The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

In 2013, people incarcerated there staged a two-month hunger strike that spread throughout the state’s prisons to protest the excessive use of solitary confinement. He was part of the 2013 hunger strike that led to changes in how the prison uses solitary. The culture has evolved, We’re like a campus now.”

Education 128

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2021

The six-year graduation rate for students who participated in 2013 in a summer academic “boot camp” run by Purdue’s Minority Engineering Program exceeded the rate for the College of Engineering by 11 percentage points. Their absence could have consequences that are not just economic. Credit: AJ Mast for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

It was two weeks before the university would be abruptly shut down by the coronavirus, and every corner of the campus seemed jampacked — except this quiet classroom, where a handful of students were studying the societies and cultures of the Caribbean. So the projects brought in teams from African studies programs who understood the culture.

Anthropology 144

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Exactly how many remote workers live in Burlington “is hard to gauge because we all are sort of like hermit crabs in our own little shells and under our own little rocks,” said Tyler Littwin, art director at the marketing software developer HubSpot, who moved here from HubSpot’s headquarters outside Boston and started telecommuting in 2013.

Economics 138

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2020

At Kent State University at Ashtabula, 55 black students received an associate or bachelor’s degree between fall 2013 and spring 2019. Between fall 2013 and spring 2019, university officials say, 55 black students received an associate or bachelor’s degree from Ashtabula. Very few have succeeded.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

iii] According to anthropologist George Dalton, “Peasants were legal, political, social, and economic inferiors in medieval Europe. Some scholars emphasized generic cultural or “folk” characteristics of peasants. [vi] vi] These scholars are the generations of researchers inspired most notably by Robert Redfield’s Folk Urban Continuum.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

But Boaler’s popularity and influence have made her a focal point in the current math wars, which also seem to reflect the broader culture wars. On the international Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) , American 15-year-olds rank toward the bottom of economically advanced nations in math achievement.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

That’s the “doomsday scenario” Vermont is trying to avoid through programs like Randolph Union’s, says Joan Goldstein, the state’s commissioner of economic development. For most educators, it’s a cultural shift, and one that comes with additional, often uncompensated, work. percent from 18 percent in 2013).

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

Ninety-six percent of children at the Walton Avenue School, a K-5 school in the Bronx he’d founded in 2013, face economic hardship, and about a third are homeless. In 2013, the administration of former mayor Michael Bloomberg began phasing out the school. The boy explained he was taking the rest home for his father.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2017

It’s a cultural rebuild,” said Randy Emery, a welding instructor at the College of the Sequoias in California’s Central Valley. We needed to do a better job getting the word out,” said Van Ton-Quinlivan, the system’s vice chancellor for workforce and economic development. Other local companies and colleges have invested, too.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

The experience “changed my life,” she said, opening her eyes to new career possibilities as well as a new culture. But she could only afford to go for four weeks and wished she had been able to stay longer.

Government 137

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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. In addition, 84 percent of students enrolled in public school were deemed economically disadvantaged in 2014. The majority of students currently in public schools in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Accent Dance NYC also has partnered with BronxNet TV , where culturally responsive dance programming will be streamed to school children and their families on a weekly basis. At a young age, underserved youth bear witness to a disproportionate share of economic strife, unemployment, violence, stress, serious illness and death.

Elementary School 97

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The idea is “that teachers who share a linguistic and cultural background with their students have a unique role to play in urban schools,” according to program director Laura Delgado. But if Delgado is right about the benefits for Nashville classrooms of a cultural match between teachers and students, the program has arrived just in time.

Sociology 112

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2018

When elite admissions offices stepped up recruitment of low-income and first-generation students several years ago, they focused on financial aid, not noticing the cultural issues. New research backs up the idea that low-income first gens experience familiar economic, social, and cultural barriers when they get to the workplace.

Economics 107

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Jonathan Johnson, a former teacher in New Orleans, thinks there’s a quicker way for more African-American youth to reach high paying jobs in this city of sharp racial and economic divides. It’s about unlearning learning culture,” said Johnson. We are the product of a culture that wants to see it done right first.

