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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.” Leave this field empty if you're human: On September 7, the U.S.

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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. Choose as many as you like.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 18, 2024

Anthropology has long been celebrated as a discipline that offers profound insights into human cultures, societies, and behaviors. Its holistic approach and emphasis on reflexivity have contributed significantly to our understanding of the human experience. Speakman et al.,

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

Employers who rely on technology — a group that includes most manufacturers, many retailers and the government — are chasing the same workers. IBM aims to hire more than 400 trainees each year, putting them on 25 different training tracks, from software development to data science to human resources, Jordan said. pursuing bachelor’s?and

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

“Only very wealthy people can afford current decent care and education [for young children],” said Richard Brandon, a political scientist recently retired from the University of Washington and co-author of a 2018 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine report on financing early education.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 2, 2023

In a world that has denied my humanity, literature has offered affirmation, consolation and direction. As a reader, I use Black literature as a tool to reclaim my humanity, my history and my future. I first learned how the government weaponized literacy when I was a child. According to the Nat Turner Project , when our U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2021

As I dug into the rules governing informed consent in educational research, I was surprised to learn that parental consent often isn’t required by law. A 2018 update to the federal rule on education experiments clarifies that parental consent is necessary if the experiment is particularly time consuming.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The Higher Education Act, first passed in 1965 and revised perodically, regulates how the federal government financially assists postsecondary institutions and students. It governs how federal student loans are distributed, who is eligible for federal financial aid, how loans must be repaid and which institutions can receive federal money.

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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

JUNE 11, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Delgado Community College in New Orleans, Louisiana, began construction on a new campus in the city’s West Bank community of Federal City in May. However, black contractors have had to fight to gain government construction contracts in a city in which black people are the majority. Weekly Update.

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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

JUNE 10, 2019

Fourth-grade students who reported using tablets in “all or almost all” classes scored 14 points lower on the reading portion of a test administered by the federal government than students who reported “never” using classroom tablets. That’s the equivalent of a year of education or an entire grade level. Higher Education. Proof Points.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The federal government is seeking expansion of this support. Our platform saw a 20 times increase in the number of conversations between educators and families compared to the 2018-19 school year. We’re in a unique moment in education funding. The American Rescue Act is giving $ 123 billion to K-12 schools and districts.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2021

Despite recent talk of debt relief and free college, little government help has been forthcoming, especially for working adults. With the government mostly out of the picture, employers set aside tens of billions each year for tuition benefits programs, supposedly with the hope of building the skilled workforce they need.

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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

JUNE 17, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Automation affects workers around the world — nearly half of the employers surveyed by the World Economic Forum last year expected automation would reduce their workforce by 2022. As machines become more important, we need to get better at being human. Develop human skills. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Credit: Austin Anthony for The Hechinger Report Speaking comes naturally to most children, being a gift of human evolution, but reading and writing are inventions that must be consciously and painstakingly learned. Because human brains are organized in diverse ways, some people’s reading circuits end up being inefficient.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters) are local communities of practice that bring together educators, entrepreneurs, funders, researchers, and other community stakeholders (including families, local government, and nonprofits) to support innovative teaching and learning in their region. — Kim Smith (@k12kimsmith) July 17, 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2018

For the 2018-2019 school year, Pell recipients can receive up to $6,095. Also, Prosper would eliminated the 90-10 rule, thus allowing colleges to receive up to 100 percent of their revenue from the government and none from students, which some higher education experts say would be a win for for-profit schools. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

Only 53 percent of women in their twenties who first became mothers when they were teenagers completed a traditional high school degree, according to a January 2018 report released by the nonprofit research organization Child Trends. Department of Health and Human Services. What happens to the education of these young women?

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Political Science Now

JULY 5, 2024

Social psychologist Shalom Schwartz, for example, posits ten basic human values. or “less or more government?”) In other work, he explores the implications of far-right parties in government. He holds an MA from Duke University, where he was a Fulbright Graduate Student (2018-2020). less or more equality?”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2020

A 2018 report by the Pew Research Center found that 15 percent of U.S. The country will be spending the equivalent of roughly $440 million in “catch-up support” for public school students of all ages whose learning took a hit thanks to campus closures, according to a government press release.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Just past the rusty roof of the building across the road, we could see the top of Regjeringskvartalet, a cluster of government offices, the target of that car bomb. All kindergartens are governed by the same framework and requirements, designed to protect the sanctity of the early years. That’s our ‘Capitol Hill,’” Ullmann explained.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The reasons include a federal law so little-known that people charged with implementing it often fail to follow the rules; nearly non-existent enforcement of the law by federal and state governments; and funding so meager that districts have little incentive to survey whether students have stable housing.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Department of Health and Human Services. It sends a message: The federal government does believe [physical education] should be part of a student’s education; it should be part of the school day.”. Leave this field empty if you're human: “The goal is to get kids moving throughout the school day,” Hillman said. In the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Related: Debt without degree: The human cost of college debt that becomes ‘purgatory’. He is now in a federal income-driven repayment plan that obligates him to pay 3 percent of his income to the government — down from 7 percent after Howell recently renegotiated it — but interest is still accruing.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: There are a number of changes that must be made immediately to offset this growing crisis: College governance is weak and ineffective and must be immediately adapted to meet new oversight demands, with the faculty playing a more important role in creating an innovative educational enterprise.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 17, 2024

Each year, the Guggenheim Foundation awards approximately 175 fellowships to individuals making their mark in the social sciences, the natural sciences, the humanities, and the creative arts. He is also an affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science where his office is located.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2018

A 2018 report published by the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University ranked Indiana second to last in access to state-funded pre-K programs. Ten counties opted to start a half-year pilot in January 2018, some with only a couple of students. Finally, Indiana had a breakthrough’. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Behind the storage unit sits a rectangular wooden box stuffed with bicycle tires filled with Silly Putty to replicate human intestines. As employees, students must comply with the district’s human resources policies and undergo performance evaluations led by a student project leader and an Innovation Center staffer.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

Over the course of April and May 2018, Ronen, Walton and others fielded questions at public meetings. “We And in San Francisco, a business tax passed in 2018, a 2020 health and recovery bond and private donations together provide hundreds of millions more. Credit: Gail Cornwall for the Hechinger Report. State dollars are often at hand.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

programs, especially in the humanities, to address twenty-first century needs — remains a matter of concern. Beyond these human challenges, the status quo negatively affects higher education’s business plan. find jobs in business, industry and government. My profession’s core challenge — transforming Ph.D.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2019

The adjective “full” emphasizes that even in real dollars, after adjusting for inflation, more resources were pouring into prekindergarten through 12th grade classrooms across the country than before state and local governments started cutting spending in the 2009-10 school year. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2019

But the reality is that “Sheilas” are few and far between, and even where they can be found, like here in El Dorado, they are — as all humans are — impermanent. Though the situation is not perfect, students are lucky to have Sheila Silan in their corner. Despite the jokes, having a Sheila, or 100 Sheilas, is not a system.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 30, 2024

Mealy has developed extensive external partnerships with leaders of other associations such as the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), where she has served on the Science and Human Rights Coalition Council since 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. The federal government has played a role in the growth of these charters by granting charter startup grants to schools without considering whether they will lead to increased segregation. Leave this field empty if you're human: By June of 2005, Jackson had left the district.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

“Economic and workforce development have been disrupted, so proposals that link education and the economy are going to be priorities on governors’ agendas,” said Tom Harnisch, vice president for government relations at the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, or SHEEO. There are skills you can learn across a lot of majors.”.

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