The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2020

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. She said she was told that was “just physics culture,” and no action was taken to discipline the student. “It Credit: Lourdes Torrey. I changed majors.”. “I

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TCI

OCTOBER 28, 2024

History and Civics scores for eighth-grade students sounded an alarm: scores have dropped by an average of five points since 2018 and nine points since 2014. Responding to these concerns, the federal government increased funding for K-12 civics and history education funding from $7.75

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2021

The internships could be in government, in nonprofit organizations or in the private sector. In New York City, for example, in 2018 more than 71,000 of the 328,000 public high school students took career and technical education courses, including ones in fashion design, pharmacology and accounting.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 31, 2024

At the time, the Ministry of Industries and the government of Bangladesh were seeking to reform the country’s shipbreaking industry so that Bangladesh would be in a position to ratify the 2009 “Hong Kong Convention for Safe and Environmentally Sound Ship Recycling” (HKC) by 2023. The changes took place as late as 2011.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

When Iowa Wesleyan University announced in March that it would close, its biggest creditor was a federal government agency that had loaned it $26 million and then — in an attempt to help the university survive —softened the terms and extended the repayment period. Rural universities are also often cultural oases, Huisman said.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2019

Government Accountability Office. To promote a healthier campus culture around seeking support for basic needs, campuses should redesign their existing spaces to be more welcoming. A 2018 study at the University of Florida (UF) found only 38 percent of UF students who reported food insecurity used the campus food pantry.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

based Virtual Internships was established in 2018 with the goal of removing barriers to internship participation, especially abroad, co-founder Ed Holroyd Pearce said. The experience “changed my life,” she said, opening her eyes to new career possibilities as well as a new culture. The company, whose biggest market is now the U.S.,

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

In the dim light of a Monday morning in August 2018, Meng, a 33-year-old woman living near Beijing, began her day with a sense of urgency. I conducted fieldwork among Chinese middle-class investors from 2018 to 2021, precisely during the period marked by the industry’s decline, to capture people’s shifting perception of their financial lives.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Ever since enslaved blacks arrived on the shores of the English colony of Virginia in 1619 , white legislators at various levels of government have designed laws to explicitly control and suppress black people. The Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal. representative Cedric L.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2020

We have concluded that the city must reimagine the culture of its police department with community-policing reform. Community policing is a strategy that abolishes the institution of policing as we know it and changes the culture of policing by spending less on enforcement and more on services that lead to lower crime rates.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2019

According to a 2018 study from the Center for American Progress , “if Black and Hispanic bachelor’s degree recipients were as likely to major in engineering as white students, this country would have produced 20,000 more engineers from 2013 through 2015.”. We must create an inclusive culture. Sign up for our newsletter.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 2, 2023

government discovered Black literacy was directly linked to Black resistance against oppressive systems, it became costly to teach Black people to read and write, then it was criminalized. I first learned how the government weaponized literacy when I was a child. In October 2018, my mother, my first teacher, passed away.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

People hired through the programs also tend to stay on the job longer; such programs can also broaden a company’s culture by attracting employees, including workers of color, whose life experiences are outside the high school-to-college career arc common in white-collar workplaces. Department of Labor to promote on-the-job learning.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

In 2018, D.C. To succeed intellectually and emotionally, she explained, students need “strong culture, engaging learning opportunities that feel relevant and connected to students’ lives, relationships, a sense of agency, and an opportunity to express their own opinions about their learning.” That’s the approach that D.C.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

If schools are to genuinely prepare innovators rather than “just tell me what to do” workers, they must stop disengaging students by using extrinsic punishments and rewards to govern classrooms. Other awesome books in the series include: Embracing a Culture of Joy , Dean Shareski. Making Learning Flow , John Spencer.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2020

Schools hold the history and culture of a place through yearbooks, trophy cases, and photo archives. In 2013, the federal government estimated that schools nationwide needed a $550 billion investment to bring them up to standard, just for deferred maintenance issues — damage from postponing repairs.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Luke Said, 18, spent the summer of 2018 picking raspberries. million for the 2018-19 and 2019-20 school years, according to numbers requested from the district finance office. In 2018, five of seven made it. There is no society, there is no human culture, without the arts.”. Photo: Ariane Kunze for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2023

It’s projected to further decline to 880,000 by 2040, according to the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. Even with declining selectivity, more than 40 percent of private universities here — there are 603, along with 179 publics — aren’t filling their government-allocated enrollment quotas.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2020

