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. By contrast, 90 percent of women who did not give birth as teens obtained a traditional high school diploma. But it is hardly a problem solved.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2019

In her decades at the traditional high school, she saw her students becoming increasingly aimless and disengaged. But since 2014, she says, when the district introduced this new outdoor project-based approach, students’ ambition and sense of identity have dramatically improved. High school is not really working for most kids,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

And she was running for the school’s governing board. At the same time, teachers around the country have watched their autonomy erode, due to such factors as standardized testing mandates, laws governing what can and can’t be taught and growing demands for “ parental rights.” We all put in countless extra hours.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Yet, the 2014 bond sale used to buy Chromebooks for James Lick and the rest of the East Side Union High School District schools has a much different structure. By 2014 the district had won approval for $116 million in short-term bonds sales, including the $16.2 We need a coherent governing structure and we don’t have that.”.

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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

MARCH 20, 2023

When students enroll in a traditional college, they know they are attending an institution that has met certain standards set by the federal and state governments and accrediting agencies. Make School didn’t have to disclose any ongoing information about its financials to the federal government or the accreditor.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Since 2014, the partnership program has poured federal funds into established child care programs that serve low-income children, including the most popular non-parental form of infant and toddler care: home-based care. The Early Head Start partnership program has been solving many of the problems the plan is attempting to address for years.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Photo: Peggy Barmore The federal government is trying to increase the number of minorities in the teaching profession by, in part, allowing institutions to maintain a low bar for entry into teaching programs. After the 2014 introduction of the proposed rules, some teacher educators criticized the U.S.

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2023

In Afterschool Alliance’s “America After 3PM” report released last year, the organization found that between 2014 and 2020, participation in after-school programming decreased and barriers to participation and unmet demand grew. Low-income, Black and Latino households were also more likely to note these barriers, the report found.

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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

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. Photo: Nicole Lewis.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

While teachers still provide some instruction, students also get to take classes online, and they have the option of moving through the coursework at a faster pace than traditional school schedules allow. Some District 428 students earn double the number of credits common in a traditional academic year.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

In 2014, a black student was attacked by a group of men in a truck as she returned to an off-campus housing complex, largely populated by Ole Miss students. Earlier in the school year, a white student came to the office of the Black Student Union, a space it shares with the student government, and told her she had no right to be there. “It

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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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2017

Institutions including Lebanon Valley College face demographic shifts, constrained family incomes, student preferences toward professionally oriented majors over some of the traditional liberal arts, and rapid technological change. Chamber of Commerce Foundation as saying that “employers have ‘less and less confidence’ in traditional degrees.”

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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

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.”. The study estimates that schools spent between $3,120 and $6,920 per pre-k student — on top of the state’s subsidy of $4,580 for the 2014-15 academic year.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

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. And a core element of its initiative is raising awareness about the problem.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

high school with a traditional diploma, proving that his disability didn’t prevent him from meeting the same standards as his peers. It would require roughly $18 billion in additional funding for the federal government to fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. He graduated in 2013.

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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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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. Eastern Washington in general and Gordon in particular were determined to turn that around. “The

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

This shift detached investors from the personal aspect of a debt relationship, allowing them to earn 20 to 30 percent annual interest—significantly higher than the 3 to 5 percent offered by traditional banks. The P2P industry thrived in 2014, championing financial inclusion ( puhui jinrong ) endorsed by the state.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Standardized testing has constrained teacher autonomy and creativity, and charter and private schools have competed more aggressively for government funds. Arizona’s Republican governor, Doug Ducey, was elected in 2014, after running a campaign based on a promise to cut taxes. It’s so selfless, it’s a giving profession.

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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. It just was a big change, was having to lose a school that was our tradition.”.

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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The reasons include a federal law so little-known that people charged with implementing it often fail to follow the rules; nearly non-existent enforcement of the law by federal and state governments; and funding so meager that districts have little incentive to survey whether students have stable housing. Is this actually what we want?’”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Giving parents choices beyond the school closest to home would open the door to innovation and put pressure on traditional schools to improve, these advocates argue. The New Zealand government explicitly warns families against picking schools based on only national standard results. In some ways, that can be a good thing.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2017

“Probably the most important issue that all institution face, large and small, is that they no longer can pass on their rising costs to the consumer,” said Rick Beyer, managing principal of AGB Institutional Strategies, part of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, which represents boards of regents and trustees.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2016

As the children sat cross-legged on a large round rug decorated with illustrations of kids from around the world wearing traditional clothing, Rivera led them in their good morning song, sung to the tune of “Frère Jacques.” “Are you going to sign your name in all by yourself?”. But environment is crucial to this growth.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

His was a brash mission shared by a new breed of charter school leaders who said they could succeed where traditional neighborhood schools had failed. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The school is too new to have test results, but droves of parents, most of them white, have arrived at Bricolage’s doorstep attracted by relatively small classrooms — all classrooms had 20 or fewer students during the 2014-15 school year — and a curriculum that focuses on fostering creativity and autonomy.

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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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Economics Charter School Public School Heritage 73

Jonathan Firth

MAY 30, 2017

Focusing on the example of homework, a traditional view might be that the teacher should allocate whatever they judge to be useful, or whatever is just ‘the way it’s done’ (or whatever is lying around the office, is quick to mark, or is in the textbook/revision guide!). or their individual gut feeling about what ought to work. Higgins, S.

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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. But the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 3, 2016

” Helmick believes charter schools are “businesses getting taxpayers’ money” that aren’t subject to the same operational regulations as traditional public schools. MCSAB says each charter school has to have a nonprofit board to hold its contract, and that nonprofit board has a governing board of directors.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

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. Buffalo were disappearing from their traditional hunting grounds, and their people were hungry. The reality was very different.

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