The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

When Iowa Wesleyan University announced in March that it would close, its biggest creditor was a federal government agency that had loaned it $26 million and then — in an attempt to help the university survive —softened the terms and extended the repayment period. Rural universities are also often cultural oases, Huisman said.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 27, 2021

We interviewed leaders at 30 different ‘deeper learning’ schools around the world in 2019 and 2020. A culture of “Yes, try that!” There were high expectations of professional conduct and student learning outcomes, but those were embedded deeply within a culture of trust and respect.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

This potential harm to tangible heritage raises the ire of conservationists across government agencies, museums, universities, and other non-profit organizations. Striving to preserve material cultural heritage, experts disapprove of treasure hunting, which they view as a financially motivated and rather vulgar search for material riches.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Cultural and linguistic differences can convince some parents not to question what’s happening at school — a power imbalance that, advocates say, means some children miss out on critical support. Despite promising in 1974 to cover nearly half the extra cost for schools to provide special education, the federal government has never done so.)

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 31, 2024

It was hard to gain access and insight into the ship industry when I first visited in the winter of 2019–2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. out of its own accord), directing the government of Bangladesh to halt all shipbreaking within Bangladesh and ban importing ships for breaking. The changes took place as late as 2011.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2021

percent since fall 2019, compared to a 5.3 While basic needs insecurities threaten students regardless of gender, a 2019-20 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study of the pandemic’s impact on undergraduates found that females had greater difficulty than males accessing food or paying for food and finding stable and safe child care.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2024

In the absence of government intervention and investment, a lot of businesses have been stepping up to make sure that their employees can access affordable child care,” said Samantha Melvin, an assistant research professor at the Erikson Institute, an independent graduate school for early childhood education.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 25, 2023

Every eighth grader in those schools takes a two-hour workshop class once a week for six weeks, learning everything from how to succeed in an office culture, to developing their strengths and learning how to shake hands in a professional setting. The organization operates the program in five schools in the Boston area.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

On February 17, a protest organized by an all-party action council in Pulpally, also in north Wayanad, turned violent when government officials and representatives didn’t promise in writing to meet the protesters’ demands. The debates often featured local activists urging the government to heed the pleas of the public living in fear.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2021

The 2019 incident reminded me of what poet Maya Angelou once said: “When you know better, do better.”. Government Accountability Office reported that Black students represented 15.5 In 2019, he realized that some students weren’t coming to school because they were being bullied for wearing dirty clothes.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2023

Named Tūtū and Me after the Hawaiian word for “grandparent,” the program introduces children to early academic and social skills as well as native Hawaiian language and culture. At least 43 percent of young children in Hawaii were watched by friends or relatives in 2019.

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ED Surge

MARCH 16, 2023

And among educators from 14 different schools studied by a Harvard researcher for the 2019 book “ Where Teachers Thrive ,” most teachers said they did not have enough time to accomplish the “essential” duties of their jobs.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 17, 2019

As funders, government agencies, and service providers become increasingly focused on program evaluation results to make evidence-based decisions, evaluators and other researchers seek to answer this question. What is equitable evaluation?

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2022

It ensures that each student can adapt to change, possess the cognitive skills to problem-solve for those other 16 non-working hours, pass the Marshmallow Test , acquire cultural intelligence, and sew on a button instead of tossing the shirt and buying another. It prepares a person for unavoidable life phases, from birth to death.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

In a September 2019 report , a national nonprofit called BrainFutures — which is dedicated to advancing the use of neuroscience-based interventions for promoting healthy brain development — identified 10 school-based programs. Fear and the consequences of an invisible threat are inescapable. What can be done? There are programs that work.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Lindsay also faced a huge cultural obstacle — geography. By 2019, Ayers had helped impoverished Perry County reach an 86 percent college-going rate (57 students), the highest in the state, according to government figures. Government and Politics exam. She closed, at 1 a.m., She is from Clinton, Missouri (pop.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

