Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

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. Her research agenda focuses on political science pedagogy, campus-based civic engagement, and pop culture & politics.

Civic Engagement 68

Civic Engagement Teaching Civics Political Science 68

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government. In 2012, it became the first U.S.

Civics 143

Civics Civic Engagement High School Government 143

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2017

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. Skilled trades show among the highest potential among job categories, the economic-modeling company Emsi calculates.

Economics 111

Economics High School Tradition Humanities 111

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.

High School 111

High School Tradition Cultures Advocacy 111

Sapiens

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

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. A Shuar warrior marched in 2012 during a protest organized by the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador and the Shuar Federation.

Economics 129

Economics Government Leadership History 129

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.

Charter School 111

Charter School Psychology High School Private School 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Andrea, who earned her college degree in English literature in 2012, is a temp in a law firm and drives people around on weekday mornings and through the weekends. The state is creating new ways students can receive high school and college credits: through internships as well as through traditional career and technical programs.

K-12 111

K-12 Psychology High School Leadership 111

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.

Economics 143

Economics Sociology Social Justice High School 143

The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

“It’s not as if the principal had particular tasks taken away from their role,” said Ellen Goldring, professor of education policy and leadership at Vanderbilt University. 75 percent of principals think their job has become “too complex,” according to a 2012 survey. These new tasks were added.

Middle School 76

Middle School Leadership Professional Development Charter School 76

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 8, 2016

In what may be counterintuitive for those not experienced with technology in education, the Center often allows for more human support than traditional face-to-face classrooms. Many SPICE learners are ones for whom traditional school was not successful. The Center’s anytime, anywhere learning alleviates attendance issues.

Humanities 97

Humanities Tradition Teaching Education 97

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

The Boston Teachers Union Pilot School, where Snyder has worked since 2012, is a “teacher-powered” school. Meanwhile, teachers help make decisions about the school’s future in their roles on the different committees — personnel, instructional leadership, scheduling, budget and finance — that meet monthly.

Charter School 136

Charter School Government Sociology Social Studies 136

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 ).

Research 53

Research Education Professional Development Leadership 53

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

The two had spent nearly seven years designing a new kind of high school meant to address the needs of students who didn’t thrive in a traditional setting. 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.

Charter School 111

Charter School Project-Based Learning High School Public School 111

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

K-12 111

K-12 Advocacy Government Leadership 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Moheeb is part of a new program that is challenging the way teachers and students think about academics, and his school is one of hundreds that have done away with traditional letter grades inside their classrooms. 442 moved away from the traditional system, it lost seven teachers. The year M.S. We needed students to be more engaged.”.

Middle School 109

Middle School High School Tradition History 109

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

When Mary Fair became a teacher in 2012, her classes often contained a mix of special education students and general education students. Bloomfield Middle School, where Fair, Rodriguez, and Herrera teach, chose to partner with the iSTeM program in 2012. Photo: Jackie Mader. BLOOMFIELD, N.J. I was prepared for the regular ed student.”

Middle School 94

Middle School Professional Development Teaching Advocacy 94

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.

Middle School 124

Middle School High School Elementary School Public School 124

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. Coahoma county schools have been under interim leadership for more than a year. Southwest Georgia S.T.E.M.

Charter School 108

Charter School History Library Public School 108

The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

Texas A&M University at Texarkana has one of the lowest retention rates of public higher-education institutions; 55 percent who started in 2012 were gone by 2016. Eboni Zamani-Gallaher, a professor of higher education policy, organization and leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Education.

High School 102

High School Tutoring Education Policy Leadership 102

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

There, Meghan McFadyen asks kids in her mixed fourth- and fifth-grade classroom who have “Presence” among their top strengths to help peers, because in theory no performance anxiety will block them from taking leadership positions. When the district won federal Race to the Top funding in 2012, Schauer expanded the strengths program.

Elementary School 89

Elementary School Psychology K-12 Private School 89

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2018

Between 2012 and 2016, the number of kids in foster care around the country rose by 10 percent. The leader, Mary Beth Bonaventura, said she was responding to budget cuts, leadership changes and complacency over outmoded technology. In this job, she has seen traditional family structures turned upside down.

Elementary School 111

Elementary School High School Tradition Public School 111

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.

