The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

More than 800,000 people with disabilities found eligible for services received no assistance between 2010 and 2014, according to federal data. The delays lead to missed job and educational opportunities and longer government dependence, all at a cost to taxpayers. Walker supported moving people from government assistance to work.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Artwork decorates the government-run nursery classroom at Badock’s Wood Primary School in Bristol, England. caring for young children has long been considered the responsibility of individual families, not the government. We were established to escape government tyranny. Photo: Lillian Mongeau. Britain says ‘yes’. In the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

It was the first lesson in a school week that would take her kids through memoir writing, an introduction to division and research on Indigenous history, each activity carefully curated by Snyder. And she was running for the school’s governing board.

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Anthropology News

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

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The top 20 percent of earners saw their incomes rise by 95 percent in real terms between 1979 and 2014, whereas the middle three quintiles recorded just 28 percent growth, according to the Congressional Budget Office. And as wages have flat lined, college costs have spiraled.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

They’d spent the past decade grappling with declining enrollments and weakening support from state governments. Many colleges and universities have a history of mismanaging their finances, increasing spending even as enrollments fell or going deeply into debt to construct new buildings. This story also appeared in NBC News.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2020

In Amherst, Massachusetts, home to Amherst and Hampshire colleges and the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts, revenues collected from September to May keep the doors open and the lights on for local businesses and government services. “I’m Will history repeat?

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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. But racism is imparted not just by not just by what a state demands its students to learn; it’s also about what they don’t require — learning the true history of our country.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2017

Discussions on how to increase the percentage of teachers of color should start on the campuses of MSIs, which conferred 16 percent of all degrees in 2014. Also referred to as “fast track” programs because they require fewer credits, these programs receive millions from state and federal governments as well as philanthropic foundations.

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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. Studies suggest affordability is one of the leading causes of attrition.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2019

Stewart Lockett (right, grey shirt) leads a meeting of the student government executive team in late January. His team is the most diverse student government the university has ever had. He dug through the bottom drawer and pulled out a student government flyer from five years earlier. Casey Parks/The Hechinger Report.

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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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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). Explaining why requires some history.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

Nekkita Beans, a Mississippi native and president of the University of Mississippi’s Black Student Union, stood center stage in a campus auditorium reading aloud the history of a group of men who fought to keep people like her enslaved, illiterate and, in many ways, invisible. OXFORD, Miss.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

His mother chaired the university’s history department. As business investors look for places to invest capital for future financial, social and technological returns and governments leverage tax policy, both should look at what small- and medium-sized majority-black cities have to offer. For instance, they generate $14.8

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Strange Maps

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Apart from its golden-domed headquarters, the campus also includes tyrbes (holy tombs of previous Debedabas); extensive archives on the Order’s history, including audio recordings of Bektashi musical traditions; and a museum and a library. On a visit in 2014, Pope Francis praised Albania’s religious tolerance as an example for the world.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Teaching American History provides various free resources for American history and government teachers, including our popular seminars , multi-day seminars , and extensive database of original source documents. Two Core Document Collections cover the entire scope of American history.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

law — what makes it a unique and hopeful case — it’s unclear anyone in government will be watching to make sure it achieves its goal. At the high school level, 46 percent of students in Oktibbeha schools passed the English subject test in 2014 compared to 72 percent of students in Starkville. One county, two districts worlds apart.

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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. Onalaska, situated roughly halfway between Seattle and Portland, is proud of its history. Photo: Kaitlin Gillespie for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

By 2014, just about half of low-income students enrolled immediately in college, compared with 81 percent of high-income graduates, according to a new report from the Commission on the Future of Undergraduate Education. Match’s charter network, governed by a board of trustees, spans four campuses from pre-K through high school.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

That has become increasingly crucial at a time when Americans’ faith in higher education is declining , governments are investing less money in it, and employers complain it’s producing too few graduates with skills they need. Jonathan Rees, professor of history, Colorado State University-Pueblo. CompTIA projects that 1.8

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2018

“We’re ahead of the game in terms of awareness of the problem,” said Daniel Weinstock, director of the Institute for Health and Social Policy at McGill University, which has received a grant of nearly 1 million Canadian dollars ($730,134) from the provincial government to study why people leave and what might make them change their minds.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Mitch Askew, a history teacher at Flagstaff High School, marches with his two-year-old son. Together, they took jobs in Colorado, Haiti, and, eventually, Flagstaff, Arizona, where, in 2009, Askew enrolled in a master’s program in history at Northern Arizona University, and Jennie got a job teaching science at a local middle school.

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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.,

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Two graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program submitted essays on how they teach these skills to the Bill of Rights Institute’s 2023 National Civics Teacher of the Year Award , placing among the top ten finalists. They teach self-government as a cooperative activity. Yet both go further.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

One time, a teacher gave his special education world history class all of the answers to their final exam. It would require roughly $18 billion in additional funding for the federal government to fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. He said he never had to study or actually learn anything to get an A.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

In 2014, an Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice remedial plan, created as part of a settlement agreement following a 2012 lawsuit against the department, specifically called for a blended-learning model to resolve inadequate educational opportunities in the system. Houston said the average class size is just three or four students.

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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. Dr. Kimberly A. Mealy’s biography and LinkedIn profile are available upon request.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

This story about school segregation was produced by The Texas Tribune , a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that provides free news, data and events on Texas public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Loading… Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. It was reprinted with permission.

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ED Surge

JUNE 7, 2023

The California Master Plan for Early Learning and Care is one of the first major government documents in the state’s history to identify FFNs as a source for child care. Starting in 2014, when her first grandchild was born, she began caring for him and, through the years, cared for all four of her grandchildren.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In 2007, the federal government required that at least 50 percent of Head Start teachers have a bachelor’s by 2013. ( An ongoing preschool expansion project in Massachusetts, funded by a federal grant in 2014, required all lead preschool teachers to have a bachelor’s. By 2015, almost 75 percent had bachelor’s degrees ).

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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

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

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

AUGUST 11, 2016

They’ll share in $100 million from foundations and the government for mentoring programs that now reach nearly 10,000 students in 30 communities. In its final ruling in the case in late 2014, the South Carolina Supreme Court ordered the Legislature to fix rural “educational ghettos” across the state. Republican Gov.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2016

Five and six year old children are inheritors of poverty’s curse and not its creators,” Johnson told his audience as he explained that the federal government would be, for the first time, funding education and health services for children living in poverty in the form of a public preschool program.

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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. These three courses are complementary and can also be taken separately.

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