The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2020

One family, who declined to be interviewed for this piece, moved to Boston from Puerto Rico in 2017 after Hurricane Maria ravaged the island, López said. At Sarah Greenwood, school leaders have resisted López’s advocacy for years. Cassellius is asking principals to make these changes, however—not ordering them to do so.

Education Policy 145

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

New York City, for example, began offering its 1 million public school students free breakfast and lunch in 2017. There was some concern that school districts could mistakenly be reclassified as 100 percent low income overnight. Some school buildings don’t have many poor kids in them. percentage points — from 51.2

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

In Boston Public Schools, Superintendent Tommy Chang has placed an emphasis on culturally and linguistically inclusive schools. In California, Shelly Spiegel-Coleman is executive director of Californians Together, an advocacy organization focused on improving educational opportunities for students learning English.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

At IU Northwest in 2017, Latinx students like Perez had a six-year graduation rate of just 28 percent, while the graduation rate for white students was 35 percent. From 2008 to 2017, the share of Latinx students at this commuter school of roughly 4,000 rose from 13 percent to 22 percent — the highest of any public university in the state.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2019

Earlier this month, sports and culture news site The Undefeated published a story about NASA mathematician Clyde Foster. STEM jobs will grow 13 percent from 2017 to 2027 , as opposed to 9 percent for non-STEM work. For over three decades, Foster worked for NASA at the Marshall Space Flight center in Huntsville, Alabama. million to 17.3

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

But as the movement against seat-time learning grows, more schools nationwide will be grappling with grade levels, deciding whether to keep them or to hack through thickets of political, logistical and cultural barriers to uproot them. Others, however, echo Northern Cass superintendent, Cory Steiner. “I’d School District.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Undergraduates, on average, end up taking 15 credits more than they need to get degrees — a full semester’s worth — according to the advocacy group Complete College America. All of this takes a toll on graduation rates. And that, in turn, is why nearly 60 percent take longer than four years to finish , or never do.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. In 2017, he left teaching to work in education technology at Clever, a digital platform for schools. The homework gap isn’t new. It’s social work.”.

High School 124

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Among the many other problems dragging down Puerto Rico’s stagnant economy, made worse by hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, is a huge high school dropout rate and, among those students who do manage to graduate, a comparatively low trajectory to college — especially college on the mainland — and a high dropout rate there, too.

High School 111

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Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

Students are navigating an increasingly polarized landscape where they feel isolated and disconnected from our democratic institutions and civic culture. Moreover, partisanship impedes their ability to address key public policy issues and be fully engaged citizens.

Political Science 54

Political Science Civics Civic Engagement K-12 54

MPSA

OCTOBER 12, 2021

While Wikipedia’s breadth and depth are staggering, it still consists of glaring content gaps, and no where is this more evident than in historically underrepresented areas, such as women, minorities, and non-Western peoples and cultures. They expanded the entries on the Constitution of Ghana as well as Human rights in Ethiopia.

Political Science 52

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Meanwhile, many districts and schools continue to believe they can hire their way out of the teacher diversity problem—if they acknowledge it’s a problem at all—and fail to take on the hard work of transforming school culture. “I think my voice was heard at Lusher—until it was something they didn’t want to hear.”

Leadership 145

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

I would bet my life that they are nowhere near the end of their growth,” said Andrew Berman, the executive director of the nonprofit advocacy group Village Preservation. million since 2017 on firms that lobby city and state officials. million and are expected to climb to $4 million in October.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2022

Creating a culture of care, that’s been our focus,” said Andrea Tote-Freeman, assistant superintendent of student support services for the district. If harm is possible, he and his colleagues have a duty to warn Child Protective Services or those at risk of harm to ensure their safety. Credit: Peggy Barmore for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In 2017-18, school districts reported referring at least 221,000 students to law enforcement, with nearly two-thirds of those referrals for students of color. As a result, youth of color were policed in neighborhoods, in bodegas, in housing project stairwells and now, in classrooms,” the ACLU wrote in a 2017 report.

