The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Indeed in 2016 the federal government designated Tennessee’s VR grant “high risk” for most of the year, due to the state’s repeated inability to track how much money was being spent and on what. No other state VR grant received that designation. They need more counselors to efficiently meet the demand for services.”.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year.

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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

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

In 2014, schools had a new way to give students free breakfast and lunch, paid for by Uncle Sam. Leave this field empty if you're human: Many sounded alarms that $16 billion a year in federal aid for low-income students could be misdirected to not-so-poor schools. Photo: Tovin Lapan. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: The kind of leadership and responsibility that shone through EB’s speech is actively encouraged at this unusual program in rural Maine. But since 2014, she says, when the district introduced this new outdoor project-based approach, students’ ambition and sense of identity have dramatically improved.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2019

The federal government and the Department of Education need to start taking their responsibility for prohibiting discrimination seriously and crack down on schools that punish black people for their hair and hair styles. Durags are used to create the wave hairstyle. Late last year, U.S.

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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

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. Why can’t one person do both jobs?”.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

We meet to heal, to build, to resist, to govern, to share, to change. Anthropology has been quite slow to embrace Helen Schwartzman’s insight in The Meeting: Gatherings in Organizations and Communities (1989) that meetings offer a vital window into collective human projects and organizations.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

The teen birth rate plunged more than 60 percent from 1991 to 2014, the most recent year of data. Nearly a quarter million teenage girls, ages 15 to 19, gave birth to babies in 2014. Department of Health and Human Services. But it is hardly a problem solved. What happens to the education of these young women?

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Digital Promise

JUNE 30, 2020

American Job Center (via Mid Cumberland Human Resource Agency). In 2014, the Nashville Public Library Foundation approached local adult education providers to form a learning group that could collectively envision strategies to improve services for learners. Collaborating Organizations. Nashville Public Library. YWCA of Nashville.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2019

According to the government’s report, education spending rose for the third straight year in 2015-16 to $11,841 per student in kindergarten through 12th grades. According to the government’s report, education spending rose for the third straight year in 2015-16 to $11,841 per student in kindergarten through 12th grades.

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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. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2018

She has been working 40 to 50 hours a week as a medical assistant and hopes to graduate with her associate degree this spring, having enrolled in the two-year program in August 2014. Leave this field empty if you're human: “My friends and I have a hashtag we use — #TeamNoSleep,” said Ramirez, 24. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2019

The adjective “full” emphasizes that even in real dollars, after adjusting for inflation, more resources were pouring into prekindergarten through 12th grade classrooms across the country than before state and local governments started cutting spending in the 2009-10 school year. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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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. 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

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

OCTOBER 2, 2016

John Jones asks a question to his students in AP Human Geography on August 18, 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. The school district had a 27 percent dropout rate in 2014. And the Department of Justice bought into that.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Families in Mississippi spend an average of nearly $2,000 for just five weeks of enrollment in a summer learning program. Department of Health and Human Services considers child care affordable if it is 7 percent or less of household income.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

People disagree over whether it should be measured in absolute or relative terms; whether there is a limit to the proportion of humanity that is gifted; whether giftedness can be cultivated; whether it must be backed up by achievement; and whether it should include athletic abilities. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights.

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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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2017

The biggest takeaway for me,” said researcher Lindsay Weixler, “is the mismatch between decentralized school governance and an optional program like pre-k.”. Leave this field empty if you're human: Charter schools collect state and local funding for every student in kindergarten and above.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Behind the storage unit sits a rectangular wooden box stuffed with bicycle tires filled with Silly Putty to replicate human intestines. As employees, students must comply with the district’s human resources policies and undergo performance evaluations led by a student project leader and an Innovation Center staffer.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2018

Luckily for Woodman and schools like it, the federal government has a pot of money set aside to pay for projects like this. Since 2014, a primary goal of the E-rate program has been to ensure affordable access to high-speed broadband in the nation’s schools. The only limit is their budget. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter.

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Strange Maps

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Fatwa’ed by the Sultan, abolished by Atatürk In addition to the five standard daily prayers, Bektashis have two additional prayers, at dawn and dusk, for the welfare of all humanity. On a visit in 2014, Pope Francis praised Albania’s religious tolerance as an example for the world. Strange Maps #125x Got a strange map?

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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

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. Do we need college? Absolutely.”. Most of our students also want much more than a job after school.

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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. But, according to the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

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. Related: It’s time our educational institutions instilled some civic-minded values in students. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Leave this field empty if you're human: In interviews with 45 parents and students and more than 50 other experts, advocates and lawyers across 34 states and the District of Columbia, families and advocates described systemic problems with special education in high school. “I Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 30, 2024

Mealy has developed extensive external partnerships with leaders of other associations such as the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), where she has served on the Science and Human Rights Coalition Council since 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Besides the 26 percent of Alamosa students who are already chronically absent, Burnett’s data show that another 27 percent are considered at risk of becoming so. Missing that much school — roughly two days per month — hurts a student’s chances of reading on grade level, passing classes and graduating.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

She dropped out of school and after what she describes as an “intentional overdose” in 2014, wound up in a rehab facility near the campus in New Brunswick, just down the street from fraternity row. Lonely and miserable, the Rutgers University freshman turned to heroin, and quickly became addicted. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

By 2014, the latest year for which data is available, that number had risen to 2.7 million in 2014. “We The federal government is also reluctant to require subsidies for grandparent caregivers, although the Senate has proposed a bill that might provide some indirect help. million in 2005 to 7.1 It gives the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2016

Related: Government data single out schools where low-income students fare worst. Matt Bevin, who has said taxpayers should support engineers but not humanities majors, has ordered another $18 million in cuts, over the heads of the legislature; a judge has held he had the right to do this, though the case has been appealed.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Top-notch early learning environments have been shown to improve academic outcomes for the most vulnerable children — even years later. Half of its residents are out of work, and the city government is skeletal. However, most U.S. cities and towns, including East St. Related: In East St.

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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. Weekly Update.

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