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FEBRUARY 21, 2018

And eighth-grade co-teachers Abby Jolma and Toni Giebel let kids sit on wobbly chairs — short stools with a curved base — yoga balls, or traditional chairs while they learn math and science. At least we’re at the table now,” said Carly Wright, advocacy director for SHAPE. “It They need it so bad.”.

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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. There’s a historical and cultural tradition of going where your family has been,” she said. The majority of students currently in public schools in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

There is something of an annual tradition among New York City mayors and school chancellors. 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. Photo: Emmanuel Felton. SYRACUSE, N.Y.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Within each subject, schools identified learning targets, clearly explaining what students would need to demonstrate in order to be considered “proficient” — a shift away from the traditional system’s emphasis on logging seat time to earn credits and progress. considered passing. Elizabeth Hewitt for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Traditional language learning in the U.S. percent decline in course offerings between 2013 and 2016. is in trouble. Is this approach an answer? Most kids don’t want to become a linguist or get a Ph.D. in the language, but they do want to speak,” said Dr. Yet college language course enrollments are plummeting.

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The Hechinger Report

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. high schools?

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2020

On a trip back home to the Dominican Republic, she began dating Jesus Hernandez; they married in 2013. She also referred Hernandez to an advocacy center at BMCC where she could apply for food, counseling and emergency funds. 6 for the virtual ceremony that will replace the traditional in-person pinning ceremony.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

2U has historically given colleges only the opportunity to partner through a traditional revenue share, in which it offers its full suite of services in exchange for a cut of the tuition. GMU is one of a number of schools across the country that have faced challenges from faculty advocacy groups over these partnerships.

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

For the most part, they are sort of operating outside of the traditional system and accountability,” said Smith, now the director of the early childhood development initiative at the Bipartisan Policy Center, a nonpartisan think tank. Systems like background checks and data tracking are key safety mechanisms in any industry. “Key

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Kristen Danusis, a former school psychologist who became the principal in 2013, tells me that many of her students live “off the grid,” in households that earn little regular income. For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. Yet, inside Isaac Paine, tech abounds.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

Alonzo attended Russellville schools from 2008 to 2013. A Hispanic Heritage Month event that Grimes started in Russellville High School has now grown into a big districtwide celebration , where students learn about different cultures and traditions, perform dances, read celebrated authors and research historical figures.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

And a state push to fund schools more equitably with another tax measure failed in 2013. A 2007 Texas State University study, published in the Journal of Educational Computing Research, found that when students were presented with high-quality online math instruction they did better on tests than those taught in a more traditional way.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2016

After that happened, the number of requests for exemptions rose from one in 2013 to 43 last year. This process of seeking exemptions has accelerated since the Obama administration asserted in 2014 that transgender and “gender nonconforming” students were protected from discrimination under Title IX, according to Human Rights Campaign.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

When Hispanic students first began attending schools in Mississippi, many school districts refused to enroll them if they didn’t have immigration papers, said Bill Chandler, executive director of the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance, or MIRA, a nonprofit advocacy group. White flight from urban areas caused further re-segregation.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

A year later, the Nations Report Card found Native students in traditional public schools performed much better than those in BIE schools. About 92 percent of Native students attend traditional public schools and 8 percent attend BIE schools.) billion to bring every educational facility to an acceptable condition.

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JULY 29, 2016

This is an event that is designed to bring the party together, and there are these sharp divisions between the education reform folks and traditional education people, so it makes sense that they would avoid talking about them beyond generalities,” said Michael Petrilli, president of the Thomas B. The Eagle Academy Foundation raised $2.2

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

The school, which serves more than 700 students on three campuses in the state, was co-founded in 2013 by Laura Cassidy, a retired breast cancer surgeon whose husband is Republican U.S. Most attend traditional public schools, but a growing number are enrolling at specialized charter schools like Louisiana Key Academy.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 25, 2025

Despite these challenges, the resilience of the Latino electorate is evident through their continued advocacy for rights and representation, even in the face of political hurdles. The political landscape for Latinos has historically been shaped by external factors such as nativist movements , which promote anti-Latino policies.

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