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Kathryn Meyer, left, attorney at the Center for Children’s Advocacy, and Christiana Mills, are part of the Yale Child Student Center in New Haven, Connecticut. RELATED: Low academic expectations and poor support for special education students are ‘hurting their future’ The post-COVID data shows that New Haven is far from alone.

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DECEMBER 4, 2016

He took honors physics in 11th grade and earned a general education diploma, even though his cerebral palsy classified him as a special education student. 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. NASHVILLE, Tenn.

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JULY 2, 2021

Will Hubbard, the interim chief policy officer at the advocacy group Veterans Education Success, said a veteran is different from someone actively serving, but it’s impossible to decouple the two. We understand that a person has very many intersecting identities – race, culture, ethnicity, social class, education,” Grohowski said.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

That was just when the state was in the midst of seven straight years of cutting its budget for higher education during and after the recession, or at best keeping spending level. Whether in response to the students’ arguments or not, the state did, in fact, raise spending for higher education for the coming 2016-2017 year, by 2.5

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The study, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning , was produced by researchers at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. The researchers created 56 tasks for students in 12 states, and collected 7,804 student responses from January 2015 until June 2016. Read more about Blended Learning.

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JANUARY 24, 2020

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Mississippi Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Monday with trends and top stories about education in Mississippi. Higher Education. A partial explanation: The 2016 report didn’t include districts classified by the U.S.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As a math educator at the high school and middle school levels, I lived for the moments when students’ furrowed brows ever-so-slightly began to unfold and smiles emerged. They offer an invitation to analyze how mathematics can be applied to promote civic engagement, advocacy, policy change and increased access to resources.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

Department of Education promise, and many are calling for an urgent push for help, including through legislation and a marshalling of resources from institutions like libraries and groups such as AmeriCorps. It’s a terrible time for anyone who counted on that U.S.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 4, 2019

Educators, businesses, and researchers agree: today’s students require a new set of skills to thrive as productive citizens. What began in Pittsburgh in 2016 has now expanded to new regions across the country, through a partnership with Remake Learning, PBS Kids, and Digital Promise. Spark curiosity and learning for youth.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

. Imagine hundreds of thousands of parents protesting the ways in which schools educate their children. Indeed, in 2016, the U.S. Department of Education warned 11 states that their opt-out rates exceeded five percent. Moreover, the movement has yet to form an advocacy arm that calls for specific changes and a reform agenda.

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DECEMBER 10, 2022

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! Phil Murphy’s desk for a signature. .

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. The newly released National Education Technology Plan from the U.S. Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

As the country undergoes a period of historic racial reckoning, with nearly every sector of society examining its role in racial injustice, higher education needs to do the same. Department of Education’s Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) program. Her book, “Pregnant Girl,” will be released May 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

In response to rising numbers of homeless youth here, state legislators passed a bill in 2016 that freed up money to enable schools to identify more students as homeless and get them into stable housing — even if they aren’t viewed as homeless by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. Public schools identified 1.1

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MAY 12, 2021

Nearly all higher education institutions withhold transcripts from students who have even the smallest of balances, according to the higher education consulting firm Ithaka S+R, which has estimated that about 6.6 And a coalition of advocacy groups in New York is pushing for legislation there like California’s.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

No more simply “sitting on your butt in class,” as one educator put it. We have to engage in a movement,” Susan Patrick, CEO of the nonprofit advocacy group known as iNACOL (International Association for K-12 Online Learning), told the cheering crowd of 3,000 true believers. Why are we so stuck in an age-based, grade-based era?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Hernandez, who plans to enter California State University at Northridge in the fall to study computer science, is part of a big increase in California in the proportion of Hispanics who graduate from high school, reflecting an effort to get more of them to go on to higher educations. Deborah Santiago, CEO, Excelencia in Education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2017

For more than 40 years, federal law has required schools to identify and evaluate students with dyslexia and to provide them with an appropriate education. The flurry of new state laws over the past five years is in large part the result of pressure from Decoding Dyslexia, a parent advocacy group with chapters in all 50 states.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 29, 2019

It removes barriers to learning materials, supports students where they are across varied learning contexts and needs, and gives educators more insight into the learning environments they’re creating. Students and educators have more tools to create a learning environment that fosters personalized learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2019

His “quiet and relentless advocacy brought hundreds of African Americans into space industry jobs in the Deep South, helping to shift perceptions of black people in ways both subtle and profound,” wrote Michael Fletcher in the story. Underrepresentation Based on Education. Source: IPEDS 2016-17. Trade Industry. Manufacturing.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2018

The Kawerak Head Start center in Nome, Alaska is the only option parents have when it comes to early childhood education there. In 2015-16, 68 percent of rural families with a child enrolled in Head Start received a family service including job training, parenting education, and substance abuse prevention through the program. .

