The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2018

Even though more than half of Mississippi’s public high school graduates in 2015 were African American, they only made up 10 percent of that fall’s freshman class at the University of Mississippi. African-Americans comprised 10 percent of freshmen at Ole Miss in 2015, an 8-percentage-point drop since 2010. . More than a third of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2018

In 2015-16, 68 percent of rural families with a child enrolled in Head Start received a family service including job training, parenting education, and substance abuse prevention through the program. . It’s important that children have access to safe and quality childcare while their parents are working,” Schochet said.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2018

“When these programs were designed, it was an acknowledgment that there were low-income students who had need, and of the importance of going to college,” said Carrie Warick, director of policy and advocacy at the nonpartisan National College Access Network. Carrie Warick, director of policy and advocacy, National College Access Network.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In 2015, one in five women stated they had experienced rape or attempted rape during their lifetimes, one in three reported such rape first happened between the ages of 11 and 17, while one in eight reported it happened before the age of 10, according to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Multiple advocacy organizations are pushing to increase the eligibility threshold for the program (now 150% of the federal poverty line). North Carolina hasnt met that level of quality since 2015, despite having half the enrollment rate of Alabama due to income eligibility requirements, insufficient funding and workforce limitations.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2018

It just goes against everything we know about child development and what’s best for children,” said Josh Golin, executive director of the nonprofit advocacy group Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood. In 2013, the Waterford Institute received an $11.5 million federal grant to expand the program to rural children in Utah.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 22, 2025

Richards served as chair of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Status of Community Colleges in the profession for the American Political Science Association, the report of which led to the creation of the Committee on the Status of Community Colleges in the Profession on which Richards served from 2015-2018. Department of Agriculture and the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

Indeed, many advocacy groups, including the Learning Policy Institute and Ed Trust , are recommending extending learning time next year. The program was studied in 27 schools in seven states between 2010 and 2015. Academically, the extended day seemed to be a bust. There were no overall academic benefits in reading or math, on average.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In North Carolina, reading scores barely budged in the five years between 2015 and 2019. Hickory’s scores improved from 52 percent of students reading at grade level in 2015 to 59 percent in 2019, compared with an increase from 56 percent to 57 percent for the state as a whole. READ THE SERIES. It sounds complicated because it is.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 4, 2015

That bonus you didn’t get at work (aka Iowa education reform in 2015). State department educational policy advocacy: “Evidence-based” or puffery? Related Posts. 7 questions after Governor Branstad’s school funding veto. 10+1 reactions to closing Iowa’s achievement gaps.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Our Voice Nuestra Voz, a non-profit education advocacy group in New Orleans, analyzed the school performance scores data and found that approximately 15,000 students attend these failing schools. Alongside the state legislature, they finally settled on new tests that were introduced in 2015 to measure performance against the new standards.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

Across the country, some state lawmakers have begun to respond to the demands of student activists and Native advocacy organizations. “It is not a place that allows us to embrace who we are.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2018

But since it wasn’t our house, they could use the bathroom first,” Kimberly, 12, told the child advocacy organization Children’s Defense Fund for their The State of America’s Children 2014 report. Sometimes we had to go to school late, because we had to wait for the bathroom. But at school, she was labeled truant. “I

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Mississippi held back 8 percent of third graders in 2015, the first year its retention policy was in place. Sonya Thomas, co-founder of the parent advocacy group Nashville PROPEL and a supporter of the law, said Tennessee’s renewed focus on reading was a long time coming, though her own children are now too old to benefit from it.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 29, 2017

Although low-skilled adults have minimal access to educational opportunities, I outlined in my 2015 blog post some ways in which technology has the potential to provide critical access to quality, personalized learning experiences for this underserved population.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2019

during the 2015-16 school year were women. during the 2015-16 school year were women, according the data compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics. “It’s because we’re mostly women,” she explained. Women’s work in general is undervalued.”. Between 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

He had to get help from an advocacy group called College Possible to pay his rent. An athlete while he was in college, Agyei had to work to pay some of his expenses and needed help from an advocacy group to keep paying his rent as his tuition increased. Meanwhile, he noticed that his bills from the college kept going up. Miguel Agyei.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

In all, the GI Bill — which costs $11 billion a year, according to the General Accounting Office — paid for all or part of 450,000 degrees earned by 340,000 students between 2009 and 2015, the study found. Some of those veterans earned more than one degree.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

