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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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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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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

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. Credit: Sharon Chischilly for The Hechinger Report.

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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. One hard-hit district is Plumas, which encompasses Greenville, a mountain town that burned virtually to the ground in the Dixie Fire, the second-biggest blaze in state history. Credit: Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo.

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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. The failed attempt at college has left many in debt with marred credit histories and poor long-term employment prospects.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

In 2016, despite research showing that students who used computers more often at school performed much worse on reading and math PISA tests, the Finnish government announced it would spend millions of euros on ramping up digital learning. American schools can learn valuable lessons from Finnish education, both positive and negative.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2019

Attempts at addressing the wealth gap, which stems from the history of slavery, segregation, racism and discrimination, should be encouraged and lauded. The three charts below reflect those national averages for the 2018 test, except in the case of family income level, for which 2016 data are the latest available.

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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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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year.

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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. Consequently, students don’t have to spend hours memorizing formulas and moments in history.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Like McKneely, some educators, government officials and policy experts around the country say the coronavirus carries lessons for another global crisis of our time, climate change. Half of the 20 most destructive wildfires in state history have occurred since 2015.

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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

MARCH 11, 2020

From our nation’s founding to the present, government-sponsored and supported policies have relegated black Americans to the outskirts of mainstream society. Rather than deregulate these systems and create more avenues for predatory actors, the federal government must fully shoulder its responsibility for addressing these inequities.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

She currently works a clerical job for a government agency and drives cabs intermittently, while trying to launch a holistic wellness business. She was inducted into her school’s honor society and selected for a trip to visit civil rights landmarks in Memphis during Black History Month. It was a very clean place,” Mikaela said. “It

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2020

In Amherst, Massachusetts, home to Amherst and Hampshire colleges and the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts, revenues collected from September to May keep the doors open and the lights on for local businesses and government services. “I’m Will history repeat?

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ED Surge

AUGUST 2, 2023

As a reader, I use Black literature as a tool to reclaim my humanity, my history and my future. As caregivers of the future, it is crucial that we are aware of what and who our country does not want our students to know and help them discover the truth of their history for themselves. According to the Nat Turner Project , when our U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Damian Lopez, 4, gives Denver Public Schools Superintendent Tom Boabserg a high-five as he arrives for the first day of school at Escalante-Biggs Academy on August 20, 2018 in Denver, Colorado. government also acknowledges. government also acknowledges. Related: How the federal government abandoned Brown v.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2019

The program at UWT was spearheaded by student government leaders who reached out to the housing authority and K?z Daniel Eatherly, the University of Washington-Tacoma student government director of legislative affairs, led a push for the university to help its homeless students find housing. z Development, a private developer.

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Teaching American History

JUNE 25, 2024

On this date (June 25 th ) in 1929, President Herbert Hoover signed the Boulder Canyon Project Act of 1928, authorizing construction by the federal government of a gigantic dam on the Colorado River, just west of the Grand Canyon. Riverhead Books, Reprint edition, 2018.

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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. The district also offers courses like Digital Audio Production, History of American Pop and AP Music Theory.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2019

Foster’s intelligence and dedication put people into space during one of the most tumultuous times in our nation’s history. 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

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. Photo: Aaron Jackendoff/SOPA Images via ZUMA Wire. “Do Do I need to tell my teacher that I’m Jewish?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

I don’t like to lead with this about myself,” he said during a discussion group on Thucydides’ history of the Peloponnesian War, “but I’m a veteran and I’ve been to war.”. Maybe, just maybe, if [those] students were sitting in English and history class with men and women whom the U.S.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

In the meantime, the checkered history of school reform did not seem top of mind for students from Coolidge. In 2018, D.C. The prospect of more freedom appealed to science teacher Nikki Wallace when she joined the faculty of Crosstown High School, an XQ Institute partner and charter school in Memphis, Tennessee, which opened in 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2018

. “We didn’t find evidence for profound effects and large gains,” said Brooke Macnamara, a Case Western psychology professor and lead author of the study , published in the April 2018 issue of Psychological Science. The federal government is funding a $3.5 ” There may be some clues in the next couple years.

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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. government in 1977 asked that schools look for a “severe discrepancy between levels of ability and achievement” when screening children for learning disabilities.

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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 Ultimately, Wilson and Boggs said, it is the position of the National PTA that all necessary equipment and staffing at public schools should be paid for with government funds. I don’t think that’s the intention,” he said. “No

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

She drives over an hour each way to teach world history at LaGrange High School in Lake Charles. Residents say the federal government has been slow to respond, and with so much rental housing destroyed , housing options are limited. Louisiana averaged 441 students per counselor during the 2018-2019 school year.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 17, 2024

Before moving to Harvard in 2018, Imai taught at Princeton University for 15 years where he was the founding director of the Program in Statistics and Machine Learning. His history of political thought in twentieth-century Europe, Contesting Democracy, was published by Yale University Press in the summer of 2011. Antony’s College.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2022

I actually lower my standards,” John Hunt, who teaches history, told Tuminez at a contentious meeting of the faculty senate she attended in October, a video of the meeting shows. Tuminez became president of UVU in 2018. Only 33 percent of Utah Valley University students seeking four-year bachelor’s degrees earn one within six years.

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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. Education equity advocates are demanding that the federal government do more to learn the scope of the problem.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

While no guidelines on classroom technology govern the network, according to Berger, there is a shared wariness of anything that might undermine EL’s collaborative ethos. The sentiment is echoed by Jason Krause, principal of Denver’s Columbine Elementary School, which joined the EL network in 2018. Chris Berdik/The Hechinger Report.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 30, 2024

Mealy holds a PhD in political science from Indiana University Bloomington, a Master of Arts degree in political science from Stony Brook University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in history, with a concentration in Black Studies, from Swarthmore College. Dr. Kimberly A. Mealy’s biography and LinkedIn profile are available upon request.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 8, 2024

This research offers a fresh perspective on the emergence and persistence of support for radical right parties, emphasizing the complex interplay of history, culture, and politics. In other work, he explores the implications of far-right parties in government. Article details: ZIBLATT, DANIEL, HANNO HILBIG, and DANIEL BISCHOF.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2019

Black and brown people are more exposed than white people because of educational issues and historic occupational histories. McCraw pointed out that automotive technicians need to understand advanced concepts like kinetic friction, thermal dynamics, and Pascal’s law, which governs the fluid mechanics of braking systems.

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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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