The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2018

It just goes against everything we know about child development and what’s best for children,” said Josh Golin, executive director of the nonprofit advocacy group Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood. Research shows that children who have access to high-quality preschool reap benefits.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 25, 2023

The way sessions were facilitated often contradicted research-based teaching strategies. In 2017, I formed an after-school student activism and leadership club with a small group of seventh grade students. The ability to learn and grow is part of what made teaching dynamic and energizing for me.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Researchers characterized this subset of students as “non-submitters.” “Non-submitters” It’s one relevant to past research about barriers preventing students from enrolling in college, said Taylor Odle, an assistant professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and co-author of the “non-submitters” study.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2017

The flurry of new state laws over the past five years is in large part the result of pressure from Decoding Dyslexia, a parent advocacy group with chapters in all 50 states. They pushed a new bill in 2017 that required all students to be screened for dyslexia at the end of kindergarten and first grade. Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Students who obtain a two-year associate’s degree typically complete a whopping 22 excess credits, according to a July 2017 report by Complete College America , an advocacy group that tracks these figures. That’s three-quarters of an entire academic year on top of the two-year program.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

The data was from the 2018-19 academic year, with the exception of Nevada, which has released only the data from 2017-18. Credit: Courtesy of Corey Dixon/2017. Related: A decade of research on the rich-poor divide in education. O’Neal Elementary School in Elgin, even though both are in Elgin Area School District U-46.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2018

Leila Schochet, research and advocacy manager for Early Childhood Policy at the Center for American Progress, said Head Start is not only important for families, it’s also critical for rural economies. It’s important that children have access to safe and quality childcare while their parents are working,” Schochet said.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 22, 2025

In 2017, she was elected to serve on APSA council and was the first community college faculty member to ever be elected to this position. His diverse experience bridges policy, education, and advocacy, reflecting his commitment to academic excellence and civic engagement. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. She holds a B.A.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2018

“When these programs were designed, it was an acknowledgment that there were low-income students who had need, and of the importance of going to college,” said Carrie Warick, director of policy and advocacy at the nonpartisan National College Access Network. Carrie Warick, director of policy and advocacy, National College Access Network.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

worked in retail and restaurants for years before starting a steamfitter apprenticeship in 2017. Lupe Trejo entered a steamfitter apprenticeship in 2017. an advocacy group in Oakland, California. “We Lupe Trejo has spent much of the pandemic counting herself fortunate. Trejo, a mother of six who lives near Washington, D.C.,

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Collins Elementary School, in southeastern Mississippi, paddled students more times than almost any school in the country in 2017-18, the last year for which there is national data. During the 2017-18 school year, more than 69,000 students received corporal punishment almost 97,000 times nationwide.

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The Tibetan community in Vancouver includes approximately 700 people, more than 200 of whom migrated from four settlements in Arunachal Pradesh, India, to Canada through a federal refugee resettlement program between 2013 and 2017. In 2017, Tibetan parents in Vancouver decided to organize efforts to care for their heritage language.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2020

Related: Canceled research, sports, recitals — college students are coping with more than closed campuses. Nearly 4 in 10 college and university students transfer at least once , according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Many never get that far and just drop out.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

Students who take time off from four-year universities, opt for community colleges instead or shift to part time all could end up spending longer in school and are more likely to drop out, history and research show. That’s the inescapable lesson of history and research. Credit: Gregory Shamus/Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2019

Researchers consistently find that teachers are the most important factor (inside the school) in student achievement. Between 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S. Teachers are both instructors and nurturers, and play a role similar to that of a parent. Related: Learning while you earn in college.

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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. “We percentage points — from 51.2

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2016

“It’s disheartening to families, and it fosters the ‘check mentality,’ ” said Carrie Guiden, executive director of The Arc of Tennessee, a nonprofit disability advocacy group, referring to government checks. Officials would not say whether the state would again fail to match and thus lose federal funds in 2017. More advocacy.”.

