The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

But the outgoing superintendent, Cyndy Taymore, is four years into an effort to fundamentally rethink traditional schooling here. That’s what they called it in Maine, where, in 2012, state officials mandated that every district adopt it, and then, in 2018, abandoned the requirement. Last year, Melrose served about 3,900 students.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2017

We needed to do a better job getting the word out,” said Van Ton-Quinlivan, the system’s vice chancellor for workforce and economic development. Skilled trades show among the highest potential among job categories, the economic-modeling company Emsi calculates. Other local companies and colleges have invested, too.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2024

Students in the study who were taught math through an applied approach performed significantly better on two of three standardized tests than those taught math in a more traditional way. She had to drop out in 2012 after getting injured in a house fire. Any move over 2 percent, we call that a win,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

But now a convergence of factors — a dwindling pool of traditional-age students, the call for more educated workers and a pandemic that highlighted economic disparities and scrambled habits and jobs — is putting adults in the spotlight. Traditional institutions have treated adults “as a kind of afterthought,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2025

Credit: Kirk Carapezza In this episode, hosts Kirk Carapezza and Jon Marcus break down how we even got to the point at which the traditional college admission process required students to spend time and money with no guarantee of success. But as we approach the demographic cliff, in many ways, that is simply not true.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 24, 2018

In math education, the problem is not quite so dire – but it’s time to start breaking a few of our own traditions. In fact, students who struggle early with the traditional singular STEM pathway are more likely to fall out of the higher education pipeline entirely.

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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 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 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. When you think about the future economics of the world, it’s not an English world.”. That’s what made it difficult,” she says.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2023

“For almost two years, we told families that school can look different and that schoolwork could be accomplished in times outside of the traditional 8-to-3 day. Since the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, Negrón, who grew up in Puerto Rico, had become convinced mainland American schools were dangerous.

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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. Related: Ranking countries by the worst students.

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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. Report it here.”.

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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

JUNE 17, 2018

It’s where districts and schools decide to spend their money,” Worth, a veteran educator who has also taught in Greene County’s traditional public schools, explained. Many charters hire teachers who don’t belong to a teachers union or haven’t gone through a traditional teacher preparation program, for example.

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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. But bilingual education isn’t the school’s only innovation. It allows us to open up the conversation.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

According to 2012 National Center for Education Statistics data, black men represent approximately 2 percent of all teachers, which is the same percentage of Latino men. When it comes to women dominated education, the economic and social advancement of black men can and should come out of an agenda focused on women’s equity.

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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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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. It’s bureaucratic.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

And given the former abundance of well-paying, blue-collar jobs in this corner of Indiana, the university is also up against a regional tradition that doesn’t necessarily place a high value on a college degree, she said. It closed its child care center in 2012, citing low demand. Aaron Cantú, for The Hechinger Report.

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Steven V. Miller

JANUARY 10, 2024

One of those data sets is from a 2012 publication by Benjamin J. Loyle in Journal of Peace Research on the economic benefits of post-conflict justice. Appel and Loyle (2012) are proposing that scholars interested in the variation in net FDI inflows have only looked at net FDI inflows from an economic perspective.

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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

JANUARY 28, 2019

Starting in 2012, an idea floated around Alaska that seemed sort of preposterous. Rural Alaska Native communities are grappling with the existential effects—erosion, loss of important food sources like seals, and fear that the traditions they’ve fought to sustain over centuries will slip away. A plan to link Alaska to the world.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2016

Redcliffe leaders, in the long tradition of English nursery leaders, believe children learn best when they are taking the lead and exploring the world on their own, complete with the risks that independence carries like, say, a bump on the head from a wooden swing. Rowena Phair, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The economic futures of African Americans without a high school diploma are especially bleak. In 2012, 57 percent of ”minority” students (almost all African American) graduated from Avoyelles Parish high schools, lower than the percentage of adults with a diploma. Liza Jacobs, principal of Marksville High School.

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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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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. His best-known writings challenged views in liberal economics about the origins of money, attempting to reconceive the historical relationship between debt and social institutions. David Graeber speaks at a panel in 2012.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2020

School traditions often connect one generation to the next, providing a sense of community stability and cohesion. Whatever the reason a school has to close, something needs to fill the educational, economic, and social voids created by the closure. Related: School closings: A solution in need of a solution.

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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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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

At first, some Shuar people were hopeful about the economic opportunities promised to them. Since then, most of the promises that investors and government leaders made have soured; very little economic growth is visible among Shuar communities. A cloud of discord divided the communities affected by or dependent on mining.

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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. He agreed there’s room for concern, however.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2018

The Plano region added more than 114,000 jobs between 2010 and 2015, according to the city’s economic development team. Participants from the college’s Summer Bridge program traditionally leave their mark on campus in the school colors of black, purple and gold. Photo: Delece Smith-Barrow.

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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. He agreed there’s room for concern, however.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

It’s a trend that experts say is likely to diminish people’s quality of life and the country’s economic competitiveness. Fewer than four in 10 people with an associate degree or less believe that further education will help them land a stable job in an economic slump — down from half who said so before the pandemic — a Strada survey found.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2020

But now the professional degree that could propel her entire family toward the economic stability they had never known was vanishing from sight. “I One day in June 2012, Hernandez told him to leave. At BMCC, whose students are among the most economically disadvantaged in the U.S., There were more setbacks. The couple argued.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2019

And the United States remains stubbornly in 13th place in the world in the proportion of its 25- to 34-year-olds with degrees , according to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, behind South Korea, Canada, Japan, Russia, Ireland, Lithuania, Norway and other countries.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

One in five Greeley residents lives below the poverty level, and the school district is trying to upgrade its technology to give students an economic boost. In 2012, for instance, researchers found that only 26 percent of low-income teens attending a science and technology camp wanted to become chemical engineers.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

1 in childhood education in the world by both UNICEF and the World Economic Forum. and one of the largest, most influential and most racially and economically segregated systems in the world. A commitment to traditional public schools and to fighting the privatization of our schools.

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