ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2023

Code Next was launched by Google in 2016 in response to the stubbornly low numbers of people of color working in tech — only 3 percent of Google’s tech employees were Black or Latino back in 2014. It’s a cultural hub and one of the city’s most diverse neighborhoods. And that in turn affects people’s career choices.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Since then, the average age of diagnosis in some communities has dropped by roughly a year and a half, according to a 2016 study by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx. They don’t speak the language; they don’t understand the culture, the routines—all of that invisible stuff that we take for granted.

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JUNE 4, 2019

So in 2016 she headed back to the 42-acre campus near Gary’s dilapidated downtown to study for a degree in general studies. “I Between 1996 and 2016, their share of overall college enrollment rose from 8 to 19 percent , according to the U.S. I have two little ones and their dads don’t help me,” said Perez, 45. Census Bureau.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2019

It’s that fewer than one in five of adults in the entire surrounding Humphreys County have at least an associate degree, according to census data analyzed by the nonprofit advocacy organization Complete Tennessee. Related: Economics, culture and distance conspire to keep rural nonwhites from higher educations.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

percent decline in course offerings between 2013 and 2016. It is treated as this extra piece that is not a central part of education,” said Amanda Seewald, president-elect of the Joint National Committee for Languages and the National Council for Languages and International Studies, a legislative advocacy group. Mississippi Learning.

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AUGUST 16, 2016

Amal Abdi at her high school graduation in June, 2016. College Possible is one of many college advocacy groups hoping that technology will jumpstart the slow growth of low-income students in higher education. Lauderdale, Florida, July 2016. Lauderdale, Florida, July 2016. Photo: Hajira Dahir. Photo: Esteban Gil.

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OCTOBER 16, 2023

Advocacy focused on math disabilities has been less widespread than that for reading disabilities. A lot of times, [parents] let it go for a long time because it’s culturally acceptable to be bad at math,” said Heather Brand, a math specialist and operations manager for the tutoring organization Made for Math.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

But as the movement against seat-time learning grows, more schools nationwide will be grappling with grade levels, deciding whether to keep them or to hack through thickets of political, logistical and cultural barriers to uproot them. Others, however, echo Northern Cass superintendent, Cory Steiner. School District.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In just a few short years, the school has managed to create a culture in which going to college is becoming the norm rather than the exception. And from 2013 to 2016, the number of its graduates enrolling in associate or bachelor’s degree programs rose dramatically, from 28 percent to 47 percent, according to school officials.

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MARCH 29, 2018

“This is self-perpetuating,” said the superintendent, Patrick Sánchez, who is trying to change that culture and hangs out with students as a mentor and a coach. Related: Economics, culture and distance conspire to keep rural nonwhites from higher educations. “The scope of this problem is huge.”

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OCTOBER 27, 2016

That argument can only help propel support for young Hispanics aspiring to go to college, said Deborah Santiago, co-founder and vice president for policy at the advocacy organization Excelencia in Education. But clearly there is a college-going culture among the Hispanic population.”.

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APRIL 26, 2019

So unrelentingly are the cards stacked against them that only 694 high school graduates from all of Puerto Rico went to college on the mainland or abroad in 2016 , the last year for which the figure is available from the U.S. million, only 694 high school graduates from all of Puerto Rico went to college on the mainland or abroad in 2016.

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JUNE 14, 2023

Decades of chronic underfunding is often at the root of the struggles in districts like Cleveland to serve high proportions of Black and Latino students from low-income backgrounds, said Allison Rose Socol, a vice president at The Education Trust, an education advocacy group.

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All Things Pedagogical

JULY 10, 2024

So this takes me to where my activism and advocacy started from and it is Ruskin, yes problematic fav Ruskin. If you are interested in this further, look up bureaucratic plagiarism (Martin, 2016), and thanks to Sarah Eaton for highlighting this in her STLHE keynote (see that’s how you do ethical citational acknowledgment).

