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Students sick of ‘lip service’ from universities over racism

The Hechinger Report

Lourdes Torrey was only a few weeks into her first year at the University of Missouri in 2018 when she heard a white student in the dorm room next to hers use the N-word. In a state where almost one-third of residents are Black, in 2018, only 8 percent of students at the flagship university were Black and only 3 percent were Black men.

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Want to Humanize Classrooms? Take a Page From Youth Organizers.

ED Surge

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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OPINION: The Opt Out movement is gaining ground, quietly

The Hechinger Report

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). Partly because it’s a grassroots movement without clear leadership or an elaborate organization. Indeed, in 2016, the U.S.

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Smoothing the path for immigrants to finish their college degrees

The Hechinger Report

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). There is intentionality, there’s leadership here,” she said of the Davenport program.

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Sent home early: Lost learning in special education

The Hechinger Report

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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Homeless Students Are Missing School. Does Having a Separate School for Them Help or Hurt?

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By senior year, the dream is for students to have recovered from the trauma of homelessness and to have transitioned out, according to the school's leadership. That includes Barbara Duffield, executive director of SchoolHouse Connection, a nonprofit focused on homeless education advocacy. What does Monarch School's leadership think?

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??Why white students are 250% more likely to graduate than Black students at public universities

The Hechinger Report

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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