Anthropology.net

APRIL 16, 2025

But the way those lands were used—how they were divided, worked, and governed—did more than sustain life. When Governance Intervened—Or Failed To The story isn’t one of inevitability. We found that governance mattered," noted archaeologist Helena Hamerow. Further Reading and Related Research Kohler, T.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

It is especially abhorrent that a government program intended to create equitable opportunities for all students instead perpetuates racial and economic gaps in financial stability and mobility. By seizing these benefits, the federal government takes away critical financial lifelines that reduce poverty for millions of families.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 30, 2023

But others have made clear they view early care and education as an individual, not government, responsibility. It started with Randy Jensen, who became superintendent of the American Falls school district in 2017. Some, such as New Mexico , Minnesota and Vermont , have invested heavily. In the world today, everyone's so divided.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Some members of the institution’s own governing board were surprised when they were confronted with these facts. percent from 2009 to 2017, a period during which the S&P 500 index gained 11.2 In a system of shared governance, they’re also served by keeping the faculty content. Other spending, too, continued to go up.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 15, 2025

Large settlements were often better resourced and more capable of managing complex challenges—irrigation, trade, defense, and governance among them. These capacities also provided the scaffolding upon which economic disparities could rise. Yet this does not mean inequality caused durability. Kohler, T. Nature, 551(7682), 619–622.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

Under this program, called Investing in Innovation or i3, the federal government gave out $1.4 Again it worked with different types of students in different parts of the country, and BARR received a third grant to scale it up across the nation in 2017. The failure rate was 74 percent. Health research receives nearly $50 billion.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 22, 2025

Building faculty capacity outside the classroom includes both understanding governance processes and structures and creating cultures and conversations. 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. Department of Agriculture and the U.S.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

President Jokowi Widodo, more commonly known as ”Jokowi,” and Vice President Jusuf Kalla surprised the public when attending Indonesia’s 2017 State of the Union Address (SOTU) by wearing traditional attire. President Jokowi seeks to embody and represent this rich cultural diversity.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

Michael Itzkowitz, education consultant and former director of College Scorecard, an online federal government tool At Brenau, the lowest-income students paid $24,640 out of pocket in 2020-21 after all the discounts, grants, and scholarships. This was over $5,000 more than what the highest-income students had to pay.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

It means the government failed in their effort to ‘kill the Indian and save the man’ … Our family ties, cultural ties, ties to our land are strong.”. Related: As coronavirus ravaged Indian Country, the federal government failed its schools. Since then, Washington, North Dakota, South Dakota and Kansas have followed suit.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Since 2007, Mississippi has attempted to raise the bar for students; as a result, the state has succeeded in posting some of the greatest score increases on the NAEP , according to a new report by the National Assessment Governing Board, which examines the steps Mississippi took to go from flailing to becoming a leader in NAEP score improvement.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2020

In the 2017-2018 school year, 34 percent of international students were from China. In the 2017-2018 school year, it had more international students than any other historically black college or university. This month it announced a new partnership with Nigeria’s government intended to bring between 30 and 50 Nigerian Ph.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

At a time when so many employers are struggling to find workers who have university degrees, Tyler Duffield thinks supporting higher education is as obvious an obligation of state government as it is essential. Forty-four percent think government-funded grants and loans have failed to keep up with the price of tuition , the APM survey found.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

That marks the fifth straight year of growth in the number of school counselors, bringing the student-to-counselor ratio down to the lowest level since the federal government began counting counselors more than 30 years ago. which decreased its student-to-school-counselor ratio 15 percent from 560-to-1 in 2017–18 to 474-to-1 in 2018–19.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

They’d spent the past decade grappling with declining enrollments and weakening support from state governments. Nearly 30 percent of all four-year schools brought in less tuition revenue per student in 2017-18 than in 2009-10. Pinkard, who was appointed at the end of 2017, remains optimistic.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 2, 2024

How a Small Town in a Red State Rallied Around Universal Preschool By Emily Tate Sullivan In 2017, kindergarten readiness rates in American Falls, a one-stoplight farming community in conservative Idaho, hit “rock bottom.” And if 10 isn’t enough, you can read all of our early childhood coverage here.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Fourth-graders didn’t improve in 2017 in either subject. The average performance of the nation’s fourth- and eighth-graders mostly held steady in math and reading from 2015 to 2017, now marking a decade of stalled educational progress, according to the results of a test released Tuesday. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2022

Collins Elementary stood out in a national dataset for its widespread use of paddling in 2017-18, in a state where paddling is more common and opposition to it is more organized than anywhere else. Fully 96 percent of schools nationwide didn’t log any corporal punishment incidents in 2017-18. The fact is, most schools don’t use it.

