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SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

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. The post OPINION: Cities find new ways to fill pre-K funding holes left by the federal government appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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APRIL 27, 2020

According to the most recent federal data from the 2018-19 school year, there are now almost 118,000 school counselors in U.S. According to the most recent federal data from the 2018-19 school year, there are now almost 118,000 school counselors in U.S. Nevada bucked the national trend.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2023

For many years, the province of Quebec has shown the potential benefits of government funding for child care. Our federal government realized the popular success of the ‘$10 a Day’ branding,” said Sharon Gregson, provincial spokesperson for the Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government. Things … the government does affect us, but we can’t vote,” she said.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Like Jehovahs Witness congregations in the rest of the world, Kombela Central Mandarin Congregation is governed by local elders in charge of pastoral work, selecting speakers, and directing public preaching. November 2018. Lusaka, Lusaka Province, Zambia. Jehovahs Witnesses are a highly centralized organization. Central Zambia.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

It means the government failed in their effort to ‘kill the Indian and save the man’ … Our family ties, cultural ties, ties to our land are strong.”. Related: As coronavirus ravaged Indian Country, the federal government failed its schools. Since then, Washington, North Dakota, South Dakota and Kansas have followed suit.

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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. 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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Magilke qualified for a government grant to go back to school, she was told, at a place the center suggested: an online company called MedCerts. Since 2018, just 54 percent of people who attended WIOA-approved programs became employed at all after completing their program. It’s just frustrating.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2020

billion a year from the federal government and other sources that the National Science Foundation calculates is spent by academia on research is not intended to immediately result in commercial applications. The public is expecting, ‘You’ve been entrusted with billions of dollars in government research. Most of the $75.3

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

In 2018-2019, she was a Fox Fellow at the MacMillan Center at Yale University. Dr. Jamil Scott is an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Government Department at Georgetown University. Bakan earned her BA and MA degrees in Political Science and International Relations from Bogazici University in Turkey. She earned her Ph.D.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2021

A 2018 review of the research evidence for reducing class sizes found only small benefits in reading and no benefits in math, on average. A 2018 review of all the high-quality class size experiments around the world, including the U.S., Credit: Camilla Forte for The Hechinger Report. In math, the review found no benefits at all.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

— Kim Smith (@k12kimsmith) October 29, 2018. And, they began outlining the governance and technical work that will help them address the use cases. — Digital Promise (@DigitalPromise) October 30, 2018. DPLIS Data Interoperability Bootcamp selfie!! mbaur @edfialliance @DigitalPromise pic.twitter.com/XOmh14NsWI.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2020

In the 2017-2018 school year, 34 percent of international students were from China. In the 2017-2018 school year, it had more international students than any other historically black college or university. This month it announced a new partnership with Nigeria’s government intended to bring between 30 and 50 Nigerian Ph.

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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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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). Other states have also experienced high rates of opting out. Indeed, in 2016, the U.S. Why haven’t we heard more about this?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

Scores on an international math test fell a record 15 points between 2018 and 2022 — the equivalent of students losing three-quarters of a school year of learning. In New Zealand, where math scores on international tests in the past decade have fallen steeply, a new government campaigned on bringing a “back to basics” approach to education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Golding is one of a growing share of American Indian and Alaska Native students who are making it through the Twin Cities university, which has seen its six-year graduation rate for these students rise from 27 percent in 2008 to 69 percent in 2018. Angela Richards graduated from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in 2018.

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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.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The number of open badges awarded nearly doubled from 24 million in 2018 to 43 million in 2020. College enrollment has been on the decline, dropping 7 percent between 2010 and 2018. It’s been fascinating to hear from university and government leaders and entrepreneurs from around the world who are all excited about this topic.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2020

While most other colleges disburse student aid once a semester, cosmetology schools are supposed to do so when students hit certain benchmarks in their progress toward a certificate, and the schools must return the money to the government if the student drops out.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2023

When she needed money to start college, she was advised to borrow from a private lender instead of the federal government and, because of that, she’s stuck with $81,000 debt. I’m frustrated, because, what can I do? I’d be in the same position as these other people had my loans been federal, period,” said Luciano, who is now 37.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2019

Government Accountability Office. 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. The Hope Center has studied the issue extensively, and its results have been deemed valid by the U.S. Break down biases to increase access.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Our governments need to be working in partnership with tech companies to put the Netflix of online learning into action,” she added. “I According to a 2018 study by the accounting firm PwC, only 10 percent of K-12 teachers reported they “feel confident” about including high-level technology in their lesson plans.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

More than 100,000 adults earned earned entry-level manufacturing certifications at community and technical colleges between 2005 and 2018, but only 40 percent worked in manufacturing afterward. While a total of 119,000 people succeeded in getting two types of manufacturing certificates through 2018, we don’t know how many failed.

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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. The USDA loaned Iowa Wesleyan $26.4 A score of less than 1.5

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Reagan’s dismantling of the War on Poverty was preceded by targeted use of racially loaded “welfare queen” rhetoric in many of his speeches, an assertion that Black people would rather live off the government dole than try to find jobs and support their families. But wealth begets wealth in this country.

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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. Smith Howard has been advocating for years to have the federal government address shortened school days.

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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. In 2019 there were 101 HBCUs.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Government Accountability Office, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Education. Government Accounting Office (1993), the National Academy of Sciences (Pellegrino, Jones, & Mitchell, 1999); and the National Academy of Education (Shepard, 1993). They immediately came under fire in reviews by the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2020

In 2018, when Ed Trust last reported on statewide free-college programs, only 15 met their benchmarks.) Another reason the Washington College Grant program stands out is that it garnered support outside of local government, Jones said. Ed Trust focused on programs that had been underway for at least one cohort of students.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2019

National Center for Education Statistics blog, December 2018. In a December 2018 report , the U.S. According to the government’s report, education spending rose for the third straight year in 2015-16 to $11,841 per student in kindergarten through 12th grades. That’s a 2.9 percent from 2013-14.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 5, 2024

Anna Lenardson If you ask Anna Lenardson, a 2023 graduate of Ashland University’s Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program , why she enrolled in the challenging program, she replies, “I love to learn. I loved being with other teachers, talking about history and government.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2018

House of Representatives to fund the federal government through September 2018. “We are optimistic that Congress will work to fund the government before the deadline, and ask that they also restore this critical funding to support educators.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

The burned remains of the Paradise Elementary school as seen Friday, November 9, 2018, in Paradise, California. Custer, for example, was among the psychologists and counselors who spent time in Paradise, California, after that town was leveled by 2018’s Camp Fire, and is now exporting those trauma lessons to other communities.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The 2018 reauthorization of the federal law that governs career and technical education mandated racial data be reported as well. Yet CTE advocates have long had concerns — but little proof — about inequities that lie beneath the surface. Previously, the Department of Education only reported enrollment in CTE career areas by gender.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

The number of college dropouts swelled during the tight labor market; an additional 2 million people joined their ranks from only a year and a half earlier in 2018. But after the year was over, Seton Hall noticed that it never received the $25,000 from the federal government and billed Floyd for it directly.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In Michigan, for example, the flagship campus at Ann Arbor gives out about $14,200 per full-time student with demonstrated financial need — the difference between what the federal government determines their family can be expected to pay for college and the actual cost. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz/The Hechinger Report. GPA into a 3.2.

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