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2017

That argument can only help propel support for young Hispanics aspiring to go to college, said Deborah Santiago, co-founder and vice president for policy at the advocacy organization Excelencia in Education. But clearly there is a college-going culture among the Hispanic population.”.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The first was the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting, where a gunman killed 49 people at an LGBTQ+ club in Orlando. Instead, lasting change likely requires sustained advocacy, legal protections, and broader cultural shifts that keep these issues visible beyond moments of crisis.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

But within those blanket terms to describe “minorities” are dozens of cultures with unique heritages, ethnicities, and geographic locations. People from those cultures have nuanced histories, perspectives, and experiences in the U.S. who are not white. and in its schools. Claire Jean Kim, Ph.D., What Can Education Leaders Do?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

A 2016 civil complaint filed with the federal Department of Education includes an allegation that a Success school in Manhattan initiated an ACS investigation against the mother of a 6-year-old as part of an effort to encourage her to send him to another school. Institutions for foster kids aren’t doing enough to educate them. Out of options.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

August 9, 2016, was a good day for Phil Heasley, the CEO of a financial services company in Florida. August 22, 2016, was a bad day for Phil Heasley. His advocacy for the polygraph backfired when he testified in defense of James Frye , a Black man who had recanted a murder confession.

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OCTOBER 1, 2017

The Hechinger Report and Reveal asked the state for a list of the primary textbooks used by every public school in all 148 Mississippi districts during the 2016-17 school year. Creel also plans to ask her students to write blues poetry — which she considers a cultural gift from the Mississippi Delta to the rest of the world.

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MARCH 29, 2021

She succeeded Rick Simpson, who served nine speakers, from 1991 to 2016, advising them and other Democratic caucus members on education policy. When you’re the only one, you don’t have much choice but to conform to the culture. When there are many of you, you get to shape the culture.” Hers is a distinctly powerful position.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

He died in 2016. I would bet my life that they are nowhere near the end of their growth,” said Andrew Berman, the executive director of the nonprofit advocacy group Village Preservation. Nick Sprayregen owned self-storage warehouses in West Harlem and fought Columbia’s efforts to buy his properties. After then-Gov.

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DECEMBER 9, 2024

As the grandchild of Mexican immigrants, she didnt find her language or culture welcome in the school. Little Mexican girls see their culture celebrated on the walls of every classroom. Voters banned it again in 1998, only reversing the latest prohibition in 2016. But little Brbara didnt get her way. But it didnt.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

After the 2016 election, Jefferson started to become more politically aware. Later on, Ta opened an email from their school that mentioned the Kentucky Student Voice Team, a state-level group that was started in 2012 to bring students into the advocacy process. It seemed like good resume padding, Ta says.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2022

After the 2016 presidential election in which Donald Trump was declared winner, that feeling has gotten more intense for educators, he said. “Preston Thorne was a unique piece of what made our school culture so great,” she said. Tackling Teacher Shortages.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

In 2016 not a single child at “North,” as locals call it, tested proficient in math according to the state’s education department. Fuller launched his chief advocacy arm for school choice, the Institute for the Transformation of Learning, housed at Marquette University, more than two decades ago. The trade-off.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2024

Yet as the culture wars play out in U.S. At the same time, the filter allows Rockwood students to see anti-LGBTQ+ information online from fundamentalist Christian group Focus on the Family and the Alliance Defending Freedom, a legal nonprofit the Southern Poverty Law Center labeled an anti-LGBTQ+ hate group in 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2021

We’ve run into challenges where legislators are reluctant to pass an unfunded mandate,” said Nicole Gibson, the senior director for state policy and grassroots advocacy at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. That’s important in Utah, which shares a border and a good deal of culture with Wyoming.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

He also pitched a new, five-year strategic direction that will emphasize tribal sovereignty and cultural education both promises the bureau made in its reform agenda more than a decade ago. They led culture and language classes, and Siyuja still owns a copy of the Havasupai dictionary they gifted her as a child.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Bills that restrict trans students from playing on sports teams that correspond with their gender identity have been introduced in 36 states in 2021 and have passed in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Mississippi, Montana, Tennessee and West Virginia, according to the legislative tracker run by the advocacy group Freedom For All Americans.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 25, 2025

Cultural Values and Economic Priorities: The not-so-shocking Rise of Latino Support for Trump by Andrea Silva , University of North Texas Trends in Latino Voting Behavior What factors explain the increasing support for Trump and other Republican candidates among Latino voters from 2016 to 2024?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Donald Trump’s administration was known for its advocacy of school choice, but that wasn’t something he talked much about on the campaign trail in 2015 or 2016; it only came into focus with his selection of Betsy DeVos as secretary of education.

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