The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Related: The human cost of college debt that becomes ‘purgatory’. Generation Hope scholar alumna Lakeya and her two sons celebrating her graduation from Towson University in May 2019. Third, for students of color, the financial aid process can feel like a maze riddled with unnecessary barriers and dead ends. Credit: Generation Hope.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

While some districts have prioritized the mental health of their students, Kelly Vaillancourt Strobach, the director of policy and advocacy for the National Association of School Psychologists, said such districts are the exception. You’re not just a teacher, but you’re also a human.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2021

A Georgetown report published in October showed that from 1980 to 2019, average college costs rose 169 percent, while earnings for those aged 22 to 27 rose only 19 percent. Yusanat Tway, a sociology major at the University of Minnesota, wants to go to law school, then do human rights advocacy. “It That is an ongoing fear.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Advocacy focused on math disabilities has been less widespread than that for reading disabilities. In 2019, Jackson started pulling her daughter out of school for part of each day to teach her math at home. “I Elementary teachers report more anxiety when it comes to teaching math, which can make it harder to teach struggling learners.

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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

That changed in the 2019-20 school year when the federal government for the first time made public the race and ethnicity breakdowns for individual school districts. Nationally, Black students were 15 percent of public school enrollment but 27 percent of homeless students in 2019-20. Data disclosed in U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

O’Neal Elementary School, in Elgin, Illinois, none of the third graders could read and write at grade level according to state tests in 2019. But despite its low performance and its students’ needs, O’Neal received $9,094 per student in 2019 in state and local funding compared to Centennial’s $10,559. At Ronald D. She is at Ronald D.

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ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2024

In August 2019, she opened Miss Tiffany’s Early Childhood Education House, a child care center run in her home in Weirton, West Virginia. Her advocacy has started to take on a larger role in her life: She recently accepted a position as the executive director for the West Virginia Women’s Alliance.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

Then, in 2019, when I became the lead Arabic teacher at my current school, I attended my first professional development conference. These relationships have been instrumental in sustaining my advocacy efforts; by engaging in these efforts, I strive to create an educational landscape where every student and educator feels valued and respected.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

She presented her “witness testimony” as a Chinese war victim, accusing her classmate, who played Genghis Khan , of crimes against humanity. In 2019, 53,291 Bangladeshis made up just 6.3 The students were asked to role-play during class. She couldn’t quite put her finger on what was wrong with it. It felt silly.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Many sounded alarms that $16 billion a year in federal aid for low-income students could be misdirected to not-so-poor schools. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. Proof Points.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: “The certificates made students attend school less,” said Robinson, clearly dismayed by what her experiment had wrought. at a March 2019 conference of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Mckell James first applied for child care in October 2019, five months before her oldest son was born. Half of after-school and summer programs surveyed in the spring of 2022 by the non-profit advocacy group Afterschool Alliance reported having a waitlist. She got on a half dozen wait lists, but it took two years to get off just one.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

After a phishing attack in 2019, the Atlanta Public Schools district hired a private firm to conduct security assessments of its networks to find blind spots and weaknesses, according to Olufemi “Femi” Aina, the district’s executive director of information technology.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

While taking coursework in human services, she used money earmarked for students in the recovery program to earn certification as a peer recovery coach. Washington lawmakers passed a bill in 2019 that led to the creation of a state grant fund to support recovery. President Biden’s stalled 2024 budget includes $10.8

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2021

Middle school, that’s when you’re figuring out how to be a human,” Gallegos said. “We In a recent survey drawing responses from 1,219 teachers and conducted by the charter schools advocacy organization the Thomas B. School discipline, she said, has been handed to police, who make “welfare checks” on students who miss online classes.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Right away, King called the Department of Human Services, which oversees the state’s child care office. Neither the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services nor the Government Accountability Office have audited the states to ensure they were following the reporting provisions, both offices confirmed.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2021

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos at a White House meeting, March 18, 2019 in Washington, DC. DeVos “enthusiastically sent our taxpayer dollars to schools that explicitly and actively discriminate against LGBTQ+ students,” Eliza Byard, the executive director of the advocacy group GLSEN , said in a statement.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2020

Just before this crisis began, Arizona was poised to spend millions more on boosting its thin roster of counselors, thanks in part to the advocacy of students like Kumar. A year later, in 2019, lawmakers added $20 million to a school safety program that until then had paid only for armed officers on campus. It’s also suicide. ”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report Following Meryl’s death, Ketron decided to continue her daughter’s advocacy. The law also limits instruction on and discussion of human sexuality and gender identity in schools. A separate section of the law bans gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth in the state.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2022

A Landscape of Discriminatory Policies and Hostile Environments According to the Human Rights Campaign , this has been the “worst year in recent history for LGBTQ state legislative attacks,” with nearly 40 states introducing 238 anti-LGBTQIA+ bills in just the first three months of 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2020

Department of Health and Human Services. Haskins used to benefit from a child care subsidy program, commonly referred to by parents and providers here as DHS, shorthand for Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services. Department of Health and Human Services. Department of Health and Human Services. All told, 1.3

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

But when LGBTQ students take note of the “I’m Here” sticker on the back of his school ID, or his “We are ALL HUMAN” T-shirt, and come to him for advice or guidance, Woods is happy to provide it. “I am very cautious about a lot of things,” said Woods, a special education teacher in Palm Beach County, Florida, who teaches science. “I

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

We see this hierarchy of human worth playing out now in Gaza and the West Bank, as Israeli government ministers call Palestinians “human animals.” Projects and Organizations Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel Adalah (“justice” in Arabic) is an independent human rights organization and legal center.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Covington County Superintendent Babette Duty chalks those cases up to human error. Certainly, as long as human beings are running schools, you’re going to have that possibility,” she said, adding that the goal is to have policies and procedures in place that uphold the law and protect kids, while keeping parents informed.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2019

Now it’s 2019, and after federal and state budget cuts, spiraling tuition, political distraction and increasing public skepticism about the value of a higher education, the nation is far behind schedule in realizing this goal. “The It might not even take that long. Ted Mitchell, undersecretary of education in the Obama administration.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

A high school social studies book, also used in Texas, says of rising temperatures, “Some critics say that this warming is just part of the Earth’s natural cycle,” though, in truth, there’s overwhelming consensus among climate scientists that the current warming is due to human activities. It’s much stronger than a hypothesis,” wrote another.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

It’s because they tap into a universal human need for safety, belonging, purpose, and order. As an anthropologist interested in warfare and its impact on human societies, I set out in 2021 to conduct a year of ethnographic research on gun activism and county militias in Virginia.

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