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. Advocacy groups and researchers , too, have surfaced examples. The academic cost is not equally shared.

Advocacy 70

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Virtual for-profit charter schools got started in the early 2000s, as the companies that run them seized on a business opportunity in online education pioneered by traditional public schools a half-decade earlier. Related : The pandemic’s remote learning legacy: A lot worth keeping. Stride Inc., formerly K12 Inc.,

Charter School 127

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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.

Civics 143

Civics Civic Engagement High School Government 143

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

King, consultant for research, policy and advocacy at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Rebecca Hines consented to lead its relaunch in 2017, but on her terms. “I I agreed to bring it back only if it could be something different and make an immediate impact for our local schools,” the associate professor says.

K-12 98

K-12 Teaching Advocacy Classroom Management 98

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

We can’t keep structures that would allow us to fall back into a more traditional system,” said Steiner. “If Northern Cass’s reforms rely on North Dakota’s 2017 decision to let districts apply for waivers from requirements such as hours of instruction. Others, however, echo Northern Cass superintendent, Cory Steiner. “We

Tradition 111

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Within each subject, schools identified learning targets, clearly explaining what students would need to demonstrate in order to be considered “proficient” — a shift away from the traditional system’s emphasis on logging seat time to earn credits and progress. percent between 2009 and 2017. considered passing. percent to 89.1

Tradition 88

Tradition High School Professional Development Social Studies 88

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Those efforts allowed the district of 520 schools and educational centers to transition relatively smoothly from traditional learning to distance learning when the school system shut on March 16, Carvalho said. The 2017 Tubbs Fire caused evacuations and killed more than 20 people in the county. That’s been a reality the last few years.

Charter School 122

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Facebook has not been one of them since 2017, but the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has full access to the Summit Learning platform’s content and traffic data. Since 2017, Summit has revised its middle and high school curriculum and teachers routinely say it’s high-quality. But at Rhodes, Christie doesn’t hear complaints like that.

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Junior High Charter School Social Studies Elementary School 128

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

2U has historically given colleges only the opportunity to partner through a traditional revenue share, in which it offers its full suite of services in exchange for a cut of the tuition. GMU is one of a number of schools across the country that have faced challenges from faculty advocacy groups over these partnerships.

Education 59

Education Advocacy Political Science Economics 59

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Much of the advocacy for net-zero buildings has focused on environmental and economic incentives. The school district of Horry County, South Carolina, which counts the majority of its 43,800 students as impoverished, opened three net-zero schools in 2017, one in 2018 and has one more under construction.

K-12 107

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

They’re pulling a bait and switch on students,” said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the advocacy group Complete College America. When all students were eventually added to the formula in 2017, it showed that more than half of colleges and universities were graduating fewer than half of their students even after eight years.

Government 141

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Worse, four in five of these maternal deaths —based on a review of those between 2017 and 2019—were preventable. She explains that her experiences as a parent whose son didn’t receive enough early care have helped to shape her advocacy. And the problem may be getting more severe. So absolutely, all this stuff is related,” she adds.

EdTech 102

EdTech Education Social Justice Advocacy 102

MPSA

OCTOBER 12, 2021

They also created the entry for the 2017 Lincoln Nebraska Women’s March , demonstrating how the Wikipedia assignment can help students to connect to their local identities. While many students choose to tackle one of Wikipedia’s equity gaps, others focus on improving more traditional content.

Political Science 52

Political Science Human Rights History Economics 52

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2017

If public education is ever going to meet the needs of low-income students, ideas for change must get beyond the constant war of words fueled by advocacy journalism, partisan blogging and fake news. A traditional journalist’s capacity to speak freely is a liberty professional educators should enjoy, but seldom do.

Advocacy 77

Advocacy Education Charter School Tradition 77

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The Wiley Kaikou Muir Act passed in 2017. For the most part, they are sort of operating outside of the traditional system and accountability,” said Smith, now the director of the early childhood development initiative at the Bipartisan Policy Center, a nonpartisan think tank.

Advocacy 85

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

A Hispanic Heritage Month event that Grimes started in Russellville High School has now grown into a big districtwide celebration , where students learn about different cultures and traditions, perform dances, read celebrated authors and research historical figures. Related: English language teachers are scarce.

High School 139

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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 137

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The Hechinger Report

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.

Charter School 112

Charter School Tradition Public School K-12 112

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. Her proposal throttles the expansion of charter schools and seeks to impose on them the same accountability and transparency requirements as traditional public schools.

Charter School 66

Charter School Education Education Policy Advocacy 66

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Fueling the reforms and the funding behind them are a projected shortage of workers with the necessary degrees to fill the jobs of the future, a public backlash in response to budget cuts made during the recession and a concern that the state had been abandoning its long tradition of high-quality, low-cost education.

Education 98

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

That push officially began in 2014, when Deborah Gist, then the state’s commissioner of education, announced a public-private “innovation partnership” to merge traditional and computerized pedagogy. For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention.

K-12 97

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2017

That’s in spite of extra challenges confronting student veterans, who are usually older than traditional-aged students and more likely to be juggling college with families, jobs and service-related disabilities, and who often face significantly more red tape. Related: Despite family and work commitments, student veterans outpace classmates.

Government 64

Government Tradition Leadership Tutoring 64

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Fuller’s ideas revive a long-standing tradition of African-American educational self-reliance. In 2017 the school received more than $462,000 in contributions, according to IRS filings. He’s forced to make up the deficit from donors. The trade-off. secretary of education.

Charter School 98

Charter School Private School Heritage Social Justice 98

The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2019

And, in fact, the fine print often excludes precisely the people who would benefit the most from free college, such as those who attend part time or students older than traditional age who want a second shot at a degree. Eight added one in 2017 alone , The Century Foundation reports. A mix of proposals from lawmakers and Gov.

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Tradition Advocacy Education Policy Research 76

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

For example, home-based providers are more likely to operate during non-traditional hours, when shift workers, single parents and student parents need them. averaged $10,600 a year in 2021, according to an analysis by the advocacy organization Child Care Aware. Moreover, we already have evidence in our own economy of what can work.

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Advocacy Economics Tradition Education 96

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2019

And in the summer of 2017, Taheem’s 16-year-old sister, Naveha Gibbs, was shot and killed in a city a 20-minute drive to the north. Elizabeth Warren’s plan would limit charter schools in favor of funding for traditional public schools. Earlier this year, Taheem witnessed a shooting as he was walking to school. spends less.

Elementary School 125

Elementary School Middle School K-12 Charter School 125

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2019

That’s partly because the number of 18- to 24-year-olds who comprise traditional college students is declining, even as an improving economy has drawn more people straight into the job market, without stopping to get degrees. Higher education institutions of all kinds have two million fewer students now than they did in 2009.

Economics 109

Economics Education Policy Advocacy Humanities 109

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Nevertheless, many choice advocates support DeVos, including the Success Academy founder and CEO Eva Moskowitz , former Florida Governor Jeb Bush , a national charter advocacy organization and the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal , Chicago Tribune and Detroit News , among others. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.

Charter School 62

Charter School Advocacy Tradition Public School 62

Sapiens

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In 2017, white supremacist violence had erupted at a “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville. This should come as no surprise: The National Rifle Association spends about US$3 million annually on direct gun rights lobbying that supports pro-gun political advocacy.

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Heritage Archiving Cultures Government 85