The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Think of the revenue shocks these universities are suffering,” said Gregory Price, an economics and finance professor at the University of New Orleans, noting that if students aren’t on campuses for the coming academic year or choose not to attend at all, schools could miss out on even more. Both institutions have recently faltered.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

But now a convergence of factors — a dwindling pool of traditional-age students, the call for more educated workers and a pandemic that highlighted economic disparities and scrambled habits and jobs — is putting adults in the spotlight. Should you not get college credit just because we don’t teach it here?”. His counselors reached out.

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The Hechinger Report

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. This effort does that.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

One 2014 study found that kids who were held back when they were young were less likely to graduate from high school. ” The study , still a draft paper circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in January 2019, is titled, “An Extra Year to Learn English? Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 19, 2024

Teaching American History’s Documents and Debates volumes present s American history as a series of topics. Hoover responded to the economic difficulties according to the principles he had articulated in 1928. The post Teaching the Themes of US History with Documents & Debates appeared first on Teaching American History.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

Their mission is to “transform the educational aspirations and economic realities” of township communities by preparing youth for first-generation higher education and social mobility. When we met in 2014, he was a confident grade twelve student who saw his Launch education as “a ticket” to a life beyond the township.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2017

You want to teach your fellow teachers the error of their ways, but you’ve seen the consequences of speaking out: termination, transfer and blackballing. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

in 2014, the most recent federal data available. Andreas Schleicher, director of the education and skills unit at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, has long been arguing that the U.S. overemphasizes small classes at the expense of good teaching. Pupil-teacher ratios declined from 22.3 in 1970 to 17.9

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2017

In Spokane, 48 percent of 2014 graduates who received free or reduced-price lunch — a typical indicator of poverty — went on to higher education the following year, compared to 65 percent of those who didn’t receive subsidized meals, according to state data. Spokane is updating its entire K-12 curriculum to teach those kinds of skills.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

said teacher Kierston James, 40, who oversaw Albert, a fellow with the Brothers Empowered to Teach (BE2T) Initiative. Though Wilson has maybe a dozen African American male teachers on its K-8 staff, only one of them teaches within Wilson’s primary school, in the second grade. Growing up, Albert, now 22, saw almost no men teaching. “I

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

And Nichols College, where Maymon is a junior double-majoring in economics and finance, fit the same profile: small and with a comparatively low endowment and a student body drawn mostly from a few surrounding states. “It Some of that transparency has prompted pushback. There were more students than there were seats,” Engelkemeyer said.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

You can’t buy it and you can’t teach it. 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. Plus, Gisleson liked the idea that Otto would be surrounded by kids who came from racial and socio-economic backgrounds that were different from his own. “It

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2016

About a month after Governor Malloy sought to recognize paraprofessionals’ work, the state announced its teaching shortage areas. For instance, on the opposite coast, California certified fewer bilingual teachers in 2014-15 than any other year in the past decade. However, their pathways into teaching contain many hurdles.

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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. Back at Onalaska High, Kaylene Kenny teaches a class that’s all about ensuring students know their options. Kenny’s been teaching at Onalaska High School for seven years.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 24, 2018

Even after the invention of fishnets proves to be a far superior method of catching fish, teachers continued teaching the bare-hands method, claiming that it helps students develop “generalized agility.”. These updated courses work better for all students by changing what they teach and how they teach it. New Paths in Math.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Earlier this fall, Tozier’s instructor had to travel for her other job and was teaching from afar. With greater bandwidth, the September round of testing went smoothly, she said, and teachers were free to “teach as they would normally.”. As a result, the district is finally within sight of the FCC’s 2014 target speed, she said.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Though it was just her first year of teaching, Molière, 49, was already an expert at motivating students, who raised their hands high in the air and vied for her attention, then beamed when they got it. Clustered in high-poverty schools, the most inexperienced teachers don’t last: More than a quarter of them leave teaching each year.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2016

After talking to scholars who study the teacher labor market, and reading several statewide studies published in the past year, I gather that teacher shortages do exist in some regional pockets and in some teaching specialties. Thanks to the pre-existing glut of certified teachers, many re-entered the job market and found teaching jobs.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2018

The province has already taken measures such as providing capital for startups, teaching coding as early as kindergarten and requiring students in some fields to stay put after graduating as a condition of their financial aid. As recently as 2014, twice as many moved out than moved in. Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

