The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Advocacy focused on math disabilities has been less widespread than that for reading disabilities. In 2015 and 2016, the city spent $6 million to roll out a new math curriculum featuring games, building blocks, art projects and songs. There is also a deep-seated societal belief that some people have a natural aptitude for math.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

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. I wrote a piece about these concerns back in 2015 in the early days of the new free lunch option. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Weekly Update.

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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. Subconsciously, we turn to our teachers to make us better human beings and we look forward to experiences that they will give us. I want to use my master’s degree to change that.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Several recent surveys show that employers need multilingual workers; a study by New American Economy, a bipartisan immigration policy group, found that the number of job postings seeking bilingual employees doubled from 2010 to 2015. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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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

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: It’s not too often people announce big problems solved. We saw the first big leap of results in the 2015-16 year,” Marwell remembered. “I EducationSuperHighway’s advocacy supported the district’s efforts perfectly. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

“Because we are a coastal community prone to hurricanes, a coastal community prone to the arrival of literally dozens of thousands of children, immigrants,” Carvalho said, “we have naturally adapted to dealing with crises whether they are human crises, environmental crises or health crises.”. Alberto Carvalho, Miami-Dade superintendent.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: But after years working seasonal jobs sorting equipment at the local Ford plant and dealing blackjack at nearby casinos, Perez wanted to rise to a management position — and she couldn’t without a bachelor’s degree. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Department of Health and Human Services. At least we’re at the table now,” said Carly Wright, advocacy director for SHAPE. “It Leave this field empty if you're human: “The goal is to get kids moving throughout the school day,” Hillman said. In the U.S., Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

The transparency mandate was tucked into the 2015 update of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act but didn’t require states to report that data until June 30 of this year. Longtime advocates of this federal transparency mandate hope the new data will spur more widespread advocacy. She is at Ronald D.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Candace Cortiella, the director of The Advocacy Institute. And that’s not the case,” said Candace Cortiella, the director of The Advocacy Institute, a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., Leave this field empty if you're human: The accuracy of these numbers, though, is fuzzy. that works on behalf of people with disabilities. “A

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: “Stuff like this is hard, but there’s no question colleges and universities could be doing better for these students,” Thompson said. Department of Education ; the figures are for 2015-16, the most recent period available. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

There’s a $32 million glass-fronted complex near completion that will house the nursing program and administrative offices, and a new $11 million recreation center that will also have a lab to study kinesiology, or human movement. TAMU-Texarkana may be the smallest of the system’s 11 campuses, but it’s been growing steadily. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Among those standards is the one that governs who provides these classes. That’s what happened at the University of California, Santa Cruz, which in a 2015 draft strategic plan said it was “ asking every program on campus to review its degree requirements and, where possible, to reduce them.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

Since 2015, when Florida State University began to counsel incoming freshmen on the wisdom of 15 credits, those who took the advice have actually earned higher G.P.A.’s. Archaeology of Human Origins” may sound interesting, but if you wait too long to focus on your economics major, you may not get in all the requirements you need.

Archaeology 69

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

According to a 2015 report by the advocacy non-profit Child Care Aware, the average cost of center-based infant care in Louisiana—one of the four poorest states in the nation—was roughly $110 a week in 2014. Moreover, in Louisiana, 2 percent was put toward childcare in 2015, down from 34 percent in 2000.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

The Children’s Defense Fund (CDF), a nonprofit child advocacy and research organization, has been fighting for more financial support for relatives caring for children outside of the formal system for years. That’s a common restriction nationwide. But, according to the CDF’s Sprow, the fight is hard to win. It gives the U.S.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

describes in her 2015 book “The Making of Asian America: A History”[iii] that the model minority stereotype has roots in World War II and the Cold War, then was proliferated in the 1980s in newspapers and magazines. Does this mean that Florida is safe for Asian folks but not for Black and queer folks?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2021

Middle school, that’s when you’re figuring out how to be a human,” Gallegos said. “We In a recent survey drawing responses from 1,219 teachers and conducted by the charter schools advocacy organization the Thomas B. School discipline, she said, has been handed to police, who make “welfare checks” on students who miss online classes.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

Michael Arsham, executive director of ACS’s Office of Advocacy, which responds to complaints from those involved in the child welfare system, said the agency acknowledges that hotline calls from schools do not always contain serious safety concerns, and it is working more closely with the education department to minimize needless reporting.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In the 2015-16 school year, none of the social studies textbooks listed for use in the state’s fourth grade classroom was published before 2005. I tried to use it as an opportunity for the students, to get them to care about history and about human rights around the world.”. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Leave this field empty if you're human: “Too often in this country, we’re sticking to the middle and mediocrity,” said Elissa Stein, a former PTA co-president at Brooklyn Tech, the Fort Greene specialized high school with more than 5,500 students, who now runs an advisory service for public school parents. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Right away, King called the Department of Human Services, which oversees the state’s child care office. It was shut down again a year later in 2015 when a surprise inspection of Manu-Lee’s home found her with 14 children in her care, eight of them infants — four times the legal number of infants for a home-based provider.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

The analysis used federal enrollment data for the 2015-16 school year, the most recent year for which that data is available from the U.S. These schools represented one in 10 charters operating during the 2015-16 school year. Leave this field empty if you're human: By June of 2005, Jackson had left the district. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: The model has elicited spirited accolades from pro-business conservatives and centrist Democrats. Former President Barack Obama’s Department of Education embraced the idea in the 2015 education bill known as the Every Student Succeeds Act, which paved the way for the federal grants.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Personalized learning argues that the entrepreneurial nature of the knowledge economy and the gaping need, diversity and unmanageable size of a typical public school classroom are ill-served by the usual arrangement of a teacher lecturing at a blackboard. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report Following Meryl’s death, Ketron decided to continue her daughter’s advocacy. The law also limits instruction on and discussion of human sexuality and gender identity in schools. A separate section of the law bans gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth in the state.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2020

In fact, the federal government provided child care subsidies to just one in six children eligible to receive them in 2015, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Department of Health and Human Services. Department of Health and Human Services. Credit: Photo: Lillian Mongeau/Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2017

Eight transgender people have died this year, and 22 transgender people died last year in the United States because of violence , according to the Human Rights Campaign. It was the most ever recorded, according to the advocacy group. The 2015 call from a number of national groups proposes just that.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2017

A recent Associated Press analysis of national school enrollment data found that “as of school year 2014-2015, more than 1,000 of the nation’s 6,747 charter schools had minority enrollment of at least 99 percent, and the number has been rising steadily.”. Charters didn’t cause segregation, but they sure aren’t helping matters. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

Department of Health and Human Services deems “affordable.” Leave this field empty if you're human: “This whole notion of a targeted program is a really American thing,” Cascio said. is a founding member, but just 66 percent of 4-year-olds were enrolled in school here in 2015. Choose as many newsletters as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Despite all his struggles emotionally, he remained on track academically. Part of the Every Student Succeeds Act passed in 2015, it requires states – many for the first time this year – to reveal publicly how much money each school gets per student. Choose as many newsletters as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

A high school social studies book, also used in Texas, says of rising temperatures, “Some critics say that this warming is just part of the Earth’s natural cycle,” though, in truth, there’s overwhelming consensus among climate scientists that the current warming is due to human activities. It’s much stronger than a hypothesis,” wrote another.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

He’s the president of Heterodox Academy, a nonpartisan advocacy group of academics working to counteract what it sees as a lack of viewpoint diversity on college campuses, especially when it comes to political diversity. I recently sat down with John Tomasi. But they invited him anyway. That kind of thing had happened before.

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