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2018

In most states, the aid program comes from the general fund, and once it’s gone, it’s gone,” said Sarah Pingel, senior policy analyst at the Education Commission of the States. At least 1,000 students who had initially been awarded a Monetary Award Program (MAP) grant, only to have it cut, didn’t return for the 2016 spring semester.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Higher Education newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Thursday with trends and top stories about higher education. higher education landscape. percent in 2016. Subscribe today! percent in 2000 to 39.2

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, on a September speaking tour, told students she felt they mostly “just follow the same schedule, the same routine — just waiting to be saved by the bell” and that the U.S. Higher Education. What would you say is one thing that needs to be fixed currently about public education? Student Voices.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Related: Eliminating funding that supports educators? Subscribe today! That’s no way to cut the federal budget.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

By many measures, schools here made big gains under Gordon and the ambitious 11-year effort to overhaul the education system that he helped create. The effects of poverty on education make further gains a daunting challenge. Bibb’s press spokesperson referred questions to Holly Trifiro, the city’s chief education officer.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Above the fireplace hangs a portrait of her daughter Emily, who overdosed in 2016 after a years-long struggle with a heroin addiction. But for grandparents raising grandchildren, that’s not possible, said Jaia Peterson Lent, deputy executive director of Generations United, a nonprofit advocacy group. Clough is one of roughly 2.4

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Now they are demanding a greater role in school policy and the decisions that shape their educations. They are also seeking to use this moment to educate teens about elections and voting and turn them into lifelong voters. “The Andrew Brennen, National Geographic education fellow. Credit: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Some VR agencies work well; counselors respond promptly to applications and help clients further their education and secure employment. The delays lead to missed job and educational opportunities and longer government dependence, all at a cost to taxpayers. Cathy Steffke, an advocacy specialist at Disability Rights Wisconsin.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2024

She began her college education in her early 20s, balancing it with raising two sons and working retail jobs. Keischa Taylor, who began her college education in her 20s, balanced it with raising two sons and working retail jobs. You’ve got this. You didn’t come this far to stop. It’s a rare success story. More than a third of the 40.4

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Everyone has a physical education class, called “phy-ed” here, at least twice a week. Thirty years of focus on increasing academic minutes in the school day has resulted in reduced recess and physical education time at many schools. At least we’re at the table now,” said Carly Wright, advocacy director for SHAPE. “It

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education. 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. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Universities, including Columbia, pay tax on properties they own that are not used for educational purposes.) The state’s tax breaks for nonprofits date to 1799, long before Columbia and other higher education institutions became vast enterprises with billion-dollar endowments. He died in 2016. Civic project’ or ‘land grab’?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

It coincides with what polls disclose is falling public confidence in higher education. Higher education has become a popular public target. And a Gallup poll found that more than half of Americans have only some, or very little, confidence in higher education. We decided this was something we wanted to make noise about.”.

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APRIL 26, 2022

Much like bus drivers and custodians, substitutes have long been among the lowest-paid workers in education but remain critical to keeping schools open day to day. Substitute teachers are an essential part of education. in December, policymakers and education leaders took desperate measures to shore up the pool of eligible substitutes.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2019

during the 2015-16 school year were women, according the data compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics. Educational occupations with the highest concentration of women are among the lowest paid, according to a 2013 report published by the National Survey of Early Care and Education.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

When Karli Hinman enrolled at Stony Brook University in fall 2018, she knew her family couldn’t help her pay to continue her education. As of fall 2022, Stony Brook is one of 33 higher ed institutions where students can apply for money through a local FAST Fund to help cover an education expense or address a basic life need.

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