Political Science Now

OCTOBER 14, 2024

AAP emerged from the India Against Corruption movement in 2013. Since then, it has successfully formed governments in New Delhi and Punjab in addition to winning some seats in the Indian Parliament’s lower house ( Lok Sabha ).

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

It was 2013, and I was on my first trip to Colombia. La Toma is an Afro-Colombian community that has long sat at the intersection of extractive industries—especially gold mining—and violence from right-wing paramilitaries, guerillas, and government forces. After my first trip to Colombia in 2013, I began to grapple with this question.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2020

550 billion — the investment needed to bring schools nationwide up to standard due to damage caused by postponing repairs, according to a 2013 federal estimate. Of the 22,101 public schools that have closed since 2004, 3,927 (17 percent) of them were in Black-majority census tracts, and 3,395 of those schools (86 percent) were in urban areas.

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ED Surge

JULY 28, 2022

There are a handful of government offices—like the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the Interior Department and HHS—that would need to collaborate on the issue, Smith says. The high school graduation rate among Native students rose from around 52 percent in 2013 to a high of 84 percent in 2019, she says.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

In Houston, Texas, almost 30 percent of the schools had no fine arts teachers in 2013-14. And that’s what we found,” said Brian Kisida, an assistant professor at Truman School of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Missouri, and the other co-author of the study.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 23, 2023

B) Plan view of Coro Trasito cave, showing the location of the 2011 and 2013 test-pit and the area of the extended excavation. A) Above: Image of the southern slope of Sierra de Tucas (Huesca, Spain). (A) A) Above: Image of the southern slope of Sierra de Tucas (Huesca, Spain). The arrow indicates Coro Trasito cave. DOI: 10.3389/fearc.2023.1309907

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 22, 2013

The trainings that many educators are now forced to attend are usually driven by whatever the federal and state governments have mandated. Quality professional development rests in the ability of the organization to not only meet their needs, but also that of its constituents. Something has to give though. The key word here is forced.

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TCI

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Responding to these concerns, the federal government increased funding for K-12 civics and history education funding from $7.75 The findings revealed significant gaps in state standards for civics and U.S. history and prompted a nationwide push for revision and improvement. million to $23 million as grants available to states.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2019

According to a 2018 study from the Center for American Progress , “if Black and Hispanic bachelor’s degree recipients were as likely to major in engineering as white students, this country would have produced 20,000 more engineers from 2013 through 2015.”. In 2013, only 6 percent of professors were black. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

according to Holroyd Pearce, partners with universities, colleges and governments, which typically fund the program or grant academic credit — often to students who face barriers to getting work experience. The company, whose biggest market is now the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

In 2013, families at a Seattle high school raked in more than $100,000 for a raffle to win a Tesla Model S. Ultimately, Wilson and Boggs said, it is the position of the National PTA that all necessary equipment and staffing at public schools should be paid for with government funds. I don’t think that’s the intention,” he said. “No

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 30, 2024

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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

The world’s developed nations are placing a big bet on education investments, wagering that highly educated populaces will be needed to fill tomorrow’s jobs, drive healthy economies and generate enough tax receipts to support government services. local, state and federal governments chose to cut funding for the schoolhouse.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The state’s K-12 Math Personalized Learning Software grant program , created in 2013, requires ed tech companies to train teachers like Pitts on their products and obligates the businesses to credit the state if the licenses are never used. Experts say it’s a promising model for alleviating some of the problems plaguing ed tech.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Since 2007, Mississippi has attempted to raise the bar for students; as a result, the state has succeeded in posting some of the greatest score increases on the NAEP , according to a new report by the National Assessment Governing Board, which examines the steps Mississippi took to go from flailing to becoming a leader in NAEP score improvement.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2019

According to the government’s report, education spending rose for the third straight year in 2015-16 to $11,841 per student in kindergarten through 12th grades. (For percent from 2013-14. A small upswing in education spending first began in 2013-14 after cuts of $600 per student. That’s a 2.9

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

She attended Goyco as a child and she lived just a few blocks away when, in 2013, the Department of Education shut the school down. “I Taína Moscoso Arabía, a resident and long-time activist in Santurce, said the education department told residents in 2013 that Goyco was underperforming. Dominguez had come to resist. Lee en espan ó l.

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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. Things … the government does affect us, but we can’t vote,” she said.

