The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Spokespeople from the schools say the criticism doesn’t reflect the fact that they often enroll students who are struggling academically, are enrolled for short periods, and have a history of changing schools frequently, a metric shown to hurt academic performance. They also say they are taking steps to improve retention and graduation rates.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Now, if he finishes a history lesson first, for example, he goes on to the next one – or switches to another subject. Each student still takes life sciences, global history, algebra and the other courses New York State requires for graduation. Here, a quote from a 2018 graduate. It helps me stay on track and focused,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Half of the 20 most destructive wildfires in state history have occurred since 2015. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. I also definitely want to be heavily involved in advocacy for young black youth, or, for youth in general, and just promoting student leadership. Let me just quit.”

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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

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In part because of an accident of scientific history, however, this essential assistance has been far more available to kids who score higher on IQ and other cognitive tests. But a 2018 study found that about one third of school psychologists were still using the discrepancy model to screen students for learning disabilities.

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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

The data was from the 2018-19 academic year, with the exception of Nevada, which has released only the data from 2017-18. s long history of segregation and racist policies. He knew Montgomery County had a long history of high performance for most students, but not all of them. Dixon has three daughters in the district. “We

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

“Frankly, students didn’t lose anything, they just never had the opportunity to learn it,” said Allison Socol, an assistant director at The Education Trust, a nonprofit education research and advocacy organization. When given the opportunity, then they will succeed. And so we always talk about it as ‘unfinished learning.’ ”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Between 2018 and 2020, the number of people of color entering educator preparation programs jumped by more than 500 percent. Normally, when you are looking at history, the voices that are centered are those of landowning white men.”. At Lusher, in 2020, 13 percent of teachers were Black compared with 22 percent of the students.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

The school’s PTSA had zero assets or income as of 2018, according to a local public radio report. “I Over the decades, however, local PTAs shifted their attention and efforts away from advocacy work to fundraising for individual schools. Widows and people with grown children would join,” Woyshner said of the early PTAs.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2019

In 2018, Congress passed a revamped version of the Carl D. Shell weaves in discussions of history, ethics and ecology. We’ve talked about the history of the Mars Rover and space exploration and debated how much freedom a robot should have,” Shell said. Related: How to build an engineer: Start young.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

Raoul Contreras, a professor who leads the Latino studies program housed in the minority studies department, notes that in the last year, the school cut a Puerto Rican history class he taught. Debra Santiago, CEO, Excelencia in Education. But Debra Santiago, CEO of the D.C.-based

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

Tucci, who will graduate in 2018. Colleges and universities usually require 120 credits for a bachelor’s degree but students graduate with about 135, on average, according to data compiled by Complete College America, a nonprofit research and advocacy group. I’ve actually been able to take 18 credits some semesters,” said Ms.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2020

But in the legislation’s almost 50-year history, the federal government has never fulfilled its promise to pay 40 percent of the average cost of educating students with disabilities. Meghan Whittaker, director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. And this gives us a chance to rethink that.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

Mona Mustafa, a high school history teacher in New Jersey, said she has been assailed with questions such as: “What is Palestine? My advocacy for Palestine is professional suicide,” Sawsan Jaber said. These attacks frequently go beyond the curriculum and become personal. Do you mean Israel?”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2021

In a recent survey drawing responses from 1,219 teachers and conducted by the charter schools advocacy organization the Thomas B. That means they’re not “reading Mark Twain and Shakespeare and Maya Angelou,” taking algebra or learning world history, said Raymond Pierce, president of the Southern Education Foundation.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Experts — and history — suggest that school districts need much more than what federal and state governments have provided so far. Teachers throughout Arizona, including this group in Phoenix, staged a walkout strike in 2018 in support of better wages and state funding for schools.

