The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2023

State and local governments spent $113 billion subsidizing public universities and colleges and providing financial aid in the last fiscal year, according to the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association. The government and other sources, such as U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

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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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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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 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had experienced homelessness were 13 times more likely to have failed college courses and 11 times more likely to have withdrawn from them or failed to register.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

MARCH 7, 2018

Nekkita Beans, a Mississippi native and president of the University of Mississippi’s Black Student Union, stood center stage in a campus auditorium reading aloud the history of a group of men who fought to keep people like her enslaved, illiterate and, in many ways, invisible. OXFORD, Miss.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

For example, in the 2015 Kentucky gubernatorial election, when the voter turnout was a dismal 30.6 Our conversations with young people across the state reveal that even in high school government, history, and debate classes, most students remain in the dark in terms of their most local governance. Where did we go wrong?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

It also cut English chemistry, math, history, finance, accounting, art and other majors — 21 of them in all, or a third of everything it used to teach. Just after she finished the university cut the English program along with math, chemistry, biology, history. West Virginia’s enrollment is down by 10 percent since 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

They’d spent the past decade grappling with declining enrollments and weakening support from state governments. Many colleges and universities have a history of mismanaging their finances, increasing spending even as enrollments fell or going deeply into debt to construct new buildings. This story also appeared in NBC News.

Economics 145

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2019

Stewart Lockett (right, grey shirt) leads a meeting of the student government executive team in late January. His team is the most diverse student government the university has ever had. He dug through the bottom drawer and pulled out a student government flyer from five years earlier. Percentage point change, 2015–2016.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Four-year institutions charged , on average, $26,120 in tuition, board and other fees in 2015-16, compared with $5,504 in 1985-86. Approximately 80 percent of college degrees — including in the humanities that Hanrahan’s peers majored in, such as English and History — have labor market value, Carnevale says.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Before we can move forward to create equitable systems, we need our leaders in government to acknowledge and repair past wrongs. In 2015, a U.S. History tells us that we should not expect leaders at PWIs to lead the charge for funding reform. And that’s including Howard University.

Education 110

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

In 2015, a study revealed that one in five students on the Missouri side of the Kansas City region had moved at least once in a calendar year, and that students who changed schools had poorer attendance and lower achievement rates than students who hadn’t moved. They left there in 2015 and “that’s when we started the hotel-hopping thing.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

When the AP United States history students at Aragon High School in San Mateo California, scanned the professionally designed pages of www.minimumwage.com , most concluded that it was a solid, unbiased source of facts and analysis. Northport, N.Y., Photo: Janis Shachter. My students are all about social media.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2017

“Foundations and even the federal government look to HBCUs because our social and human capital produces innovation,” explains Deena Khalil, assistant professor at Howard University, colloquially referred to as “the Mecca” of black education in the United States. In 2015, a U.S.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

Yet, emphasizing young people’s capacity to aspire can also aid neoliberal governance by forging “aspiration nations” of hard-working, burdened youth with individualist imaginings of the future and obscured consciousness of the sources of inequality or collective power in addressing them.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

There are many complicated factors ranging from a deep-seated American reluctance to let government into family life to a commitment to taxes that are lower than many of our European counterparts, which makes spending on social programs difficult to justify. I dug into the history and research on Head Start. Little to Nothing.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

That has become increasingly crucial at a time when Americans’ faith in higher education is declining , governments are investing less money in it, and employers complain it’s producing too few graduates with skills they need. Jonathan Rees, professor of history, Colorado State University-Pueblo. Related: How to save the humanities?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

At the start of the 2015 school year, about 800 new students — the majority African-American—from schools in Oktibbeha County prepared for their first year in the newly consolidated Starkville Oktibbeha County Public School District. Jones came to Starkville High in 2015 from East Oktibbeha County High School. Photo: Nicole Lewis.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2019

Hanushek, an economist, believes that the inability to close the achievement gap shows the failure of our education policies to help the poor, especially the $26 billion a year the federal government spends on Title I funding on poor schools and for Head Start preschool programs. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2016

