The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

And she was running for the school’s governing board. The Boston Teachers Union Pilot School, where Snyder has worked since 2012, is a “teacher-powered” school. Today its relationship with the union is limited to having one union official on the school governing board.)

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2020

billion a year from the federal government and other sources that the National Science Foundation calculates is spent by academia on research is not intended to immediately result in commercial applications. The public is expecting, ‘You’ve been entrusted with billions of dollars in government research. Most of the $75.3

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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. As Williams and her classmates moved away in the summer of 2012, Marcovitz expected they’d all have “a happy ending with college.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

Smith Howard has been advocating for years to have the federal government address shortened school days. But the government, so far, has stopped short of requiring that any data be collected on how often school districts take this action. In 2016, following requests from her group, the U.S. Credit: AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall.

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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 Related: Government data single out schools where low-income students fare worst. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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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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ED Surge

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. “You If leadership sees the benefits, it allows for creativity to happen.”

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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

AUGUST 7, 2019

Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone sat on the school committee, and he’d been the one to suggest they consider designing a new public school in the first place, back in 2012. Andre Green, a school committee member, worried that district leadership wouldn’t have the time or energy to commit to Powderhouse, given their other responsibilities.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

They said that giftedness could also be creativity, and found that a high IQ score did not necessarily correspond with leadership, professional accomplishment or even success in school. Charles Parish outside New Orleans began talent development in 2012. Psychologists later poked holes in that definition. There are gifted dropouts.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Government policy has also contributed to its adoption. The Young Women’s Leadership School of Astoria educates girls who may become the first in their families to go to college. In late 2012, educators at the school were trying to think big. But the strategy was not widely used, because it was so labor intensive for teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

In 2012-13, black students accounted for more than 90 percent of enrollment at over a quarter of the schools in Mississippi, according to federal and state school district data compiled by Jake McGraw, public policy coordinator at the Mississippi-based William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation and editor of the blog Rethink Mississippi.

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Political Science Now

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

He completed his dissertation, “Black Elected Officials, Leadership Style and the Politics of Race: Los Angeles, 1963-2003,” under the mentorship of the late Dr. Michael Preston, WPSA’s first African American President. Within the American Political Science Association, Dr. Ricks held a number of leadership and committee positions.

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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 Related: Government data single out schools where low-income students fare worst. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

A coup backed by the US government and conducted by Sanford Dole resulted in Queen Liliuokalani’s deposal, according to smithsonianmag.com. government orders to go to an internment camp, as they were called then, saying it was unconstitutional. He was CEO and “Chief Yahoo” until his departure in 2012. In 1944, the U.S.

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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. And while new requirements in the 2015 federal law governing education, the Every Student Succeeds Act , are designed to help this population, a Hechinger Report/HuffPost survey has found that many states are not living up to the law’s promise.

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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. Many teachers are skeptical of yet another in what seems like a series of endless “reforms” from the state government. In lower level classes, some would have to repeat the whole course.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

This question was addressed by the Scottish Government's recent report, ' Teacher Workforce Planning for Scottish Schools ', and also featured in the i nitial findings from their panel of international advisers earlier in July 2017. I have suggested two key types of promoted role - student mentor and teacher-researcher.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

In Leslie County, few people think that industry or the government will help. obert Roark, the son of a coal miner, became principal of Leslie County High School in 2012 after most of the mines had closed. Under Roark’s leadership, Leslie County High School has made a remarkable turnaround. We want your questions.

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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. “We Fair funding.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Adler, who has taught at the school for 40 years, sees the proficiency-based education mandate from the state as another foolish idea to come down from a state government that doesn’t understand or respect teachers. “It’s the long arm of the state,” she says. ” Photo: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald. .”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2017

At those 20 institutions with 100 or more GI Bill recipients eligible to finish in 2014, the government data disclose, even the ones with the highest veteran success rates managed to graduate only one in five. And San Diego State’s figures go through 2012, while Florida State’s cover the period through 2015. Photo: Peggy Peattie.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Good leadership and good will” had created a district where “not one school was left with an all-black student body.” A recent government survey showed that segregation by race and class in the nation’s public schools is getting worse, not better. Black and white students shared school leadership positions and leads in the class plays.

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Political Science Now

DECEMBER 16, 2024

My involvement with APSA, both as a member as well as in leadership roles, has been somewhat integral to my career. I didnt know they had their own governance structures and bylaws. I should add that, over time, I also became quite seriously involved in the leadership and administration of S+P and the APSA LGBTQ Caucus.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

But as Grimes’ star rose statewide, according to local educators and residents, his relationship with city leadership started to unravel. Whenever we need something, we simply ask for it and they do their best to get it for us,” Martínez said of his district’s leadership. And even if they can’t, they find alternatives that we can use.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2017

Over the past decades the federal government has developed many programs to serve social needs that are fundamental to educational success. Experience and data make clear that their success aligns with the quality of preparation and consistency of support they received in the 13 prior years. That matters.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

In contrast to American private schools, Sweden’s free schools don’t charge tuition — they draw on government funds to operate — and are required to follow Sweden’s national curriculum. By 2012 , they were below average in math, reading and science. Jonas Vlachos, economics professor at the University of Stockholm.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

His time in elementary school preceded both Johnson’s leadership at Collins Elementary and Duty’s in the district. The Nollie Jenkins Family Center led a fight against school-based corporal punishment here in rural Holmes County from 2012 to 2018, when a new superintendent asked for a policy change. And to justify it only on children?”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2018

This exclusion also belittles the hundreds of lives that have been negatively affected by gun violence, from Columbine in 1999 to Sandy Hook in 2012 to Parkland earlier this year. Either DeVos didn’t consult with other government agencies or she chose to ignore them. In one exchange during the subcommittee hearing with Sen.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Chief among her causes is school vouchers, government-funded coupons intended as an escape hatch to release students from failing public schools zoned by residence to attend a better private school of their choice. And last week, 51 Republicans voted in Betsy DeVos, the champion of bad policies.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2017

I can see the intuitive appeal of using money the government would otherwise spend on public schools to allow families to escape to private schools of their choice. School choice also raises larger questions about why the government funds education at all. Jackson Elementary School. Two-thirds of children there live in poverty.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2016

In 2012, the U.S, In 1965, the federal government re-entered the preschool game and launched Head Start, a preschool program for the nation’s poorest children. “I think we value our children less than other nations do,” said Arne Duncan, the former U.S. I don’t have an easier or softer or kinder way to say that.”.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

Coming out of the end of slavery, Black people made their freedom dreams manifest in attempts to own property, to negotiate their own labor agreements, to build institutions, to take their role in governance, both in state legislative houses as well as in Congress. 26, 2012: Trayvon Martin Murdered Sept. They went nowhere.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 25, 2025

Concerns about government overreach into personal and familial matters also resonated with voters , strengthening their support for his promises to uphold traditional family values. Cohort effects over the past three generations of Latinos have also influenced the extent Latinos support Trump.

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