Charter School 94

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

Segregating public school children on the basis of race or ethnicity is inherently suspect,” he wrote in his 2013 decision. Judge Robert Gettleman, a Clinton appointee, didn’t buy the district’s contention that the Hispanic students needed a separate class. He ruled that the gifted program was discriminatory. Report it here.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Overall, the campus has attracted nearly 60 percent more students from Newark since 2013, the result of a concerted effort by Rutgers and other local groups to boost college-going rates in the city, university officials said. “We Treasury secretary or chairman of the Federal Reserve, and influence economic policy from within the system.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

Fewer students equal less revenue for community colleges, which could lead to cuts at the very institutions so many depend upon as a first step toward economic mobility. How bad that cycle gets depends in part on how many low-income students and students of color can emerge from the pandemic still on a path to higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

percent decline in course offerings between 2013 and 2016. For many, the case for language learning is simply about being able to interact with people from other cultures. Mississippi Learning. Yet college language course enrollments are plummeting. The Modern Language Association reported a 9.2

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The number of college students with one or more mental health problems has doubled since 2013 , according to a study by researchers at Boston University and elsewhere. She worked 40 hours a week on top of school and ended up changing her major, which was originally business management economics. “I

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2020

While the district has done social-emotional work in a piecemeal way in the past, all schools will now ask students to spend 30 minutes greeting each other and talking through their feelings each day, said Abigail Gray, deputy chief of school climate and culture. Related: Counseling kids during coronavirus: A tough job made even tougher.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

And in 2001, the engineering accreditation body ABET added a new criterion so as to ensure that students get “the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context.”. And many different disciplines must combine to address this world’s needs and challenges.

Humanities 79

Humanities Social Science Sociology Anthropology 79

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2017

Nationally, more than 1 in 4 teachers missed 10 days of school or more during the 2013-14 school year. In the Niagara Falls City School District, 56 percent of students are children of color and 75 percent are considered economically disadvantaged.). This leaves substitutes with a critical role in educating the nation’s students.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

According to Berger, Crew fosters a schoolwide “culture and spirit of being on a team and looking out for each other.” Casco Bay’s principal, Derek Pierce, credits much of the school’s success to the way Crew culture personalizes each student’s journey over four years. “We And how to listen to each other.”. How am I doing?

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

It was 2013, and I was on my first trip to Colombia. We felt the pulse, the affective reality of what US funds support, teach, and hope for: communal destruction for economic profit. After my first trip to Colombia in 2013, I began to grapple with this question.

Human Rights 59

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

They have teamed up with local educational organizations to advocate for the school district, and by extension, for racially and economically diverse schools. When she attended a competitive public high school, she learned just how economically disadvantaged her family was. “I I was like, ‘Oh, wait, I’m poor.’”

Private School 105

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

This imbalance has worsened since the economic downturn. Spelman College dropped its entire NCAA intercollegiate athletics program in 2013, with the $1 million in savings going to a campuswide fitness program. They don’t exist.”. A few universities have cut sports — often such teams as fencing and swimming — and the culling continues.

Economics 88

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TCI

OCTOBER 28, 2024

This broad field draws upon various disciplines, such as anthropology, archeology, economics, geography, history, law, and philosophy. It has enabled states to expand access to culturally relevant content, address equity concerns, and enhance students’ digital skills and civic readiness.

Social Studies 52

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 9, 2019

In 2013, the majority of schools across the country were not equipped to implement an innovative and technology-rich curriculum. A lively discussion about how students from multiple geographic locations and culturally diverse areas could work together to make a difference is their respective communities.

K-12 65

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

The plan means that unlike schools in many big urban districts, every school here has some level of racial and economic diversity. Another issue is that black students need to have their culture celebrated, which schools run by white females do not do,” he said. Students working on math in Sarah Bowling’s second-grade class.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2017

The 2008 economic crisis compounded the situation, as fewer families could afford tuition, said Patrick Haggarty, the superintendent of Seattle’s Catholic schools. In the fall of 2013, the year before St. Since then, more than 1,000 Catholic schools have closed their doors. Noisy kids ran through the corridors between classes.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2017

Baker is introduced as new Northern Illinois University president on April 2, 2013. About two-thirds are guaranteed positions on the faculty, often with the help of graduate assistants, and get free admission to campus sports and cultural events, VIP parking and continued paid-for memberships to country clubs and social organizations.

Government 89

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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 speaks to fellow educators during the RISE Teacher’s Night Out at the Crossroads Cultural Arts Center in Clarksdale, Mississippi last December. Photo: Eric Shelton for Mississippi Today/Report for America.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

To help address the problem, in 2013 CUNY designated that three courses in each of its most popular majors would count toward requirements on every campus.). Archaeology of Human Origins” may sound interesting, but if you wait too long to focus on your economics major, you may not get in all the requirements you need. NO SOCIAL LIFE.

Archaeology 84

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

And Nichols College, where Maymon is a junior double-majoring in economics and finance, fit the same profile: small and with a comparatively low endowment and a student body drawn mostly from a few surrounding states. “It million in 2013 to $15.4 Nichols College is not immune to these issues.”. Change is hard,” Engelkemeyer said.

Political Science 95

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

In New Orleans, 81 percent of public school students are economically disadvantaged, according to data from the Louisiana Department of Education. So to jump from that kind of culture [to] where you’re sitting by yourself for an hour, doing your own work, was a little bit difficult.”.

Charter School 106

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