Digital Promise

JULY 17, 2017

Like the Ark of the Covenant at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark, this report was lost in the vast government archives, but I saved a copy and it has influenced the way I currently see efficacy research and behavioral science research writ large. Human beings themselves are innately noisy and variable creatures. Shilling, R.

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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. Source: IES , February 2024.

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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

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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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. Chris Pines, former philosophy and humanities professor at the University of Rio Grande in Ohio.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Benefits of Primary Sources: Humanizing History With primary sources, students as young as kindergarten age can grasp difficult concepts and glean meaning from past events. To connect students to important historical events that have shaped America and the world, we often must go to the source. The primary source.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: Recent college graduates, working as Americorps members, serve as Saga’s tutors. 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. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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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. jobs like registered nurse, human resources assistant, or help desk technician.)

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2020

The stigma against job candidates with criminal records is so strong that, even with the skills they may have learned behind bars, many find it easier to start a business than get hired by one, said Marc Howard, a professor of government and law who helped start Georgetown University’s Pivot entrepreneurship program last year.

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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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The Hechinger Report

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. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Black and Latino students were often less likely than their white peers to enroll in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) and information technology classes, according to the analysis, which was based primarily on 2017-18 data. Related: Revamped and rigorous, career and technical education is ready to be taken seriously.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

earn-and-learn program in 2017, launching a 26-student class to its North American headquarters in Chicago. Employers who rely on technology — a group that includes most manufacturers, many retailers and the government — are chasing the same workers. Aon, a London-based insurance giant, opened its U.S. to undergraduate students?pursuing

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

Department of Health and Human Services deems “affordable.” Yet, with few exceptions, families earning $88,000 a year — right in the middle of the middle class — get no government help to cover the cost of educating their 4-year-olds. In contrast, attendance at government-funded preschools is the norm in many countries.

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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. Taxpayers incur additional costs because 60 percent of community college budgets are subsidized by state and local governments.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

One day in 2017, Lauren Neuwirth sank into a chair in her university’s financial aid office feeling out of options. Related: Debt without degree: The human cost of college debt that becomes ‘purgatory’. WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — My big concern with my loans is, because of the interest, it’s just going to keep going.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The vast majority of the school’s students — and in 2017, all of them — are accepted into at least one college. This community in rural Lewis County made headlines in 2017 when all 43 of its graduating seniors were accepted into two- or four-year colleges. 43 — The number of students in Onalaska High School’s 2017 graduating class.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Indeed in 2016 the federal government designated Tennessee’s VR grant “high risk” for most of the year, due to the state’s repeated inability to track how much money was being spent and on what. Officials would not say whether the state would again fail to match and thus lose federal funds in 2017.

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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

APRIL 8, 2020

They miss their friends, their freedom and learning from a human being instead of a screen, but their chances of graduating are unlikely to change. Only 14 percent of the lowest-income students earn a bachelor’s degree within eight years of first enrolling, according to the most recent government data.

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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. Leave this field empty if you're human: Many sounded alarms that $16 billion a year in federal aid for low-income students could be misdirected to not-so-poor schools. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Edward Lara started as a campus coach in July of 2017 and works with about 22 students. Government programs have also freed up some financial support. The Seita program continues to try to close the gaps between campus and government resources. Some proposed legislation would make foster youth eligible for food stamps. .

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Those activities were part of Camp College, a free, week-long program funded by the Mississippi-based Woodward Hines Education Foundation, which runs the camp at three locations around the state each summer. Sign up for our Mississippi Learning newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

1EdTech inherited Open Badges from Mozilla in 2017. Credentials that adhere to the Open Badges or CLR [Comprehensive Learner Record] standards have a specific way of packaging that data to be both human-readable and machine-readable. That's where the credential value comes in.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

A humanities and social science doctoral student from Manipur, India, takes readers on a journey through ordinary moments interwoven with violence. “A 2017 December. Local lifeways are an afterthought for the state and central governments. 2017 Nduikeu. Read the introduction to the collection here. ✽

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

Fourth-grade students who reported using tablets in “all or almost all” classes scored 14 points lower on the reading portion of a test administered by the federal government than students who reported “never” using classroom tablets. That’s the equivalent of a year of education or an entire grade level. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

In the 10 years through 2016, college tuition and fees increased by 63 percent , or three times as much as all the other products and services measured by the government, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. But that time appears to be over.”. College is still expensive. Annual increases in the cost of college long surpassed inflation.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: “My friends and I have a hashtag we use — #TeamNoSleep,” said Ramirez, 24. In 2017, for the first time ever, public colleges and universities in more than half of the states (28) relied more on tuition dollars than on government appropriations, according to a recent report. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2018

In early spring 2017, a friend told him that Zion Lutheran School (where regular pre-K tuition is $6,410 per child annually) was accepting 4-year-olds through a state grant program that provides free tuition for low-income parents. In 2017-18, 35,458 students used vouchers to attend private or religious schools. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

The problems pre-date Nellis, who arrived in 2017. Enrollments have been falling since 2017; for the past three years the university has dipped into its financial reserves. In Ohio, which has 14 public universities and 24 branch campuses, the government cut its higher education budget by $110 million. For everyone.

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Economics Political Science Sociology Psychology 128

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

Earlier in the school year, a white student came to the office of the Black Student Union, a space it shares with the student government, and told her she had no right to be there. “It Leave this field empty if you're human: Many colleges and universities are grappling with their historical connections to slavery. Weekly Update.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 20, 2024

The interest of the country is awakened and … the government responds.” Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings, in America? SNCC Legacy Project.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 24, 2023

The federal pandemic stabilization funds provided a rare infusion of operating money, a move reminiscent of when the federal government briefly funded child care to support working parents during World War II. In the years leading up to the pandemic, these programs were already struggling, with 97,000 closing between 2005 and 2017.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 8, 2023

For her doctoral research at Temple University, Royal dug into the turbulent history of school reform in the city from the 1960s up to now, including reading through the minutes of every school board meeting from 1967 to 2017 and interviewing teachers and school leaders from the era. Royal welcomes the comparisons. “We

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Wise governments reward families who strive to propel their children. Netflix chief Reed Hastings, Walmart heirs Alice and Jim Walton, and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg contributed over $6 million collectively to elect two pro-charter candidates to the LAUSD school board in 2017. public education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Leave this field empty if you're human: I am currently on professional development leave, where I still draw part of my current salary and am pursuing my Master of Arts in leadership and educational change fulltime. He is currently on government-funded professional development leave while he pursues a master’s degree. Weekly Update.

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