The evidence of American history is that in the absence of intentional policy choices we get more segregation – not less; we get more inequality – not less,” King said in a meeting curated by New Schools for New Orleans on July 2 during his visit to the Essence Festival. Rita’s Catholic School in New Orleans, Monday, Aug.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2018

When Victoria Sisk was an undergraduate student at Case Western Reserve University in 2015, she watched Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck deliver an online TED Talk about the power of having a “growth mindset,” a theory Dweck developed. The federal government is funding a $3.5 Photo: Kyle Spencer.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Mitch Askew, a history teacher at Flagstaff High School, marches with his two-year-old son. Together, they took jobs in Colorado, Haiti, and, eventually, Flagstaff, Arizona, where, in 2009, Askew enrolled in a master’s program in history at Northern Arizona University, and Jennie got a job teaching science at a local middle school.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

He was on the student council and debate team, took Advanced Placement classes in history and chemistry, speaks four languages, worked a corporate internship and played three sports: soccer, basketball and track. The figures are for 2015-16, the most recent year for which they are available. grade-point average.

Economics 112

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2017

Government Accountability Office found the percentage of all schools with racial or socio-economic isolation grew from 9 percent to 16 percent from 2001 to 2014. But racism is imparted not just by not just by what a state demands its students to learn; it’s also about what they don’t require — learning the true history of our country.

Economics 84

Economics Geography Civics History 84

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2018

In its 2015 report on TOPS , the state’s governing body for higher education found that “since 2005, the number of TOPS recipients that came from households with incomes of $150,000 or more has more than doubled; whereas, the number of recipients from lower-income households has remained relatively stagnant over time.”

Education 104

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

In 2015, the Idaho state legislature approved 19 incubator programs to explore the practice inside its schools. Government policy has also contributed to its adoption. Under the federal education bill passed in 2015, states are permitted to forgo single end-of-year subject tests and use more nuanced measures instead.

Middle School 110

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2017

“The university has incurred a liability that is potentially millions of dollars,” said James Finkelstein, professor emeritus of public policy at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government, who studies public universities’ presidential contracts. These are complex corporations that require real bold leadership.

Government 102

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

A 2015 survey by the Council of State Governments Justice Center found that only 13 states provided educational services for kids inside juvenile justice facilities that were comparable to those provided for kids outside of them. Its implementation has coincided with the rapid rise in course completions and diplomas awarded.

Social Studies 87

Social Studies Tradition American History Government 87

Strange Maps

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Baba Mondi (in white, with green hat) with representatives of Albania’s other religions, in Paris in 2015 to honor the victims of the terror attack on Charlie Hebdo. Baba Mondi (in white, with green hat) with representatives of Albania’s other religions, in Paris in 2015 to honor the victims of the terror attack on Charlie Hebdo.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In 2007, the federal government required that at least 50 percent of Head Start teachers have a bachelor’s by 2013. ( By 2015, almost 75 percent had bachelor’s degrees ). He uses what he learned in a course about the history and biology of Boston’s Charles River when designing science activities for his preschool classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

But after the episode at the hospital, the threat assessment team determined that AJ was an ongoing safety threat due to a history of “concerning behaviors,” according to the state investigation, which was prompted by a complaint Richmond filed with the Colorado Department of Education. In comments submitted to the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Still in its early stages, this ambitious project relies on a little-known public resource — a slice of electromagnetic spectrum the federal government long ago set aside for schools — called the Educational Broadband Service (EBS). Explaining why requires some history. Photo: Andrew Franco.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

Alfred “Red” Joseph, a senior history and philosophy major, and Lyndsi Burcham, a junior psychology major, stand outside Irvine Auditorium before the opening ceremony of the fourth annual 1vyG Conference at Penn, holding the SWAG given to attendees bearing theme “Focusing on the Future.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2019

Black and brown people are more exposed than white people because of educational issues and historic occupational histories. In fact, 80 percent of Mississippians who sought employment assistance in 2015 had less than a two-year degree. A place like Mississippi is heavily exposed.”. “As

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Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Official measures of multiple deprivation in each of the four nations of the UK are used to allocate billions of pounds of government money. This is important because their impacts are likely to be a partly a function of the deprivation history of an area (e.g.,

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