Every Political Ad from 2016 and Ongoing
US Government Teachers Blog
FEBRUARY 1, 2016
This site has every political advertisement so far from the 2016 campaign and breaks it down by candidate, super PAC, etc. Really quite amazing.
Digital Learning Day 2016: How will you participate?
US Government Teachers Blog
JANUARY 16, 2016
Digital Learning Day 2016 is Wednesday, 17 February. The event, sponsored by the Alliance for Excellent Education, is designed to showcase successful digital teaching and learning in our classrooms, and encourage all teachers to use innovative instructional technology to improve student outcomes.
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PROOF POINTS: Only a quarter of federally funded education innovations benefited students, report says
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 18, 2024
billion in grants between 2010 and 2016. Under this program, called Investing in Innovation or i3, the federal government gave out $1.4 billion between 2010 and 2016 to education nonprofits and researchers for the purpose of developing and testing new ideas in the classroom. Artificial intelligence is the current obsession.
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College ‘Deserts’ Disproportionately Deter Black and Hispanic Students from Higher Ed
ED Surge
OCTOBER 24, 2024
For instance, one major initiative started during that time was the College Scorecard , which provides information on college options based on various government datasets. The dominant narrative was, ‘If students just have better info about where to go to college, more would go,’” he says. “I I said, ‘This is bananas.
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Eligible for job and college aid, half of Tennesseans with disabilities get nothing
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 4, 2016
Yet the state left $14 million in federal VR dollars on the table in 2015 and again in 2016, even as the agency temporarily shut its doors to new clients. I really wanted the job, but I only lasted three months,” said one former counselor who quit in the spring of 2016 and asked to remain anonymous because of ongoing work with VR.
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Black college presidents matter; we should lead from the top
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
In a 2017 study by the American Council on Education, a higher education association, researchers found that individuals who identified as something other than white held just 17 percent of college and university presidencies in 2016, while representing 42 percent of students enrolled in 2015.
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GED and other high school equivalency degrees drop by more than 40% nationwide since 2012
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 8, 2018
Red states are where the annual issuance of new high school equivalency diplomas has fallen by more than 50 percent between 2012 and 2016. Specifically, the annual number of test takers who completed one of the three exams has fallen more than 45 percent from more than 570,000 in 2012 to roughly 310,000 in 2016. Data source: Thomas J.
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Forget civics class: Students want to make a difference in real life
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 29, 2020
Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government. Things … the government does affect us, but we can’t vote,” she said.
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Sent home early: Lost learning in special education
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 25, 2021
Smith Howard has been advocating for years to have the federal government address shortened school days. In 2016, following requests from her group, the U.S. In 2016, the federal Department of Education, under Secretary Arne Duncan, released guidance that addressed the issue of shortened school days.
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A federal definition of ‘homeless’ leaves some kids out in the cold. One state is trying to help
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.
The Still-Evolving Future of University Credentials
ED Surge
DECEMBER 21, 2021
To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016. Even if this decline doesn’t quite match the dire predictions of mass college closures that were popular in 2016, the recent history and near-term outlook for traditional higher ed is more negative than I imagined. This trend, too, has seen a jump forward due to the pandemic.
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Satellite Broadband Is Expanding. Can That Reduce the Digital Divide?
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
The program was first announced in 2016, and the launch is expected this summer—though it was delayed early this year because of a lack of critical workers. For most places in America, the gap in access appears to be largely in the home. Although the digital divide affects 15 to 16 million students across the U.S.,
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COLUMN: The FAFSA fiasco could roll back years of progress. It must be fixed immediately
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 15, 2024
Related: Simpler FAFSA complicates college plans for students and families “As much staff as government has, it’s not enough for students right now,” said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the national advocacy group Complete College America. She wants colleges to do more to directly help applicants still struggling to fill out the forms.
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PROOF POINTS: Researchers blast data analysis for teachers to help students
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
In a 2016 survey by Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research, 94 percent of middle school math teachers said they analyzed student performance on tests in the prior year, and 15 percent said they spent over 40 hours on this kind of data analysis. Teachers are spending a lot of time talking about student data.
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OPINION: Why school shutdowns are a disaster for science classes
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 22, 2020
At the college level, Hispanic and Black students have lower completion rates of STEM majors; according to the National Science Foundation, in 2016 Hispanics earned 13.5% Unsurprisingly, such foundational STEM disparities extend far beyond secondary school education. At the same time, ancillary initiatives may be beneficial.
