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Women’s History Month should have a place for teachers

The Hechinger Report

Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images. Given that teachers are charged with imparting the contributions of women to their students throughout Women’s History Month, a special place should be reserved during March for the women teachers who go unrecognized. during the 2015-16 school year were women.

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Students sick of ‘lip service’ from universities over racism

The Hechinger Report

Torrey enrolled at the university fully aware that the student body president had been called the same epithet in 2015; she hoped things had changed. A University of Missouri spokesperson said that since 2015 it had increased faculty diversity and raised graduation rates “among underrepresented minorities.”.

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A shocking number of young people can’t separate fact from fiction online

The Hechinger Report

The researchers created 56 tasks for students in 12 states, and collected 7,804 student responses from January 2015 until June 2016. In the coming months, Stanford’s History Education Group plans to release materials to help teachers do so. Never have we had so much information at our fingertips,” the study’s authors wrote.

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Eligible for job and college aid, half of Tennesseans with disabilities get nothing

The Hechinger Report

In Tennessee, however, half of the residents found eligible for VR services in 2015 didn’t get any, according to federal data. Yet the state left $14 million in federal VR dollars on the table in 2015 and again in 2016, even as the agency temporarily shut its doors to new clients. More than 40 percent of counselor positions are vacant.

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Schools bar Native students from wearing traditional regalia at graduation

The Hechinger Report

Schools have a long history of policing Native students’ graduation attire, often citing longstanding policies that all students must look alike and that deviations from the standard cap and gown are distracting. It is not a place that allows us to embrace who we are.”.

Tradition 145
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Eligible but got nothing: Hundreds of thousands of people with disabilities blocked from college aid

The Hechinger Report

In 20 states, more than one-third of cases stretched past the 90-day limit in 2015. But in the Bronx, for example, the average caseload rose to 270 in 2016, up from 222 in 2015. Statewide, 30 percent of casework-related staff left between 2012 and 2015, according to a state audit. Close to 14,000 cases stretched past a year.

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PROOF POINTS: Could more time in school help students after the pandemic?

The Hechinger Report

Because students missed so much instruction during the pandemic, teachers should get extra time to fill all those instructional holes, from teaching mathematical percents and zoological classifications to discussing literary metaphors and American history. The program was studied in 27 schools in seven states between 2010 and 2015.

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