Junior High 75

Junior High Civics K-12 Economics 75

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Compared to their white peers, students of color are more likely to attend low-performing public primary and secondary schools with inexperienced teachers and high leadership turnover. The stubborn achievement gap between white students and students of color is at least partly due to systemic inequities.

Tutoring 90

Tutoring Economics Sociology High School 90

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

” To turn things around, Middletown decided to go beyond the school district’s traditional role in addressing poverty, and tackle it head-on. In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S. But for a traditional public school district, the breadth of its work to reduce the educational effects of poverty is extensive.

K-12 80

K-12 Elementary School Middle School Tradition 80

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

Research 69

Research K-12 Archiving Advocacy 69

Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

We hope students of Asian or Pacific Islander heritage share their experiences and their cultural traditions with their peers, and teachers include the contributions of Asian and Pacific Americans to our collective history in lessons this month. He was CEO and “Chief Yahoo” until his departure in 2012. Inc, according to ilctr.org.

Heritage 59

Heritage Teaching K-12 Museum 59

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

To turn things around, Middletown decided to go beyond the school district’s traditional role in addressing poverty, and tackle it head-on. In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S. But for a traditional public school district, the breadth of its work to reduce the educational effects of poverty is extensive. is three years.

K-12 66

K-12 Elementary School Middle School Tradition 66

Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 31, 2021

Now is the time to redefine learning – not recreate traditional school online. Tragically, we continue to see traditional systems of education being shoehorned into virtual or blended delivery systems (tip: having kids complete electronic worksheets from home is not systemic ’transformation’). I’m guilty of this too. References.

Leadership 145

Leadership Tradition Teaching Research 145

The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2017

Instead, she cites her 12 years of teaching, her rigorous principal training through the nonprofit New Leaders program, her propensity to foster teacher leadership and her willingness to listen. According to the 2016 report on diversity among educators , in 2012, only 7 percent of teachers were black, while 8 percent were Hispanic.

K-12 108

K-12 Leadership Elementary School Public School 108

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

In 2012, Socorro, a low-income district, was lagging behind other districts in Texas on new state assessments of academic readiness, despite using the model. Susanna Russell, its chief leadership officer, said the model will help alleviate some of the lasting effects of the pandemic.

Tutoring 142

Tutoring K-12 Economics High School 142

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Since 2012, when the department began publishing complete information on how schools are funded, the group of 13 schools has received more than $100 million from the bonus. Since 2012, 13 of New York City’s most coveted high schools have received more than $100 million in additional funding.

High School 65

High School Leadership Tutoring Public School 65

A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 25, 2013

Nicole’s work has resulted in hundreds of professors across the country choosing free texts over traditional costly textbooks and lowering the cost of higher education for thousands of students. P2PU creates a model for lifelong learning alongside traditional formal higher education. Learning for the people, by the people.

Education 259

Education K-12 Archiving Library 259

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Down the hall from Adler, English teacher William Putnam could not feel more differently about the 2012 state law requiring school districts to move to a system focused on skill acquisition rather than course completion. I prefer the traditional system.”. Photo: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald.

High School 73

High School Social Studies Leadership Tradition 73

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2017

That’s in spite of extra challenges confronting student veterans, who are usually older than traditional-aged students and more likely to be juggling college with families, jobs and service-related disabilities, and who often face significantly more red tape. Things do not appear to be improving.

Government 79

Government Tradition Leadership Tutoring 79

Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 1, 2024

From Boys to Men: Rape and Developing Masculinity in Terence’s Hecyra and Eunuchus” (in a 1998 special edition of Helios that Professor James also edited) broke with scholarly tradition by shifting away from the citizen masculine perspective and acknowledging sexual abuse and enslavement as an embodied experience for women. Moore (Ph.D. ’86)

Pedagogy 52

Pedagogy Social Justice Leadership Teaching 52

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Nationwide, between 2012 and 2022 the number of undergraduate degrees awarded in the humanities English, history, languages, literature, philosophy and related subjects fell 24 percent , according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He purposely picked leadership instead of humanities for the name of the program, he said.

Humanities 132

Humanities Leadership Social Science Anthropology 132

Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Revisiting Assumptions About Brain Evolution Traditional views of human evolution suggested that brain size underwent sudden, transformative increases between species, akin to major technological leaps. This gradual pattern of brain growth reflects the adaptive pressures faced by early humans and their relatives. Nelson, E., & Dunbar, R.

Humanities 98

Humanities Ancestry Anthropology Tradition 98