The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2020

Coding gives us another way to solve our problems,” Diane Nodell, the library media specialist, reminded them. On a rainy day last November, the library at Mineola High School had more than enough online and off-line activities to keep students occupied. Are you ready to learn the basics?”. This story also appeared in USA Today.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Before the pandemic, Albalicia Espino often took her 6-year-old daughter Sara to the West Dallas Library. On special occasions, they’d make the trip to downtown Dallas, where the towering library building has a dedicated children’s floor. Parents of young children are worried. The pandemic halted those treasured visits. “I

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Library of Congress. Courtesy of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. Congressional row, in the U.S. House of Representatives, midnight of Friday, February 5th, 1858. Illustration in: Frank Leslie’s illustrated newspaper, v. 5, 1858 Feb. President Nixon addressing a joint session of Congress; WHPO-9299-07; 6/1/1972.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2019

The only predominantly white college whose population in the fall of 2017 was at least a quarter black was Northwestern State University in Natchitoches. Enrollment dropped by more than 700 students between 2016 and 2017, and when Aviles arrived on campus that fall, he said he found “great anxiety” about the numbers.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

A 2017 review of nearly 50 parenting education apps available on the Apple app store found this kind of tailored support is lacking: although many provided parenting information, none provided “a customized experience.”.

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NCHE

MAY 1, 2023

Since 2017, NCHE has offered professional learning colloquia that focus on “Technology’s Impact in American History (TIAH).” Given the Library of Congress’s mission to connect its archives with others across the nation, we were excited to add another dimension to the current Library of Congress resources for teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2017

1 best primary school system in the world, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report 2016-2017. Connecting all the pieces, flanked by the high-tech science lab, a fireplace and plush sofas, is a modular, wide-open library of books and magazines for children to enjoy. Little to nothing.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

The idea for the new program was to organize Khan Academy’s online library of learning videos and problem sets into a game-like software program to help kids practice skills they need to master. Students work in MAP Accelerator inside the library at B. Credit: Daniel Clark/The Nevada Independent. Published with permission.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

A 2017 review of the literature by my Brookings colleagues found “on average, students’ achievement scores declined over summer vacation by one month’s worth of school-year learning” and that the loss was especially great for math. We must continue to provide access to software, online libraries and educational videos.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2020

RAND continued to track the children through seventh grade in 2017, after an additional two years of not attending the summer school. Kim’s expertise is in reading and his best advice to families right now is to download free digital books, for example through the Libby library app , read aloud to your child and discuss books together. “I

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

This staffing figure is through 2017, the most recent year available, and includes a 16 percent jump in the number of administrators and support personnel — a perennial target of critics — but also a 7 percent increase in the number of full-time faculty. percent from 2009 to 2017, a period during which the S&P 500 index gained 11.2

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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. Consuela Robinson, 35, returned to college in 2017 after dropping out more than a decade earlier, working two, sometimes three jobs to make ends meet.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2022

The approach rocketed ahead in 2017 when Ed Hidalgo, a former Qualcomm executive who helped develop the World of Work program , joined the district as its chief innovation and engagement officer. A supportive school board helps fund the initiative; the district has also received grants from the nonprofit American Student Assistance.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

His comments at the 2017 meeting were ineffective: The board had already approved the charter’s application before they opened up public comment, according to MCSA’s minutes. “We Library class is one of Clarksdale Collegiate’s core programs. In the school’s first year, every child had library every day.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

million annual economic impact on southeast Iowa, according to a 2017 study conducted for the university by Hanover Research. Southern Virginia University was cleared to borrow nearly $23 million for a new academic center, student housing, a dining facility, the renovation of its library and refinancing of other debt.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Oakhurst farm, near Hoekwil, South Africa (Image credit: Courtesy of the University of Cape Town Libraries, Special Collections Goodwin, image number A21) The Importance of Africa in Human Genetic History Africa, the origin of Homo sapiens , holds the greatest genetic diversity of any continent.

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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

JUNE 15, 2024

The group, founded in 2017, helps develop quality early care and education programs in Nebraska communities that don’t have enough of them. “If Werth recalled the library closing around them one evening as they helped participants use computers for the first time.

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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

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.”. By the summer of 2017, Eyre and his counterparts in other districts had persuaded UETN to back a wireless expansion of their broadband service statewide.

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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. Department of Labor statistics shows a 70 percent increase in paid apprenticeships during the past decade.

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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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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 10, 2017

— Brian Eller (@BrianrEller) September 28, 2017. — KC Connector Project (@KCconnector) September 27, 2017. — Dana Borrelli-Murray (@DBorrelliMurray) September 27, 2017. — Jess Falkenthal (@Jfalkenthal) September 26, 2017. — Aubrey Francisco (@aubreyfrancisco) September 27, 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2024

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. We also hand-coded 1,500 of the remaining records.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2021

Scott Walker said public universities should offset state budget cuts by asking faculty to teach more, and the legislature in 2017 ordered that the working hours of every faculty member be tracked and made publicly available , by name and campus, through an online dashboard. That is also down since the dashboard was formalized by law in 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

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. Nationally, nearly 1 in 5 female college students is a single mom, but only 28 percent graduate, according to a 2017 report. She’s also a single mother of an 11-year-old son.

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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 20, 2017

Great Hall, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. This 2017 research shows among graduates of top colleges, more than half of those from families with incomes in the bottom 20 percent ended up earning wages in the top 20 percent by their mid-thirties.

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Your boss is more likely to be flexible about your schedule, you’ll have more time to go to the library to study or get homework done and you won’t have to actually leave the campus. And it will look good on your resume, too. Work on campus. No long commutes! Don’t forget about yourself. You (we) can and will do this!

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2018

For the 2017-18 school year, they broke up Vista’s freshman class of almost 700 students into six self-contained “houses.” With part of the grant money, Vista turned its library into a “learning commons.” Sharing information helped them develop closer relationships with students and better tailor their lessons.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Claudette Bautista, a 2017 Muñiz graduate who now attends Lesley University, was born in the Dominican Republic but spent her K-8 years in Boston, learning in English. Headmaster Dania Vázquez hugs 2017 graduate Claudette Bautista during the Margarita Muñiz Academy’s second graduation ceremony. There should be more schools like it.”.

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Steven V. Miller

OCTOBER 24, 2024

library ( tidyverse ) # for most things library ( stevedata ) # v. for country_isocodes library ( stevemisc ) # for lag_at() library ( WDI ) # the star of the show for this post library ( modelsummary ) # for the regression table at the end. NA #> 4 Afghanistan AF AFG 2017 97.7 0.662 NA 89.5 0.626 NA 97.7

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Living Geography

JANUARY 21, 2024

A cross posting from my GeoLibrary blog - over 500 books and other resources for geography teachers have been placed on the shelves of the library so far. The original book was published in 2017. My copy was published by Picador in 2017. A cli-fi novel, which has been turned into a film, which is now out in cinemas.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

Recognizing the dearth of literature written from a nonwhite perspective, Connolly was quick to add dozens of titles to the library. Beginning in 2017, the office’s leader, Colin Rose, made cultural proficiency a component of every school’s annual accountability reports — essentially forcing schools to address bias and inequity.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2018

In 2017 , 88 percent of Edgecombe children and 72 percent of Nash children were in the highest-quality setting available. In 1993, when the organization was incorporated, only 6 percent of young children in Edgecombe County and 7 percent in Nash County were in care settings with the highest-quality rating.

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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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