The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

In Houston, Texas, almost 30 percent of the schools had no fine arts teachers in 2013-14. Other times students went on field trips to museums where art educators explained paintings and sculptures. Proponents made claims for how instruction in the arts raises grades, boosts SAT scores and increases the rate of college going.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2022

She researches ethical issues related to collections of ancestral remains for the GRASSI Museum in Leipzig, Germany. Caroline Condren, a 2013 English BA recipient from Colorado College, works as a senior development and communications manager at a documentary film company that melds content production and social advocacy.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 13, 2025

Image credit: Hunan Museum Collection Database.) A Tang Dynasty mural from A.D. 829 is one of the earliest depictions of domestic cats in China. Two black-and-white cats are visible at the center. Image credit: Zheng H, Liu Y, Chi M. Chinese Archaeology.) Markings on the cat's fur suggest it's a leopard cat, not a domestic cat.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

A 2019 Gallup poll reported that a decreasing proportion of Americans consider a college degree to be very important — from 70 percent in 2013 to 51 percent in 2019. In addition, there’s the growth in noncollegiate educational providers, including museums and industry, along with new higher education-business partnerships.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2023

Issiah, 9, completes a worksheet at the Read to Succeed summer program sponsored by the Mississippi Children’s Museum. That need for help is where organizations like the Mississippi Children’s Museum step in. Connie Williams-May, a Jackson teacher, works with students at a reading camp sponsored by the Mississippi Children’s Museum.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2022

The Afterschool Alliance also cited an unpublished conference paper from 2013, which tracked 1,000 elementary school students over time. Jackson, Mississippi, is working with a local children’s museum. The others did not. . There is much room for improvement among current programs,” the authors wrote.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum that focuses on economic policy. The University of Michigan successfully lobbied in 2013 to shield much information about fund performance from the state’s open-records law. billion as of 2016 through a complicated financial instrument called an interest-rate swap.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2017

We can’t go to the museum; we can’t go to the Discovery Center. Hy Kloc, a Democrat who has sponsored much of the preschool legislation to be proposed to the state legislature since 2013. We don’t have licensed day care. We don’t want to assign [our kids] to a rural life for their whole life if they want something else.”. “One

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Visiting Lecturers and Session Leaders Louise Bernard is the director of the Museum of the Obama Presidential Center. 2002) as well as contributions to anthologies and catalogs including Beyond Face: New Perspectives in Portraiture (2018), and Black Is Black Ain’t (2013). Dominique Jean-Louis is a doctoral candidate in U.S.

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Rosie the History Teacher

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

My Job Hunt I graduated with my teaching degree in December 2013 and landed my dream job at a children’s museum working as their education director/exhibit designer/volunteer coordinator. I love field trips, but it was different being on the teacher side instead of the museum-hosting-the-field-trip side of things!

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Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Parker’s uncle by marriage was Mark Raymond Harrington, director of the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, California. He hired Parker as a secretary and cook for the museum’s excavations of Pueblo Indian sites. In 2013, she was a nominee to become the U.S. She was of Abenaki and Seneca descent. Surgeon General.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

In another example, a student of Bette Bramante’s assumed the role of a museum curator. The student created a list of artifacts — toys, books and household goods — and diagrammed their placement in a museum space that would allow visitors to follow the families’ stories, which she wrote out on placards with citations for her sources.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

From 2013 to 2022, PUSD also received three federal magnet assistance program grants that allow it to bring more academic rigor to its schools. “We Since then, the district has expanded its initiatives and created new ones. In addition to Spanish and Mandarin, the district’s dual language immersion tracks now include French and Armenian.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2016

She tries to build their vocabulary through conversation and by encouraging their parents to take them to the library and museums. The assessments were performed on nearly 1220 programs from 2013-15. Most of her Bushwick students come from homes in which little English is spoken and income levels are low, she said. De Blasio agrees.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 5, 2024

A recent study led by researchers from London’s Natural History Museum and the KU Leuven Institute of Philosophy reignites the debate over whether Homo sapiens and Neanderthals ( Homo neanderthalensis ) should be classified as separate species. Journal : PNAS , 2013. DOI : 10.1073/pnas.1302653110

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Vaux closed in 2013 amid a wave of citywide school closures. By the time it closed in 2013 along with more than 20 other schools in the district, over three-quarters of Vaux students were not reading or performing math at grade level, according to state records. David Bromley, executive director of Big Picture Philadelphia.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2016

A 2013 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study shows that black dads, stereotypically criticized as being absent fathers, are just as involved in their children’s daily lives as dads across other racial groups, if not more. This year, Jackson Public Schools named Collins Parent of the Year for his efforts.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

The architect also designed the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. The number of university programs nationwide that focus on indigenous issues or are designed for indigenous students is up by a third since 2013, according to Universities Canada.

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

In 2013, Senator Inouye was awarded posthumously with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama. In 2016, Ko was honored by the National Women’s History Museum for success and leadership in business. He lost his right arm in the war. Jerry Yang is a Taiwanese American computer programmer who founded Yahoo!

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

I applied and won, and that fall, the organization flew me to see the museum and meet the publisher of USA Today. then in 2013, Pierre-Floyd and her family returned to New Orleans. By the time Pierre-Floyd arrived as an assistant principal in 2013, Douglass had gone through three different leaders in as many years.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Natalie Williams, director of education at Miami Children’s Museum in Florida, has a combination of student loan debt from her undergraduate program and two master’s programs. She feels the degrees she received—a bachelor’s in 2011 and master’s in 2013—have made a difference. In total, she’s looking at more than a six-figure balance.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Tuesday, July 11 – Sessions at Metropolitan Museum of Art The War in Oil, Bronze, and Plaster Session 1 - Reflections on the previous day. Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2021); Lucretia Giese, “Winslow Homer’s Prisoners from the Front: an American History Painting?” Daily Life in the Civil War North ( Chicago, 2013).

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the Sloan Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation. Isabela Mares (PhD, Harvard University) is the Arnold Wolfers Professor of political science at Yale University.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

Branch’s group supports wide-scale adoption of Next Generation Science Standards , a joint effort by states and educational organizations to revamp K-12 science that has met with political backlash since the standards were published in 2013. On a recent Saturday, a workshop was in session at Choctaw High School , east of Oklahoma City.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

The school, which serves more than 700 students on three campuses in the state, was co-founded in 2013 by Laura Cassidy, a retired breast cancer surgeon whose husband is Republican U.S. Related: A lot goes on in classrooms from kindergarten to high school. Keep up with our free weekly newsletter on K-12 education.

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