The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Between 2005 and 2017, U.S. Until you have to decide between a new curriculum or an additional teacher, an after-school program or a full-day kindergarten, or lunch for yourself or library books for your students, you can’t empathize with the realities that many educators face when school funding is insufficient.

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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. That’s where Juawana Allen found Aon, by way of a flyer in the library advertising the Aon program. As IBM measures it , the federal government puts forward $130 billion annually in grants, loans, and other benefits?to

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2022

Tamara Otero, the district’s governing board president, told me that the idea of assigning codes to students has more to do with self-exploration than finding a career at a young age. “ Many also told me they were conventional, although they couldn’t quite explain what that meant. ASA is among the various funders of The Hechinger Report.)

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2020

Luis Gallardo’s favorite place to study was the library at the University of California, Berkeley. 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. The coronavirus pandemic is exacerbating those pressures.

Political Science 145

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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. And we can say yes.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2024

States do not report this information to the federal government. In most cases, we received data from 2017-18 to 2021-22. We then used a machine-learning library and trained a model with our labeled dataset and used the trained model to predict the remaining incident reports for the same categories.

Library 113

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In 2017-18, the average cost of attendance at UW-Madison, including tuition, room and board and other expenses, was $5,445 for in-state freshmen coming from families making less than $30,000 a year. That’s what happened to Emmanuel Villagomez, a 2017 UW-Milwaukee graduate who left school owing $41,000.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Our governments need to be working in partnership with tech companies to put ‘the Netflix of online learning’ into action,” she said. “I And when they turn to each other for help, it’s most often for babysitting, so they can sneak in a few hours at the library. I don’t understand why that isn’t happening — now.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2020

In the midst of such disruption — with hastily prepared classes delivered remotely, and without professors’ office hours, libraries or advisors — students were demanding the option to pass or fail their courses this semester, instead of getting letter grades. This story also appeared in PBS Newshour. Many universities and colleges agreed.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

In total, the homework gap hits some 12 million school-aged kids nationwide, according to a 2017 congressional report, “ America’s Digital Divide.”. Over three decades, the government gave away more than 2,000 spectrum licenses to school districts and education nonprofits, primarily in urban areas.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 20, 2024

Concurrently, civil rights activists in Mississippi participated in a series of “Wade-Ins” to integrate public beaches, “Read-Ins” to desegregate public libraries, and “Pray-Ins” at all-white churches. The interest of the country is awakened and … the government responds.” SNCC & Grassroots Organizing: Interpretive Booklet.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Half a million people have left Puerto Rico in the last decade, first after the government cut services in a scramble to try and pay back its $123 billion in debt and then in response to the catastrophe of Hurricane Maria. She has lots of ideas: tutoring services, a library, a theater, a kitchen, case managers, social workers.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Moises Urena a SUNY student who grew up homeless lobbies for increased state aid during a visit to the Capitol Wednesday March 8, 2017 in Albany, NY. They stayed at the library working until closing time because they didn’t have laptops. I never thought I’d be in a library for two hours every day.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2021

To the surprise of many students and parents, public colleges in every state in the country except Louisiana use for-profit debt collection agencies to retrieve overdue tuition, library fees and even parking fines. He got a bill from the agency in 2017 informing him he owed $12,689.

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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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Steven V. Miller

OCTOBER 24, 2024

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Partly to attract enrollment, which has been declining, colleges and universities nationwide added 55,416 new programs in the five years ending in 2017, according to a Hechinger Report analysis of the most recent available federal figures. A committee gathers every Thursday morning in a conference room in the library to review these cases. “To

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2022

Although the federal government sent a massive influx of money to help schools troubleshoot , it left districts to grapple with how best to use the funds. In 2017, according to district data, 44 percent of Lyncourt students in grades 2-6 were at or above grade level expectations on the school’s screening test.

