The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2019

In 2016, 44 percent of Louisiana’s high school graduates were black. Percentage point change, 2015–2016. In Mississippi, the number of black freshmen declined by more than 100 students and 6 percentage points between 2010 and 2016. It’s been a huge shift, and we’re really proud of it.” Flagship institution.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

It was founded as a contract school (similar to a charter) with Chicago Public Schools, by civic-minded tech leaders appalled that their booming industry was struggling to find enough new talent despite being surrounded by neighborhoods where, quite often, roughly 50 percent of the young adults were unemployed.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

In the fall of 2016, she started classes in King’s brand-new building, set amid blocks of thick, tall weeds, signs of the neighborhood’s badly stalled recovery from Katrina. She was still feeling wounded the next morning, as she stood by her sister Taravia’s black Honda Civic. Instead, he just operates with quiet leadership.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

If public schools are to advance the future interests of all Americans, then it must be considered a civic imperative to engage our students with a far wider diversity of other backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. In 2016, EdBuild released a report on the most segregating school boundaries.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2018

And that knowledge, she believes — combined with new strategies to help students regulate their emotions — has contributed to a 43 percent drop in the number of children referred for discipline from 2014 to 2016, according to school data. The number edged back up in 2016-17 to 682 incidents.). Progress was swift. In 2012-13, 10.4

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

The post Polls: Americans increasingly mistrustful of college costs, leadership, and value appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Eighty-five percent of people in that age range who are black said they feel under attack, and fewer than a third of students and other 20-somethings think they will be better off financially than their parents.

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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

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Her efforts led the state to revoke the permit in 2016. That was a real civics lesson she will never forget. People thought of our fight to stop the incinerator cute after school hobby,” Watford told Time magazine in 2016. “It Watford mobilized her impoverished neighborhood of Curtis Bay, canvassing the area for four years.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

Author Andrea Gabor called the violence a “Sputnik moment for teaching civics.”. Other institutions, along with a lack of leadership, have played a role in the current crisis, he said. history and civics, and many leave school with big gaps in political knowledge. American students lack a shared foundation in U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

By their votes, the vast majority of Black and Brown citizens showed themselves to be proficient judges of character and political leadership. 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.

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Political Science Now

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Her most recent book, “The Race Whisperer: Barack Obama and the Political Uses of Race” (NYU, 2016), examines the multiple and strategic ways that President Obama uses race to deflect negative racial attitudes and engage with a broad cross-section of voters. Dr. Price completed her B.A. in political science at The Ohio State University.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2019

It’s about putting a face to the other side,” said Daniel Lewis, a junior who led a day-long Policy Challenge on March 30 for Tufts CIVIC, which stands for Cooperation and Innovation in Citizenship and is described as a “multipartisan discussion forum.”

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