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. Source: The Census Bureau’s 2016 Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs. Source: IPEDS 2016-17.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In recent years, the group’s advocacy has led to changes in the district’s graduation requirements, to align them with admissions requirements for California’s university systems, and an expansion of funding for an after-school meal program that had been cut by the school board. Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

I also definitely want to be heavily involved in advocacy for young black youth, or, for youth in general, and just promoting student leadership. They don’t just want to learn physics, AP Vocabulary, and whatever else you’re teaching them. Student interviews were carried out during the 2015-2016, 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 school years.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 29, 2019

According to Census Bureau data from 2016, nearly 82 percent of all households in the U.S. Hear a teacher’s experience with cultivating agency and self-advocacy in her students to better understand what they needed from their learning environment. have an internet subscription of some kind.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2019

Santos began her teaching career in a facility for students found guilty of criminal offenses; in the nearly two decades since, she has been a teacher and administrator in various schools. Yet, according to a 2016 press release from the U.S. They teach children to read, write, and compute.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2023

Soon, employees from one of the world’s most influential companies will arrive to teach these students about computer science: how to program computer games, how to work with data and how to found and run a business. The 2016 Ghost Ship fire that claimed 36 lives occurred a few blocks from the Code Next lab.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

When we break it down for them, they’re shocked,” said Andrea Cardinal, a lecturer who teaches art and design at the University of Michigan, which she also attended. “I The numbers are surprising and important because they’re true,” said Lawless, who teaches academic writing and freshman composition at Front Range Community College.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A majority of states have passed laws that mandate screening early elementary students for the most common reading disability, dyslexia, and countless districts train teachers how to recognize and teach struggling readers. Advocacy focused on math disabilities has been less widespread than that for reading disabilities.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

As a result of this new attitude, at least 14 state legislatures considered new laws in 2016 that would increase the amount of physical education or recess schools are required to offer or raise the bar for qualifications for physical education teachers, according to a 2016 report by the Society for Health and Physical Educators (SHAPE).

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Cruz, who had worked for several years teaching kids with autism in a special needs classroom, noticed the shifts and, suspecting that they might signal a speech delay, promptly reported them to Jonathan’s pediatrician. The nonprofit offers workshops, one-to-one advocacy, and a monthly Spanish-speaking support group for families.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Since then, the numbers have slipped to the single digits, with just 5 percent of the class of 2016 finishing within six years, according to a data analysis from the charter school network. Barraza teaches Native literature at the Native American Community Academy in Albuquerque. Credit: Sharon Chischilly for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

Now a team of five researchers from Rutgers University in collaboration with the Education Law Center, a nonprofit advocacy organization, has created a complicated model that predicts how much money it would cost each school district in America to get its students to reach average test scores in math and reading, as recorded from 2013 to 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

As of 2016, Louisiana and 23 other states had alternative diploma or certificate options specifically for students with disabilities, each state with its own system. Candace Cortiella, the director of The Advocacy Institute. They “didn’t bring up his ability to do the work,” Comeaux said of that January 2016 meeting.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The number of institutions that have adopted this approach “is still a small group,” said Maria Flynn, president and CEO of the advocacy group Jobs for the Future, or JFF, which has announced a $5 million competition to develop more rapid-reskilling programs that reduce training time by at least 50 percent for well-paid occupations.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

In 2016, California had 33 racially identifiable white charters, Texas was home to 19 and Michigan, 14. In 2016, Cobb worked to push Lake Oconee to agree to accept a more equitable manner of determining funding for the charter school.) In 2016, Southwest Georgia STEM Charter School launched in Randolph County.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Murphy teaches business education at a middle school in a neighboring county. But after enrolling Ernest Jr., she and her husband began noticing that he was receiving only 15 to 20 minutes of live instruction in each of his four classes: English, math, history and science.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

The nation’s school districts spend about $46 billion less per year on facility upkeep than is needed to maintain “healthy and safe” learning environments, according to a 2016 report from the 21st Century School Fund, a research and advocacy organization. He added, “We aren’t asking for a bigger weight room.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

After attending the district’s schools and inheriting a love of teaching from her mother, she went to college and put her degree to work in her hometown. Johnson started at Collins in 2016 as an assistant principal and took the top job in 2020. But Barron sees a resulting improvement in teaching. “I That mindset has gone away.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

