The Hechinger Report

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.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Despite their rich history and Hall’s documentation of her heritage, Hall and her ancestors are not acknowledged by the United States government as a tribal nation. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history. I started thinking … how hard their lives are, and how much of a difference could be made.”

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 30, 2024

Mealy holds a PhD in political science from Indiana University Bloomington, a Master of Arts degree in political science from Stony Brook University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in history, with a concentration in Black Studies, from Swarthmore College. Mealy brings a wealth of organizational experience and expertise to the position.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Timothy Lewis APSA Member since 2014-Present Associate Professor Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Dr. Timothy E. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Bachelor of Arts in History from the historic Tuskegee University. BHM Black History Month Political Science Black Sociopolitical Lecture Series.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2016

In late 2014, the federal departments of justice and education released a joint letter urging school officials to improve education in juvenile detention facilities. The Youth Study Center has its own troubled history. The national mandate for change. Related: Formerly incarcerated, with a learning disability, she’s now a college grad.

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ED Surge

JUNE 7, 2023

I interviewed five women — all Central American immigrants — in Spanish, and with support from Early Edge California , a statewide policy and advocacy organization I interned for, I paid each participant a stipend for their time. There are millions of FFN providers. That’s an important step forward for this sector of the workforce.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2016

Half a million, or about one in four, show up on campuses each fall not ready to take college courses in math or English, according to the advocacy organization Education Reform Now. That’s a feat a surprising number of high school graduates fail to accomplish.

High School 76

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

“In rural areas there’s often not the tax base you find in an urban or suburban school to fund additional programs,” said Lavina Grandon, co-founder and board president of Rural Community Alliance, a nonprofit school advocacy organization. Today, the school counts 11 teachers on staff who are certified to teach college classes.

High School 91

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Those connections start with one-on-one mentoring, in which teachers meet with students weekly to discuss short-term goals, such as completing a certain number of units in a history course, and long-term goals that stretch into college and career. The daily schedule for sixth graders at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Students first learn about Mississippi history in fourth grade, and that’s the first time they are supposed to delve deeply into the history of the movement to end racial segregation and discrimination. The Civil Rights Movement is a case history of what it means to be American, and what it means to exercise constitutional rights.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Adam Stevens, a history teacher at Brooklyn Tech, has seen both sides, having taught in schools that receive the academic bonus as well as those that do not.

High School 65

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Out of 14 scheduled visits, dating from October 2014 to June 2015, the hospital counted Jacob as a “no show” for nine of them. Kast has a long history of distrust with the district, alleging physical and verbal abuse and racial discrimination against her grandchildren by teachers there—her grandchildren are all half-black, and Kast is white.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Viviana Valerio, a kindergarten teacher, said that history made bilingual education an intimidating proposition. They can learn social studies in Spanish; its still history and geography. While these new hires at Washington Elementary School grew up bilingual, they went to school through the Prop. And Madera Unified gives her hope.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report Following Meryl’s death, Ketron decided to continue her daughter’s advocacy. Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report Across the country, the number of GSAs is at a 20-year low, according to GLSEN, an LGBTQ+ education advocacy nonprofit.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2020

Families who earn more than poverty-level wages but still live on a subsistence budget account for about 33 million American households, according to Laura Bruno, a spokesperson for United for ALICE , a research and advocacy organization focused on America’s working poor. Those standards are still fairly weak.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Mattivi, whose eighth-grade English students discuss articles about the environment, civic life, and American history after using online literacy programs that provide similar material at different reading levels. I could never go back to the old model,” says Ms. But computers are expensive.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Fewer than 20 percent of her classmates who entered San Jose State in 2014 finished in four years — less than half the national average. Because we had that history, because we knew what a well-functioning higher education system could do, we aspire to that again.”. It was they who were defying the odds.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Last month the Migration Policy Institute released figures based on 2014 census data. population under age 33 had a bachelor’s degree in 2014.). Most are in language or history fields. Others use proxies, such as students who don’t provide social security numbers. For comparison, 18 percent of the general U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

State waivers under the old No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) also gave rural schools needed flexibility, said Ellerson, the associate executive director for policy and advocacy at the American Association of School Administrators (AASA). Dick” Riley for 16 years when he was U.S. education secretary and two-term governor. Republican Gov.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2017

Homeschooling mom Andrea Forte, right, pauses in her reading to answer a question from her daughter, Elena Forte, left, during Elena and her brother Devon’s language arts and history class time upstairs in the Forte family home on Aug. 11, 2014 in Wake Forest, N.C. Wire photo: © Harry Lynch/TNS/ZUMA Wire.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2016

This process of seeking exemptions has accelerated since the Obama administration asserted in 2014 that transgender and “gender nonconforming” students were protected from discrimination under Title IX, according to Human Rights Campaign. Patty Murray, D-Wash., one of the lawmakers who demanded that the list be made public.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2017

A recent Associated Press analysis of national school enrollment data found that “as of school year 2014-2015, more than 1,000 of the nation’s 6,747 charter schools had minority enrollment of at least 99 percent, and the number has been rising steadily.”. It is clear that segregation, and who gets a quality choice, matters.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2024

Barbara Mikulski, a Democrat from Maryland, worked with members of the child care advocacy community to draft bipartisan legislation that would, for the first time, establish national safety standards for child care. Three state ones, of the criminal history, sex offender and child abuse registries. Burr and then-Sen.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Newsweek magazine dubbed the city “ Murder Town USA ” in 2014. Greenfield said that when she runs into a child who’s having problems in school, sometimes she’ll bring the child into her office to look at their academic history together on the computer. Related: While the rest of the world invests more in education, the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

history, and knew none of the literature her peers had read years earlier. In 2014, federal officials unveiled a sweeping plan to overhaul the beleaguered bureau, which had long struggled to deliver better student outcomes with anemic funding. She had only superficial familiarity with state and U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

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. history and government (civics). Roberto Romano, courtesy of Rural & Migrant Ministry.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

history, Americans may be about to elect a president whose signature issue is early childhood. “If As a young attorney, she worked for the Children’s Defense Fund, an advocacy group. In 2014, 65 percent of children lived in homes in which all available parents worked, according to the Kids Count Data Center , a project of the Annie E.

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