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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. Yet only half of these eligible schools in Missouri chose to participate because the federal government doesn’t reimburse for the full cost of the meals until more than 62.5 Photo: Tovin Lapan. percentage points — from 51.2

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MARCH 5, 2019

Black Student Union students say the school tells them durags perpetuate gang culture, but they say the durag ban unfairly continues the criminalization of black men. Durags are used to create the wave hairstyle. Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images. Late last year, U.S.

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

From just before the recession until 2014, the latest year for which figures are available, higher education central system office staffs grew by nearly 4 percent, according to federal data analyzed by the American Institutes for Research in collaboration with The Hechinger Report. It does take a few years to change a culture.”.

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MAY 11, 2021

The numbers are stark: In 2014, the U.S. Government Accountability Office reported that Black students represented 15.5 My charge was a simple method of improving the culture and climate through parent awareness and support. The 2019 incident reminded me of what poet Maya Angelou once said: “When you know better, do better.”.

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MAY 15, 2017

Black and brown teachers don’t parachute into a culture they don’t know, so they are able to connect with the students they’re teaching. And black and brown teachers give students role models who affirm their culture. Recently, mainstream institutions began asking, Where did all the black teachers go ? They also account for 27.9

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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. Hall’s status meant that when she was earning her degrees, she didn’t qualify for financial assistance designed for Native students. That’s because the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Brown spent years pushing schools to follow the law, after giving up her job doing administrative support work for a government relations firm. Nationally, 76 percent of white students in special education who exited high school in 2014-15 earned a traditional diploma. But those racial gaps are much wider in some states.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Still in its early stages, this ambitious project relies on a little-known public resource — a slice of electromagnetic spectrum the federal government long ago set aside for schools — called the Educational Broadband Service (EBS). There’s been a real positive change in the culture.”. We can flip the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

Jared Maymon, a Nichols College junior and a student government vice president, has become convinced that Nichols will survive. Colleges are closing or merging at an accelerating rate, from about eight per year between 2004 and 2014, to an estimated 20 per year moving forward, with small private colleges particularly vulnerable. “I

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FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The culture of attendance is huge,” Burnett said. “If Albuquerque Public Schools is a member of Mission: Graduate, an initiative of the United Way of Central New Mexico that brings together schools, government agencies, businesses, nonprofits and community members to collectively work toward common education goals.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2017

Government Accountability Office found the percentage of all schools with racial or socio-economic isolation grew from 9 percent to 16 percent from 2001 to 2014. These segregated schools uphold the values, racial hierarchies and cultural norms of the people who created them. This kind of behavior helps explain why the U.S.

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JULY 17, 2024

Yet, emphasizing young people’s capacity to aspire can also aid neoliberal governance by forging “aspiration nations” of hard-working, burdened youth with individualist imaginings of the future and obscured consciousness of the sources of inequality or collective power in addressing them.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Enrollment in the Onalaska School District — which includes the town and outlying areas — rose by about 14 percent between May 2014 and May 2018, to 851 students. It’s an unincorporated, census-designated place — large enough to have its own name, but not to have its own government. Heather Guenther, Onalaska High School graduate.

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Anthropology News

MAY 28, 2024

How do beggars gain access to public space in Guangzhou through such performances, navigating local governance and social norms? I observed various ways of asking for alms in different urban locations for four years (2010–2014) in Guangzhou and talked to people panhandling in the present or the past.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2016

1 is guaranteed 15 hours a week of free child-care or preschool for 38 weeks a year, or 570 hours total, paid for by the national government. “We Apparently, so do most parents, 94 percent of whom take the government up on its offer of free education starting at age 3, according to government data. Like the U.S., and the U.K.

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The Hechinger Report

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. That means a family of four with two children survived on $24,008, the income level at which a family is considered to be extremely poor by the federal government.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2017

For example, the 2014 Pew Social Trends study, “ The Rising Cost of Not Going to College ,” reports that millennial college graduates are more likely to be employed full-time and are earning $17,500 per year more than those with less education. A complete college education also continues to drive upward mobility.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

We meet to heal, to build, to resist, to govern, to share, to change. Meetings are where people come together in time and space. People who have experienced state torture while in prison often use meetings to share their stories with those who have no such experiences. In order to listen well to them, to be moved, we must meet in person.