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Students need a boost in wealth more than a boost in SAT scores
The Hechinger Report
MAY 17, 2019
The score gap between those who make less than $80,000 and those who make more than that amount has increased from 2012 to 2016, according to a 2016 ACT report. The three charts below reflect those national averages for the 2018 test, except in the case of family income level, for which 2016 data are the latest available.
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Desperate to Support Youth, States Spend to Stop Leaks in Mental Health Care Pipeline
ED Surge
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
Celina Pierrottet remembers 2016 as the year when she and her colleagues at the middle school where they taught noted a pointed change among their students. “We Surgeon General to declare a youth mental health crisis , and the federal government has rolled out billions of dollars since then to help schools respond. Pierrottet recalls.
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Much ado about NAEP
Dangerously Irrelevant
OCTOBER 24, 2022
Loveless noted in 2016 that: Equating NAEP proficiency with grade level is bogus. Government Accountability Office, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Education. It’s significantly above that. ” Does that result surprise anyone? Indeed, the validity of the achievement levels themselves is questionable.
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Federal Rule Change May Undermine ‘Inclusive Access’ Textbook Models
ED Surge
JULY 11, 2024
Department of Education recently started reevaluating financial aid regulations from 2016 that effectively allow colleges to automatically bill students for books and supplies as long as those materials meet criteria that include being sold at below competitive market rates. The White House signaled support for the possible rule change.
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Making America whole again via civics education
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 18, 2017
The 2016 election and the tumultuous start to Donald Trump’s presidency, which hits the 100-day mark next week, have presented civics teachers in red, blue and purple states alike with a double-edged sword. Johnson (on screen) overlooks the AP government class of Jo Boggess Phillips in Ripley, West Virginia Photo: Jo Boggess Phillips.
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OPINION: The Opt Out movement is gaining ground, quietly
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 17, 2018
Indeed, in 2016, the U.S. Rather than try to understand why parents might opt out of state testing, the federal government simply threatened states that high opt-out rates could affect their federal funding. Other states have also experienced high rates of opting out. Why haven’t we heard more about this?
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For the Love of Cats in Turkey
Sapiens
MARCH 12, 2024
Kedi , a 2016 documentary by Ceyda Torun, featured the everyday lives of several of these community cats who are owned by no one but cared for by many. In Australia, the government has taken the controversial measure of culling millions of feral cats. Cats are all over Turkey.
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College spending comes under closer scrutiny
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 1, 2019
It’s geared toward college trustees, lawmakers and policy wonks, who can use the site’s data to lobby for or against government spending for higher education or to compare their institution to others. It was $12,353 in 2011 but $10,748 in 2016, according to How Colleges Spend Money.
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Should rich families be allowed to fundraise a better public school education for their kids?
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. Ultimately, Wilson and Boggs said, it is the position of the National PTA that all necessary equipment and staffing at public schools should be paid for with government funds.
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PROOF POINTS: What happens when private student information leaks
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 9, 2020
In a report publicly released in October 2020 , the Government Accountability Office (GAO) counted 99 school data breaches over the past four years, from July 2016 to May 2020, that compromised the personal information of thousands of students in kindergarten through high school. Attacks by cyber criminals were rare, the GAO found.
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Is the trauma of training for a school shooter worth it?
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 12, 2018
As of 2016, almost 95 percent of students in U.S. The likelihood a child will be killed at school is less than one in a million according to the government Bureau of Justice Statistics. “I Critics of ALICE say it can cause undue anxiety among students, in preparation for an event that few will ever have to confront.
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The Sand Creek Massacre
Teaching American History
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
Most of Colorado’s white settlers and their leaders did not understand tribal government. Plains Indian Tribes such as the Cheyenne and Arapaho were not united under a governing alliance. When they negotiated with a tribal leader, they assumed that leader possessed the power to enforce treaties. The reality was very different.
How can we close the digital divide?
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
The update of the policy document by the DOE’s Office of Education Technology is the first since 2016 (parts of it were revised in 2017).
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OPINION: There are lessons to be learned from Finland, but giving smartphones to young children isn’t one of them
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 10, 2024
In 2016, despite research showing that students who used computers more often at school performed much worse on reading and math PISA tests, the Finnish government announced it would spend millions of euros on ramping up digital learning. American schools can learn valuable lessons from Finnish education, both positive and negative.
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How Colonialism Invented Food Insecurity in West Africa
Sapiens
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
As Logan wrote in a 2016 American Anthropologist article , “chronic food insecurity is a condition that was made rather than a condition that has always been.” But, as the data show, African farmers were knowledgeable and successful for thousands of years. Outside forces uprooted that security.
