ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

Now she wants others to learn that history. He noted that many of the challenges began well before he came on in 2015. Lewis cut more than 40 positions from the district’s central office between 2015 and 2018, about a third of all central office employees. Lewis said he’s aware the leadership changes have been frustrating.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. I also definitely want to be heavily involved in advocacy for young black youth, or, for youth in general, and just promoting student leadership. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Derrick Fields, 9, works on his assignment during a Spanish-language history lesson at Sherman Elementary School in San Diego, California. This was pretty normal stuff for a fourth grade history lesson, except for one thing: The entire lesson — from the textbooks to the teacher’s instructions to the students’ short essays — was in Spanish.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

It is designed to expose students to organizational skills, peer support and leadership activities. A 2017 study by the Houston Independent School District, for example, found that students participating in AVID in 2015-16 enrolled in higher-level courses and received higher scores on AP exams and on standardized tests than those who did not.

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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

OCTOBER 15, 2018

For instance, a 2015 analysis of Harvard law school graduates found that women who had not become partners in a firm had fewer mentors during their first five years than either women partners, or men who had not achieved partnership status. And not having a mentor can slow career progression.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2017

Because local unions can reflect the racial attitudes of the confined geographic area, leadership and involvement from the national-level group is almost always necessary. We plant the seeds of racism when all children don’t learn black history, which is a question of policy about state academic standards.

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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. 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. It’s the narrative we want to change.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It had always been his plan, and he had no reason to doubt it: He’d earned a full scholarship to college and acceptance into a leadership program designed to attract and retain Black male teachers. In 2015, 25 states required teacher candidates to pass a basic skills test for admission into a preparation program. asks James.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2017

These are complex corporations that require real bold leadership. Cullerton dismisses the idea that oversight like this would discourage top candidates from applying for presidential posts in Illinois, an argument that was brought against a similar bill he proposed unsuccessfully in 2015. These are highly sought-after jobs,” he said.

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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2016

Derrick Fields, 9, works on his assignment during a Spanish-language history lesson at Sherman Elementary School in San Diego, California. This was pretty normal stuff for a fourth grade history lesson, except for one thing: The entire lesson — from the textbooks to the teacher’s instructions to the students’ short essays — was in Spanish.

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Charter School K-12 Elementary School Public School 81

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2019

Last fall, after the university’s admissions team worked to craft a more intentional recruiting plan, officials say they enrolled the most diverse freshman class in LSU’s nearly 160-year history. Percentage point change, 2015–2016. Significant changes in disparities for African-American students. Flagship institution.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

There were also many articles on Chalcatzingo and the place of Olmecs in Mesoamerican history. He continued to produce more articles and book chapters, and was a fixture at professional meetings until 2015, when Parkinson’s disease began to slow him down.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Out of 14 scheduled visits, dating from October 2014 to June 2015, the hospital counted Jacob as a “no show” for nine of them. Kast has a long history of distrust with the district, alleging physical and verbal abuse and racial discrimination against her grandchildren by teachers there—her grandchildren are all half-black, and Kast is white.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Morales started out as an elementary-school teacher, then switched to academic counseling, which she’s done at LA High for the past eleven years; Martinez worked there, too, teaching history and social studies, until six years ago, when he was transferred to another high school in the district.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

But he spoke up in Romantic Literature, and he helped other students with their African American Religious History papers. In the fall of 2015, after Williams failed a third semester, she began to question whether college was the surest path to the life she wanted. When the semester ended in late 2015, Williams withdrew from Delgado.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2017

Parker Charter Essential School in Devens, Massachusetts, believe multiage education fosters cooperation and collaboration between students, like these ninth- and 10th-graders working together on a Holocaust-related history project. Photo: Stuart Miller. DEVENS, Mass. — It looks like a typical class in a suburban high school.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2019

Brian Beabout, an associate professor of educational leadership at the University of New Orleans, said there needs to be a balance between this kind of activism and citywide needs. But she doesn’t think they should be closed, especially schools with storied histories like McDonogh 35.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2016

Many times during the course of its history it’s been underfunded and run into issues of quality,” Lombardi said. Leadership capacity at the small local agencies that receive federal grants to run Head Start also varies. You’ve got tremendous potential, but it’s time for us to fully fund it.”. Photo: Lillian Mongeau.

