The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Even though this crucial completion figure hit 84 percent in 2016, up from 71 percent in 2001, the nation is off pace when it comes to reaching a graduation rate of 90 percent by 2020. Young people represent untapped potential in a nation that needs their talents — socially, economically and civically.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

A group of civil rights organizations, including the NAACP Boston Branch, the Greater Boston Latino Network, the Asian Pacific Islanders Civic Action Network and the Asian American Resource Workshop, as well as three families of color, are intervening in the lawsuit to try to uphold the new admissions process.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

But, with an eye toward local accountability and sustainability, the program demanded that the bulk of the heavy lifting, both financial and strategic, be done through a collaboration among city and education officials, community organizations, civic groups and local philanthropy. The real Say Yes story will be told in 20 years.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

In 2013, 7,758 were enrolled, and in 2016 that number fell to 3,944. She says retaining teachers is as much a problem as attracting them if not more so because the decline of manufacturing jobs in her area has created a downward economic spiral, and teachers want to live where their spouses can find jobs.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Young citizens need civics education to understand their constitutionally guaranteed rights. The best civics teachers also help students learn the skills they need to protect their rights. Kymberli Wregglesworth, a 2016 MAHG graduate, teaches Civics, World history and social studies electives at Onaway High School in Michigan.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The effect is the same — forging partnerships with the city and local organizations to invest in the economic development of the community,” she said in a statement. Civic project’ or ‘land grab’? A lawsuit briefly halted the Bollinger plan because judges agreed it was not a “civic project.” He died in 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

It not only scuttled our trip, but both the pandemic and the economic fallout hit our majority minority students hard. Last April, as the coronavirus swept through the city, our students and their relatives, many of whom work front-line jobs, were especially vulnerable to the health and economic devastation befalling New York.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Not long after Cortez Moss accepted the job as principal of Quitman County Middle School in 2016, he realized that his first months would be devoted nearly entirely to teacher recruitment. A Delta district is 114 times more likely to have a shortage than a non-Delta district, according to recent study in the 2017 Mississippi Economic Review.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

DETROIT — Taking a trip down memory lane from the sidewalk in front of Western International High School, former civics teacher Keith Johnson shared the school’s ghost story, a tall tale about a child who died in a 1935 fire there. By the time the final emergency manager pulled out in 2016, the district was broke.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

One in five Greeley residents lives below the poverty level, and the school district is trying to upgrade its technology to give students an economic boost. An energy rig is visible in the distance behind a housing complex as students walk by, in Greeley, Colo. Photo: Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

And a way to prevent numerical power from converting into political and economic power is to see the majority of its public students as “its,” as workers, not citizens. These kinds of head-scratching, politically ignorant actions lay bare the very reason that people need a quality liberal arts education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Related: If the anger that propelled Trump’s win is economic, can higher education fix it? This civics lesson was a common one in classrooms Wednesday, whether they were embedded in relevant subjects or squeezed into other parts of the school day. Read more about the 2016 Election. And one man does not run the country.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

Author Andrea Gabor called the violence a “Sputnik moment for teaching civics.”. history and civics, and many leave school with big gaps in political knowledge. Young people who went to college were “20 percentage points more likely to vote than those who had not attended college” in the 2016 election. What you learn about U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

To the relief of many, it appears that this time — unlike in 2000 and 2016 — the candidate who got the most votes nationwide also won the presidential election. Textbooks and mainstream civics curricula make the same mistake, stipulating the brilliance of the framers, the democratic nature of our system and the infallibility of the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

There is a learning gap that is threatening economic and social productivity in the U.S. Teaching civics is not only supposed to give people the basic skills to participate in a democracy, it should instill an appreciation of the fact that ignorance can be scaled up through policy. that must be addressed.

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