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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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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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APRIL 29, 2024

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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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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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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The Hechinger Report

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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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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

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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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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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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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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

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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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

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

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

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

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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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

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

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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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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2019

The debt-forgiveness program was announced at a gathering of organizations focused on improving higher education outcomes, hosted by the philanthropic Lumina Foundation. Black women earn just 61 cents for every dollar earned by their white male counterparts, according to analysis by the nonprofit advocacy group Equal Pay Today.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

How much does it cost to educate a child? Within the state of Illinois, a wealthy district typically spends $3,400 more than a poor district, according to a February 2018 study by The Education Trust, a nonprofit group that conducts research and advocates for low-income students. Educational system is deteriorating. Baker et al.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. Candace Cortiella, the director of The Advocacy Institute. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem.

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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

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. About three-quarters of Colorado jobs will require some education beyond high school by 2020, Baer said.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2019

candidate at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, noticed how schools across the country were handing out perfect attendance certificates as a way to motivate students to show up. Higher Education. at a March 2019 conference of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness. In 2014, Carly Robinson, a Ph.D.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

The series was produced by The Hechinger Report and Columbia Journalism School’s Teacher Project , nonprofit news organizations focused on education coverage, in partnership with Slate Magazine. This story is part of a series that looks at what makes the 2-year-old year so critical and what could be done to better support toddlers in America.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Experts say early educators are key to developing early math knowledge and noticing potential delays in math. Nobody uses the proper term for it, it’s not diagnosed frequently,” said Sandra Elliott, a former special education teacher and current chief academic officer at TouchMath, a multisensory math program. 17 at 8 p.m.

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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. Department of Education. In 2016, California had 33 racially identifiable white charters, Texas was home to 19 and Michigan, 14. Board of Education decision.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2022

This flaw in higher education is not obscure; it is codified into federal law. However, for students transitioning from under-resourced high schools, and without self-advocacy skills, legal knowledge or access to medical resources and insurance, pursuing accommodations in college can be daunting, prolonged and expensive.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The school’s website promised a “rigorous education experience” delivered by highly qualified teachers. the nation’s biggest for-profit operator of charters, enrollment grew by 45 percent, to almost 157,000, and revenues in its general education division rose 37 percent. Nemergut enrolled all three girls. At Stride Inc.,

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2021

While conventional education institutions have long offered what they call short-term training, what they often mean by that is “shorter than it takes to get a degree.” Joe Battista, Valencia College’s vice president for global, professional and continuing education. “There’s just no way. There’s just no way.

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