The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

It’s where districts and schools decide to spend their money,” Worth, a veteran educator who has also taught in Greene County’s traditional public schools, explained. Many charters hire teachers who don’t belong to a teachers union or haven’t gone through a traditional teacher preparation program, for example.

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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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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

MARCH 7, 2018

In 2015, after the school agreed to remove the state flag with its Confederate emblem from campus, students and alumni formed the Our State Flag Foundation to bring the flag back. That to me is how you fully reconcile,” said McNeil, a member of the university’s student government who was born in Grenada, Mississippi.

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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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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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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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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.

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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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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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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

MAY 2, 2018

Their second child, a boy, was born in November, 2015, and, because the school district provides no paid parental leave, they refinanced their house and took out a loan to buy time with their newborn. The strikes are thus partly about reclaiming a sense of professional pride and middle-class stature.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

million people live in places where state officials took over entire districts or individual schools in the past six years, according to News21 data collected from state government agencies. The manager was given all the powers of the local governing board. It just was a big change, was having to lose a school that was our tradition.”.

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Charter School Public School Government High School 75

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.

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Civics Economics Government Tradition 65

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Giving parents choices beyond the school closest to home would open the door to innovation and put pressure on traditional schools to improve, these advocates argue. A 2015 NZCER survey found just 18 percent of parents or guardians of New Zealand high schoolers said they looked at a school’s annual test scores when choosing a school.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

And eighth-grade co-teachers Abby Jolma and Toni Giebel let kids sit on wobbly chairs — short stools with a curved base — yoga balls, or traditional chairs while they learn math and science. Teacher Travis Olsen has an exercise bike in the back of his seventh-grade science classroom that kids are welcome to use whenever they feel the need.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

In this April 28, 2015 file photo, students wait outside Everest College in Industry, Calif., The number of students aged 25 to 35 will rise 20 percent by 2022, and the number over 35 will increase 23 percent, the federal government estimates. billion default judgment against Corinthian Colleges Inc.,

Economics 60

Economics Government Tradition Education 60

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

That’s the number one obstacle,” said Blaine Dauzat, who became Avoyelles superintendent in 2015. Locals worry that some families’ ability to opt out of the traditional schools has diverted resources from the kids who need the most help. In 2019, the share of white students in the parish’s traditional public schools was 46 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2016

As the children sat cross-legged on a large round rug decorated with illustrations of kids from around the world wearing traditional clothing, Rivera led them in their good morning song, sung to the tune of “Frère Jacques.” “Are you going to sign your name in all by yourself?”.

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