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. Attempts at addressing the wealth gap, which stems from the history of slavery, segregation, racism and discrimination, should be encouraged and lauded.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. Credit: Sharon Chischilly for The Hechinger Report.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Like Jehovahs Witness congregations in the rest of the world, Kombela Central Mandarin Congregation is governed by local elders in charge of pastoral work, selecting speakers, and directing public preaching. September 2016. Jonah had worked in the past as a part-time IT consultant for various Chinese businesses around Kombela.

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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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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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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. In a history unit, teachers and students can choose which historical sites to write about in their postcards.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2019

Foster’s intelligence and dedication put people into space during one of the most tumultuous times in our nation’s history. Source: The Census Bureau’s 2016 Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs. Source: IPEDS 2016-17. He created hundreds of desirable jobs in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) for black Alabamians.

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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. Of particular note is his interest in exploring political history and American political development through the lens of the Congress.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

It also cut English chemistry, math, history, finance, accounting, art and other majors — 21 of them in all, or a third of everything it used to teach. Just after she finished the university cut the English program along with math, chemistry, biology, history. But since this performance, the university has ended its music program.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2019

Stewart Lockett (right, grey shirt) leads a meeting of the student government executive team in late January. His team is the most diverse student government the university has ever had. He dug through the bottom drawer and pulled out a student government flyer from five years earlier. Percentage point change, 2015–2016.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

There are many complicated factors ranging from a deep-seated American reluctance to let government into family life to a commitment to taxes that are lower than many of our European counterparts, which makes spending on social programs difficult to justify. billion in the 2016 fiscal year. Why don’t we invest much in the early years?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Students need to read in order to learn other subjects, from science to history. In 2016, U.S. It took state and local governments seven years to restore their tax bases, muster the political will to approve spending increases and send the money to schools. Parents of young children are worried.

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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

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Without advice from a counselor, D’naysha Griggs says she would not have known how to talk about her work history and family obligations in her college applications. Griggs’ work history and family commitments might seem like key selling points for colleges that say they value grit, time management skills and maturity.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

Nekkita Beans, a Mississippi native and president of the University of Mississippi’s Black Student Union, stood center stage in a campus auditorium reading aloud the history of a group of men who fought to keep people like her enslaved, illiterate and, in many ways, invisible. OXFORD, Miss.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Her aunt and uncle offered her a room in 2016, and for nearly eight months, Johnson experienced a stable, calm home. Young people who exited the foster system before age 18, for example, typically don’t qualify for extended services, including a government program that gives housing support through age 24. But holes remain.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Online Degrees On Hold China actually has a long history of distance learning—mostly at correspondence schools and on broadcast TV. Noting that the Chinese government is very conservative, Wang remarked that the ministry is likely fearful that its academic reputation will suffer if it approved online degrees prematurely.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2019

The program at UWT was spearheaded by student government leaders who reached out to the housing authority and K?z Daniel Eatherly, the University of Washington-Tacoma student government director of legislative affairs, led a push for the university to help its homeless students find housing. z Development, a private developer.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Onalaska, situated roughly halfway between Seattle and Portland, is proud of its history. In contrast, Onalaska’s population rose from 731 residents in 2012 to 772 residents in 2016, according to U.S. It’s an unincorporated, census-designated place — large enough to have its own name, but not to have its own government.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

A reference point for this is Michael Gove's 'infamous' and deluded claim from 2016 that people had 'had enough of experts' though a recent visit to a private dentist for complex root canal treatment confirmed that I'd rather have asked him than a local plumber. USA 2025-2028 is not a serial I am looking forward to.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2016

The evidence of American history is that in the absence of intentional policy choices we get more segregation – not less; we get more inequality – not less,” King said in a meeting curated by New Schools for New Orleans on July 2 during his visit to the Essence Festival.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2018

Eleven percent of black men in Louisiana have a college degree, compared to 25 percent of white men, according to my analysis of 2016 census data. Louisiana could make history by fixing a structural deficit in the short and long term by expanding educational opportunity to those who have long been shut out.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

John Jones asks a question to his students in AP Human Geography on August 18, 2016. law — what makes it a unique and hopeful case — it’s unclear anyone in government will be watching to make sure it achieves its goal. Students returned to Starkville High School in Starkville, Mississippi on August 4, 2016. Photo: Nicole Lewis.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

His mother chaired the university’s history department. Gallot graduated from Grambling in 1987 and leveraged his HBCU degrees (Juris Doctorate from Southern University in 1990) to become a state representative for the area in 2000 and state senator in 2012 before being installed as the tenth president of GSU in 2016.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Teaching American History provides various free resources for American history and government teachers, including our popular seminars , multi-day seminars , and extensive database of original source documents. Two Core Document Collections cover the entire scope of American history.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

It’s part of our history, but as we bring kids in from other countries [we should offer] more popular ensembles in other countries.”. The district also offers courses like Digital Audio Production, History of American Pop and AP Music Theory. That figure jumps to 96 percent in wealthier districts, according to the 2016 NAEP survey.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The delays lead to missed job and educational opportunities and longer government dependence, all at a cost to taxpayers. But in the Bronx, for example, the average caseload rose to 270 in 2016, up from 222 in 2015. Walker supported moving people from government assistance to work. The situation is most severe in urban centers.

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History Havoc

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

When looking at the Great Depression, the focus will start with investment but then move to government spending. Governments responded by raising taxes, including an income tax doubling in 1932 as tax revenues continued to plumet. 1] In 1930, the US government did not do the economy a favor when it passed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 17, 2024

His history of political thought in twentieth-century Europe, Contesting Democracy, was published by Yale University Press in the summer of 2011. He is also an affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science where his office is located. Since 2005 he has been teaching in the Politics Department, Princeton University.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

That has become increasingly crucial at a time when Americans’ faith in higher education is declining , governments are investing less money in it, and employers complain it’s producing too few graduates with skills they need. Jonathan Rees, professor of history, Colorado State University-Pueblo. Related: How to save the humanities?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

When the AP United States history students at Aragon High School in San Mateo California, scanned the professionally designed pages of www.minimumwage.com , most concluded that it was a solid, unbiased source of facts and analysis. Northport, N.Y., Photo: Janis Shachter. My students are all about social media.

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Civics U

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Immigration and immigration reform have been issues in past American history, and are still issues in American government and politics. This article will not enter that debate, but will review key elements in immigration history and law. This history can be found at [link]. Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.)

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Two graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program submitted essays on how they teach these skills to the Bill of Rights Institute’s 2023 National Civics Teacher of the Year Award , placing among the top ten finalists. They teach self-government as a cooperative activity. Yet both go further.

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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 11, 2018

In February, hundreds had gathered in the school gymnasium for the final basketball games in Chelsea High School history. The Vermont state government has prodded school districts to merge. The Vermont state government made the case for Act 46 based on two main rationales: saving money and improving educational quality.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

In 2016, 45,567 young people were held in facilities nationwide, down 20 percent from 2012.) A 2015 survey by the Council of State Governments Justice Center found that only 13 states provided educational services for kids inside juvenile justice facilities that were comparable to those provided for kids outside of them.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

This story about school segregation was produced by The Texas Tribune , a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that provides free news, data and events on Texas public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Loading… Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. It was reprinted with permission.

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