The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2017

Many working-class families in this manufacturing city across the Wabash River from Purdue University cannot afford to send their children to private pre-kindergarten, nor can they rely on government-funded programs — like Head Start and subsidized childcare — which serve a fraction of eligible children. In 2014, after lobbying by then-Gov.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2017

When the forest funds became too unpredictable in 2014, educators asked residents to back the preschool program directly through a local property tax. They approved the measure in 2014 with a 66 percent majority and renewed it in 2016 with a 67 percent majority. Voters in this hardscrabble town responded. Idaho State Sen.

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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

AUGUST 7, 2016

Lillian Agard looks on as her 3-year-old granddaughter Siena paints and colors at the art table during free choice at the Y’s pop-up preschool in the Hillview library in East San Jose. Just an hour earlier, this room in the Hillview neighborhood library of East San Jose, California, was completely empty. Photo: Kathryn Baron.

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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. When he taught at Castlemont in 2014, the school had only one Chromebook cart. “To OAKLAND, Calif. The homework gap isn’t new.

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Steven V. Miller

OCTOBER 24, 2024

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Sitting on the floor of their library, the dozens of students dressed in red and navy blue were an eager audience. The New Zealand government explicitly warns families against picking schools based on only national standard results. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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Steven V. Miller

JANUARY 12, 2022

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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. Still, to paraphrase a famous campaign slogan from the 1990s, for TAH, it’s the documents, stupid! in the TAH bookstore.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Funded by a $15 million state grant awarded to the Ohio Appalachian Collaborative and shared among its member districts, Meadowbrook decided to convert their seldom-used library into Colt College, a facility built for its dual-enrollment program. Today, the school counts 11 teachers on staff who are certified to teach college classes.

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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

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

At Delta State, for instance, enrollment is down by nearly a quarter since 2014. Holly Buroughs sits in front of the Jackson Library on the campus of the University of North Carolina Greensboro. When Ennis got to Delta State, he also found the university was overestimating its revenue from facilities and merchandise. Do I leave?” “Is

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Courtesy of Denver Public Library. Most of Colorado’s white settlers and their leaders did not understand tribal government. Plains Indian Tribes such as the Cheyenne and Arapaho were not united under a governing alliance. Captain Silas Soule 1863 or 1864. Soule fired first, wounding Squier in the arm.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

Mississippi is scrambling to qualify for a guarantee of up to $61 million to help families pay for child care after the federal government said the state must do more to train center workers and ensure it is paying centers adequately. But those state requirements aren’t adequate to meet new federal safety benchmarks, introduced in 2014.

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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

MARCH 4, 2024

In 2015, in the southeast part of the city, SFUSD opened Willie Brown Middle School, a state-of-the-art facility that includes a wellness center, a library, a kitchen, a performing arts space, a computer lab, a maker space, biotech lab, a health center, and a rainwater garden, in addition to light-filled classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

A school turn-around grant program — funded by the federal government and run by the Montana Office of Public Instruction — may be changing that. Hays-Lodge Pole High School “was in total disarray,” when Margarett Campbell, who has served as her region’s state representative in the Montana legislature, took over as superintendent in 2014. “It

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2016

They also say it’s in the universities’ self-interest, coming as it does at a time when decaying surroundings and urban crime discourage applicants, cash-strapped local governments are pushing these nonprofit institutions to pay more for the services they get, and the public has a low opinion of college costs, management and value.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Library of Congress. To Otis, being a union member was synonymous with being an anarchist or socialist; all were radicals bent on destroying property rights and the American system of government. Library of Congress. Otis became a symbol of anti-union capitalists unwilling to negotiate wages or working conditions.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Under a little-known state regulation , New York’s attorney general is allowed to sue students if a state public university claims they owe tuition — or overdue library fines or unpaid parking tickets. In 2014, New York state enacted a consumer protection law that requires that debtors be sued in the county where they live.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 18, 2025

Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress. Ray Tyler Ray Tyler was the 2014 James Madison Fellow for South Carolina and a 2016 graduate of Ashland Universitys Masters Program in American History and Government. The woman of the upper middle class have all available knowledge and implements to prevent conception.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

— Inside a high-ceilinged library at Northridge High School here, seniors are typing on 16-year-old laptops donated by a local Rotary Club. School leaders have solicited donations from local manufacturing plants, energy firms, even the federal government. Photo: Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Student protests and a political backlash followed, however, and by 2014 tuition was being gradually eliminated at the public universities that educate the vast majority of German students. Also, Alt said, when most of the costs fall to the government to cover, “The taxpayer is paying for the universities whether or not they’re benefitting.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The federal government could help. Some instruct their children to go to unsupervised environments like libraries, playgrounds or shopping malls until they get off of work. “In In 2016, the online education news outlet Chalkbeat reported that only 18 percent of children nationally are served by before- and after-school programs.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2017

His computer science courses covered topics like programming, machine learning and artificial intelligence; Chibwe even did a project on recommendation algorithms for an online library. He enrolled in Udacity’s iOS Developer Nanodegree program, a five-course cluster from the online platform known for its techie skills focus.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Bayard Middle School, when he arrived there, had a library, but no librarian, so most of the day it’s a dark, unused room. Newsweek magazine dubbed the city “ Murder Town USA ” in 2014. Related: Governments are spending billions more on education, and it’s making inequality worse. Chapter books slouch on unattended shelves.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

The programs occupy a gray area between corporate sponsorship and promotion at a time when climate science has increasingly come under siege at the highest levels of government. Schools and libraries across Oklahoma have received more than 9,000 complimentary copies of “Petro Pete’s Big Bad Dream” since it was published last year.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2025

Credit: Matt Stensland for The Hechinger Report Run by the federal government, Havasupai Elementary is the only school in Supai. The visit clarified what nearly 100 educators within the BIE, students and graduates, parents, elders, Native education advocates and government officials told me over the past few years.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

Coming out of the end of slavery, Black people made their freedom dreams manifest in attempts to own property, to negotiate their own labor agreements, to build institutions, to take their role in governance, both in state legislative houses as well as in Congress. 21, 1939: African Americans Arrested for Going to Public Library Sept.

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