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MARCH 21, 2024

In the 2018-2019 academic year, the university enrolled 6,763 undergraduate students, compared to 5,372 in the 2021-2022 academic year (the most recent year available from the National Center for Education Statistics). It has six campuses in Michigan along with its online program.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2021

Between 1995 and 2018, the percentage of Latinos with a high school diploma rose from 53 percent to 72 percent. Amanda Fernandez is CEO and founder of Latinos for Education ; Dr. Feliza Ortiz-Licon is chief policy and advocacy officer. The purpose behind all of this is to set up our students — all students — for success.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

During the last pre-pandemic college application cycle, 2018-19, nearly 1.2 Overall, they found that 24 percent of students who started the Common App in 2018-19 did not complete it. Their advocacy work has already begun, one high school senior at a time. “At But barriers to completion predate the pandemic.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

That’s because since 2010 the number of students enrolled in teacher prep programs at colleges has fallen by more than a third, from about 900,000 students in 2010-11 to only 600,000 in the 2018-19 academic year, according to the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

Lillian Pace, vice president of policy and advocacy, KnowledgeWorks. Beginning in 2018, Parker-Varney teachers met weekly with Joseph to construct the new system. “Pre-pandemic, we saw a lot more interest in one-off pilot programs. The pandemic really changed the policy conversation to more systemic shifts.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

Across the country, some state lawmakers have begun to respond to the demands of student activists and Native advocacy organizations. While Titman was eventually allowed to wear the feather after the case was settled out of court, that incident spurred state legislation in 2018 allowing students to wear Native regalia.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 30, 2024

Mealy brings a wealth of organizational experience and expertise to the position. million dollars in 2021; and serving as the co-Principal Investigator on the National Science Foundation (NSF) $1.4 million dollar Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) (2020-2023 and 2023-2026).

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

That includes Barbara Duffield, executive director of SchoolHouse Connection, a nonprofit focused on homeless education advocacy. percent for the 2018-2019 school year (compared to a 25 percent chronically absent rate for California homeless students in general). Some people are convinced that homeless-only schools are a bad idea.

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ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2023

Community Impact and Student Leadership In 2018, I worked with a group of students who inspired the creation of MIStudentsDream , a community organization focused on immigration and education justice. The group of students decided they wanted to focus their advocacy on teacher practice.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

But during the past four years, New York parents have actively excluded about one in five students from taking the annual state tests (including 18 percent in the spring 2018 test administration). Moreover, the movement has yet to form an advocacy arm that calls for specific changes and a reform agenda. Indeed, in 2016, the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

Delilah’s first several weeks of school in the fall of 2018 had been marked by discipline incidents and suspensions, as she got in trouble for not listening to instructions and hitting staff members. Someone would need to pick her up before noon every day, even as the rest of her peers continued learning and playing together.

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ED Surge

MARCH 22, 2023

Depending on their interests, Chao says, the student-led chapters might exchange letters based on a theme, focus on education around mental health, or participate in advocacy for mental health resources at their schools. Her talk has been viewed online over 10,000 times. That’s when the organization saw a huge spike in interest.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Beginning as early as the mid-1990s, Nassar abused dozens of girls, criminal behavior that was finally stopped in 2018 when he was sentenced to 175 years in prison. According to the nonprofit advocacy group Equal Rights Advocates , “If you report sexual assault or harassment, your school cannot ignore you or blame you.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2022

Moran started as Holy Cross’s first LGBTQIA+ coordinator in 2018. Keygan Miller, advocacy manager at The Trevor Project, a nonprofit focused on suicide prevention for LGBTQ+ youth, said that a therapist doesn’t have to identify as queer or trans to help a student who does. LGBTQ+ students.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2020

About 50 percent of dependent Latino college students come from families making less than $40,000 per year and about 34 percent of independent Latino college students make $30,000 or less annually, according to a 2018 report from The Postsecondary National Policy Institute.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

When Diamante Hare stepped onto Northeastern Illinois University’s campus in Chicago for the first time in 2018, he was gambling with thousands of dollars of grants, scholarships and loans — and his future. Diamante Hare, a senior at Northeastern Illinois University, felt uncomfortable and out of place when he first started in 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Courtney Harritt, a spokesperson for ACCEL, wrote by email that OHDELA’s enrollment surge hit just as the school year started, creating operational challenges, and that ACCEL is making changes after taking over the school from another company in 2018. No ratings were issued in 2019-20 because of the pandemic.).