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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. School districts are not the only entities hiding their racism behind laws that provide cover.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2023

When she needed money to start college, she was advised to borrow from a private lender instead of the federal government and, because of that, she’s stuck with $81,000 debt. In 2017, the year the college closed, 75 percent of its students with federal loans were delinquent or in default. I’m frustrated, because, what can I do?

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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. Casey Parks/The Hechinger Report.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Primary sources include: Personal correspondence and diaries Government and civil documents Speeches and oral histories Audio and video recordings Photographs and posters Unfortunately, most textbooks provide just facts and figures, not an immersive experience.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2021

today, nearly double the number in 2017. has more than doubled since 2017 to 585 in 2020, according to the Natural Start Alliance. Advocates see government investment as key to getting more kids of color and kids from low-income families into outdoor schools. 585 forest kindergartens and outdoor preschools exist in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2024

They also called education “the most important function of state and local governments,” the “very foundation of good citizenship” and “a principal instrument in awakening the child to cultural values [and] in preparing him for later professional training.” Department of Education from 2015 to 2017 This story about Brown v.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2021

As part of a $4 billion initiative called Race to the Top, the federal government tried to persuade states to measure the performance of teachers, rank them, pay bonuses to the best teachers and fire the worst ones. One of the most controversial and largest education reforms of the Obama era was an effort to improve teacher quality.

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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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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

A Lesson from the Founders for Constitution Day Americans in our day think “transparency” in government essential to its efficient and wholesome operation. Joseph Postel l is Associate Professor of Politics at Hillsdale College and a faculty member in the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program at Ashland University.

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Students of History

MAY 24, 2024

This prestigious scholarship, which has been awarded each year since 2017, recognizes a college-bound senior who has excelled in history education. We're excited to announce that Toyosi Dada, a graduating senior at Towson High School, has been awarded the 2024 Students of History Scholarship. ” Ms.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The update of the policy document by the DOE’s Office of Education Technology is the first since 2016 (parts of it were revised in 2017). The report notes that teachers from well-resourced schools typically have more time and training to design lessons that involve creative, non-formulaic uses of ed tech.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

In a 2017 study by the American Council on Education, a higher education association, researchers found that individuals who identified as something other than white held just 17 percent of college and university presidencies in 2016, while representing 42 percent of students enrolled in 2015.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Rouse , Arizona State University , Isabella Alcaiz , University of Maryland , College Park , Alejandra Marchevsky , California State University, Los Angeles Research has shown that as the size of government assistance programs grow, and the recipients of such programs are increasingly non-white and/or non-citizen, public support for them declines.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

For context, average education spending in the United States in 2017 was $12,201 per pupil, ranging from a low of $7,179 in Utah to a high of $23,091 in New York, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2019

government of hundreds of thousands of dollars through elaborate schemes. For instance, when I was born in 1970, less than five percent of all black women who were the head of their households had some form of postsecondary educational attainment, according to 2017 information I compiled based on census data.

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JUNE 26, 2018

In addition, federal and many local governments are advocating for policies that would make educational data — similar to what Zuberi saw on the California School Dashboard — more accessible, transparent and helpful to parents. She is hoping to see a change from state and local governments.

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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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MARCH 26, 2020

While most other colleges disburse student aid once a semester, cosmetology schools are supposed to do so when students hit certain benchmarks in their progress toward a certificate, and the schools must return the money to the government if the student drops out. It almost broke us,” Detmer, who graduated in 2017, said of her family. “If

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The 2018 reauthorization of the federal law that governs career and technical education mandated racial data be reported as well. Yet CTE advocates have long had concerns — but little proof — about inequities that lie beneath the surface. Previously, the Department of Education only reported enrollment in CTE career areas by gender.

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