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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. Researchers have found, perhaps counterintuitively, that bilingual education can be a particularly effective way to help newcomers master English.).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2020

schools since 1999, SROs intervened successfully in only three instances , according to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. Forty-five percent of public schools nationwide had at least one SRO in the 2017-18 school year. In 197 instances of gun violence at U.S. That’s a 1.5 percent success rate. I, for one, am not.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

Research says if students are behind in reading by the end of third grade, they are unlikely to ever catch up with their peers. The research on retention is mixed. From 2017 to 2019 , Mississippi had the highest jump in fourth grade reading scores in the nation. Because I email, I call. Nobody emails or calls back,” Taylor said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

But it’s only in the last dozen or so years that programs began popping up at community colleges; Minneapolis College’s program, opened in 2017, was the first in Minnesota and the fifth in the nation. Schools investing in recovery programs do so without an abundance of research connecting the programs to improved student outcomes.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

It is a research-based approach that experts say is essential for helping children — especially those who struggle — learn to read. Related: What parents need to know about the research on how kids learn to read. Erin Roberts, a teacher leadership specialist. 1 in the nation for growth in reading. It sounds complicated because it is.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Gary Miron, an education researcher who co-authored a National Education Policy Center report on for-profit charter schools. It’s really easy for [these companies] to expand and just incredible how much profit they make,” said Gary Miron, an education researcher who co-authored the National Education Policy Center report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

In dozens of interviews, Summit leadership, education researchers, and the people who teach and learn in schools that use Summit agreed that the platform offers a systematic way to achieve the otherwise complicated, messy objective of personalizing learning. But at Rhodes, Christie doesn’t hear complaints like that.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2018

However, in 2017, children who attended Head Start in Mississippi scored lower on the state’s kindergarten readiness assessment than children who attended public or private pre-K, a licensed childcare center, a family day care center, or stayed at home until kindergarten.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Extensive research shows that is not right. Since then, other studies have confirmed their findings and brain research has shown the wide-ranging benefits of being bilingual. Hardy hopes that Massachusetts’ own nascent Seal of Biliteracy program will help her find more allies to push a new bill in 2017.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 30, 2024

million dollar Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) (2020-2023 and 2023-2026). million dollar Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) (2020-2023 and 2023-2026). Mealy brings a wealth of organizational experience and expertise to the position.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Between 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S. were underfunded by $580 billion in federal dollars alone — money that was specifically targeted to support 30 million of our most vulnerable students,” says a new report published by the education advocacy nonprofit, the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Thirty-seven percent now transfer at least once in their college careers, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center , which tracks this; of those, nearly half switch schools more than once. All of this takes a toll on graduation rates. Cosumnes has 2,771 credit-bearing classes in 100 degree and certificate programs.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

Freshman Kylee Elderkin works on an assignment in English class at Nokomis High School in Newport on Friday, June 2, 2017. Mary Nadeau, principal of Nokomis High School in Newport, poses for a photo in a hallway of the school on Friday, June 2, 2017. Erika Stump, researcher, University of Southern Maine.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Whether in response to the students’ arguments or not, the state did, in fact, raise spending for higher education for the coming 2016-2017 year, by 2.5 One nonprofit advocacy group calculates that 10 states spend more on employee pensions than on higher education; in Illinois, more than half of the $4.1

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2019

His “quiet and relentless advocacy brought hundreds of African Americans into space industry jobs in the Deep South, helping to shift perceptions of black people in ways both subtle and profound,” wrote Michael Fletcher in the story. STEM jobs will grow 13 percent from 2017 to 2027 , as opposed to 9 percent for non-STEM work.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2021

He got a bill from the agency in 2017 informing him he owed $12,689. She donated $95,000 to the state Republican candidate fund between 2017 and 2020, according to public records kept by the Ohio secretary of state. Instead, the university referred the debt to a collection agency without telling him, he said.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In recent years, the group’s advocacy has led to changes in the district’s graduation requirements, to align them with admissions requirements for California’s university systems, and an expansion of funding for an after-school meal program that had been cut by the school board. Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

Research shows that schools with high-quality teachers produce the best academic and social outcomes for children. States are moving slowly in the same direction, more than tripling their spending on preschool since 2002 , according to the National Institute for Early Education Research. The Hechinger Report graphic.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Education advocacy nonprofit Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools found that “[b]etween 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S. According to EdBuild, a nonprofit focused on school finance issues, predominantly white school districts receive $23 billion more in funding than districts that serve mostly students of color.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The gap is often stark: In 18 states, graduation rates for students who experienced homelessness lagged more than 20 percentage points behind the overall rate in both 2017 and 2018. But multiple researchers told us that they see the one-in-20 threshold as a conservative estimate. The academic cost is not equally shared.

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