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NOVEMBER 25, 2016

By 2014, for lower-income students (those eligible for a federal Pell grant), it reached 51 percent — nearly the same as for non-Pell students. Its graduation rate for first-generation students went up 32 percent between 2010 and 2014. We have a culture that supports you,’ ” said Holloman. Photo: Terrell Clark. That’s huge.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

In 2014, schools had a new way to give students free breakfast and lunch, paid for by Uncle Sam. Participation in the federal lunch program is used to track student poverty rates. Photo: Tovin Lapan. Related: In 6 states, school districts with the neediest students get less money than the wealthiest. percentage points — from 51.2

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MARCH 13, 2017

According the Louisiana Department of Education, enrollment of African-American students decreased from 93 percent of total enrollment in 2004 to 87 percent in 2014. In addition, 84 percent of students enrolled in public school were deemed economically disadvantaged in 2014.

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JANUARY 23, 2019

Tanji Reed Marshall, a former teacher and current researcher at The Education Trust, an education research and advocacy organization, recently studied how frequently teachers offer students choices in the classroom. In 2014-15, the charter school’s first year, some students went months without working on subjects they didn’t like.

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APRIL 14, 2022

It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. When he taught at Castlemont in 2014, the school had only one Chromebook cart. “To The homework gap isn’t new. People have to remember “the pandemic isn’t over,” she said.

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JANUARY 15, 2021

And even though many of them have moved to an online environment, you’re looking at first-generation college students that don’t come from a culture of knowing how to navigate the process.”. Alamo also waived fees for the assessment test that first-time students lacking ACT or SAT scores must take.

High School 145

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NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Sanders, who is African-American, first presented the idea for a dual-language program at Houston to the District of Columbia Public Schools in 2014. The growth has largely been driven by advocacy from white, affluent families, as well as by districts responding to an influx of immigrant students.

Elementary School 111

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JUNE 14, 2023

Decades of chronic underfunding is often at the root of the struggles in districts like Cleveland to serve high proportions of Black and Latino students from low-income backgrounds, said Allison Rose Socol, a vice president at The Education Trust, an education advocacy group.

Education 99

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AUGUST 16, 2016

College Possible is one of many college advocacy groups hoping that technology will jumpstart the slow growth of low-income students in higher education. Abdi was at the top of her class, and Collins had worked with about 200 students like her in a new virtual advising program by College Possible , a nonprofit founded in 2000.

Social Justice 65

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APRIL 6, 2017

Melanie Tucci calculated that she would have to work about 30 hours a week as well as take out loans to make it through college when she started at Temple in 2014. Nearly 40 percent of them get no credit for any of the courses they have completed and lose 27 credits on average — or about a year of school, according to a 2014 federal study.

Archaeology 69

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

According to the National Center for Children in Poverty, 27 percent of children in Louisiana lived below the poverty level in 2014. According to a 2015 report by the advocacy non-profit Child Care Aware, the average cost of center-based infant care in Louisiana—one of the four poorest states in the nation—was roughly $110 a week in 2014.

Primary Sources 75

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NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In just a few short years, the school has managed to create a culture in which going to college is becoming the norm rather than the exception. Principal Kaplet found it difficult to create a culture of academic achievement when her school’s most motivated learners were spending the bulk of their time on a college campus. Rural ones.

High School 88

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JANUARY 16, 2017

A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.

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OCTOBER 1, 2017

But, while Alabama earned an A after revamping its standards, eighth-ranked Mississippi earned a C from the advocacy group, which rates state standards for inclusion of leaders, groups, events, history, opposition and tactics. In a 2014 report, the group said the state had improved somewhat, covering 50 percent of recommended content.

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DECEMBER 17, 2023

Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report Following Meryl’s death, Ketron decided to continue her daughter’s advocacy. Around the country, LGBTQ+ students and the campus groups founded to support them have become a growing target in the culture wars.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In a bygone era, many of these behavioral issues were handled by schools,” Bala and Mooney wrote, “but there has been a cultural shift in how to handle disciplinary issues to the current context in which there is a strong reliance on law enforcement.”. Related: ‘Kids who have less, need more’: The fight over school funding.

High School 142

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MARCH 6, 2017

A 2014 protest for immigrant rights in New York. He is a member of the Latino education advocacy group Nuestra Voz and a student at Cohen College Prep in New Orleans. Taking English and learning about Shakespeare is not just about command over the language but also imparting American and British culture.

Civics 60

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