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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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What We Can Learn From Red States' Approaches to Child Care Challenges

ED Surge

In September 2024, EdNCs early childhood team attended The Hunt Institute's 2024 Early Childhood Leadership Summit , which included teams from all 50 states comprised of senior elected officials, gubernatorial staff, mayors, local elected leaders, and key early childhood system leaders.

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Many state flagship universities leave black and Latino students behind

The Hechinger Report

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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Retraining an entire state’s elementary teachers in the science of reading

The Hechinger Report

Erin Roberts, a teacher leadership specialist. 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.

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It’s not that you don’t have enough money, it’s that you don’t spend it wisely

Dangerously Irrelevant

All sports, all clubs, all leadership opportunities… Why are you angry? That bonus you didn’t get at work (aka Iowa education reform in 2015). State department educational policy advocacy: “Evidence-based” or puffery? We can do better! Let’s cut extracurriculars while we’re at it. Related Posts.

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Beyond the Classroom: Building Faculty Capacity for Success: Virtual Workshop

Political Science Now

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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STUDENT VOICES: Kids bring into school what they’re dealing with at home. Teachers don’t get that

The Hechinger Report

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. Sign up for our newsletters.