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NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The model stems from an idea laid out in a paper almost a decade ago by Emily Ayscue Hassel and Bryan Hassel, co-presidents of Public Impact, an education advocacy organization.

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AUGUST 29, 2017

Mississippi also had the highest percentage of children who visited an emergency room due to accident or injury in 2013, and one of the lowest percentages of mothers who initiated breastfeeding. In 2014, the state had the highest percentage of preterm births as well as the highest infant mortality rate.

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DECEMBER 4, 2017

Our Voice Nuestra Voz, a non-profit education advocacy group in New Orleans, analyzed the school performance scores data and found that approximately 15,000 students attend these failing schools. In the previous survey year, 2013-14, that school had reported no use of restraints and seclusions on special education students.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2016

“It’s disheartening to families, and it fosters the ‘check mentality,’ ” said Carrie Guiden, executive director of The Arc of Tennessee, a nonprofit disability advocacy group, referring to government checks. More advocacy.”. They need more counselors to efficiently meet the demand for services.”. It’s a start,” said Hammett.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2019

Educational occupations with the highest concentration of women are among the lowest paid, according to a 2013 report published by the National Survey of Early Care and Education. Related: Operation Varsity Blues proves we need affirmative action. Between 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S. Related: Learning while you earn in college.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

Now a team of five researchers from Rutgers University in collaboration with the Education Law Center, a nonprofit advocacy organization, has created a complicated model that predicts how much money it would cost each school district in America to get its students to reach average test scores in math and reading, as recorded from 2013 to 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: “It matters who’s enrolled at flagships, because they tend to go on to be leaders in their states, particularly in politics and in business,” said Andrew Nichols, director of higher education research and data analytics at The Education Trust, an advocacy group that focuses on college access.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2022

The Afterschool Alliance – an advocacy group – was instrumental in securing the 1 percent set aside for afterschool and making sure that after-school programs would qualify for learning loss. The Afterschool Alliance also cited an unpublished conference paper from 2013, which tracked 1,000 elementary school students over time.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2017

According to a 2013 study , just 1 in 5 California primary care physicians offered Spanish-language autism screening. Whiter communities are more likely to have built-in support groups, advocacy organizations, and information networks to disseminate facts about the signs of autism, the importance of early diagnosis, and available services.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In 2013, Mississippi passed a law to use science-based instruction to ensure students read at or above grade level by the end of third grade. Educators can be good at teaching and bad at teaching reading, said Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), an advocacy group that studies teacher preparation.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

But not every student can make the leap to full-time status, said Karen Stout, president of the nonprofit advocacy group Achieving the Dream; many have neither the money nor the time. More than 1,000 students have taken the state up on the offer since it began three years ago.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

The regional research group Southern Education Foundation found that in 2013, poor students accounted for 51 percent of the public school population. The majority of students currently in public schools in the U.S. are low-income and concentrated in the same schools. According to a 2015 analysis by the Washington D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

At least we’re at the table now,” said Carly Wright, advocacy director for SHAPE. “It A 2013 study of nearly 12,000 Nebraska students also found that aerobically fit students were more likely to pass the state’s standardized math and reading tests, regardless of their weight or socioeconomic status.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2016

The result was a tool called Learning Lists, which was prototyped by one of the school’s math teachers in 2013 using spreadsheet features on Google Sheets. Photo: Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images. LPS set out to develop a home-grown ed-tech tool to make this personalized learning system more efficient.

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AUGUST 4, 2017

Between 2013 and 2015, more than 56,000 students who took out federal loans to pay for Georgia’s four-year regional, state and research universities dropped out before graduating, as did 44,000 people at the mostly two-year state colleges and technical colleges. In fact, nothing has been done to restore HOPE to the pre-2011 levels.

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The Tibetan community in Vancouver includes approximately 700 people, more than 200 of whom migrated from four settlements in Arunachal Pradesh, India, to Canada through a federal refugee resettlement program between 2013 and 2017. These refugees entered Canada with complex linguistic repertoires.

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

In recent years, the group’s advocacy has led to changes in the district’s graduation requirements, to align them with admissions requirements for California’s university systems, and an expansion of funding for an after-school meal program that had been cut by the school board. Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

students from 2013-14 before the community eligibility option went into effect nationwide through 2015-16 , its second year. As in Missouri, the most recent federal data shows that the new community eligibility program is having a modest impact on how we count low-income students nationally. During the same period, the U.S.

