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JUNE 17, 2018

It’s where districts and schools decide to spend their money,” Worth, a veteran educator who has also taught in Greene County’s traditional public schools, explained. Many charters hire teachers who don’t belong to a teachers union or haven’t gone through a traditional teacher preparation program, for example.

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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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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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DECEMBER 27, 2024

While I was in Rajasthan, studying Indias traditional mud stove ( chulha in Hindi), women who use it, and those looking to improve it, I started a conversation about my research with a kitchen goods retailer in a small-town market. Government agencies and NGOs promote cookstoves for women with the promise of reducing drudgery.

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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. Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. When a classroom of second graders in Waterford, Mich.,

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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

MARCH 29, 2024

But traditional internships are not universally accessible. “At Not everybody is a traditional 18- to 22-year-old student,” Churches said. At any college now, the first thing the parents ask is, ‘How are the internships?’ ” Anthony Carnevale, director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, said.

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DECEMBER 10, 2021

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. For China, the move is a departure from its centuries-old tradition of favoring literature and the liberal arts.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2019

The federal government and the Department of Education need to start taking their responsibility for prohibiting discrimination seriously and crack down on schools that punish black people for their hair and hair styles. Durags are used to create the wave hairstyle. Related: Denver teachers are next to take to the picket line.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Many schools rely on counting noses at traditional Back-to-School nights or parent-teacher conferences to gauge whether parents are engaged in their children’s learning. nitially, Malik relied on traditional meetings to get parent feedback. Photo: Caralee Adams for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

My fear is that students, and particularly low-income, first-generation students, will end up paying more for their educations than they would have if they’d taken out traditional loans,” said Mark Becker, president of Georgia State University. Traditional loans are a scam,” he added. “I Photo: AJ Mast for The Hechinger Report. “My

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

The reforms have required school districts and other local government agencies to contribute more of their budgets toward paying down the pension debt, while also obligating workers to make financial sacrifices and cutting benefits for current retirees. As of 2016, state pension systems were, on average, just 66 percent funded.

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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Photo: Peggy Barmore The federal government is trying to increase the number of minorities in the teaching profession by, in part, allowing institutions to maintain a low bar for entry into teaching programs. Is [it] indicative of what schools they went to or is [it] indicative of something else?”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Advocates see government investment as key to getting more kids of color and kids from low-income families into outdoor schools. Advocates see government investment as key to getting more kids of color and kids from low-income families into outdoor schools. Credit: Adria Malcolm for The Hechinger Report. When many U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

And eighth-grade co-teachers Abby Jolma and Toni Giebel let kids sit on wobbly chairs — short stools with a curved base — yoga balls, or traditional chairs while they learn math and science. Forty-one states require physical education at the middle school level, according to the 2016 annual report by SHAPE , and 46 require it in high school.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2022

Larry Hogan announced in March that the state government would strip bachelor’s degree requirements from thousands of job listings. Jared Polis directed government agencies in his state to embrace hiring workers for skills , not degrees. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. requirements too.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

In 2016, a former student pled guilty to hanging a noose around a campus statue of James Meredith, the student white protesters fought to keep out more than 50 years ago. That to me is how you fully reconcile,” said McNeil, a member of the university’s student government who was born in Grenada, Mississippi.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Albuquerque Public Schools is a member of Mission: Graduate, an initiative of the United Way of Central New Mexico that brings together schools, government agencies, businesses, nonprofits and community members to collectively work toward common education goals. And a core element of its initiative is raising awareness about the problem.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Goddard shut down its traditional residential program in 2002, also amid financial difficulties, and enrollment in its remaining on-campus programs has declined from 804 in 2010 to 409 this year, the college says. Catharine College closed in 2016, taking with it between 500 and 600 students and 118 full-time jobs.

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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

APRIL 9, 2018

The NAEP scores showed stellar gains within the traditional public school system. Worsening reading performance in fourth grade, especially among low-performing students, was also detected in a 2016 international exam which was administered entirely by pencil and paper. We must do better for all children.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2020

The country will be spending the equivalent of roughly $440 million in “catch-up support” for public school students of all ages whose learning took a hit thanks to campus closures, according to a government press release. government to follow suit by dramatically expanding AmeriCorps.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Since 2012, when the government exhorted more écoles maternelles to open their doors to 2-year-olds, the rate of participation in France’s “priority education networks”—networks of schools that serve heavily low-income, immigrant communities that are targeted for extra social support—has steadily risen.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Just since 2016, the proportion of rural students who enroll in college has dropped even more. Rural voters are convinced that their communities get less government spending than they deserve. Nicholas Jacobs: I’m an assistant professor of government at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Jon: So, hey, Kirk — pop quiz.

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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.) While teachers still provide some instruction, students also get to take classes online, and they have the option of moving through the coursework at a faster pace than traditional school schedules allow.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2017

Institutions including Lebanon Valley College face demographic shifts, constrained family incomes, student preferences toward professionally oriented majors over some of the traditional liberal arts, and rapid technological change. Chamber of Commerce Foundation as saying that “employers have ‘less and less confidence’ in traditional degrees.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The ( Mississippi Adequate Education Program (MAEP) is short by $172 million statewide for 2016-17. This tendency gives conservative legislators, adverse to big-government, further ammunition to deny adequate funding to traditional districts like JPS. To their credit, JPS has shown an ability to do more with less.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2019

The model is also notable because the schools are run by county governments, not school districts. After she earns her license, she’ll enter a heavily male-dominated trade: As of 2016, 97.9 This isn’t the case at Tech, but it is occurring at some of the academies, which require an admissions test. percent of electricians are male.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

In Myanmar, the government has defined its Muslim minority as non-citizens. for higher education during the 2016-17 academic year, marking the 11th consecutive year that the number of international students in the U.S. Every day it seems that the world becomes more tribalized. The British will soon define themselves out of Europe.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Traditional arts ensembles like marching band and big band don’t necessarily resonate,” said superintendent Paul Gausman, a musician and long-time music educator. That figure jumps to 96 percent in wealthier districts, according to the 2016 NAEP survey. There were a few hints in the 2016 NAEP survey. It’d be nice to know that.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

Voting Wars,” an investigation of voting rights and election participation, is the 2016 project of the Carnegie-Knight News21 program, a national multimedia, investigative reporting project produced by the nation’s top journalism students and graduates. The manager was given all the powers of the local governing board. Census data.

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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. Eastern Washington in general and Gordon in particular were determined to turn that around.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

On Thursday, March 24, 2016, a San Francisco Superior Court judge awarded the state a nearly $1.2 The number of students aged 25 to 35 will rise 20 percent by 2022, and the number over 35 will increase 23 percent, the federal government estimates. billion default judgment against Corinthian Colleges Inc.,

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

His was a brash mission shared by a new breed of charter school leaders who said they could succeed where traditional neighborhood schools had failed. When he got into Middlebury College, a selective school in Vermont, Barnes felt confident he would earn a degree by 2016. Statistics are only true until someone bucks them.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

The state-run Recovery School District governed most of the charter schools in New Orleans at the time. The Orleans Parish School Board, which controlled all city schools before Hurricane Katrina, was responsible for a small number of high-performing traditional and charter schools.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

By 2016, annual expenses had begun outpacing operating revenues by $14 million. More than 400 colleges and universities still had seats available for freshmen and transfer students after the traditional May 1 deadline to enroll for this fall, the National Association for College Admission Counseling reports. Business was flagging.

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