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Today, courses at all grade levels include Indigenous history, numeracy, land-based science and language classes in Keres, Lakota, Navajo, Tiwa, Spanish and Zuni. Discussions of tribal culture were limited to a few isolated craft projects during a history unit and inaccurate portrayals of Indians at the “First Thanksgiving,” he recalled.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

But in the Bronx, for example, the average caseload rose to 270 in 2016, up from 222 in 2015. The backup in Milwaukee is so severe that it is not uncommon for people to wait six weeks to get a first appointment to begin the eligibility process, said Cathy Steffke, an advocacy specialist at Disability Rights Wisconsin. “I

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Spokespeople from the schools say the criticism doesn’t reflect the fact that they often enroll students who are struggling academically, are enrolled for short periods, and have a history of changing schools frequently, a metric shown to hurt academic performance. They also say they are taking steps to improve retention and graduation rates.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

Rita Green, the Washington state education chair for the NAACP, volunteered on the parent-teacher group at Rainier Beach High from 2007 to 2016. Over the decades, however, local PTAs shifted their attention and efforts away from advocacy work to fundraising for individual schools. Credit: Dawn Larson.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2019

The United States’ ignoble history of segregation, housing and employment discrimination and a broken criminal justice system has kept millions of black people from supporting their families and robbed us of opportunities to create wealth. Related: White coaches pick the wrong side when they talk down to their black athletes.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2022

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. Related: Want your child to receive better reading help in public school? It might cost $7,500.

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The Hechinger Report

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

JULY 13, 2021

“Frankly, students didn’t lose anything, they just never had the opportunity to learn it,” said Allison Socol, an assistant director at The Education Trust, a nonprofit education research and advocacy organization. When given the opportunity, then they will succeed. And so we always talk about it as ‘unfinished learning.’ ”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

Meanwhile, at one of the tables in the hallway set up for kids working together, a girl named Silver Anderson said that doing three courses in Jaguar Academy (physical science, English and American history) gave her the schedule flexibility to meet with the band teacher on Friday mornings for an informal class in music theory and composition.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2017

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. 47 percent of graduates at Meadowbrook High School in rural Ohio enrolled in associate or bachelor’s degree programs in 2016, up from 28 percent in 2013.

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AUGUST 7, 2023

Louis, Missouri, she had a long history of disrupting her classes and getting into confrontations with teachers. In the 2015-2016 school year, Black students lost 103 days of learning per 100 students, 82 more days than their white peers. It wasn’t the first time Ventrese Curry’s granddaughter had gotten into trouble at school.

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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. As Alinsky (1971) notes in Rules for Radicals , “throughout history silences has been regarded as assent – in this case assent to the system” (x). Are they scholar-activists?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

Nancy Loome, executive director and founder of the Parents’ Campaign, a nonprofit and grassroots education advocacy organization. Uselton plans to put roughly $17 million from the district’s reserves toward covering the budget cuts, which means there will be less money for operating costs in 2016-17. Those options matter.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2020

But in the legislation’s almost 50-year history, the federal government has never fulfilled its promise to pay 40 percent of the average cost of educating students with disabilities. Meghan Whittaker, director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. And this gives us a chance to rethink that.”

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

People from those cultures have nuanced histories, perspectives, and experiences in the U.S. describes in her 2015 book “The Making of Asian America: A History”[iii] that the model minority stereotype has roots in World War II and the Cold War, then was proliferated in the 1980s in newspapers and magazines. iii] Lee, Erika, 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Students first learn about Mississippi history in fourth grade, and that’s the first time they are supposed to delve deeply into the history of the movement to end racial segregation and discrimination. The Civil Rights Movement is a case history of what it means to be American, and what it means to exercise constitutional rights.”.

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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

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. The nurse pulled out her grandson’s hospital attendance log. Public-school Failures. Photo: Imani Khayyam.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Voters banned it again in 1998, only reversing the latest prohibition in 2016. California has removed the official barriers to offering this type of instruction since 2016, and the state now champions bilingualism and biliteracy, encouraging all students to strive for both. Her home state could have kept pace with Texas. But it didnt.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

After the 2016 election, Jefferson started to become more politically aware. Since the information was being filtered through history and politics lessons, it meant he was learning about how an amendment changed women’s right to vote or how Andrew Jackson was able to mobilize the popular vote in the 19th century.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

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. After the 2016 presidential election in which Donald Trump was declared winner, that feeling has gotten more intense for educators, he said. .

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2020

Families who earn more than poverty-level wages but still live on a subsistence budget account for about 33 million American households, according to Laura Bruno, a spokesperson for United for ALICE , a research and advocacy organization focused on America’s working poor. They’re not going to take my license away.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Mattivi, whose eighth-grade English students discuss articles about the environment, civic life, and American history after using online literacy programs that provide similar material at different reading levels. I could never go back to the old model,” says Ms. But computers are expensive.

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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. But he also sees in the school’s decline a long history of white leaders, conservative and liberal, repeatedly asking black families to accept failure for their children. As racial separation in U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2024

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. Despite the category name, it is not designed to include porn.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2021

Despite this history, Brown, like many of his colleagues, said a bill requiring schools to provide suicide prevention education to students was legislative overreach. In November, 2020, Cossaboon and the Youth For Justice students started their advocacy in their home district before taking the issue to the legislature.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

The city itself has had a scrappy commitment to existence in its 123-year history, surviving the boom and bust of the timber industry that first gave it life and weathering the 21st century with a fairly steady population of about 2,500. Johnson started at Collins in 2016 as an assistant principal and took the top job in 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

There is a long history of underinvesting in education — and economic opportunity operations as a whole — within the department,” Cloud said. An advocacy group called Veterans Education Success (VES) has collected 113 more from veterans and service members, many of which echo Baca’s criticisms about quality and cost. “I

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2017

Homeschooling mom Andrea Forte, right, pauses in her reading to answer a question from her daughter, Elena Forte, left, during Elena and her brother Devon’s language arts and history class time upstairs in the Forte family home on Aug. 11, 2014 in Wake Forest, N.C. Wire photo: © Harry Lynch/TNS/ZUMA Wire. By 2012, about 1.8

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

President-elect Donald Trump looks on as Betsy DeVos, his nominee for Secretary of Education, speaks at the DeltaPlex Arena, December 9, 2016 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In Indiana, thanks to DeVos’ funding of advocacy organizations and her financial contributions to political campaigns, then-Gov. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

history, and knew none of the literature her peers had read years earlier. Parents described how their children couldnt tell the difference between North and South America and, despite BIE regulations requiring Native culture in all curriculum areas, the students never had a class in Havasupai culture, history or language.

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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

history, Americans may be about to elect a president whose signature issue is early childhood. “If As a young attorney, she worked for the Children’s Defense Fund, an advocacy group. This story is the last story in a six-part series about how little the United States invests in the education of young children. Read the whole series.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2017

President-elect Donald Trump looks on as Betsy DeVos, his nominee for Secretary of Education, speaks at the DeltaPlex Arena, December 9, 2016 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. At The Hechinger Report , we are no fans of the obscure language educators use to talk about a public good, one we consider enormously important to our history and future.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

That proportion was up by more than 8 percentage points from 2016 , and has been closing in on the voting rate for adults of all ages. A survey in 2016 found that one in five students who were registered to vote but didn’t cast ballots said it was because they had issues with or didn’t think they could use their IDs. Census Bureau.

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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. Related: Become a lifelong learner.

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