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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

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

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. Andrew Brennen, National Geographic education fellow.

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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

JULY 2, 2021

earn-and-learn program in 2017, launching a 26-student class to its North American headquarters in Chicago. Allen aspires to be one of the first women of color in a leadership role at Aon. Employers who rely on technology — a group that includes most manufacturers, many retailers and the government — are chasing the same workers.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 30, 2020

It wasn’t until a group of local leaders from across education, business, nonprofit, government, and philanthropic communities came together to identify challenges and collectively design solutions that real pathways toward income mobility began to emerge for the area’s adult learners. Leveraging Existing Resources across the Community.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 30, 2024

“We are delighted to welcome Kim Mealy to this critical leadership role. We are very excited about this new chapter in the APSA’s evolution under Kim’s leadership,” said APSA President, Mark Warren. million dollars in 2021; and serving as the co-Principal Investigator on the National Science Foundation (NSF) $1.4

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2017

It is different from both the leadership track and the innovation-conscious senior specialist track. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

But at the nation’s most selective schools, where most students follow the traditional pipeline from high school to a degree within four years — and from which many go on to leadership roles in government and industry — veterans like Fendler are an anomaly. In leadership and life, symbolism counts.

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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

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.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In a 2017 survey of about 240 college admissions leaders, more than half said that when they’re looking at applications, community service experience serves as a tiebreaker in choosing whom to admit. “I Five years ago, the buzzwords were “well-rounded” and “leadership.” “I knew that I didn’t have anything to put on [applications.

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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.

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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.

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ED Surge

JULY 14, 2022

Having more certification pathways will help us train and develop leadership positions internally, and create high-quality pathways for former students and community members who want to enter the classroom,” Perales says. Addressing the Root Problem Arizona isn’t alone in its scramble to find teachers ahead of the fall return to school.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2019

The county-based programs for high schoolers are so popular that of the nearly 30,000 young people who applied for spots in the programs in 2017, only about 13,000 students received a seat. The model is also notable because the schools are run by county governments, not school districts.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Social Studies teacher Michelle Adler talks to sophomores Maiya Schwartz, left and Emily Terranova about an assignment in an Honors Human Geography class at Gray-New Gloucester High School on Thursday, June 1, 2017. “It’s the long arm of the state,” she says. ” Photo: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald. .”

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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. Elderkin says she used to routinely miss key skills and do poorly on tests.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

These are hot fields in a state with a growing tech sector that employs 12,140 people , but whose existing colleges and universities collectively produced only 103 computer science graduates with bachelor’s degrees or higher in 2017 — the last year for which the figures are available — including just 10 with master’s degrees.

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Political Science Now

JULY 28, 2024

Deardorff , University of Tennessee Chattanooga Meet the Panelists Tavishi Bhasin is a Professor in the School of Government and International Affairs at Kennesaw State University, a large public university in Atlanta GA. She was recognized as the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Endowed Professor for 2017 – 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

This story about school segregation was produced by The Texas Tribune , a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that provides free news, data and events on Texas public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Loading… Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. It was reprinted with permission.

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Political Science Now

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

He completed his dissertation, “Black Elected Officials, Leadership Style and the Politics of Race: Los Angeles, 1963-2003,” under the mentorship of the late Dr. Michael Preston, WPSA’s first African American President. Within the American Political Science Association, Dr. Ricks held a number of leadership and committee positions.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

We [didn’t] want this to be a Band-Aid fix,” said Jordan Mickens, a Leadership for Educational Equity public policy fellow who served as #OaklandUndivided’s project manager until August 2021. In 2017, he left teaching to work in education technology at Clever, a digital platform for schools. The homework gap isn’t new.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 1, 2024

A tenured Professor at the College of Southern Nevada, Professor Levy teaches courses in American Politics and Government, American Public Policy, Political Philosophy, Social Justice Movements, Minority Politics and Women in Politics.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Rhode Island also emphasized the importance of involving state government in their efforts (the Rhode Island Office of Innovation, led by former Office of Educational Technology Director Richard Culatta, has been a key partner in EduvateRI).

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Pierre, the student who left LSU for the Air Force, had a good job working in the executive branch of the federal government. Brian Beabout, , a former New Orleans teacher who now studies the city’s charter schools as an associate professor of educational leadership at the University of New Orleans.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

President Obama’s 2017 budget cites the benefits of integration and proposes a $120 million initiative that would provide competitive grants to school districts that are “exploring ways to foster socioeconomic diversity.”. You can usually trace it back to strong civic leadership,” McGraw said. I just went right on.”.

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Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

In Peru, access to university education changes the types of local politicians who get elected to office and how they govern. Papers on this panel use a range of methods to scrutinize different elements of local governance and citizen engagement in cities across the United States, with an additional example from Brazil.

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Jonathan Firth

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

This question was addressed by the Scottish Government's recent report, ' Teacher Workforce Planning for Scottish Schools ', and also featured in the i nitial findings from their panel of international advisers earlier in July 2017. I have suggested two key types of promoted role - student mentor and teacher-researcher.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2020

billion a year from the federal government and other sources that the National Science Foundation calculates is spent by academia on research is not intended to immediately result in commercial applications. The public is expecting, ‘You’ve been entrusted with billions of dollars in government research. Most of the $75.3

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

Now red-state governors increasingly use the takeovers to undermine the political power of cities, particularly those governed by Black and Hispanic leaders, according to some education experts. “I’ve HISD leadership is a disaster…. It failed on a 5-4 vote. On January 3, Gov. Abbott responded with a scathing tweet : “What a joke.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

In April 2017, the university publicly acknowledged and apologized for its role in perpetuating slavery and renamed the two buildings. Originally, the federal government had promised to distribute 40 acres and a mule to black families after the Civil War. Slavery is America’s original sin, one that the country has never atoned for.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

Nearly 12 million students in 2017 didn’t have broadband internet in their homes , according to a federal report. Nearly 12 million students in 2017 didn’t have broadband internet in their homes , according to a federal report , and the school leadership group Chiefs for Change is calling for better connectivity nationwide. “It

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2018

With their actions, they grabbed headlines in national papers, prodded Republican leadership to action, and in some cases won long overdue concessions in their contracts. However, BLS also cited in the same report that black workers continued to have a higher union membership rate in 2017 (12.6 In 2017, 7.2 percent) in 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2017

San Diego, California, USA; February 28, 2017 San Diego State University has a solid track record for graduate its veteran students. At those 20 institutions with 100 or more GI Bill recipients eligible to finish in 2014, the government data disclose, even the ones with the highest veteran success rates managed to graduate only one in five.

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Strange Maps

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

At this very moment, an incalculable number of bedrooms, garden sheds, and haylofts have parted ways with their drab geopolitical realities, under the inspired leadership of their various Dear Leaders. The Kingdom was dissolved in 2017 when those unions became legal in Australia. Credit : BestOnLifeForm, CC BY-SA 4.0

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

9, 2017 — just weeks before Stone was to begin his senior year at the small Roman Catholic college in northwest Detroit — he got an urgent call from a friend telling him to check the college’s website. D ozens of colleges and universities have closed since 2016 as institutions confront rising expenses and dwindling government support.

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