The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

And in 2017, barely a fifth of American Indian and Alaska Native adults ages 18 to 24 were enrolled in college, the lowest of any subgroup. She returned in 2017 and graduated the next year, having found a sense of community within the American Indian Studies department and with clubs for indigenous students.

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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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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Education policy leaders at the federal level and beyond were exploring the growing role of competency-based education and non-traditional providers —and calls were growing for stronger connections between universities and the world of employment. To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016. But these are by far the exception.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

Government and Politics curriculum. The students not only scored 11 percentage points higher on a science assessment but also performed 8 to 18 percentage points better on state math and reading tests than similar students who learned science the traditional way. Related 2018 Hechinger coverage. 6th grade science. Curriculum.

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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

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

JUNE 16, 2019

Government Accountability Office. Among the study’s recommendations was to “consider a new model of the traditional campus food pantry that reduces concerns of social stigma” to increase the use of pantry services. The Hope Center has studied the issue extensively, and its results have been deemed valid by the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2018

“Charter schools can do more with less” is a common refrain of school choice advocates, who criticize traditional public schools for wasting money. There is not a superintendent or school leader in either charter or traditional schools who shouldn’t want $48,000 added back to the value of homes in majority black school districts and cities.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2019

It was clear to me that, in most cases, if your school was just a traditional neighborhood school, located in a poor neighborhood and/or not classified as a focused school for high-performing students, funding and educational opportunities were scarce. Between 2005 and 2017, U.S.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

One of the draws to credentialing programs is that they afford learners unparalleled flexibility while requiring a considerably smaller investment of time than traditional degree programs. 1EdTech inherited Open Badges from Mozilla in 2017.

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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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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

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

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. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. requirements too.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2019

They belong to students who have come to college later in their lives than traditional undergraduates. Yet at a time when universities nationwide are aggressively recruiting students like Souza, who face a myriad of obstacles traditional-aged students don’t, the kind of help she’s gotten on this campus is more of an exception than the rule.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The bond-rating agency Moody’s says the closure rate of two- and four-year private, nonprofit institutions reached 11 per year between 2015 and 2017. Joseph’s College, which closed in 2017, brought nearly 1,000 students annually to the small city of Rensselaer, Indiana, which has fewer than 6,000 residents.

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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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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

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The average performance of the nation’s fourth and eighth graders mostly declined in math and reading from 2017 to 2019, following a decade of stagnation in educational progress, according to the results of a test released on Oct. The one exception was fourth-grade math, with the average score rising by one point between 2017 and 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

In a traditional long-term bond the interest would be close to $100 million,” Funk says. Adding tech to the regular budget is simply not possible, according to East Side officials who note that California ranks 41st among states in per-pupil spending when adjusted for the cost of living, according to a 2017 study.

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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. I’ll always be able to find good work’.

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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.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 25, 2024

In both these cultural traditions, children were believed to have been sent from the spirit world to plague their parents. In 2017, a Massachusetts woman sat with her Hydroxyurea prescription, a medication that can help manage but not cure sickle cell anemia. This hypothesis was confirmed in 1954 by Anthony C.

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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. Retrieved July 06, 2017, from [link]. References: Lane, Norman E. Shilling, R.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Colorado’s public pension system is one of the most underfunded in the country, with a shortfall totaling an estimated $29 billion in 2017. Traditional pensions differ from 401(k)-style retirement plans because they guarantee retirees a set amount of money annually for life. percent to 20.4.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

20, 2017, in Durham, N.C. Brown spent years pushing schools to follow the law, after giving up her job doing administrative support work for a government relations firm. White students with special needs are far more likely to graduate with a traditional diploma than are their black and brown peers. Photo: AP Photo/Brian Blanco.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Private college counseling cost an average of $200 an hour in 2017, the last year for which the figure is available from the Independent Educational Consultants Association. Early decision is typically offered by more selective institutions and locks in applicants who are accepted, even before they see how much financial aid they’ll get.

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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. A mass exodus of the island’s residents, coupled with crippling debt, has fueled the closures.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Like McKneely, some educators, government officials and policy experts around the country say the coronavirus carries lessons for another global crisis of our time, climate change. The 2017 Tubbs Fire caused evacuations and killed more than 20 people in the county. That’s been a reality the last few years.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

More than 400 colleges and universities still had seats available for freshmen and transfer students after the traditional May 1 deadline to enroll for this fall, the National Association for College Admission Counseling reports. More are likely to go under; Moody’s projects that the pace of college closings will soon reach 15 per year.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

This shift detached investors from the personal aspect of a debt relationship, allowing them to earn 20 to 30 percent annual interest—significantly higher than the 3 to 5 percent offered by traditional banks. Despite the hope for formal licensing for surviving platforms, many struggled to adapt to new rules.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2018

And while new requirements in the 2015 federal law governing education, the Every Student Succeeds Act , are designed to help this population, a Hechinger Report/HuffPost survey has found that many states are not living up to the law’s promise. By 2017, the program had five full-time employees, a part-time employee, and over 1,080 cases. “We

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

And in 2017 , 1 of every 24 Black men in Idaho were in prison. All are registered with the federal government, which gives participants the freedom to move across state lines after release. Every year, hundreds of thousands of prisoners, at almost every U.S. prison, take federally funded career and technical education courses.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The reasons include a federal law so little-known that people charged with implementing it often fail to follow the rules; nearly non-existent enforcement of the law by federal and state governments; and funding so meager that districts have little incentive to survey whether students have stable housing. Is this actually what we want?’”.

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Steven V. Miller

MAY 23, 2024

Leaving aside, for the moment, my distaste of this tradition and my uncertainty of its origin, my plea here is too many papers lose sight of the question. You might be interested in UN peacekeeping operations, postcolonial perspectives, or how (in Sweden) news outlets treat news sources supported by the Russian government (e.g.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2016

1 is guaranteed 15 hours a week of free child-care or preschool for 38 weeks a year, or 570 hours total, paid for by the national government. “We Apparently, so do most parents, 94 percent of whom take the government up on its offer of free education starting at age 3, according to government data. Like the U.S.,

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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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