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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. Because of the involvement of senior leadership,” she said, “Cal Poly Humboldt’s was the easiest by far.” Are you sure?” she said she asked them.

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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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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Her vision, leadership, and bravery made possible the integration of Central High School in 1957. Not only is Bates important to the history of Central High’s integration, she is also a significant figure in the national Civil Rights Movement. In his recent history of the modern Civil Rights Movement, historian Thomas E.

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Oral History Library History American History 105

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

While the university’s grim history has been known for years, it was only in 2015 that Georgetown President John DeGioia announced the formation of a Working Group on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation to “establish a dialogue on Georgetown’s historical ties to the institution of slavery.” It’s been a long time coming.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

In history, students might pick historical characters and analyze major events of their era from the character’s perspective. It’s hard to hear above the two dozen students in Charles Willis’s class The History of Revere, which looks at how the community, first settled in the 1630s, has changed over time.

Teaching 112

Teaching Oral History High School Sociology 112

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

Backers of the takeover of Houston Independent School District say it’s needed to improve performance in a few schools in low-income neighborhoods that have a history of poor academic outcomes. HISD leadership is a disaster…. It failed on a 5-4 vote. On January 3, Gov. Abbott responded with a scathing tweet : “What a joke.

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Charter School High School Professional Development Government 98

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2020

Marc Levine, emeritus professor of history, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Universities and colleges spun off 11,000 startups between 1996 and 2015 — an average of 550 per year — according to the Association of University Technology Managers, or AUTM, whose members oversee what is known as technology transfer. “It

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The courage and bravery that shamanic plants offer—succinctly captured by the Spanish word valor—are prized qualities within Shuar conceptions of personhood and leadership. By the time I arrived in Ecuador for fieldwork in 2015, however, the general mood throughout the region was acrimonious. He dismissed my worries.

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Economics Government Leadership History 127

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2024

I’m principal of a high school with a well-known name, only because it’s the site of one of the most devastating school shootings in recent American history: Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The number of incidents has been rising dramatically since 2015. The harsh reality is that school shootings have become alarmingly routine.

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Civics American History High School Professional Development 122

ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

For months, they’d been crafting plans to reframe their school’s curriculum around the United Nations sustainable development goals , 17 lofty targets that world leaders named as priorities in 2015 that include zero hunger, gender equality, and clean water and sanitation for everyone on Earth. teens won’t arrive for a while.

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High School Leadership Public School Charter School 117

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Losing a college is “like a death,” said Heather Maietta, a professor of higher education leadership at Regis College in Massachusetts who has studied the impact of college closures. It was the best example of mission-based education,” said Anne White-O’Hara, 64, a history professor who taught at Marygrove for 31 years.

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Government History High School Leadership 92

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

“The idea behind Fair Student Funding was that the driver for school budgets was student characteristics, rather than the type of school,” said David Bloomfield, a professor of Education Leadership at Brooklyn College. “By David Bloomfield, a professor of Education Leadership at Brooklyn College.

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High School Leadership Tutoring Public School 73

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Ghosts aside, Johnson, who retired as president of the Detroit Federation of Teachers in 2015, had plenty of true and truly troubling stories of more recent vintage that speak to Detroiters’ struggle to provide decent spaces for learning. School staff worried they and the students were exposed to toxic mold.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

She is also the co-author of White Backlash: Immigration, Race and American Politics (with Zoltan Hajnal), published by Princeton University Press in 2015. It received APSA’s Ralphe Bunche Award for the best book on Race and Politics in 2015. Two of his books received the William Riker award for the best book on political economy.

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Political Science Social Science Economics Government 72

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

They’re constantly looked over for promotions and leadership opportunities, or pigeonholed into disciplinarian roles. It was his dream, and he began teaching the course a couple years before debates about teaching Black history and critical race theory swept the nation. He was voted Blythewood High’s 2015-16 Teacher of the Year.

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Education Elementary School High School Leadership 141

The Hechinger Report

MAY 14, 2018

She enrolled in the fall of 2015, and immediately felt at home, she recalled. “I Between 2000 and 2015, the college-going rate among Hispanic high school graduates grew from 22 to 37 percent, according to the U.S. From 2013 to 2015, the achievement gap between white and Hispanic students at Salem State averaged 1.5

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