The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

They created multicolored posters to explain what different departments of local government do, from sanitation to human resources. The curriculum development was the subject of a 2012 paper.) Arriving with their notebooks, the seven-year-olds jotted down safety problems.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The delays lead to missed job and educational opportunities and longer government dependence, all at a cost to taxpayers. Statewide, 30 percent of casework-related staff left between 2012 and 2015, according to a state audit. Walker supported moving people from government assistance to work.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Indeed in 2016 the federal government designated Tennessee’s VR grant “high risk” for most of the year, due to the state’s repeated inability to track how much money was being spent and on what. Her daughter, Hannah, is on the autism spectrum and graduated from high school in 2012. No other state VR grant received that designation.

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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

JUNE 10, 2019

Fourth-grade students who reported using tablets in “all or almost all” classes scored 14 points lower on the reading portion of a test administered by the federal government than students who reported “never” using classroom tablets. That’s the equivalent of a year of education or an entire grade level. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Delgado Community College in New Orleans, Louisiana, began construction on a new campus in the city’s West Bank community of Federal City in May. However, black contractors have had to fight to gain government construction contracts in a city in which black people are the majority. Weekly Update.

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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. A majority of Louisiana inmates are housed in for-profit facilities,” noted Chen, “which must be supplied with a constant influx of human beings or a $182 million industry will go bankrupt.”.

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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 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. That realization triggered the system-wide centralization of information technology, human resources, purchasing and payroll — more than doubling the size of the central office in the process, according to the federal figures, but also saving $5.6

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Behind the storage unit sits a rectangular wooden box stuffed with bicycle tires filled with Silly Putty to replicate human intestines. As employees, students must comply with the district’s human resources policies and undergo performance evaluations led by a student project leader and an Innovation Center staffer.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

In the 10 years through 2016, college tuition and fees increased by 63 percent , or three times as much as all the other products and services measured by the government, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. Still, undergraduate enrollment at the school has fallen steadily, from 1,414 in 2012, U.S. College is still expensive.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Gallot graduated from Grambling in 1987 and leveraged his HBCU degrees (Juris Doctorate from Southern University in 1990) to become a state representative for the area in 2000 and state senator in 2012 before being installed as the tenth president of GSU in 2016. Investors should pay particular attention to cities that have an HBCU. “The

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Government policy has also contributed to its adoption. While it may work to improve math skills, it is unlikely to help students advance in the humanities, she said. In late 2012, educators at the school were trying to think big. Related: Column: To err is human – and a powerful prelude to learning.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Many had seen their schooling interrupted by the chaos back home; some had experienced gang violence or human trafficking. 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

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: The model has elicited spirited accolades from pro-business conservatives and centrist Democrats. These types of transactions enable private sector companies to be responsive to the requests from local/state government who have limited funding.”. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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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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Political Science Now

JULY 30, 2024

The Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award , formally the APSA Best Book Award, is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best book on government, politics, or international affairs. University of Notre Dame, 2012). He holds degrees in International Relations (B.A.

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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. Department of Education. percent in 1966 to 8.5

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

Earlier in the school year, a white student came to the office of the Black Student Union, a space it shares with the student government, and told her she had no right to be there. “It Leave this field empty if you're human: Many colleges and universities are grappling with their historical connections to slavery. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. The federal government has played a role in the growth of these charters by granting charter startup grants to schools without considering whether they will lead to increased segregation. Leave this field empty if you're human: By June of 2005, Jackson had left the district.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Social Studies teacher Michelle Adler talks to sophomores Maiya Schwartz, left and Emily Terranova about an assignment in an Honors Human Geography class at Gray-New Gloucester High School on Thursday, June 1, 2017. “It’s the long arm of the state,” she says. ” Photo: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald. .”

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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. Department of Health and Human Services, at current funding levels for the Child Care and Development Block Grant, only one out of 10 eligible children will get assistance.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: TOPS’ windfall disproportionately goes to rich white students. The university’s six-year graduation rate for black students cratered to 22 percent in 2012. He’s active in student government and his fraternity. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

But since 2009, according to David Smith, the district’s chief of communications and government relations, the district has had to cut more than $50 million from its already tight budget because of state cutbacks, threatening progress in a district that had seen some significant and surprising gains for its students. “But Fair funding.

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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

OCTOBER 14, 2020

People disagree over whether it should be measured in absolute or relative terms; whether there is a limit to the proportion of humanity that is gifted; whether giftedness can be cultivated; whether it must be backed up by achievement; and whether it should include athletic abilities. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights.

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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. A human would likely never spot such complex patterns. The human element. Foundations had given seed money. The analytics are just a tool, though.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

More than 2 million people in the United States were thought to be struggling with an addiction to prescription opioid pain relievers in 2012, according to the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control , which also found that the number of accidental overdose deaths from prescription painkillers had more than quadrupled since 1999. $4

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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

JULY 10, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: In 2016-17 alone, Premier schools enrolled more than 10,000 students across nine states along the East Coast who brought with them $65 million in federal funding, according to federal data. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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AUGUST 28, 2023

In surveys of 230,000 students in grades three through 12 conducted from 2012 to 2017 by YouthTruth, an education research and consulting nonprofit, only 46 percent of high school respondents felt that what they were learning in class helped them outside of school. Student disengagement is not a totally new problem.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2024

What is defiance to one is not defiance to all, and that becomes confusing, not just for the students, but also the adults,” said Harry Lawson, human and civil rights director for the National Education Association, the country’s largest teachers union. The district banned out-of-school suspensions for many nonviolent offenses in 2012.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2020

The city’s old police department was dissolved in 2013 and replaced with a force run by the county government. He also said that federal and state governments should incentivize officers to get higher levels of education, and that more non-cops should be teaching future officers. Credit: AP Photo/Mel Evans.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Like McKneely, some educators, government officials and policy experts around the country say the coronavirus carries lessons for another global crisis of our time, climate change. The Miami-Dade school district, for example, adopted a plan back in 2012 to close the digital divide. Alberto Carvalho, Miami-Dade superintendent.

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Political Science Now

DECEMBER 16, 2024

I didnt know they had their own governance structures and bylaws. Over the years, I have come to understand what these divisions are, what they do, how they are governed, and, in fact, found not just one but two intellectual communities for myself! I mean, I wasnt totally clueless. But I couldnt really tell you anything about them.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

School leaders have solicited donations from local manufacturing plants, energy firms, even the federal government. Lisette Martinez worked on a house for Habitat for Humanity during her senior year at Jefferson High School in Greeley, Colo., million into schoolwide technology upgrades. The measure failed.

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