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

Schools were unable to cover teacher absences some 20 percent of the time in 2018-19, according to the Frontline Research and Learning Institute , a research firm. 1 in 5 — how many classes with absent teachers went unfilled in schools in 2018-19, before the pandemic. Even before Covid, the U.S.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Maria and her husband arrived at Adventist HealthCare’s The Lourie Center for Children’s Social & Emotional Wellness in 2018, seeking answers for their then-2-year-old middle son, Lucas. Their household is a busy one, occupied with wrestling matches, filled with outdoor adventures, and covered all over in Legos.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 17, 2018

They are great models for how to use social media in empowered ways for research dissemination, policy advocacy, and educational impact. Increasing the visibility and impact of our work [July 2, 2018]. I would encourage you to see how the following scholars are engaging online. Previous MMMs. Related Posts. The promise of the digital.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The gap is often stark: In 18 states, graduation rates for students who experienced homelessness lagged more than 20 percentage points behind the overall rate in both 2017 and 2018. Our analysis focused on non-charter districts in the 2018-19 and 2019-20 school years. Advocacy groups and researchers , too, have surfaced examples.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2018

But since it wasn’t our house, they could use the bathroom first,” Kimberly, 12, told the child advocacy organization Children’s Defense Fund for their The State of America’s Children 2014 report. Sometimes we had to go to school late, because we had to wait for the bathroom. But at school, she was labeled truant. “I

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

When Karli Hinman enrolled at Stony Brook University in fall 2018, she knew her family couldn’t help her pay to continue her education. From Aid to Advocacy Seven years after the movement began, FAST Funds are starting to measure their results. But during her junior year, the expenses started to add up. Kirtley says.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

The retention rate for Mississippi third graders in 2018-19 was about 10 percent. Children have been behind in literacy for decades,” said Sonya Thomas, the co-founder of the parent advocacy group Nashville PROPEL. If school teachers are just now reacting to it, then I question whether or not it’s being taken seriously.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In recent years, the group’s advocacy has led to changes in the district’s graduation requirements, to align them with admissions requirements for California’s university systems, and an expansion of funding for an after-school meal program that had been cut by the school board. Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2019

At Stella and Charles Guttman Community College , which opened in 2012 as part of The City University of New York (CUNY) system, 26 percent of degree-seeking students in the fall of 2018 reported a disability with the Office of AccessABILITY Services.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2023

Related: Students can’t learn if they don’t show up at school In seven states, the rate of chronically absent kids doubled for the 2021-22 school year, from 2018-19, before the pandemic. But I’m not going to waste my time, my money on uniforms, for him to go to a school where he’s just going to fail.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

March 2018. Within the state of Illinois, a wealthy district typically spends $3,400 more than a poor district, according to a February 2018 study by The Education Trust, a nonprofit group that conducts research and advocates for low-income students. Baker et al. How much does it cost to educate a child?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Department of Education in 2018 pushed for the expansion of high-quality charter schools meant to serve Native communities, among other groups it deemed educationally disadvantaged and underserved by the existing charter sector. As the state of education for these children continued to languish, the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2020

During the 2018-19 school year, more than twice as many students in Boston Public Schools spent their days in these segregated special education programs as the state average, according to the audit. At Sarah Greenwood, school leaders have resisted López’s advocacy for years.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2019

As a result, the number of high-quality preschool programs has increased, with a 32 percent increase between July 2018 and June 2019. Educating officials : PRE4CLE has prioritized advocacy at all levels of the government, according to Kelly. You can read more about PRE4CLE’s work in their five-year report, available here.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

In 2018 Congress allocated federal funds to train schools on threat assessment. A few weeks after a school shooting in Maryland in March 2018, state legislators passed a law mandating threat assessment teams in schools. Advocacy demonstrating the harm threat assessments may pose to students with disabilities could be having an effect.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2023

We no longer have the luxury of going to college for college’s sake,” said Yolanda Spiva, president of the advocacy organization Complete College America. And since 2018, students taking summer courses have been able to help pay for them with up to $1,500 in Pell Grants. Students need to get out there and work.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Tanji Reed Marshall, a former teacher and current researcher at The Education Trust, an education research and advocacy organization, recently studied how frequently teachers offer students choices in the classroom. Here, a quote from a 2018 graduate. The fact is, offering students choices about their learning experience is difficult.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

I also definitely want to be heavily involved in advocacy for young black youth, or, for youth in general, and just promoting student leadership. Student interviews were carried out during the 2015-2016, 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 school years. I want to use my master’s degree to change that. But, I still want to be president, too.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

In the 2018 school year, roughly one in every five California school children missed at least one day because of a natural disaster, school maintenance issue, shooting or other emergency, according to an analysis by CalMatters. Half of the 20 most destructive wildfires in state history have occurred since 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2019

His “quiet and relentless advocacy brought hundreds of African Americans into space industry jobs in the Deep South, helping to shift perceptions of black people in ways both subtle and profound,” wrote Michael Fletcher in the story. million from 1990 to 2018 (a 79 percent increase). Total includes bachelor’s and associate’s degrees.

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