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AUGUST 22, 2023

That’s in part because the college itself is young, having graduated its first class in 2013, and small, with 617 undergraduates in the last academic year — characteristics freeing it from some of the entrenched traditions that can stifle change in higher education. UMR was first among these schools to launch its pilot.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2017

And from 2013 to 2016, the number of its graduates enrolling in associate or bachelor’s degree programs rose dramatically, from 28 percent to 47 percent, according to school officials. 47 percent of graduates at Meadowbrook High School in rural Ohio enrolled in associate or bachelor’s degree programs in 2016, up from 28 percent in 2013.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Another pair of us (Renita and Jen) initiated the Meeting Ethnography project back in 2013. A 2023 report showed that the experience of solitary confinement is far more prevalent than most previous estimates: for at least 22 hours each day, at least 122,840 people experience solitary confinement in U.S. prisons and jails.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Enrollment in these programs has increased by 72 percent and an estimated 4,903 children were served in 2019, up from 2,857 in 2013. Educating officials : PRE4CLE has prioritized advocacy at all levels of the government, according to Kelly. You can read more about PRE4CLE’s work in their five-year report, available here.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2016

College Possible is one of many college advocacy groups hoping that technology will jumpstart the slow growth of low-income students in higher education. Between 1970 and 2013, the percentage of Americans in the lowest income quartile who had a college degree by age 24 rose from 6 to 9 percent. “So,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Before, the state already had two voucher programs: the 2012 Dyslexia Therapy Scholarship for Students with Dyslexia Program, and in 2013, the Speech-Language Therapy Scholarship for Students with Speech-Language Impairments. Gretchen Cagle, director of special education at Mississippi Department of Education. Photo: Imani Khayyam.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2016

Between the fall of 2013 and late March 2016, Terry High School reported 53 arrests by school police officers, most for disorderly conduct. There were six arrests at Terry High School during the 2013-14 school year. Its 2014-15 arrest rate of 1.5 percent compares unfavorably to the national referral rate of.06 06 percent.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 30, 2024

Mealy brings a wealth of organizational experience and expertise to the position. million dollars in 2021; and serving as the co-Principal Investigator on the National Science Foundation (NSF) $1.4 million dollar Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) (2020-2023 and 2023-2026).

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2018

The percentage of Seita students to graduate from Western Michigan has ranged from 24 to 44 percent for cohorts that started between 2008 and 2013, according to university administrators. That’s lower than Western Michigan’s overall graduation rate, 54 percent , but significantly higher than the national figure for foster care youth.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2021

The first in his family to go to college, he used the GI Bill to pay for classes that earned him a bachelor’s degree in 2013. Brendan Mullican, a former student at Sam Houston State, served in the Navy for four years, including in the Middle East during the 2003 Iraq War. Sánchez, senior associate at the public policy group HCM Strategists.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

” A Hechinger Report analysis found that such lofty goals were common in the 10 years after Hurricane Katrina, particularly between 2008 and 2013, when dozens of new charter schools opened across the city. “They completely made sense to me.” Related: When a hyped school model proves difficult to replicate.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

Since 2013, the program has served almost 8,000 students in its four education centers and awarded $8.5 The first two centers opened in 2013 with 750 students between them. Another challenged an eager student to a building contest at a LEGO table. million in grants to other pre-K centers and school districts around the city.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

“It’s very difficult to compare Rochester, Buffalo and Syracuse to New York City,” said Billy Easton, executive director of the Alliance for Quality Education (AQE), a left-leaning education advocacy group. Nearly half of Syracuse’s 20,000 students were suspended during the 2013-14 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

The University of Michigan successfully lobbied in 2013 to shield much information about fund performance from the state’s open-records law. Michigan State said that, unlike for people who sign on with personal investment managers, its management fees are not calculated separately but simply factored into gains or losses.

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OCTOBER 17, 2016

It also shows that only 8 percent of high school graduates in 2013 completed a full college- and career-prep curriculum. is a very different question than “Are more young adults prepared for success after high school?” And the answers you get to the latter can depend heavily on whom you ask.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

It’s still hard to get good teachers to come here and stay, with average teacher salaries at about $43,300 in Dillon in 2013-14, compared with more than $50,000 in the state’s more affluent districts, meaning any progress is tough to maintain. Teachers, we’re short of them,” Smith said. “We We have a lot of students in one class.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

So, in 2013, the local United Way, which had been assisting this district with its preschool programming, made a deal with Goldman Sachs and the J.B. & In 2013, before the pay-for-success funding came through, the Granite preschool program served 2,500 students. Related: Why six states still spend nothing on preschool.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. The Oakland Reach, a parent-led advocacy group that works with underserved communities, also joined the partnership. The homework gap isn’t new. for the nonprofit.

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MARCH 1, 2017

Between 1989 and 2013, the percentage of students with disabilities who were in a general education class for 80 percent or more of the school day increased from about 32 percent to nearly 62 percent. At the very least, “You should have a special education class, and an English language learner class,” she said.

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