High School 143

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2022

In the past year, they’ve endured culture war attacks, worsening student behavior, and endless health and safety regulation changes. Former teacher Emily McMahan Teachers Are Not OK For months, advocacy groups, including the National Education Association, the country’s largest union, have been driving home the point that teachers are not OK.

Teaching 143

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

In May 2017, my research assistant Dana Burton and I sat through a nine-day trial at the US District Court in Baltimore, watching Phil Heasley challenge the validity of the polygraph test he had failed so as to reclaim the $2.8 On June 14, 2017, Justice Bennett released his 52-page judgment in the case of White Marlin Open, Inc.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2021

Having just turned 12 in the fall of 2017, Alan bubbled over with excitement ahead of his first rally at Deming Intermediate School in Deming, New Mexico, a small city near the Mexican border. In a recent survey drawing responses from 1,219 teachers and conducted by the charter schools advocacy organization the Thomas B.

Middle School 143

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

As the grandchild of Mexican immigrants, she didnt find her language or culture welcome in the school. Little Mexican girls see their culture celebrated on the walls of every classroom. The school opened a dual language program in 2017. Flores was punished for speaking Spanish in this classroom in 1953.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

A self-described Southern conservative and man of faith from rural Alabama, Grimes, 48, set about overhauling instruction for English learners, establishing culturally relevant extracurriculars and reaching out to the Hispanic community. They love family. They’re hard workers and many have faith in Christ.

High School 145

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2025

I think a chill wind is blowing, and public education as we know it is in extreme jeopardy of becoming religious education and ceasing to exist, said Rachel Laser, president of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, an advocacy organization that has filed an amicus brief in the St. Isidore case. Its about money and power.

Public School 138

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In 2017, Thorne’s last year as a high school teacher, he was one of only about 1,436 Black male teachers in South Carolina, or less than 3 percent of the total teacher workforce, according to the state’s department of education. That last rejection in spring 2017 was the last straw for Thorne. Why didn’t you tell us?

Education 141

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Bills that restrict trans students from playing on sports teams that correspond with their gender identity have been introduced in 36 states in 2021 and have passed in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Mississippi, Montana, Tennessee and West Virginia, according to the legislative tracker run by the advocacy group Freedom For All Americans.

High School 110

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

In 2017, six Havasupai families sued the federal government, alleging that the Bureau of Indian Education, which operates Havasupai Elementary and is housed within the Interior Department, deprived their children of their federal right to an education. But what are they teaching here? Its just taken a while. Anything in the government does.

Education 103

Education Elementary School Government K-12 103

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

context and shared cultural history. Six episodes of the podcast based on Khalidi’s book The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 “Black Feminist Writers and Palestine” with Clarissa Brooks, Angela Y. Swift, hosted by Black Women Radicals on Oct 22, 2023.

Teaching 52

Teaching K-12 Human Rights Social Justice 52

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Fuller’s stance on school choice has created unlikely alliances with deep-pocketed conservatives and has put him at odds with mainstream civil rights advocates, but his work is impacting a younger generation of black school leaders striving to create culturally relevant institutions for the students they serve. The trade-off.

Charter School 107

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Political Science Now

MARCH 25, 2025

Cultural Values and Economic Priorities: The not-so-shocking Rise of Latino Support for Trump by Andrea Silva , University of North Texas Trends in Latino Voting Behavior What factors explain the increasing support for Trump and other Republican candidates among Latino voters from 2016 to 2024?

Economics 30

Economics Cultures Social Justice Political Science 30

Sapiens

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

As an Afghan American, I often encounter perceptions that radicalization and political instability in Afghanistan are intrinsic to Afghans or Middle Eastern “culture.” But the reason extremist organizations successfully recruit among the disenchanted is not because of a shared, unchanging cultural heritage among their members.

Heritage 122

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Donald Trump’s administration was known for its advocacy of school choice, but that wasn’t something he talked much about on the campaign trail in 2015 or 2016; it only came into focus with his selection of Betsy DeVos as secretary of education.

K-12 122

K-12 Education Education Policy Advocacy 122