The Hechinger Report

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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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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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.

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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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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

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

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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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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The Hechinger Report

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

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

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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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

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.”

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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.

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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

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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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

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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The Hechinger Report

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

JULY 2, 2020

Hechinger reporters knocked on the doors of more than a dozen home-based child cares in western and northern Michigan and found many providers struggling to survive themselves: Child care workers often live near the poverty level and say they get insufficient government support. Department of Health and Human Services.

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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.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

For about 29 years, Pell funding had been largely prohibited for individuals who are incarcerated, with the exception of a small federal pilot program that debuted in 2015. Being the first program the federal government authorized to use Pell Grants for incarcerated men put a spotlight on Humboldt’s work.

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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.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

The medical assistant program was overwhelming — she was working full time and raising a family — but she graduated in 2015, at a cost of $10,000. Employers who rely on technology — a group that includes most manufacturers, many retailers and the government — are chasing the same workers. to undergraduate students?pursuing

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Mainstreaming Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services into Decision-Making Analyzes how the IPBES framework can guide policy and decision-making processes in planning and governance. Source: Environmental Policy and Governance, 2021. Source: Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2018. Source: Land Use Policy, 2016. Arico, S., Báldi, A.,

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

Once a school identifies a student as homeless, the federal government requires districts to pay to transport the student to their preferred school, regardless of cost or distance. School districts also receive state grants to boost what little, if any, money they get from the federal government to find and support unhoused kids.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2018

Recent events in Illinois, which froze its need-based aid program in 2015 due to a budget crisis, are instructive. In 2017, for the first time ever, public colleges and universities in more than half of the states (28) relied more on tuition dollars than on government appropriations, according to a recent report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

And government oversight is lacking. According to a national 2015 study, on a single day in 2013, the most recent comprehensive data available, kids in those facilities numbered 55,916, 37 percent below the figure for 2004. Overdose deaths in the northwestern Pennsylvania county rose by 300 percent between 2015 and mid-2017.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

This exchange, covered by The Hechinger Report in January 2015 , was not a stand-alone event. “I talk to him from the time he gets up until the time he goes to bed. It’s something we’re already doing, but we’ll do it even more.”. They’ve also handed out more than a million books since launching in 2013, Miller said.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2021

We analyzed College Scorecard data and found that students from the lowest-income households who entered for-profit institutions in 2007 or 2008 were earning less than $25,000 per year, on average, as of 2015. That’s significantly less than students who attended public or private nonprofit colleges.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

History class during the 2014-2015 academic year. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year. Gariecia Rose: a current World History and Government/American Law teacher at Glenbard East High School in Lombard, Illinois. Victoria Kosiba: a current seventh, eighth, and ninth grade U.S. Victoria was in my U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2023

” Credit: Noah Willman for the Hechinger Report The rules that govern these barriers to entry are patchwork, scattered across federal, state and regulatory codes, and they can vary from field to field within a state. That means some people are inadvertently steered toward training programs that, for them, are dead ends.

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