The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2017

However, only 37 percent were re-employed by 2013, including 15 percent who worked in other parishes. 37 percent of New Orleans teachers fired after Hurricane Katrina were re-employed by 2013, including 15 percent who worked elsewhere in Louisiana. Collectively, the fired teachers had more than 15 years of average teaching experience.

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Political Science Now

JULY 28, 2024

How can political science educators scaffold productive civic dialogue on contentious political issues? She also leads the RiceVotes Collective and teaches the Capstone course for the Certificate in Civic Leadership students. election and other common political science themes?

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Lindblom is the 2013 Arizona Teacher of the Year and a 2014 Graduate of the MAHG program. She also recommended the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) at Ashland University as the ideal MA program for a working teacher interested in encouraging civil discussion of the perennial issues in American civic life.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2017

The University of New Orleans, where Juhas goes, shut down its child care center in 2013. Krista Kiessling, who directs service learning and civic engagement at the college, said student-parents rarely understand how tough it will be to juggle children, school and work. “These professors are used to hearing excuses.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Since President Obama’s ConnectED announcement in 2013 in Mooresville, NC , there has been more than $10 billion committed as part of the five-year program to transform American education. This includes more than $2 billion in private-sector commitments.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2019

By the time Alexander became president in 2013, four decades had passed since the federal government sued to diversify LSU. Almost as soon as Alexander arrived in 2013, he began pushing the university to do better. District Judge Charles Schwartz, Jr. twice found that Louisiana’s universities had remained segregated.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

In 2013, 7,758 were enrolled, and in 2016 that number fell to 3,944. Constitution, and quizzes to teach civics. The licensure waivers are in part a response to a dramatic drop in the number of Arkansans interested in becoming teachers through existing pathways. She uses the New York Times lesson guides, the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

In fully integrated Clinton, black students’ and white students’ scores on the seventh-grade ELA exams rose from 2009 to 2013, while the black-white gap shrank from 33 to 11 percentage points. You can usually trace it back to strong civic leadership,” McGraw said.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2017

According to a new report by Civic Enterprises and the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University, during the 2014-15 school year, the difference between the graduation rates of black and white students in the state was one of the smallest in the country. Louisiana is close behind with 56 percent. percent to 75.4

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Civics U

JANUARY 27, 2022

SPECIAL NOTE CONCERNING CHINA (from a 2020 Congressional Research Service report ) “Since 2013, China has dropped three places, from 173 to 177 (out of 180 countries), on Reporters Without Borders’ World Press Freedom Index. The next article will reflect on these and further questions about the nature of government and governments.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

The most comprehensive study was conducted in 2013 for the National Scholarship Providers Association, or NSPA. Foundations, employers and civic and community organizations such as Rotary International and garden clubs and chambers of commerce award more than $12 billion a year in scholarships to undergraduates, according to College Board.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

In several districts, the percentage of uncertified teachers has doubled since 2013-14. Adrienne Hudson, left, discusses education-related issues with Jo Blake, an instructor with Core Civic, during the RISE Teacher’s Night Out at the Crossroads Cultural Arts Center in Clarksdale, Mississippi last December.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Related: Making America whole again via civics education. Según datos de la oficina del secretario de la ciudad de Takoma, el promedio aproximado de la participación de los jóvenes de 16 y 17 años en las elecciones locales entre 2013 y 2017 fue del 42 por ciento, en comparación con el 20 por ciento del promedio de participación en general.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

It was 2013, and I was on my first trip to Colombia. After my first trip to Colombia in 2013, I began to grapple with this question. For example, in 2017 in Buenaventura, Colombia, activists and everyday residents held a three-week civic strike to call attention to and demand public investment in civilian lives.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

She is author of Public Sculpture and the Civic Ideal in New York City, 1890-1930 (1989/1997), The Politics of Urban Beauty: New York and Its Art Commission (2006), and Sculpture in Gotham: Art and Urban Renewal in New York (2018). Bernard will discuss exhibitions and memorials about slavery, emancipation, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

In 2013, federal officials scrutinizing the system took a second look at Louisiana, to be sure that the state’s high-school-equivalency attainment was “not masking low graduation rates and that students are not being pushed into a GED [HiSET] track.” But they never would tell me how to go to school when I was going through something.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

Tens of thousands of teachers and parents flocked to her 2013 online course on how to teach math. Might we trade off a bit of short-term math achievement for a greater good of a numerate, civic society? Boaler accused her earlier critics of academic bullying and harassment. But she didn’t address their legitimate research questions.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2016

You can gain the same skills — critical thinking, civics, writing — through different content that feels more relevant.”. You can gain the same skills — critical thinking, civics, writing — through different content that feels more relevant.”. Course offerings have been enhanced. And administrators don’t see their efforts as charity.

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TCI

OCTOBER 28, 2024

According to the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) , social studies is the integrated study of social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence. At its core, social studies aims to equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to actively participate in civic affairs.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2018

According to administrators, between 2013 and 2016, the district of about 19,000 students slashed its number of expulsions and out-of-school suspensions from 1,628 to 475. Highline’s out-of-school suspensions plunged by 71 percent between 2013 and 2016, according to district administrators. Progress was swift. In 2012-13, 10.4

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Mattivi, whose eighth-grade English students discuss articles about the environment, civic life, and American history after using online literacy programs that provide similar material at different reading levels. And a state push to fund schools more equitably with another tax measure failed in 2013. But computers are expensive.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

In the spring of 2013, a phone survey commissioned by one of the state’s teachers unions found that 85 percent of its members opposed Gist’s contract being renewed. “If you issue these declarations and don’t allow choice or flexibility … you get pushback and failed implementation.”. Deborah Gist, superintendent, Tulsa Public Schools.

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Diane Ravitch

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Voters who lack the backbone of a solid education in civics can be manipulated. One thing that is clear from the ease with which Trump seems to have stripped so many voters of their common sense is the need to restore civics education in this country. In 2013, WWE inducted Mr. Trump into its hall of fame. Its time to catch up.

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