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JULY 2, 2021

Allen aspires to be one of the first women of color in a leadership role at Aon. Employers who rely on technology — a group that includes most manufacturers, many retailers and the government — are chasing the same workers. IBM retains about 90 percent of participants in the program, which has cost the company $65 million since 2018.

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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. Two awesome tech leadership webinars for our Connected Educator Month book club. we’re working on edits right now) . Happy reading!

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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 program offers fully remote internships that last one to four months, require a commitment of 10, 20 or 30 hours per week, and have start dates throughout the year.

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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

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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Political Science Now

AUGUST 30, 2024

“We are delighted to welcome Kim Mealy to this critical leadership role. We are very excited about this new chapter in the APSA’s evolution under Kim’s leadership,” said APSA President, Mark Warren. million dollars in 2021; and serving as the co-Principal Investigator on the National Science Foundation (NSF) $1.4

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

As a prelude to discussing leadership, peer pressure and conflict, a Crew of seventh graders at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, played a game called “Instigator.” 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. “It

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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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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. In leadership and life, symbolism counts.

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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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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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ED Surge

JUNE 27, 2023

Polis : When I was first elected in 2018, running on a platform of full-day kindergarten and adding preschool, my very first call as governor-elect was to a Republican representative, Jim Wilson of Salida, Colorado, a former superintendent who had been working on full-day kindergarten for many years. It obviously didn't.

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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’.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2019

The state workforce board’s two main goals are improving the workforce participation rate, which at around 55 percent is one of the nation’s lowest, and increasing the number of people with more than a high school credential, according to its 2018 plan. But that doesn’t mean all students need to go to a four-year college.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2019

The model is also notable because the schools are run by county governments, not school districts. This close relationship with county leadership gives schools a direct connection with local businesses, allowing them to be nimble and responsive to employers’ needs.

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Political Science Now

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Since then, it has successfully formed governments in New Delhi and Punjab in addition to winning some seats in the Indian Parliament’s lower house ( Lok Sabha ). In 2018, the authors collaborated with AAP to recruit unpaid party workers in Jharkhand state of India in preparation for the 2019 national elections and the 2020 state elections.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

government in 1977 asked that schools look for a “severe discrepancy between levels of ability and achievement” when screening children for learning disabilities. In 2004, the federal government reversed course on its 1970s guidance, strongly recommending that states consider alternatives. “I Guidelines put out by the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

This story about school segregation was produced by The Texas Tribune , a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that provides free news, data and events on Texas public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Loading… Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. It was reprinted with permission.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2024

Just a few miles away from Fisher Hill in Newton, Massachusetts, Mount Ida College closed suddenly in 2018. Kirk: Well, in the wake of Mount Ida, education officials in Massachusetts created a so-called financial stress test for colleges like the one the federal government launched for banks after the 2008 recession. What’s that?

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Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

In Peru, access to university education changes the types of local politicians who get elected to office and how they govern. let’s kill Bill”), their policies protect it, and arguably should, since university students and professors must feel free to consider a wide range of ideas in seeking truth (Whittington, 2018).

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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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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

AUGUST 4, 2023

Now red-state governors increasingly use the takeovers to undermine the political power of cities, particularly those governed by Black and Hispanic leaders, according to some education experts. “I’ve HISD leadership is a disaster…. It failed on a 5-4 vote. On January 3, Gov. Abbott responded with a scathing tweet : “What a joke.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

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. You gotta have the willingness of the leadership team to be flexible,” she said. “If It was exciting.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

They said that giftedness could also be creativity, and found that a high IQ score did not necessarily correspond with leadership, professional accomplishment or even success in school. The federal government does not supplement local funding for gifted programs as it does for special education. There are gifted dropouts.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

When Karli Hinman enrolled at Stony Brook University in fall 2018, she knew her family couldn’t help her pay to continue her education. In January, the government made 14 awards totalling more than $13 million. (The But during her junior year, the expenses started to add up.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2022

Department of Education has invited applications for $68 million in grants for community schools, representing almost four times more money than was made available in 2018. They have collaborative leadership structures that help educators connect, pool resources and think more expansively. In recent weeks, the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 22, 2021

While the federal government is the crucial source of funding for expanding manufacturing capacity through workforce development, state and local governments will be largely responsible for choosing how to spend that money. The government must do its part, too.

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Strange Maps

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Image taken by NASA during Operation IceBridge (2018/19), the largest airborne survey of Earth’s polar ice ever flown. At this very moment, an incalculable number of bedrooms, garden sheds, and haylofts have parted ways with their drab geopolitical realities, under the inspired leadership of their various Dear Leaders.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2018

Teachers continue their strike at the state capitol on April 9, 2018 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. With their actions, they grabbed headlines in national papers, prodded Republican leadership to action, and in some cases won long overdue concessions in their contracts. However, the union membership rate of public-sector workers (34.4

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Gariecia Rose: a current World History and Government/American Law teacher at Glenbard East High School in Lombard, Illinois. Victoria formally taught in New Orleans, and this is her third year in the profession. Victoria was in my U.S. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year. Photo courtesy of Winchester.

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ED Surge

JUNE 23, 2022

The long-time classroom educator is co-founder and chief content officer of Bamboo Learning, a company that launched in 2018 with a voice-enabled literacy application and began piloting the technology in schools earlier this year. School leadership has to drive that requirement: ‘Unless you have x, y and z, we can’t evaluate you.’

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2021

Birkholz believes state leadership is necessary. Both states are rural, offer residents liberal access to guns and prefer state government take a back seat to local authorities, or even better, to individuals. National hotlines can have long wait times and can’t refer callers directly to local resources.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

A 2020 study by the Government Accountability Office, Congress’s research arm, found 54 percent of public school districts needed to update or replace buildings. Mice, rats and cockroaches infest some buildings, according to a 2018 review conducted by the district. million — the number of people who have left Detroit since the 1950’s.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Along with her determination to re-invent herself, she set lofty academic goals: She wanted to become president of Cohen’s student government and be named class valedictorian with a 4.0 Darren Lewis, the principal who was hired in 2018 to turn around the failing school, saw how the high turnover affected students like Satoriya.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Laia Balcells is a Professor of Government at Georgetown University. Professor Boix graduated in Law from the University of Barcelona, received his PhD in government from Harvard and taught at Ohio State University and the University of Chicago before joining Princeton.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2020

She opened her doors in July 2018 with five children enrolled. Only four states pay adequate rates for infant care at child care centers, according to a 2018 report from the National Women’s Law Center. The federal government suggests states pay child care providers less than market rate, at the 75th percentile.

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