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MPSA

OCTOBER 12, 2021

They created the entry on Settler colonialism in Canada , describing the important history of the displacement and mistreatment of Canada’s indigenous populations by European settlers. They significantly expanded the article on Megan Hunt , the first openly LGBTQ+ person to be elected to the Nebraska legislature in 2018.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In comparison, young American voter registration is much lower and participation spiked in 2018 — when 28 percent voted , a record percentage — though it’s dipped since then. Kentucky, where the students interviewed for this article attend public school, has a version of the civics test policy, which the state passed in 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2020

Black children who grew up in low-income households in the county just 15 years after a landmark school desegregation victory were likely to enter their mid-thirties with a household income of $24,000, according to a 2018 analysis of Census Bureau data by a Harvard and Brown team of researchers.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

On President’s Day, a town hall was convened by the Orleans Parish School Board to update the community on its efforts to take nearly 50 schools back into its fold by July 2018. Related: A professor’s proposed Black History Month course for one student: President Donald Trump.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Mattivi, whose eighth-grade English students discuss articles about the environment, civic life, and American history after using online literacy programs that provide similar material at different reading levels. School administrators have set a goal of giving every student in the district a computer by 2018. Tech is where it’s at.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

But he also sees in the school’s decline a long history of white leaders, conservative and liberal, repeatedly asking black families to accept failure for their children. Fuller launched his chief advocacy arm for school choice, the Institute for the Transformation of Learning, housed at Marquette University, more than two decades ago.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2022

A Landscape of Discriminatory Policies and Hostile Environments According to the Human Rights Campaign , this has been the “worst year in recent history for LGBTQ state legislative attacks,” with nearly 40 states introducing 238 anti-LGBTQIA+ bills in just the first three months of 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2020

million children, about two thirds of whom are 6 or younger, attended care facilities with the help of CCDBG subsidies in fiscal year 2018. Also, Congress did not provide the funding to make the required quality improvements until 2018 when it approved an additional $2.4 Credit: Photo: Lillian Mongeau/Hechinger Report. All told, 1.3

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Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

The panelists draw on diverse research methods to support their claims, including text analysis, life histories, and differences-in-differences regression. In Peru, access to university education changes the types of local politicians who get elected to office and how they govern.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2024

Securly is one of the most popular web filters, used in more than 20,000 schools, and its “sexual content” category covers “websites about sexual health and LGBTQ+ advocacy websites.” He offered no comment on the idea that blocking LGBTQ+ advocacy websites through the “sexual content” category is discriminatory.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

Related: What do classroom conversations around race, identity and history really look like? In Texas, where the governor’s order is being challenged in court, Adrian Reyna, an eighth grade history teacher in San Antonio, said he won’t be “intimidated” into reporting his transgender students to state authorities.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The class of 2018 didn’t fare much better. And although white and black students make up a similar proportion of Mississippi’s student population, white students were more than twice as likely to attend one of Mississippi’s 31 A-rated school districts this year, according to 2018-19 enrollment data.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

The city itself has had a scrappy commitment to existence in its 123-year history, surviving the boom and bust of the timber industry that first gave it life and weathering the 21st century with a fairly steady population of about 2,500. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. The research does not support that at all,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2021

Despite this history, Brown, like many of his colleagues, said a bill requiring schools to provide suicide prevention education to students was legislative overreach. In November, 2020, Cossaboon and the Youth For Justice students started their advocacy in their home district before taking the issue to the legislature.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2019

But after attending an advocacy event in Washington two years later, and hearing that the U.S. At the time, October 2017, the Tubbs Fire was the deadliest wildfire in California history, but it would be eclipsed the next year by the Camp Fire, which leveled the town of Paradise. He says he got nowhere.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2019

He marched in an elementary school graduation ceremony in June 2018, sporting a blue polyester robe while his mom and stepdad clapped and took pictures. Greenfield said that when she runs into a child who’s having problems in school, sometimes she’ll bring the child into her office to look at their academic history together on the computer.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2024

Barbara Mikulski, a Democrat from Maryland, worked with members of the child care advocacy community to draft bipartisan legislation that would, for the first time, establish national safety standards for child care. Three state ones, of the criminal history, sex offender and child abuse registries. She got to work. Burr and then-Sen.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report McAndrew gives particular credit for the rising numbers of young voters to the gun-safety organization March for Our Lives, founded by survivors of the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Florida, that killed 17. They have led protests, of course,” she said.

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