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Steven V. Miller

JANUARY 12, 2022

library ( RefManageR ) bib Mitchell, Sarah McLaughlin and John A. library ( tidyverse ) library ( bib2df ) library ( stevemisc ) bib % filter ( COMMENT == "citemyshit" ) %>% arrange ( YEAR ) %>% select ( where ( ~! External Territorial Threats and Tolerance of Corruption: A #> Private/Government Distinction.”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

In 2017, barely a fifth of American Indian and Alaska Native adults ages 18 to 24 were enrolled in college. which Powell describes as an isolated world of “sacred peaks, spirits and clans” where homelessness, alcoholism and unemployment are as rampant as books and libraries are scarce.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. In 2017, he left teaching to work in education technology at Clever, a digital platform for schools. OAKLAND, Calif.

High School 126

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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). Karen Stephenson on trust-based social network analysis. edclusters16.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

In addition to employing qualified elementary, middle and high school music teachers, David Douglas offers inexpensive instrument rentals ($25 per year), a library of musical scores, connections to reduced-price or free private lessons and a closet of free marching band uniforms and orchestra dress blacks, among other necessities.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

They’ll share in $100 million from foundations and the government for mentoring programs that now reach nearly 10,000 students in 30 communities. But when the new building opened in 2015, the school district didn’t have enough money for her to order new library books. They need a lot more, she said. We have a lot of potential.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

But after a year, Woods realized that his college experience just wasn’t the same as that of his classmates who made friends in the dorms, hung out in the dining halls and stayed late into the night at the libraries. He’s active in student government and his fraternity. He decided to take out even more money to join them.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

And thanks to an important change in government policy, life got easier after that: She didn’t have to pay. I’m still thinking about how I’m going to pay for that last year” after the benefit runs out, she said in Spanish, in a glass-walled conference room in the university’s busy library. The work paid off. Elissa Nadworny.

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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 That new rule tipped it from a D to an F under an A-F rating system Abbott had signed into law in 2017. It failed on a 5-4 vote.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2018

Among full-time wage and salary workers, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), union members had median usual weekly earnings of $1,041 in 2017, while those who were not union members had median weekly earnings of $829. In 2017, 7.2 percent) in 2017. percent) than workers who were white (10.6 percent), Asian (8.9

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

ATLANTA — When Keenan Robinson started college in 2017, he knew the career he wanted. Government had created pressure for accountability. The ID records included when students entered classroom buildings, returned to the dorm at night, checked out library books or bought a coffee. Photo: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2024

By 2017, however, new houses starting in the mid-$200,000s were everywhere, and white students were now outnumbered inside Jones Middle. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. That’s why we want to work together as a team. But the assistant principal mostly responded with noncommittal nods.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Under a little-known state regulation , New York’s attorney general is allowed to sue students if a state public university claims they owe tuition — or overdue library fines or unpaid parking tickets. The decision to sue in Albany has, over the years, put many students into default.

Library 134

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Anthropology 365

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Lisa Henry’s 2017 study found that food-insecure students tend to suffer in silence, making it difficult to identify and intervene. Opt for cost-effective alternatives like open-access texts and library resources to alleviate stress and remove barriers.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2024

Lindsey Kimery, the coordinator of library services for Metro-Nashville Public Schools, said she has “no hidden agenda other than that reading was my favorite thing.” What I try to convey is that a library is a place for voluntary inquiry.” It just means we have books for those readers, too. This alarmed librarians.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In Port Orford, Oregon, it’s a quick walk from the elementary and middle school building to the town library—the two buildings are right down the street from each other. In fact, the town library and school are linked by more than geography, since the school district’s two libraries became part of the Port Orford library system in 2017.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Laia Balcells is a Professor of Government at Georgetown University. Cambridge University Press published her first book, Rivalry and Revenge: the Politics of Violence during Civil War in 2017. Julie Rose (PhD, Princeton University) is Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College.

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Political Science Social Science Economics Government 72

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2017

His computer science courses covered topics like programming, machine learning and artificial intelligence; Chibwe even did a project on recommendation algorithms for an online library. Drexel has a new master’s degree for fall, 2017, in Quality, Safety and Risk Management in Healthcare. “We

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Tradition Library Cultures Education 106

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. Bayard Middle School, when he arrived there, had a library, but no librarian, so most of the day it’s a dark, unused room. Earlier this year, Taheem witnessed a shooting as he was walking to school.

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