Sapiens

OCTOBER 30, 2024

But our research on firewood gathering by Diné people shows the federal government can do more to ensure the promises of equitable co-management. Since 2015, our research team has been part of a collaborative project that’s trying to better understand the significance and challenges of wood-hauling practices for Indigenous communities.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Project Title:Exploring Indigenous Governance and Cultural Evolution in Oaxaca, Mexico Mauricio Fernndez Duque, Dartmouth College Mauricio Fernndez Duque is an assistant professor at CIDE and a visiting scholar at Dartmouth. Read about the funded projects.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Those are the most recent available admission figures reported to the federal government, and do not include institutions with open admission, which take 100 percent of applicants. The median acceptance rate at bachelor’s degree-granting universities and colleges was 7.6 percentage points higher in 2022 than it was in 2012, AEI found.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 22, 2015

As we close 2015, I invite you to join me in reflecting on the year's events, our accomplishments and in looking forward to the year ahead. Also in 2015, we extended our Verizon Innovative Learning Schools initiative to 21 middle schools nationwide.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

The group purposefully uses language to help the public understand that drugs belong to one of two categories: those that are approved for consumption by a government agency and those that are not. Consider the NHRC’s use of the phrase “licit and illicit” in principle 1. Stenhouse Publishers. Hutt, E. & & Schneider, J.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

In a 2017 study by the American Council on Education, a higher education association, researchers found that individuals who identified as something other than white held just 17 percent of college and university presidencies in 2016, while representing 42 percent of students enrolled in 2015.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Like Jehovahs Witness congregations in the rest of the world, Kombela Central Mandarin Congregation is governed by local elders in charge of pastoral work, selecting speakers, and directing public preaching. September 2015. September 2015. Summers Coal Mine, Southern Province, Zambia.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Reengaging the role of government. With shifts in policy and administrations, the field is poised to better partner with government at the federal, state, and local level. Government has the opportunity to invest in ecosystem-building at a time of critical need. Centering equity.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2020

The nation’s highest spending school districts tend to be wealthy white suburbs whose education spending increased at a faster rate than other school districts between 2000 and 2015, according to a May 2020 study by a Penn State researcher. Why we should care about high levels of education spending among the rich is a matter of debate.

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DECEMBER 4, 2016

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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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Some teachers get some of that money back: Several states provide at least partial reimbursement for these expenses and the federal government allows a $250 tax deduction, according to Alyssa Evans, a policy researcher at the Education Commission of the States. In Nevada, for instance, the state created a $4.5

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

No school governance model is predominant. It’s also clear that the laws governing school improvement must be revisited and strengthened. While district policies can provide opportunities for improving student achievement, our results suggest that this impact varies widely and requires strong school-level leadership and effort.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Using their parents’ tax information, students typically fill out the FAFSA using its online form; this year, the federal government made the FAFSA available Oct. . “It pushes the city and overall state to increase more young people to get to college,” Jones said about the proclamation. 1, instead of Jan. But only 42.8

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Hispanic teachers numbered more than 335,000 and the number of non-white teachers surpassed 760,000 in the 2015-16 school year. He and his colleagues have since updated these findings twice, in 2014 and now in 2018 , with data through the 2015-2016 , which recently became available. This 2015-16 data shows that 20 percent of the 3.8

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

We already have good evidence that school and college rankings can distort normal educational processes , reinforcing social hierarchies that govern who enrolls in a school , how those students are treated and what happens to them thereafter. Even “global authorities” can screw up! Related: Do U.S. colleges reinforce or reduce inequality?

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MARCH 22, 2023

When she needed money to start college, she was advised to borrow from a private lender instead of the federal government and, because of that, she’s stuck with $81,000 debt. I’m frustrated, because, what can I do? I’d be in the same position as these other people had my loans been federal, period,” said Luciano, who is now 37.

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JUNE 16, 2021

It means the government failed in their effort to ‘kill the Indian and save the man’ … Our family ties, cultural ties, ties to our land are strong.”. Related: As coronavirus ravaged Indian Country, the federal government failed its schools. It is not a place that allows us to embrace who we are.”.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

In 20 states, more than one-third of cases stretched past the 90-day limit in 2015. The delays lead to missed job and educational opportunities and longer government dependence, all at a cost to taxpayers. But in the Bronx, for example, the average caseload rose to 270 in 2016, up from 222 in 2015.