The goal is to stop tethering teaching to “seat time” — where students are grouped by age and taught at a uniform, semester pace — and instead adopt competency-based education, in which students progress through skills and concepts by demonstrating proficiency. According to Baesler, however, “We were too often teaching to a test.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2017

In schools across Mississippi, teachers are focusing more on teaching basic reading skills in early grades to make sure students are ready to pass the third-grade reading exam. Literacy coaches are being used statewide to help teachers teach literacy and boost reading scores. Photo: Jackie Mader. Photo: Jackie Mader.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

Texas A&M University at Texarkana has one of the lowest retention rates of public higher-education institutions; 55 percent who started in 2012 were gone by 2016. The line between Texas and Arkansas in front of the bi-state federal building, which straddles both. Photo: AP photo/Jeannie Nuss. Many students balance college and jobs.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

He finds it easy to teach himself with online content as his guide. But while computers are the heart of Summit’s model, they’re designed to play a supporting role in teaching kids, not take center stage. It also has teaching tips and resources, progress-tracking capabilities, and guides for mentoring — a key component of the program.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Jennifer Pokempner, director of child welfare policy at Juvenile Law Center, a legal advocacy group in Philadelphia, said the Seita program is “seen as a model.” He graduated from JW Sexton High School, a STEM-focused magnet school, in 2016. But Tinai, who wants to move to D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

That’s in part because the net price, or the amount students actually pay after discounts and financial aid, has increased nearly twice as fast for graduate as for undergraduate programs in the 10 years ending in 2016. Related : One state uses data about job needs to help decide what colleges should teach. Thomas are $42,190 a year.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Much of the advocacy for net-zero buildings has focused on environmental and economic incentives. Supporting these efforts, the Department of Energy published a how-to report on building net-zero K-12 schools in 2016 and created a “Zero-Energy Schools Accelerator” program to give districts technical guidance.

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All Things Pedagogical

JULY 10, 2024

Now it is not a coincidence really that 2 of the 4 people on this panel really are not in any sort of teaching roles anymore and are doing more alt-ac work. So this takes me to where my activism and advocacy started from and it is Ruskin, yes problematic fav Ruskin. Where we are now is very far from where we were almost two years ago.

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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. Employees are the biggest expense for a school or district, but officials say it’s difficult to cut teaching staff without hurting the quality of instruction. Not anymore. The national average is about 20.4

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

The school’s 2016-17 $9,618,184 budget, which is shared with the Mississippi School for the Blind, is roughly $330,000 less than last year’s budget. Yet, like schools across the rest of the state, MSD is facing budget cuts this year. “They’re not broken,” she said. Deaf Identity.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Though the faculty teach the courses and the universities control admission standards and confer the graduates’ degrees, much of the work of building and managing the courses is done by the companies. GMU is one of a number of schools across the country that have faced challenges from faculty advocacy groups over these partnerships.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

At Montpelier High School, in Vermont’s capital city, teachers spent years defining the school’s “proficiencies” and rewriting their lesson plans to highlight those core objectives in the lead-up to the transition in 2016, when all grades and classes switched to a proficiency-based model at once. Elizabeth Hewitt for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

“We can’t leave behind families who need more assistance to close that financial gap,” said Ian Rosenblum, the executive director of Education Trust–New York, a nonprofit education advocacy group that published a report about the Excelsior Scholarship. Related: In one country, anger over soaring college costs has led to violent protest.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2024

Massachusetts has seen nine nonprofit colleges close or merge since 2016, giving it the rather dubious honor of being first in the nation for nonprofit college closings. One is where a student is attending an institution that has a teach-out plan, or something similar between the closing institution and another college.

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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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Meghan Whittaker, director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. I don’t think anyone’s going to say that what we were doing worked or was equitable,” said Meghan Whittaker, the director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. Here’s why they’re not.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

During the pandemic, parents at the John Stanford International School spent $249,999 — one dollar less than the school district allows before the board steps in to review such spending — on teaching assistants for a dual language program. The school’s PTSA had zero assets or income as of 2018, according to a local public radio report. “I

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