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The Hechinger Report

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.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2018

So while the proportion of graduates from predominantly nonwhite urban schools who go to college stayed flat between 2014 and 2015 — the last period for which the figures are available — for graduates of predominantly nonwhite rural high schools, it declined. The factors behind these dire outcomes are also getting worse.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2016

Cultural change always lags behind demographic change,” said Kennedy, who is now vice president of student development. It’s harder to change the culture than it is to change the composition of the student body.”. By 2014-15, 32 percent was multicultural. That number rose to 444 in 2014-15. Photo: Kathleen Lucadamo.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

The P2P industry thrived in 2014, championing financial inclusion ( puhui jinrong ) endorsed by the state. Meanwhile, others persisted in rejecting the “Ponzi scheme participant” label imposed by the state, asserting, “I am an investor lured by the government for their ‘financial inclusion.’

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

In 2014, Pierre enlisted in the Air Force, intending to use his salary and the G.I. Williams loved Delgado so much that she kept going even after she had to take a second job in 2014. Pierre, the student who left LSU for the Air Force, had a good job working in the executive branch of the federal government. I felt inadequate.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

million people live in places where state officials took over entire districts or individual schools in the past six years, according to News21 data collected from state government agencies. The manager was given all the powers of the local governing board. More than 5.6 On average 29.2 average is 15.5 Republican Gov.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

She was not happy with the first school she and her husband chose, but found a match in 2014 when a spot opened at Homer A. As of 2014, it had the highest percentage of students in private schools in the nation , with wealth playing a significant factor in attendance of the exclusive schools. You can’t buy it and you can’t teach it.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

Despite the recent uptick, Jenkins points out that community college enrollment in Massachusetts is actually down nearly 40 percent since 2014. They report them to the federal government. Kirk: Going from Uganda to Nashville, was there a bit of a culture shock? It’s also down nationwide. It was overwhelming.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The story of the Sand Creek massacre is a tragic but familiar one of broken promises, cultural misunderstanding, political ambitions, rumors, racial hatred, poor communication, and greed. Most of Colorado’s white settlers and their leaders did not understand tribal government. It is a story of attack, retaliation, and revenge.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Credit: Manuel Orbegozo for The Hechinger Report California has been a leader in prison education programs, starting with a 2014 rule authorizing state funding for community colleges to set up programs for students who are incarcerated. The culture has evolved, We’re like a campus now.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

MINNEAPOLIS — Charles Golding looked for two things when he was researching colleges: a top economics program and a connection to his native culture. It was a major culture shock,” said Golding. It was a major culture shock. In my culture, you don’t leave your family,” said Richards, now 28.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 4, 2025

From the audience, as an anthropologist-in-training afraid her fieldwork would amount to nothing, I was thrilled to hear a cultural-historical reference on the nose enough for me to easily interpret (ventriloquize?). This statement might seem at first glance to be in line with an account that considers history and cultural conditions.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

Credit: Wikimedia Commons Barbuncho, the Dog behind the Story Back in 2014, my heart skipped a beat when I began to read a widely circulating article about a “stray” dog who “adopted a team of Swedish trekkers in the Amazon.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Racism permits zero-tolerance policing to be cloaked as creating a culture of learning. It simply exposes them to jail culture. According to the 2014 report, “The 1,852 facilities housed a total of 50,821 justice-involved youth who were younger than 21.”. Alas, we need policing and more educating in prisons and schools.

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Life and Landscapes

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

His son Jules would be born there in 1828. The Verne family in this Atlantic port city would have worked through the same upheavals in French culture and history as were faced by the Charette family. Brian Taves opined as much in his preface to the 2014 republication of Jules Vernes William J. 5] In Footnote No. 2, Supra. [9]

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

Knowing his culture and practicing his religion help ground him, Helgeson said. As a teacher at Hays-Lodge Pole High School on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Montana, Helgeson works hard to pass on that cultural knowledge. It also moved his grandmother to teach him, her youngest grandchild, to speak Nakoda. I needed help.”.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Foreign investors working with the Ecuadorean government started planning to extract minerals in the region on an industrial scale in the early 2000s. Since then, most of the promises that investors and government leaders made have soured; very little economic growth is visible among Shuar communities.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2016

Related: Government data single out schools where low-income students fare worst. It’s time to change the culture, and our cultural aspirations,” Barton said. Students hold signs while posing for a photo during a gathering in front of the James Meredith statue at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Miss., Tuesday, Feb.

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