The Hechinger Report

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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

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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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Working in Indonesia and Peru, we also use this research, and our close partnerships with local communities and organizations, to spur action that supports gender equality and the basic human right to water. For government authorities, we created policy briefs, translated into Bahasa Indonesian and Spanish. An estimated “1.8

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year.

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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

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

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

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. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

Mississippi is scrambling to qualify for a guarantee of up to $61 million to help families pay for child care after the federal government said the state must do more to train center workers and ensure it is paying centers adequately. In late June, Mississippi received a letter from the Administration for Children and Families at the U.S.

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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. The necessary learning happens on the job.

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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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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Their immersive stories will be screened at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on September 24 and 25, days on which heads of state and government from around the world will gather to comprehensively review progress in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 SDGs. Watch the MY World 360?

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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

JULY 22, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Experts haven’t typically worried about people with large student loan balances. In 2015, that unemployment rate had grown to 15 percent. He recommends that the federal government should cap the loan amount that graduate students and parents can borrow from the federal government.

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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

MAY 22, 2018

Recent events in Illinois, which froze its need-based aid program in 2015 due to a budget crisis, are instructive. Leave this field empty if you're human: “My friends and I have a hashtag we use — #TeamNoSleep,” said Ramirez, 24. Public colleges reported students dropping out, taking out bigger loans and cutting their course loads.

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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

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. Human beings who understand the discipline should be the ones doing that teaching.”. Weekly Update.

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APRIL 30, 2024

Between 2012 and 2015, thousands of P2P platforms emerged, only to crumble within a few years, destroying the life savings of countless middle-class families. Archived webpage (ppdai.com) on March 28, 2015, highlighting the high annual rate, professional services, and safety for investors if using their investment app.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

An 18-year-old attended an online high school in Detroit for young mothers, in 2015. Department of Health and Human Services. That’s a lot of people who don’t have good employment prospects, and are likely to need some form of government welfare. Photo: Erin Einhorn for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

A June report by New America Foundation and Rutgers University found substantial progress in home broadband access since 2015. We wanted to do something that would be a win for the community and schools,” says Carl Sheperis, dean of the College of Education and Human Development at Texas A&M University-San Antonio.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Delgado Community College in New Orleans, Louisiana, began construction on a new campus in the city’s West Bank community of Federal City in May. million in DBE contracts had been awarded as of March 2015. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Megan Hickerson: And I knew the humanities, because the humanities are always under attack these days, right? West Virginia’s enrollment is down by 10 percent since 2015. Rural voters are convinced that their communities get less government spending than they deserve. It’s contributing to anger and alienation.

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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. John Jones asks a question to his students in AP Human Geography on August 18, 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2019

Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics, described official figures confirming a “full recovery” in education spending in 2015-16, seven years after the recession. Los Angeles increased funding by 9 percent between 2014-15 and 2015-16. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Like McKneely, some educators, government officials and policy experts around the country say the coronavirus carries lessons for another global crisis of our time, climate change. Half of the 20 most destructive wildfires in state history have occurred since 2015. Alberto Carvalho, Miami-Dade superintendent.

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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

AUGUST 14, 2017

High schools, colleges and the federal government are not giving students the knowledge and skills they need to manage student debt. Related: Debt Without Degree: The human cost of college debt that becomes “purgatory”. This 2015 study by Georgetown University shows that there is a difference of $3.4 More should be done.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Automation affects workers around the world — nearly half of the employers surveyed by the World Economic Forum last year expected automation would reduce their workforce by 2022. As machines become more important, we need to get better at being human. Develop human skills. Weekly Update.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2018

Employers in the United States, and countries worldwide, face a critical shortage of professionals trained in protecting corporate and government computer networks and systems from cyberattack. As these attacks grow more frequent and sophisticated, jobs in information security are expected to skyrocket. will grow 28 percent by 2026. .”

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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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Department of Health and Human Services. It sends a message: The federal government does believe [physical education] should be part of a student’s education; it should be part of the school day.”. 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.,

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2019

We talked about the shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin in 2012, the murders at a historic black church in South Carolina in 2015, the mosque fires in California, and the synagogue shootings in Pittsburgh and Poway in the past six months. Though making significant change would mean legislative action in Washington, D.C.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Behind the storage unit sits a rectangular wooden box stuffed with bicycle tires filled with Silly Putty to replicate human intestines. We actually had to learn about the frogs,” said Jerry Vasquez, who started with the project when he was a sophomore in 2015. “We We were just four guys, we really didn’t know anything about it.”

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OCTOBER 9, 2024

Fatwa’ed by the Sultan, abolished by Atatürk In addition to the five standard daily prayers, Bektashis have two additional prayers, at dawn and dusk, for the welfare of all humanity. And in Albania itself, some see the plan first and foremost as a distraction from the domestic scandals that are plaguing Edi Rama’s government.

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