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Dress codes are the new ‘whites only’ signs
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
Ever since enslaved blacks arrived on the shores of the English colony of Virginia in 1619 , white legislators at various levels of government have designed laws to explicitly control and suppress black people.
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How transparent is school data when parents can’t find it or understand it?
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 26, 2018
In addition, federal and many local governments are advocating for policies that would make educational data — similar to what Zuberi saw on the California School Dashboard — more accessible, transparent and helpful to parents. She is hoping to see a change from state and local governments. Census Bureau. (In
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How the last recession affected higher education. Will history repeat?
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 6, 2020
million students dropped out of college with debt in 2015 and 2016. The federal government invested a lot of money in new students,” said Shapiro. The 2009 Recovery Act increased the amount of Pell Grants to low-income students to more than $5,000 per year and expanded the number of students who were eligible for it.
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As more young people receive psychiatric care, some hospitals have opened their own schools
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 31, 2023
Marraccini, an associate professor of school psychology at UNC’s School of Education Now, as the rate of young people experiencing mental health distress climbs, with in-patient mental health hospitalizations rising by more than 120 percent between 2016 and 2022 according to one measure, the need for school support programs has grown.
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Most School Districts Still Lack Data-Privacy Personnel
ED Surge
DECEMBER 5, 2022
For example: Baltimore County Public Schools created the position of director of innovation and digital safety, its closest equivalent, around 2016. Unlike mythical unicorns, though, some of these school privacy officers actually exist. That was a signal from the highest levels of leadership saying that this is important, Corns says.
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OPINION: Early ed should adopt these 3 ideas from Montessori schools
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 17, 2019
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the percentage of 3- to 5-year-olds enrolled in full-day education programs has risen from 47 percent in 2000 to 54 percent in 2016. Johnson formed Head Start in 1964, the federal government has been involved in shaping early childhood education. Since President Lyndon B.
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OPINION: Men may be missing from campus, but don’t assume women aren’t struggling too
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 2, 2021
Any school seeking to recruit and retain women from low-income backgrounds must have a strategy, such as a vigorous emergency aid program and support for students applying for government benefits (for example, SNAP), to ease the burden of nonacademic expenses. million were mothers, including 1.7
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Revised Federal Edtech Plan Calls for Closing Digital Divides
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
When the federal government released its revised edtech plan last month, it was laying down its hope for a future that delivers on effective instruction for students. The plan was first released to fulfill the Improving America’s Schools Act of 1994 and last revised in 2016.
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Internships matter more than ever — but not everyone can get one
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 29, 2024
according to Holroyd Pearce, partners with universities, colleges and governments, which typically fund the program or grant academic credit — often to students who face barriers to getting work experience. The company, whose biggest market is now the U.S., Micro-internships like Nabeel’s are another relatively new option.
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How one country with close parallels to the United States has made college free
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
And thanks to an important change in government policy, life got easier after that: She didn’t have to pay. The government has found that Chileans who get free tuition are also slightly less likely to drop out than their classmates who don’t. The work paid off. Students at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Elissa Nadworny.
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Eric Schickler Receives the 2024 Barbara Sinclair Lecture Award
Political Science Now
JULY 30, 2024
Since 1997, he has been associated with the University of California, Berkeley, where he has chaired the Department of Political Science and served as co-director of the Institute of Government Studies. One measure of his impact on congressional studies is that he is a three-time winner (in 2001, 2006, and 2016) of the Richard F.
Don’t say there’s a lack of STEM talent in the South
The Hechinger Report
JULY 16, 2019
Source: The Census Bureau’s 2016 Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs. In the 2016-17 academic year, STEM and business-related fields comprised 31 percent of degrees at Alabama’s HBCUs, according to my analysis of data from the national dataset, the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. Source: IPEDS 2016-17.
#EdClusters16 Post-Convening Summary
Digital Promise
OCTOBER 12, 2016
On September 21-23, 2016, Digital Promise and the U.S. Department of Education hosted the 2016 Education Innovation Clusters Convening (#EdClusters16) in Providence, R.I., Sean Duffy (@dearmrduffy) September 23, 2016. rdaley0001 (@rdaley98) September 22, 2016. Joseph South (@southjoseph) September 22, 2016.
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A study finds promise in project-based learning for young low-income children
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 27, 2018
studied civics in the fall of 2016, they began by exploring a nearby park in Pontiac. They created multicolored posters to explain what different departments of local government do, from sanitation to human resources. When a classroom of second graders in Waterford, Mich.,
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