Advocacy 111

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

The average performance of the nation’s fourth- and eighth-graders mostly held steady in math and reading from 2015 to 2017, now marking a decade of stalled educational progress, according to the results of a test released Tuesday. The one exception was eighth-grade reading, with the average score rising by one point between 2015 and 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Reagan’s dismantling of the War on Poverty was preceded by targeted use of racially loaded “welfare queen” rhetoric in many of his speeches, an assertion that Black people would rather live off the government dole than try to find jobs and support their families.

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MAY 12, 2024

They also called education “the most important function of state and local governments,” the “very foundation of good citizenship” and “a principal instrument in awakening the child to cultural values [and] in preparing him for later professional training.” Department of Education from 2015 to 2017 This story about Brown v.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2018

Contrary to NCES’ latest report about the decline this decade, in April NCES stated there had been a 35 percent increase in college students aged 25 to 34 between 2001 and 2015. Between 2015 and 2026, enrollment is projected to increase 11 percent. These learners, Viar points out, are likely to increase as the U.S.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 5, 2015

Imagine that you are a policymaker who is generally anti-government, anti-union, and pro-privatization. reduce existing revenue streams in order to bolster claims of fiscal hardship (bonus: less government!). That bonus you didn’t get at work (aka Iowa education reform in 2015). So you’ve got a challenge. Related Posts.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In 2015, while conducting anthropological fieldwork in eastern Indonesia, a member of our team (Cole) heard local women discussing how water shortages were triggering arguments between partners. For government authorities, we created policy briefs, translated into Bahasa Indonesian and Spanish.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

High school graduation rates have soared in recent years, hitting a new record of 84 percent for 2015-16 in the most recent federal government count, but there are still millions of Americans who didn’t get a diploma in high school. Hilliard, Center for an Urban Future. Map created by Jill Barshay/Hechinger Report.

High School 109

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government. Things … the government does affect us, but we can’t vote,” she said.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 5, 2024

Anna Lenardson If you ask Anna Lenardson, a 2023 graduate of Ashland University’s Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program , why she enrolled in the challenging program, she replies, “I love to learn. I loved being with other teachers, talking about history and government.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The 2018 reauthorization of the federal law that governs career and technical education mandated racial data be reported as well. Yet CTE advocates have long had concerns — but little proof — about inequities that lie beneath the surface. Previously, the Department of Education only reported enrollment in CTE career areas by gender.

Education 143

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

million public school students were identified as gifted in 2015-16, about 6 percent of the total school population, according to the federal Department of Education. percent, were considered gifted in 2015-16. School administrators often see gifted education as a frill. Nationally, 3.3 The Hechinger Report’s analysis of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2019

According to a 2018 study from the Center for American Progress , “if Black and Hispanic bachelor’s degree recipients were as likely to major in engineering as white students, this country would have produced 20,000 more engineers from 2013 through 2015.”. We must create an inclusive culture. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2023

A 2015 study found that students who had experienced homelessness were 13 times more likely to have failed college courses and 11 times more likely to have withdrawn from them or failed to register. In 2015, the state required some colleges to allow them to stay in dorms over academic breaks for free. But holes remain.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2020

million students dropped out of college with debt in 2015 and 2016. The federal government invested a lot of money in new students,” said Shapiro. The 2009 Recovery Act increased the amount of Pell Grants to low-income students to more than $5,000 per year and expanded the number of students who were eligible for it.

History 137

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2020

Robert Slavin, who directs the Center for Research and Reform in Education at Johns Hopkins University, started Evidence for ESSA in 2016 to help schools decide if companies meet the evidence standards laid out in the 2015 federal education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act. There’s more evidence of what doesn’t work.”

Research 145

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

My tribal nation, commonly known as the Soo Tribe, holds a sovereign-to-sovereign relationship with the United States government. The issue becomes more complex, however, when generational differences and government terminology are taken into account. government continues to use the term when naming policies and executive agencies.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2020

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.”.

Advocacy 145

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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. Yet only half of these eligible schools in Missouri chose to participate because the federal government doesn’t reimburse for the full cost of the meals until more than 62.5 percent of the students are in public assistance programs.

Advocacy 105

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

Fourth-grade students who reported using tablets in “all or almost all” classes scored 14 points lower on the reading portion of a test administered by the federal government than students who reported “never” using classroom tablets. That’s the equivalent of a year of education or an entire grade level.

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