and almost 75 percent are at risk of dropping out. In the Harlandale district, 88 percent of schoolchildren are economically disadvantaged and almost 75 percent are at risk of dropping out. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2017

The successes of the recent movies Girls Trip and Hidden Figures and the economic and cultural power of the Essence Music Festival are testaments to the power of black women. The pace of their educational gains, the political leadership and styling of the women behind the Women’s March and Rep. percent), exceeding Asian women (8.7

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 25, 2013

The economics are staggering. For more discussion on the role of OER in education, read “The Massive Open Online Professor,” by Steve and Philipp from the May, 2012, volume of Academic Matters: a Journal of Higher Education. Thank you, Steve, for your wonderful leadership (and the delicious breakfast)!

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Jonas Vlachos, economics professor at the University of Stockholm. By 2012 , they were below average in math, reading and science. Negative responses, such as those of students who say they don’t feel safe or of teachers who say they aren’t satisfied with a headmaster’s leadership, may flag a school for an in-person visit.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2021

It was 2012, and construction work had yet to rebound from the recession. Men, who make up more than 97 percent of the employees in construction and nearly all of its leadership, have tended to view females entering the trades as intruders, routinely denying them equal opportunities for training and work.

Leadership 145

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Starting in 2012, an idea floated around Alaska that seemed sort of preposterous. The organization is preparing recommendations for how Alaska districts can economically upgrade their networks, said Sophia Green-Robinson , EducationSuperHighway’s state engagement manager. A plan to link Alaska to the world.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

In a 2023 brief , AFL-CIO leadership encouraged these partnerships. Historically a lot of the high-paying skilled trades were handed down from father to son, said Lauren Baker, a former education director in the printers union who also led Milwaukee Public Schools career and technical education program between 2002 and 2012.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2016

In 2012, the U.S, ranked 35th among developed economies in pre-primary or primary school enrollment for 3- to 5-year-olds, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), an international economic association. “I don’t have an easier or softer or kinder way to say that.”.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

And as we extend that definition to larger groups of people, as we introduce power, we begin to understand that who gets to decide what those rules are and what those norms are becomes much more complicated, and often an expression of political, economic, and cultural power. They are killed for the crime of their economic success.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2019

Since Trump won in 2016, there’s been a debate about whether it is useful for different ethnic groups , religions, genders and economic classes to form their own political alliances instead of forming a more collective association. In 2012, before Baptist pastor Dennis Terry introduced former U.S. differently.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 25, 2025

Cultural Values and Economic Priorities: The not-so-shocking Rise of Latino Support for Trump by Andrea Silva , University of North Texas Trends in Latino Voting Behavior What factors explain the increasing support for Trump and other Republican candidates among Latino voters from 2016 to 2024?

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