The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2023

I do miss having a social life a little bit,” she said of forgoing the traditional long summer break. The University of Minnesota Rochester is relatively small and new — it graduated its first class in 2013 and has 617 undergraduates — freeing it from some of the entrenched traditions that can stifle change in higher education.

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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. Families got used to that,” said Elmer Roldan, of Communities in Schools of Los Angeles, which helps schools follow up with absent students.

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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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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. Related : The pandemic’s remote learning legacy: A lot worth keeping. Stride Inc.,

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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

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

JANUARY 23, 2019

Michael is a senior at Vertus High School , an all-boys charter school in the Rochester City School District whose hallmark is a program that blends online classes with more traditional classroom teaching. For his part, though, Michael appreciates the opportunity to work faster than traditional classrooms allow.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

These strategies range in impact and difficulty, and some have been more practiced in the children’s advocacy world than others. In 2018 alone, a diverse group of communities successfully passed measures to establish “children’s funds” in Jackson County, Missouri; San Francisco; Kent County, Michigan; and Alachua County, Florida.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Those efforts allowed the district of 520 schools and educational centers to transition relatively smoothly from traditional learning to distance learning when the school system shut on March 16, Carvalho said. Smoke from the deadly 2018 Camp Fire, which leveled the town of Paradise 200 miles north, compromised air quality in Sonoma.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Much of the advocacy for net-zero buildings has focused on environmental and economic incentives. According to a March 2018 NBI report, there are 89 verified or “emerging” net-zero schools (emerging means under construction or too new to have been verified yet).

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Traditional language learning in the U.S. The number of students taking The College Board’s Advanced Placement tests in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese or Spanish rose 68 percent from 2008 to 2018. is in trouble. Is this approach an answer? Most kids don’t want to become a linguist or get a Ph.D.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

In January 2018, I signed up to work as a substitute teacher at a public school in Columbus, Ohio. I also wore my hijab, which is a symbol of my faith and tradition in the Muslim community. When I showed up, I wore what I thought was professional attire for a school teacher, including a long-sleeved shirt and dress pants.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Within each subject, schools identified learning targets, clearly explaining what students would need to demonstrate in order to be considered “proficient” — a shift away from the traditional system’s emphasis on logging seat time to earn credits and progress. considered passing. Elizabeth Hewitt for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

And given the former abundance of well-paying, blue-collar jobs in this corner of Indiana, the university is also up against a regional tradition that doesn’t necessarily place a high value on a college degree, she said. Román-Lagunas said she has noticed that “the Latino student groups used to be stronger.”

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Psych Learning Curve

JANUARY 27, 2020

Asynchronous interviews remove the live interviewer present in traditional interviews. Louis Hickman : Early in 2018, several graduate students told me that they’d recently completed asynchronous/one-way video interviews as part of their job applications.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

And eighth-grade co-teachers Abby Jolma and Toni Giebel let kids sit on wobbly chairs — short stools with a curved base — yoga balls, or traditional chairs while they learn math and science. At least we’re at the table now,” said Carly Wright, advocacy director for SHAPE. “It They need it so bad.”. Hillman, who is advising the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Jayce was born in February 2018, and Hernandez spent as much time as possible studying for the May test instead. She also referred Hernandez to an advocacy center at BMCC where she could apply for food, counseling and emergency funds. 6 for the virtual ceremony that will replace the traditional in-person pinning ceremony.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

2U has historically given colleges only the opportunity to partner through a traditional revenue share, in which it offers its full suite of services in exchange for a cut of the tuition. GMU is one of a number of schools across the country that have faced challenges from faculty advocacy groups over these partnerships.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

And the lessons about independence and self-advocacy lead to kids who know how and when to ask for help. Teachers in other schools have found the shift to project-based learning to be a massive, unwanted change from traditional instruction. But when I look at what’s there, it’s good stuff.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2022

“We knew the pandemic put a huge strain on a system that was already strained, so this is just a continuous struggle that’s been made worse,” said Nina Perez, the early childhood national campaign director for MomsRising, a nonprofit advocacy group that focuses on supporting policies that help women, mothers and families.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2023

This movement came after decades of structured, organized advocacy , much of which started after the commission’s report. That argument has helped build support, said Morna Ballantyne, executive director of Child Care Now, an advocacy association in Canada.

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MPSA

OCTOBER 12, 2021

They significantly expanded the article on Megan Hunt , the first openly LGBTQ+ person to be elected to the Nebraska legislature in 2018. They created the article for Claudette White , Chief Judge of the Quechan and San Manuel Band of Mission Indians Tribal Courts from 2006-2020 and 2018-2020, respectively.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

States had until October 2018 to come into compliance. For the most part, they are sort of operating outside of the traditional system and accountability,” said Smith, now the director of the early childhood development initiative at the Bipartisan Policy Center, a nonpartisan think tank.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

A Hispanic Heritage Month event that Grimes started in Russellville High School has now grown into a big districtwide celebration , where students learn about different cultures and traditions, perform dances, read celebrated authors and research historical figures.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

It’s where districts and schools decide to spend their money,” Worth, a veteran educator who has also taught in Greene County’s traditional public schools, explained. Many charters hire teachers who don’t belong to a teachers union or haven’t gone through a traditional teacher preparation program, for example.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Even as many states, including politically conservative ones, have begun to invest in early learning, Idaho has resisted, with some far-right lawmakers arguing that more government intervention in education would only harm children and erode “traditional” values including the nuclear family. Yet that doesn’t reflect the reality of Idahoans.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

A 2007 Texas State University study, published in the Journal of Educational Computing Research, found that when students were presented with high-quality online math instruction they did better on tests than those taught in a more traditional way. Related: More schools are online than ever before, but it’s far from perfect.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Fuller’s ideas revive a long-standing tradition of African-American educational self-reliance. 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. The trade-off.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2022

To put this into context, that number was just 41 bills in the whole of 2018. This responsibility is sacred, transcending the expectations of a traditional occupation. Advocacy and LGBTQIA+ rights organizations are desperate for teachers to share classroom experiences that might inform policymakers’ decisions.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2019

And, in fact, the fine print often excludes precisely the people who would benefit the most from free college, such as those who attend part time or students older than traditional age who want a second shot at a degree. At least 15 states have promise programs , according to a 2018 analysis by The Education Trust co-written by Jones.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

Jacqueline Rodriguez, vice president of research, policy and advocacy at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, said she worries the bills will discourage LGBTQ individuals from pursuing teaching careers by sending the message that “this is not the profession to pursue if you want to bring your whole self to work every day.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2017

Most involve individual school districts teaming up with nearby colleges and universities and use public money, private contributions or a combination of support, and with varying income and academic requirements, the advocacy organization College Promise says. Martha Kanter, executive director, College Promise. Tennessee Gov.

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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. Elizabeth Warren’s plan would limit charter schools in favor of funding for traditional public schools. He flashed a big smile, with round cheeks. spends less.

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