This kind of experience may be common at New Jersey’s most selective and wealthiest suburban high schools, but McGee graduated from North Star Academy College Preparatory High School in Newark, where 84 percent of the students are economically disadvantaged and 98 percent are black or Latino. I want to open their eyes to what is out there.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

Competency-based education demands a shift away from traditional teaching, testing and grading. Among them, just under 12 percent were considered economically disadvantaged, slightly more had some type of learning disability and 4 percent were English learners. Related: Inside Maine’s disastrous rollout of proficiency-based learning.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

million new tech jobs will be created between 2014 and 2024, many of them requiring people with data and computer-science credentials. Human beings who understand the discipline should be the ones doing that teaching.”. Human beings who understand the discipline should be the ones doing that teaching.” CompTIA projects that 1.8

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

“I give the kids access to all the tools pretty much right off the bat,” said Eric Bredder, with a sweeping gesture taking in the computer workstations, 3-D printers, laser cutters and milling machines, plus a bevy of wood and metalworking tools that he uses while teaching computer science, engineering and design classes.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

But the community began to suffer economically after several major employers, including what was once the largest olive processer in the world, shut down in the early 1990s. But educators in Lindsay say that, while there’s more work on the front end, the district’s model actually makes teaching easier in the long run.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

There, a majority of students are Hispanic, and over half are classified as economically disadvantaged, according to EdData and the California Department of Education. In the 2014-2015 school year, only half of all students were reading at or above proficiency level, according to school data provided by the district. Why it works.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

In K-12 and college classrooms across the country, some educators are enacting at least partial device bans, some are advocating for teaching style changes (fewer lectures, for example) and still others are seeking help from the technology itself.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

“Personalized learning is not something you buy,” emphasized Chris Liang-Vergara, a consultant from the Chicago organization LEAP Innovations who helped charter Firstline Schools pilot its personalized learning programs between 2011 and 2014. “It’s It’s a teacher practice; it’s a teacher design.”. Teira Rucker, 11.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2018

At the same time, preparation time for teachers increases because they are teaching more classes. Leave this field empty if you're human: Home Economics Curriculum: House Bill 16, authored by Rep. In 2013, a Mississippi legislator proposed making public school districts pay the cost of remedial courses for their graduates.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

I recently attended an all-black, all-male meeting focused on increasing the number of black men in teaching. We did some good work, but I realized that when it comes to improving education and teaching, there should never be a meeting, panel, think tank or photo-op that doesn’t prominently involve black women.

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Steven V. Miller

OCTOBER 24, 2024

make use of some of the methods and techniques I teach them. If you’re interested in topics of economic development, population growth, corruption, education levels—or almost anything else in the cross-national context—the World Bank’s DataBank has you covered. There’s a better way, I promise. Here’s a table of contents.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

The state is making a sizable investment in these schools, with an eye toward fueling its economic engines by teaching students how to play a role in high-need, growing fields like advanced manufacturing and health services. Just over 18 percent of the school’s students are economically disadvantaged.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2019

More than 3,000 of Mississippi’s kindergarteners, or 9 percent, were unable to move on to first grade for the 2019 school year, more than three times the percentage of children nationally who repeated kindergarten in 2014. Pre-K also teaches important non-academic skills, like how to hold a pencil, pay attention and get along with peers.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Morales started out as an elementary-school teacher, then switched to academic counseling, which she’s done at LA High for the past eleven years; Martinez worked there, too, teaching history and social studies, until six years ago, when he was transferred to another high school in the district. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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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

JUNE 17, 2018

In 2014, just five years after the county issued $17 million worth of bonds for Lake Oconee, the state supreme court struck down the county’s attempt to issue another $14 million worth of bonds for the school. In 2014, the charter was awarded a coveted National Blue Ribbon from the U.S. Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2016

Hurley has been teaching nursery classes for 20 years at this state-funded school that we would call a public elementary school. This is even more remarkable when contrasted with the economics of child care in the U.S.: and those who were not shrunk by two percentage points between 2009-10 and 2014-15. think tank. and the U.K.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 15, 2024

While the examples are primarily drawn from international relations and comparative politics, the methods we discuss are applicable to all the subfields of political science, to sociology, economics, history, business studies, public policy, and many other fields.

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