But then the Jefferson Parish district hired Jason Beber to take over as principal in fall 2018 with a mandate to get Adams back on a path to academic success. In Beber’s first year, 2018-19, the school’s rating improved to a C, and teachers and staff reported that student behavior and teacher morale improved too.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Seeing a need to balance the scales, in 2016, several members of Monroe’s 70-year-old Hispanic Culture Group, myself included, formed an organization aimed at creating educational opportunities for a demographic that seemed forgotten by everybody else.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2018

October 27, 2018 — Pittsburgh, PA, United States — Police outside the Tree of Life Synagogue in Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, PA in the aftermath of the shooting that killed 11 people on October 27. We need to change our language to encourage a culture shift at home and in schools. Photo: Aaron Jackendoff/SOPA Images via ZUMA Wire. “Do

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Anthropology 365

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Institutional academic cultures often contribute to these mental health challenges, suggesting that these concerns are not purely individual but systemic within academia. The project invited students to consider how scientific knowledge develops and is situated in the historical and cultural dimensions of the times.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

A man watches an artificial intelligence (AI) news anchor from a state-controlled news broadcaster, on his computer in Beijing on November 9, 2018. Related: Youth will determine the outcome of the 2018 midterms. Photo: NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP/Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Photos of the class of 2018 are shown on May 15, 2018, on the Onalaska High School front office wall in Onalaska, Washington. Enrollment in the Onalaska School District — which includes the town and outlying areas — rose by about 14 percent between May 2014 and May 2018, to 851 students. Onalaska technically isn’t a town at all.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This clash of cultures is being waged against a backdrop of unprecedented financial and enrollment challenges and pressure to improve low productivity and poor success rates — and at a time when more nonacademics are being appointed college and university presidents. Tuminez became president of UVU in 2018. Utah Valley University.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Part of Altus Schools, a network of K-12 alternative charter schools in Southern California, it even won recognition from the federal government for its operation. Nationwide, high schools offering credit recovery used online courses 71 percent of the time, according to a 2018 U.S. Department of Education brief.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

This comes after a decade in which state funding overall for public universities and colleges has languished at a level billions of inflation-adjusted dollars below what it was before the last recession — and at a time when public universities and colleges in many states are the targets of politicians waging culture wars.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2019

Earlier this month, sports and culture news site The Undefeated published a story about NASA mathematician Clyde Foster. million from 1990 to 2018 (a 79 percent increase). HBCU talent can meet workforce demands if government and the private sector invest in programs that develop start-up businesses on campus. million to 17.3

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2019

Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled the proposal in his 2018 State of the City address, as part of a broader push for civics education. “We Related: In New York City, some schools are embracing culturally responsive education. A few years ago, a school district in Phoenix became the first in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

There’s not much in the way of a college going culture at Chinle High, beyond the unsung efforts of a handful of exemplary coaches and teachers. Will they be content, he asks, to hang out at the local supermarket, live at home and wait for their grandmother’s government checks?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

According to Berger, Crew fosters a schoolwide “culture and spirit of being on a team and looking out for each other.” Casco Bay’s principal, Derek Pierce, credits much of the school’s success to the way Crew culture personalizes each student’s journey over four years. “We And how to listen to each other.”. How am I doing?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

As new financial, cultural, demographic, consumer, and program pressures build, these “Mom and Pop” shops do not have the flexibility or capacity to meet the new demands. For many schools, it was that simple. Related: Golden parachutes for public college presidents burden already thin budgets. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2022

Roughly 60 percent of college counseling centers experienced turnover in their staff last year, an increase of nearly 10 percentage points over 2018, according to an annual survey by the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors, and 70 percent of centers had difficulty filling open positions.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2022

Although the federal government sent a massive influx of money to help schools troubleshoot , it left districts to grapple with how best to use the funds. But educators at Columbus say the number of kids here who need this level of intervention has grown — as it has around the country after uneven learning experiences during the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2020

In effect, these students are seeking to change not just the culture on their campus but to use their school to change society. Drake and Matthew presented their research at a teach-in on campus in February 2018. But in response to scholars like Kelley, she says that the work students do on campus to change the culture is paramount. “I

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

But at the nation’s most selective schools, where most students follow the traditional pipeline from high school to a degree within four years — and from which many go on to leadership roles in government and industry — veterans like Fendler are an anomaly.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Federal and state governments have allocated extra money for mental health services and school districts across the country are scrambling to beef up supports. But communities that had already prioritized mental health were in a better position to deal with the unique challenges of the pandemic.

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