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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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

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

JANUARY 22, 2018

An 18-year-old attended an online high school in Detroit for young mothers, in 2015. Only 53 percent of women in their twenties who first became mothers when they were teenagers completed a traditional high school degree, according to a January 2018 report released by the nonprofit research organization Child Trends. See bar chart.).

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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

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

OCTOBER 27, 2016

This tendency gives conservative legislators, adverse to big-government, further ammunition to deny adequate funding to traditional districts like JPS. In 2015, Reimagine Prep opened its doors to one class of 5th graders. million during the 2015-16 academic year due to funds diverted to charters.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

While I was in Rajasthan, studying Indias traditional mud stove ( chulha in Hindi), women who use it, and those looking to improve it, I started a conversation about my research with a kitchen goods retailer in a small-town market. Government agencies and NGOs promote cookstoves for women with the promise of reducing drudgery.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2023

Despite the presence of a nearby government school, Sodi’s son and two daughters study at the Assembly of God Church in the Indian border town of Rupaidiha, where Sodi himself once studied. The curriculum for grades one through 10 has been developed, says Tripathi, who has worked with the government on this project.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Foreign investors working with the Ecuadorean government started planning to extract minerals in the region on an industrial scale in the early 2000s. Since then, most of the promises that investors and government leaders made have soured; very little economic growth is visible among Shuar communities.

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Anthropology News

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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Dangerously Irrelevant

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Unlike traditional trade or vocational schools that historically have prepared students for ‘blue collar’ jobs, the CAPS model immerses students in ‘white collar’ professional settings. In the process they stretch and grow and gain new skills that can’t be learned in traditional classrooms. Related Posts. Replication or empowerment?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Moheeb is part of a new program that is challenging the way teachers and students think about academics, and his school is one of hundreds that have done away with traditional letter grades inside their classrooms. In 2015, the Idaho state legislature approved 19 incubator programs to explore the practice inside its schools.

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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

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

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 ). An ongoing preschool expansion project in Massachusetts, funded by a federal grant in 2014, required all lead preschool teachers to have a bachelor’s.

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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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Digital Promise

JULY 17, 2017

Like the Ark of the Covenant at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark, this report was lost in the vast government archives, but I saved a copy and it has influenced the way I currently see efficacy research and behavioral science research writ large. References: Lane, Norman E. Army Research Laboratory Scientific Services Program, TCN 93-176.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

While teachers still provide some instruction, students also get to take classes online, and they have the option of moving through the coursework at a faster pace than traditional school schedules allow. Some District 428 students earn double the number of credits common in a traditional academic year.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The bond-rating agency Moody’s says the closure rate of two- and four-year private, nonprofit institutions reached 11 per year between 2015 and 2017. At least 22 private, nonprofit four-year institutions have closed since 2013, and 16 have merged, according to the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

He likes the self-paced curriculum that allows students to complete a course in significantly less time than at a traditional school. Part of Altus Schools, a network of K-12 alternative charter schools in Southern California, it even won recognition from the federal government for its operation.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

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. Nicholas Jacobs: I’m an assistant professor of government at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. It’s contributing to anger and alienation.

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2022

In 2015, I wrote a book responding to the declining-enrollment crisis faced by many small liberal arts colleges throughout the country. Soaring operational expenses and shrinking government support has led to higher attendance costs for students, and as a result, to lower enrollment numbers.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Scores also dropped between 2013 and 2015. Leslie Muldoon, executive director of the National Assessment Governing Board, which jointly oversees the the test along with NCES, called the bleak score report “frustrating and difficult to understand” because of all the efforts to improve education. Florida falls back.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Educator preparation is moving in this direction and taking a major step to becoming a profession governed by agreed upon standards that are both enforced and regulated by a system of assessment that is reliable and valid. Performance assessment is now required for program completion, licensure or program approval in more than 20 states.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2018

And while new requirements in the 2015 federal law governing education, the Every Student Succeeds Act , are designed to help this population, a Hechinger Report/HuffPost survey has found that many states are not living up to the law’s promise. Nebraska’s graduation rate for 2015-16, the most recent year available, was 51.4

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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.

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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

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. Eastern Washington in general and Gordon in particular were determined to turn that around.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

The two had spent nearly seven years designing a new kind of high school meant to address the needs of students who didn’t thrive in a traditional setting. We thought our big contribution could be laying out how to do this in the traditional public school environment,” Resnick said. Powderhouse isn’t the only XQ Super School to falter.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2021

In Colorado, most of the child care programs working with Early Learning Ventures have almost doubled their revenue since joining the partnership, said Sue Renner, executive director of the David & Laura Merage Foundation, which launched Early Learning Ventures in 2008 and became an Early Head Start-Child Care partnership grantee in 2015.

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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. 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.

Archiving 74

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

high school with a traditional diploma, proving that his disability didn’t prevent him from meeting the same standards as his peers. It would require roughly $18 billion in additional funding for the federal government to fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

High School 111

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2016

By 1992, DoD and the military services had implemented the Military Childcare Act of 1989 and rules were in place that created a premier childcare system that has received numerous positive citations and kudos from both the government and the private sector. How did the military achieve this transformation?

Economics 75

Economics Government Tradition Public School 75

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

The state-run Recovery School District governed most of the charter schools in New Orleans at the time. The Orleans Parish School Board, which controlled all city schools before Hurricane Katrina, was responsible for a small number of high-performing traditional and charter schools. Photo: Sharon Lurye/The Hechinger Report.

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Charter School Education Government Tradition 80

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Albuquerque Public Schools is a member of Mission: Graduate, an initiative of the United Way of Central New Mexico that brings together schools, government agencies, businesses, nonprofits and community members to collectively work toward common education goals. And a core element of its initiative is raising awareness about the problem.

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Elementary School Public School Cultures Leadership 96

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

They are careful to clarify that these forecasts are not meant to be read as “predictions,” but rather “insights about the wide range of possibilities for what might happen in the future,” as Jason Swanson wrote at the end of 2015 , kicking off a blog series looking back at how much of their first forecast became a reality.

Civics 63

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