Political Science Now

APRIL 22, 2025

Building faculty capacity outside the classroom includes both understanding governance processes and structures and creating cultures and conversations. She also helped to create, implement, and now teaches in the Bachelors of Applied Science in Sustainable Practices degree at Cascadia.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2020

Institutions are now scrambling to rethink how they recruit and teach students from abroad as they prepare for fall 2020. “As 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.

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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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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 2011, she enrolled at the College of DuPage — a nearby community college — and became certified to teach preschool. I’m frustrated, because, what can I do?

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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

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. Dozens of colleges and universities nationwide started 2020 already under financial stress.

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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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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. Teaching quality deteriorated in Dallas. Research documented giant student achievement improvements in Washington, D.C.,

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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 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

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

JUNE 7, 2021

Lower teaching quality offset gains that might have been achieved from the smaller classes. Changing how teachers teach can sometimes be more powerful than how many students are in the classroom. This wouldn’t be the first time that the federal government has spent gobs of money on smaller classes.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

Tutors, few of whom went to school for teaching or math, are trained on both the academic and relationship-building aspects of their jobs with two coaching sessions per week and daily informal observations that inform the coaching. Census Bureau data.

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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

MARCH 8, 2021

Government and Politics curriculum. The thing that we’re trying to debunk with this research is to actually show that project-based learning is a rigorous form of teaching and learning. The Lucas foundation originally tried to finance the development of a project-based curriculum to teach math. 6th grade science.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2019

Government Accountability Office, nearly one in four Foreign Service officers do not meet the language proficiency requirements that they should meet to do their jobs. Another issue is there aren’t enough qualified teachers available to teach foreign languages and immersion programs. Yet, according to the U.S Most students in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In a report publicly released in October 2020 , the Government Accountability Office (GAO) counted 99 school data breaches over the past four years, from July 2016 to May 2020, that compromised the personal information of thousands of students in kindergarten through high school. We still don’t know the extent of the leaks.

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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. Everything is online now,” Bey said.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

The end product is an August 2017 working paper, “ Education Technology: An Evidence-Based Review ,” published by the National Bureau of Economic Research with clear tables on which technology improves learning and which doesn’t. The federal government, through the U.S. A 2017 study in eight U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2020

The typical participant is not a super star on the football field or in student government. . This activity teaches synchronicity to students, who don’t naturally possess that skill. According to a 2017 study from the Give a Note Foundation and the Country Music Association, over 90 percent of U.S.

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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. He teaches a technology class at J.W. Perkins Act. Credit: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2021

Maggie Anderson teaches sixth grade at Greenfield School. That’s because she didn’t have a teaching license, even though she should have qualified and she and Wilson tried for months to get her one. “I Maggie Anderson never considered a career in teaching until she stepped into a classroom at Fairfield, Montana’s Greenfield School.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

” Teaching aide Hannah Chancey faces the same problem in second grade classrooms at Rehobeth Elementary School in a small low-income community in southeastern Alabama, a state with reading scores near the bottom nationally. We’re teaching kids to read in a content and motivational vacuum.” Racial and ethnic gaps worsened too.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Government agencies and accrediting bodies have safeguards to protect students from such abrupt college closures, but the oversight is often weak or too late. In theory, government agencies and accrediting bodies have safeguards to protect students from such abrupt college closures. Credit: Yvonne Mendez. They could have warned us.”.

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The Tibetan community in Vancouver includes approximately 700 people, more than 200 of whom migrated from four settlements in Arunachal Pradesh, India, to Canada through a federal refugee resettlement program between 2013 and 2017. In 2017, Tibetan parents in Vancouver decided to organize efforts to care for their heritage language.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

The federal government has given out more than $1.8 Bush Administration when policymakers believed that the same kinds of pay incentives that motivate salesmen in the private sector might also improve the teaching force. That’s the same number that the federal government report arrived at. First, some background.

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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. ” Reboot aims to increase the teaching of critical thinking in schools and by parents at home.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 20, 2024

The interest of the country is awakened and … the government responds.” Malik Ali teaching. Malik Ali, a James Madison Fellow and 2017 graduate of the Master of Arts in American History and Government program, is Tukman Distinguished Teacher of History at the Branson School in Ross, California. SNCC Legacy Project.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

According to state data, the number of young people in state juvenile justice facilities dropped from 901 at the end of 2012 to 386 in 2017. In Illinois, District 428 awarded 73 high school diplomas in 2017, up from 65 in 2013 when there were twice as many juveniles in the system and their average stay was longer.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

Given current circumstances, Richard Vedder, an economics professor emeritus at Ohio University, has decided to teach his fall course, “Economic History of Europe,” for a salary of $1. Richard Vedder, an economics professor emeritus at Ohio University and national expert on higher education finances, began teaching at O.U.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2017

This profound reminder to make periodic assessments has shaped much of my belief system and identity as a teacher, including my decision to pursue the teaching track, one of three possible career tracks on which Singapore’s teachers may embark. “I am still honing my teaching craft in the classroom.”

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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

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. Photo: John O'Boyle for The Hechinger Report.

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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

APRIL 15, 2019

Jared Maymon, a Nichols College junior and a student government vice president, has become convinced that Nichols will survive. Applications fell again in 2017, but have since recovered, and the college exceeded its enrollment goals this year. He’s “okay to sleep at night, comfortable that I’m going to graduate. DUDLEY, Mass. —

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ED Surge

JULY 14, 2022

Trying to Fill the Teacher Gap Arizona teacher retention was looking bleak in January, when a report from school HR professionals found that roughly 1 in 3 teaching positions were vacant. The report tallied nearly 2,000 unfilled teaching positions and that 944 teachers had resigned during the first half of the school year.

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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. Group homes may have too few staff and not enough time to teach basic life skills, she said, and foster families may fear legal liability and keep kids away from perceived dangers, even basic activities like using the stove and learning to cook.

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