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

A coup backed by the US government and conducted by Sanford Dole resulted in Queen Liliuokalani’s deposal, according to smithsonianmag.com. In 2013, Senator Inouye was awarded posthumously with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama. Unfortunately, she was also Hawaii’s last sovereign ruler.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

The group purposefully uses language to help the public understand that drugs belong to one of two categories: those that are approved for consumption by a government agency and those that are not. Consider the NHRC’s use of the phrase “licit and illicit” in principle 1. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis , 42 (3), 375–392.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

A randomized controlled trial out of the University of Chicago Education Lab found students who received the tutoring class during the 2013-14 school year learned as much as two additional years’ worth of math than their peers who didn’t get the tutoring. The results are, as one researcher puts it, “blockbuster.”. Census Bureau data.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

We meet to heal, to build, to resist, to govern, to share, to change. Another pair of us (Renita and Jen) initiated the Meeting Ethnography project back in 2013. Meetings are where people come together in time and space. In order to listen well to them, to be moved, we must meet in person.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2019

In 2013, after more than a decade as an executive at Teach For America , I set out to develop a model that would empower promising underrepresented young people. Rutgers University-Newark has strategically grown its enrollment of local students since 2013 to 13.5 one year, five years, 10 years, 20 years, etc., post-graduation).

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2022

Tamara Otero, the district’s governing board president, told me that the idea of assigning codes to students has more to do with self-exploration than finding a career at a young age. “ Many also told me they were conventional, although they couldn’t quite explain what that meant.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

From 2007 to 2013 the district’s taxpayers had approved several bonds, totaling more than $46.6 In 2013, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority fined a Missouri-based underwriting firm $200,000 for “improperly gifting” more than 2,000 tickets to sporting events. Some firms have gotten in trouble for going even further.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2023

The year prior, the ratio was at 415-to-1, and indeed, the margin has been closing every consecutive year since 2013-14 , when it was at 491-to-1. We're making progress, and we're fortunate that states and the federal government have provided funding to ensure these professionals can be in schools. So I will give it a solid C+ or B-.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2020

In his 2013 book, “ Capital in the Twenty-First Century ,” French economist Thomas Pikkety made a provocative argument about rising income inequality and the growing importance of disparities in wealth. Often local governments don’t have to actively raise taxes but they passively collect more taxes as property values rise.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2016

It was even worse for those students juggling sports, debate, student government, or afternoon jobs. Too many students entered my class blurry eyed and exhausted after late nights spent doing work. ” As I read this, I felt guilty.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2022

Larry Hogan announced in March that the state government would strip bachelor’s degree requirements from thousands of job listings. Jared Polis directed government agencies in his state to embrace hiring workers for skills , not degrees. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. requirements too. trillion in student loans.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2022

In a significant move largely unnoticed outside of academia, the governing councils of the Association of American University Professors and the American Federation of Teachers this month agreed to a formal affiliation that would unite nearly 316,000 academic employees.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Ever since enslaved blacks arrived on the shores of the English colony of Virginia in 1619 , white legislators at various levels of government have designed laws to explicitly control and suppress black people.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 20, 2019

Strategic partnerships with state and federal governments, corporations, foundations, nonprofits, and others will become more prevalent as school systems face inevitable gaps in funding and resources. The one question I’m asking at ISTE 2013. The Iowa series – Wrap-up. Connected Educator Month launches today.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Those grim statistics, and a flurry of seed funds from state governments and nonprofit organizations, are compelling colleges to take the often joked-about issue of campus drug use much more seriously, acknowledging a problem that still makes many campus leaders — especially in recruitment, development, and alumni offices — uncomfortable.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

million going toward the construction, they should demand that the New Orleans residents who need jobs and education the most benefit from the 10,000 potential private and government jobs developers and politicians are working to create in Federal City. Not only should local newspapers and consumer protection groups follow the $9.4

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

He graduated from high school with a Regents diploma in 2013 — a feat accomplished by only 18 percent of students with disabilities in New York City that year, compared to 70 percent of students without disabilities. The delays lead to missed job and educational opportunities and longer government dependence, all at a cost to taxpayers.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Then in 2013, California adopted the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) , which included the recommendation to teach climate change. “In social studies, there might be more area for debate as far as what’s the best route that a government might take to mitigate the issue.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Too Small to Fail is also developing unique telenovelas in partnership with Univision, working to create “language-rich spaces” in laundromats across the country and considering a move into clinics for women, infants and children receiving government support.

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