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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

But traditional internships are not universally accessible. “At Not everybody is a traditional 18- to 22-year-old student,” Churches said. At any college now, the first thing the parents ask is, ‘How are the internships?’ ” Anthony Carnevale, director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, said.

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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 8, 2018

High school graduation rates have soared in recent years, hitting a new record of 84 percent for 2015-16 in the most recent federal government count, but there are still millions of Americans who didn’t get a diploma in high school. Map created by Jill Barshay/Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Kennedy School of Government, Victoria Dzindzichashvili pauses in the Harvard Square subway station and reflects on the decade it took her to get here. She transferred to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst a year later because she wanted to try the “traditional college thing” — dorms, dining halls and leafy quads.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Moheeb is part of a new program that is challenging the way teachers and students think about academics, and his school is one of hundreds that have done away with traditional letter grades inside their classrooms. Government policy has also contributed to its adoption. The year M.S. But Moheeb defended his school’s approach.

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The Tibetan community in Vancouver includes approximately 700 people, more than 200 of whom migrated from four settlements in Arunachal Pradesh, India, to Canada through a federal refugee resettlement program between 2013 and 2017. These refugees entered Canada with complex linguistic repertoires.

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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

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

At least 22 private, nonprofit four-year institutions have closed since 2013, and 16 have merged, according to the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. The bond-rating agency Moody’s says the closure rate of two- and four-year private, nonprofit institutions reached 11 per year between 2015 and 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Many schools rely on counting noses at traditional Back-to-School nights or parent-teacher conferences to gauge whether parents are engaged in their children’s learning. nitially, Malik relied on traditional meetings to get parent feedback. Hutchins has been working on this issue with the state since 2013.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Federal and state governments have allocated extra money for mental health services and school districts across the country are scrambling to beef up supports. Superintendent Rico Munn made mental health a priority when he came to Aurora Public Schools in 2013. The new focus has paid off.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Michael McLaughlin and his mother, Michelle, at Michael’s 2013 graduation. high school with a traditional diploma, proving that his disability didn’t prevent him from meeting the same standards as his peers. The government has never reached that target, forcing school districts to make up the difference — when they can afford it.

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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

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Scores also dropped between 2013 and 2015. Leslie Muldoon, executive director of the National Assessment Governing Board, which jointly oversees the the test along with NCES, called the bleak score report “frustrating and difficult to understand” because of all the efforts to improve education. Florida falls back.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

An attempt by the Los Angeles Unified School District to use a long-term bond program to buy student iPads in 2013 resulted in not only high costs for the devices, but also separate SEC and FBI investigations into the legality of the bond spending and possible corruption in the vendor bidding process. That’s what I think technology can do.”

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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. Related: Is consolidation the answer for Mississippi’s struggling schools? Photo: Nicole Lewis.

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The Hechinger Report

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. Teacher Travis Olsen has an exercise bike in the back of his seventh-grade science classroom that kids are welcome to use whenever they feel the need.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Educator preparation is moving in this direction and taking a major step to becoming a profession governed by agreed upon standards that are both enforced and regulated by a system of assessment that is reliable and valid. Performance assessment is now required for program completion, licensure or program approval in more than 20 states.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

These scholarly traditions produced a wealth of theory and data that has been discovered by contemporary anthropology, but they do not constitute the historical back ground of the anthropology of peasantry. Such an analysis often arises from developmentalists who focus on traditional obstacles to industrialisation and 'modernisation'.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Kids in traditional schools sometimes act like they’re on a cruise ship, where they sit on deck and teachers bring them stuff to do,” Berger said. “We While no guidelines on classroom technology govern the network, according to Berger, there is a shared wariness of anything that might undermine EL’s collaborative ethos.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

In Illinois, District 428 awarded 73 high school diplomas in 2017, up from 65 in 2013 when there were twice as many juveniles in the system and their average stay was longer. Jones-Redmond advocates a no-computer policy on Wednesdays, when traditional teaching takes center stage and students take a break from their online work.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In 2007, the federal government required that at least 50 percent of Head Start teachers have a bachelor’s by 2013. ( Hagan said the scholarship also gives colleges an incentive to meet the lifestyle needs of non-traditional students, including night and weekend classes that don’t interfere with students’ day jobs.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

SASKATOON, Saskatchewan — The students in the crowded hall fall silent as Darlene Speidel, an elder and “knowledge keeper” of native traditions, says a prayer in the Lakota language over soup and bannock, a kind of flat bread. “It Three of the last four student government presidents were indigenous. Photo: Liam Richards. Davidson said.

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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. Syracuse also stands out for having the highest suspension rate among the state’s traditional school districts. Nearly half of Syracuse’s 20,000 students were suspended during the 2013-14 school year. Photo: Emmanuel Felton.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

The reforms have required school districts and other local government agencies to contribute more of their budgets toward paying down the pension debt, while also obligating workers to make financial sacrifices and cutting benefits for current retirees. percent that year to more than 20 percent in 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2016

By 1992, DoD and the military services had implemented the Military Childcare Act of 1989 and rules were in place that created a premier childcare system that has received numerous positive citations and kudos from both the government and the private sector. How did the military achieve this transformation?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Of the 78 students who entered Match as ninth-graders in the fall of 2013, 16 have moved, transferred or no longer attend, 19 are repeating 11 th grade and one is repeating 10 th grade for a second time. Match’s charter network, governed by a board of trustees, spans four campuses from pre-K through high school. Elsewhere in the U.S.,

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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. Contrary to traditional beliefs, the team's findings showcased diversified livestock practices beyond transhumance. A) Above: Image of the southern slope of Sierra de Tucas (Huesca, Spain). (A)

Archaeology 52

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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. By 2013, that gap had narrowed significantly, with 84 percent of black students “proficient,” compared to 95 percent of white students.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Thirteen US residents—Black, white, and brown—mixed among about 30 community members sipping tinto , a traditional sweet Colombian coffee, and listening to testimonies of those who had been threatened or lost loved ones due to illegal armed groups or mining projects. It was 2013, and I was on my first trip to Colombia.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2018

And while new requirements in the 2015 federal law governing education, the Every Student Succeeds Act , are designed to help this population, a Hechinger Report/HuffPost survey has found that many states are not living up to the law’s promise. In this job, she has seen traditional family structures turned upside down.

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

We hope students of Asian or Pacific Islander heritage share their experiences and their cultural traditions with their peers, and teachers include the contributions of Asian and Pacific Americans to our collective history in lessons this month. They helped shape our country into what it is today. He lost his right arm in the war.

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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.” The goal with the first two groups was to help them earn a traditional diploma, if possible.

High School 69

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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. It’s a simpler, more profitable market that also has an unlimited source of debt financing courtesy of the federal government.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

His was a brash mission shared by a new breed of charter school leaders who said they could succeed where traditional neighborhood schools had failed. Instead, in August 2013, she transferred to New Orleans’s Delgado Community College. Statistics are only true until someone bucks them. One earned $85,000 a year working for Coca-Cola.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 3, 2016

” Helmick believes charter schools are “businesses getting taxpayers’ money” that aren’t subject to the same operational regulations as traditional public 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

MARCH 29, 2019

By 2013-2014, there were more than 3,000 participating. Heller isn’t sure the federal government should focus on the work-study program when reauthorizing the HEA, which determines how federal aid is distributed to students and schools. “There are 7.3 The 2019 budget for the program is $1.13 Wheaton has about 1,600 students.

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