Let's Cultivate Greatness

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Below, I share my lesson sequence for teaching the expressed powers of Congress in my high school Civics and Government class. Still, they also deliberately designed the new government not to be all-powerful. Check out this blog post to learn how I teach the principles of the Constitution , like limited government.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2023

The partnership, established in 2018, would be the first of its kind. When students enroll in a traditional college, they know they are attending an institution that has met certain standards set by the federal and state governments and accrediting agencies. They reported median salary increases of between $5,000 and $15,000.

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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

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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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

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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2022

Starting in 2018, while working full time, Golden began taking classes online – first at a community college in Ohio, then at Morgan State – with a resolve she didn’t have at 18. Credit: Image provided by Robin Golden. She earned a 3.8 That’s already putting them ahead. But it’s not just about the promotion, she said.

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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. Train all campus personnel to assume active roles.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2020

School traditions often connect one generation to the next, providing a sense of community stability and cohesion. 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

JANUARY 6, 2020

He likes the self-paced curriculum that allows students to complete a course in significantly less time than at a traditional school. 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. Department of Education brief.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2023

Related: Students can’t learn if they don’t show up at school In seven states, the rate of chronically absent kids doubled for the 2021-22 school year, from 2018-19, before the pandemic. Many students are raised by grandparents who remember the government forcing Native children into boarding schools.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

Schools were unable to cover teacher absences some 20 percent of the time in 2018-19, according to the Frontline Research and Learning Institute , a research firm. 1 in 5 — how many classes with absent teachers went unfilled in schools in 2018-19, before the pandemic. Even before Covid, the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

Related 2018 Hechinger coverage. Government and Politics curriculum. The students not only scored 11 percentage points higher on a science assessment but also performed 8 to 18 percentage points better on state math and reading tests than similar students who learned science the traditional way. Curriculum. 6th grade science.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

The reforms have required school districts and other local government agencies to contribute more of their budgets toward paying down the pension debt, while also obligating workers to make financial sacrifices and cutting benefits for current retirees. By 2018, that figure had risen to $1,312. percent to 20.4.

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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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Advocacy Government Public School High School 70

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

UCI students vote early at the University of California, Irvine on Tuesday, October 30, 2018. Election Day is the most sacred of holidays for a democracy, a time when citizens 18 years and older can select representatives charged with shaping our laws and running our governments. And there are 36 governor races in 2018.

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Civics Government Tradition Public School 82

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2021

These jobs, which employed up to 36 percent of all Americans full or part time in 2018, rarely offer access to employer-provided health insurance, paid sick time, paid family leave, minimum wage guarantees or basic labor protections. But too many others, like Peter and his family, have been harmed by the gig economy.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2018

“Charter schools can do more with less” is a common refrain of school choice advocates, who criticize traditional public schools for wasting money. There is not a superintendent or school leader in either charter or traditional schools who shouldn’t want $48,000 added back to the value of homes in majority black school districts and cities.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The federal government is seeking expansion of this support. We risk missing an opportunity if we simply spend the money in the same traditional ways. Our platform saw a 20 times increase in the number of conversations between educators and families compared to the 2018-19 school year. We did, in fact, see more communication.

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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. And traditional high school degrees are more likely to lead to college, she said.

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Tradition High School Government Humanities 73

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2022

But students aren’t customers, faculty shoot back, and faculty are not employees who can be managed; under long-held tradition, they share responsibility for governing the universities and colleges where they work. Those administrators increasingly include presidents who did not come up through the traditional faculty ranks.

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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

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. Smoke from the deadly 2018 Camp Fire, which leveled the town of Paradise 200 miles north, compromised air quality in Sonoma.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

If traditional liberal arts colleges do not make sufficient efforts to accommodate the “new majority” of first-generation college students, students of color, adults and veterans, then many will be in danger of closing. find jobs in business, industry and government. The MLA should stop protecting traditional Ph.D.

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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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Education Government High School Economics 135

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Nationwide, one out of four teenagers from low-income households lacks access to a home computer and, overall, Latino students have less access than their black and white peers, according to a 2018 survey by the Pew Research Center. In a traditional long-term bond the interest would be close to $100 million,” Funk says.

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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. Photo: Ariane Kunze for The Hechinger Report. PORTLAND, Ore. Photo: Ariane Kunze for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2019

But most schools are more like Corte Madera – governed by schedules, academic standards, report cards and other ties to traditional measures of student achievement – and there, the pilot was a mix of triumph and struggle. Traditional testing is simple — a percentage of correct answers equals a letter grade.

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Anthropology 365

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Over 80% of students surveyed in a 2018 study cited financial stress as a key driver of anxiety and depression. In 2018, my investigation of this paradox showed that a lack of representation in both faculty and canonical texts alienates potential majors who are students of color. However, there is more that we can do.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Kids in traditional schools sometimes act like they’re on a cruise ship, where they sit on deck and teachers bring them stuff to do,” Berger said. “We 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.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 1, 2018

Unfortunately, traditional mechanisms for getting the word out about our work limit our overall visibility and impact. We are no longer constrained by the whims and dictates of editors, broadcasters, governments, and other information gatekeepers. Fortunately, we now live in an era where anyone can have a voice.

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Tradition Government Humanities Research 66

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2019

The model is also notable because the schools are run by county governments, not school districts. Graduation rates at the schools top 97 percent — compared to about 91 percent statewide — and more than three-quarters of graduates continue on to college or other post-secondary education. I’ll always be able to find good work’.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

By 2018, that number had increased to 75 percent, but was still far below the white graduation rate of 90 percent. When Jacobs received her staff list in the summer of 2018, she had 43 teachers and 10 vacancies. Two charter schools opened in 2000 and have been attracting white students away from the traditional schools ever since.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Indeed, the Obama administration was so worried that black kids with learning disabilities were getting suspended from school too often that it used the nation’s laws that govern educating students with disabilities to create a new rule for states to monitor discipline rates among racial and ethnic groups.

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Psychology Research Government High School 102

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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Leadership Economics Government Tradition 69

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2021

The program has received ongoing, bipartisan support from Congress since its inception: In 2018, lawmakers increased funding for the program by $150 million , and added another $100 million in March 2021 to expand in 32 states and Puerto Rico. Grant recipients must raise a 20 percent match of their award in non-federal funds.).

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