The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Drafted by representatives of K-12 education, higher education, industry and state governments between 2011 and 2013, the standards call for schools to help students build on science knowledge from one year to the next and make connections across disciplines that have historically been approached as completely separate. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2020

They miss their friends, their freedom and learning from a human being instead of a screen, but their chances of graduating are unlikely to change. Only 14 percent of the lowest-income students earn a bachelor’s degree within eight years of first enrolling, according to the most recent government data.

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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. jobs like registered nurse, human resources assistant, or help desk technician.)

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ED Surge

JULY 28, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), not from the tribes themselves. 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. Not from the Census Bureau, not from the U.S. During her 16-year career in the U.S.

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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

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Indeed in 2016 the federal government designated Tennessee’s VR grant “high risk” for most of the year, due to the state’s repeated inability to track how much money was being spent and on what. No other state VR grant received that designation. They need more counselors to efficiently meet the demand for services.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2019

Stewart Lockett (right, grey shirt) leads a meeting of the student government executive team in late January. His team is the most diverse student government the university has ever had. He dug through the bottom drawer and pulled out a student government flyer from five years earlier. Casey Parks/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The New York Times found that the proportion of households earning between $35,000 and $100,000 fell from 53 percent in 1967 to 43 percent in 2013. Approximately 80 percent of college degrees — including in the humanities that Hanrahan’s peers majored in, such as English and History — have labor market value, Carnevale says.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

We meet to heal, to build, to resist, to govern, to share, to change. Anthropology has been quite slow to embrace Helen Schwartzman’s insight in The Meeting: Gatherings in Organizations and Communities (1989) that meetings offer a vital window into collective human projects and organizations.

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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

Leave this field empty if you're human: Delgado Community College in New Orleans, Louisiana, began construction on a new campus in the city’s West Bank community of Federal City in May. By 2013, the white median income had climbed to $60,000, exceeding their earnings in 2000 — pre-Katrina — by 40 percent. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Department of Health and Human Services. It sends a message: The federal government does believe [physical education] should be part of a student’s education; it should be part of the school day.”. Leave this field empty if you're human: “The goal is to get kids moving throughout the school day,” Hillman said. In the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2020

Eighty-three percent of employers said last year they were having trouble finding suitable job candidates , according to a survey by the Society for Human Resource Management. And that was in 2013. The federal government updates its employment projections only once a year. Jason Tyszko, vice president, U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Many sounded alarms that $16 billion a year in federal aid for low-income students could be misdirected to not-so-poor schools. students from 2013-14 before the community eligibility option went into effect nationwide through 2015-16 , its second year. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

And government oversight is lacking. According to a national 2015 study, on a single day in 2013, the most recent comprehensive data available, kids in those facilities numbered 55,916, 37 percent below the figure for 2004. The schools too often operate like educational black holes, failing to help kids earn relevant credits.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Government policy has also contributed to its adoption. While it may work to improve math skills, it is unlikely to help students advance in the humanities, she said. In the 2013-14 school year, 7 percent of its students read at grade level, and 5 percent met the state’s math standards. Others question its efficacy.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Michael McLaughlin and his mother, Michelle, at Michael’s 2013 graduation. It would require roughly $18 billion in additional funding for the federal government to fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. He graduated in 2013. Photo courtesy Michelle McLaughlin. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

But I somehow missed that he published a new, different kind of book in 2021 — “ The Anthropocene Reviewed ,” a collection of personal, contemplative, funny and deeply human essays. The real-life Paloma was featured on the cover of a 2013 issue of Wired, which inspired the film, with the headline “The Next Steve Jobs.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

In July 2013, the Mississippi legislature mandated the consolidation of Starkville and Oktibbeha County school districts in an effort to save money and ensure a better education for students in the low-performing Oktibbeha County schools. John Jones asks a question to his students in AP Human Geography on August 18, 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2017

Baker is introduced as new Northern Illinois University president on April 2, 2013. Chief executives of public doctoral institutions make $430,283 on average, the human resources organization CUPA-HR reports; of privates, $626,487. Richard Legon, president, Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Antioch College in Ohio, which focuses on activism and social justice and is governed collectively by its faculty and students, reopened after closing for three years, during which faculty and alumni sued and raised money to revive it. Mills faculty and alumni have vowed to keep battling against its already-underway merger with Northeastern.

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Top-notch early learning environments have been shown to improve academic outcomes for the most vulnerable children — even years later. Half of its residents are out of work, and the city government is skeletal. However, most U.S. cities and towns, including East St. The state selected East St.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The roots of the anthropological interest in peasants were elsewhere, in the comparative study of the human condition. The central issue to which the early studies were addressed was the nature of human communities; they were, first of all, village studies, and only incidentally studies of peasants. What is a peasant?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2018

The combined college graduation rate of the parents is 86 percent; three months after leaving the program, 70 percent of the women are not receiving any government assistance. Leave this field empty if you're human: Although started in 1995, the Family Scholar House program could serve only a small number of women at a time until 2005.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 30, 2024

Mealy has developed extensive external partnerships with leaders of other associations such as the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), where she has served on the Science and Human Rights Coalition Council since 2017.

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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

People disagree over whether it should be measured in absolute or relative terms; whether there is a limit to the proportion of humanity that is gifted; whether giftedness can be cultivated; whether it must be backed up by achievement; and whether it should include athletic abilities. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

The number of kids in foster care also started rising in 2013, Sprow said, ending a years-long decline. The federal government is also reluctant to require subsidies for grandparent caregivers, although the Senate has proposed a bill that might provide some indirect help. It gives the U.S.

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Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Many dedicated, brilliant, and diverse trailblazers have illuminated our path and brought their findings to the forefront of humanity. He implemented the American Indian Telecommunications Satellite Demonstration Project, linking the All-Indian Pueblo Council and the Crow Indian Reservation with the federal government at Washington, D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: In the past, some have viewed Louisiana’s accountability incentives with caution, fearing schools may sit back, knowing that they can push low-performing students into a high-school equivalency program and earn 25 points. For each student who drops out, high schools earn a zero. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 3, 2016

Since that interview, the laws governing Mississippi charter schools have changed to allow students attending C, D and F school districts to cross district lines to attend charter schools. MCSAB says each charter school has to have a nonprofit board to hold its contract, and that nonprofit board has a governing board of directors.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

But since 2009, according to David Smith, the district’s chief of communications and government relations, the district has had to cut more than $50 million from its already tight budget because of state cutbacks, threatening progress in a district that had seen some significant and surprising gains for its students. “But

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2024

Many of those parents had government assistance for school tuition, but half the time, Farias couldn’t count on them to make their co-payments. To be considered affordable by the Department of Health and Human Services, they must cost no more than 7 percent of a family’s income. They were still too high.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2021

Middle school, that’s when you’re figuring out how to be a human,” Gallegos said. “We Many of the systems aimed at America’s youth are out of sync with the science, according to a report released in 2013 by the National Research Council. We always call it the equalizer, because everybody has a shitty middle school experience.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2018

The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office, often referred to as the “congressional watchdog,” published an investigation into the Department of Education’s national civil rights data from 2013 to 2014 and found that black students are disproportionately punished at school compared to their white peers. Weekly Update.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 31, 2024

My point is to communicate that there are many languages and, therefore, an incredible diversity of ways humans think, reason, and feel. The speakers of many of these languages live deep within roadless rainforests in villages that are very difficult for government representatives and other researchers to access.

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