Now a team of five researchers from Rutgers University in collaboration with the Education Law Center, a nonprofit advocacy organization, has created a complicated model that predicts how much money it would cost each school district in America to get its students to reach average test scores in math and reading, as recorded from 2013 to 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

Urban Institute analysis from 2015. Hoffman Early Learning Center , which opened in 2015, currently hosts federally funded Head Start programs that provide free pre-K programs to qualifying low-income families with 3- and 4-year-olds. According to a 2015 analysis by the Washington D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

By 2015, Pennsylvania had cut funding to its public universities by $3,758 per full-time student, giving its students only about two-thirds the national average of what states contribute to higher ed. So have state employee pension obligations.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2017

According to 2015-16 state accountability data, high-needs students in the district performed better than high-needs students statewide in both English language arts and math, and, overall, district students showed more growth than the students statewide. But people who are geniuses also have things that they’re not strong in.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

I wrote a piece about these concerns back in 2015 in the early days of the new free lunch option. students from 2013-14 before the community eligibility option went into effect nationwide through 2015-16 , its second year. Participation in the school lunch program has remained a flat 52 percent of all U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

With its jumble of slate-gray concrete buildings mixed in with the skyscrapers of downtown Atlanta, Georgia State now graduates more black students with bachelor’s degrees every year than any other nonprofit school in the United States ( 1,777 in 2015 ). Related: Colleges’ promises to diversify face one challenge: finding black faculty.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

But a 2015 study by a Stanford University research team compared academic outcomes of students at 158 online charter schools in 17 states with those of students in brick-and-mortar schools in their states who were matched on numerous characteristics, including prior test scores.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Out of 14 scheduled visits, dating from October 2014 to June 2015, the hospital counted Jacob as a “no show” for nine of them. Grant Callen, president of “school choice” advocacy group Empower Mississippi, speaks before a crowd at the Capitiol at the beginning of National School Choice Week in February. I beg your pardon?”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

I also definitely want to be heavily involved in advocacy for young black youth, or, for youth in general, and just promoting student leadership. Student interviews were carried out during the 2015-2016, 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 school years. I want to use my master’s degree to change that. But, I still want to be president, too.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2019

Together with three other researchers at Harvard, UCLA and Stanford, she set up an elaborate experiment with more than 15,000 middle and high school students in California during the 2015-16 school year. Another 2015 study found that non-monetary rewards were useful in getting young kids to attend an after-school tutoring program.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

The nation’s school districts spend about $46 billion less per year on facility upkeep than is needed to maintain “healthy and safe” learning environments, according to a 2016 report from the 21st Century School Fund, a research and advocacy organization. Related: Recessionary cuts in public education restored by 2015-16.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2017

Between 2013 and 2015, more than 56,000 students who took out federal loans to pay for Georgia’s four-year regional, state and research universities dropped out before graduating, as did 44,000 people at the mostly two-year state colleges and technical colleges. In 2015-16, the HOPE program gave out more than $612 million in aid to students.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 16, 2015

State department educational policy advocacy: “Evidence-based” or puffery? That bonus you didn’t get at work (aka Iowa education reform in 2015). Also see my copyright policy and feel free to use these data and images as you wish for your own projects! Excel file. Keynote file. Related Posts.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2017

Overall, the number of students who were held back in third grade dropped from 3,064 at the end of the 2014-15 school year to 2,307 at the end of 2015-16. In 2015, 52.4 That’s what the state has put in place. We all just have to rise to the occasion to meet the needs of the children.”. Sharon Robinson, principal of Finch Elementary.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2019

million in missing resources ,” according to a 2015 report on education funding by the nonprofit advocacy group EdTrust. The cumulative effects of this disinvestment are substantial: “For a middle school with 500 students, for example, a $1,200 funding gap per student means a shortage of $600,000 per year.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

nonprofit, has lobbied since at least 2015 against expanding HUD’s definition, arguing it would further strain the nation’s system of housing providers, which already struggle to serve the millions who count as “literal” homeless. One reason the requirements haven’t changed is opposition from some national homeless organizations.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Feliza Ortiz-Licon, chief policy and advocacy officer at Latinos for Education, a nonprofit group, said that administrators and educators who want to address racial disparities in college completion need to look at the entire system and take responsibility for their part in it.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning.

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ED Surge

MAY 16, 2023

The story started in 2015, after a student captured video on her cellphone of a white school resource officer violently flipping over a Black student in her desk and dragging her across the room before arresting her. A lawsuit that has been playing out in South Carolina offers a powerful example of the systemic issues involved.

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