To address diversity issues, Anderson is pursuing partnerships with local preschool programs that are more representative of the cultural identity of the Albuquerque metro area, which has sizable Hispanic, Latino and American Indian populations. Last year was especially challenging because of tuition loss due to Covid class-size limitations.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2021

They point to dismal scores on national history and civics exams — less than 25 percent scored as proficient — as proof that schools need to spend more time teaching students core facts about our system of government, and warn that civics projects are displacing that instruction. Teachers, for their part, tend to side with the liberals.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

People hired through the programs also tend to stay on the job longer; such programs can also broaden a company’s culture by attracting employees, including workers of color, whose life experiences are outside the high school-to-college career arc common in white-collar workplaces. Department of Labor to promote on-the-job learning.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

In northern Virginia, she watched her parents navigate language barriers, cultural differences and caregiving responsibilities as best they could, sometimes stepping up to serve as the translator herself. Kang joined NAEYC as chief strategy and innovation officer in 2019, a few months before the pandemic began.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Foreign investors working with the Ecuadorean government started planning to extract minerals in the region on an industrial scale in the early 2000s. Mirador opened in 2019 with great pomp as the first and largest industrial copper-gold mine in the country. Other serious environmental concerns remain unanswered.

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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. When dress codes reinforce white norms, being black becomes a violation. The Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

In 2019, he got a job with a general contractor building food carts. More than half of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch in 180 of the 623 districts honored with the “Best Communities for Music Education” award in 2019. In 2019, six of seven had that honor. Photo: Ariane Kunze for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2022

An assistant professor at Spelman College in Atlanta, she could focus on her passion of studying Afro-Latin American culture. University and college administrators, governing boards, state legislators and governors say they’re trying to improve the efficiency of higher education at a time of limited resources and sharply declining enrollment.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2022

For the past two decades, colleges, aided by millions of dollars from the federal government and foundations, have been telling students to seek help, that it’s “OK to not be OK,” he said. The University of Iowa doubled the size of its counseling center staff, to a couple dozen individuals, between roughly 2016 and 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2019

During a John Muir High School walkout protesting the school’s ban on durags on Wednesday, February 20, 2019, Dylan Wilson, 15, shows his 360 wave hairstyle, created after months of wearing a durag. Durags are used to create the wave hairstyle. Durags are used to create the wave hairstyle. Late last year, U.S.

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Anthropology 365

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Institutional academic cultures often contribute to these mental health challenges, suggesting that these concerns are not purely individual but systemic within academia. On April 30th, 2019, during the last day of the semester at UNC-Charlotte, students presented their projects in my Science and Technology Studies class.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2020

It was the next best thing they could have done to make it feel special,” said a member of the Class of 2019, a teacher in Boston who drove to the home of a current student in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and delivered the invitation in his yard. Related: Desperate for students, colleges resort to previously banned recruiting tactics.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

He and Gordon, who’d been tapped in June 2011 as interim CEO after serving for four years as chief academic officer, pulled together a coalition of philanthropists, nonprofit leaders, local government officials and others to support the newly named Cleveland Plan. Enrollment fell by 7 percent from the 2019-20 school year to 2020-21.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

trillion in 2019. trillion in 2019. The district is also providing training in cultural sensitivity to police officers in schools; she added it is up to principals to decide whether to use their discretionary funds to hire counselors beyond those provided via the district’s funding formula.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

“We don’t need to panic,” said Cory Koedel, a University of Missouri economist who presented his preliminary findings at a conference of the National Center for the Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) in January 2019. “If percent of the students are in public assistance programs.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

To succeed intellectually and emotionally, she explained, students need “strong culture, engaging learning opportunities that feel relevant and connected to students’ lives, relationships, a sense of agency, and an opportunity to express their own opinions about their learning.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2020

Some 90 percent of students live in households that qualify for government assistance. It would be further validation of a shift in both school culture and expectations that many say was long overdue. In February 2019, the school won the honor. We invested in culture, relationships.”. Adams Middle School.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Federal and state governments have allocated extra money for mental health services and school districts across the country are scrambling to beef up supports. But communities that had already prioritized mental health were in a better position to deal with the unique challenges of the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2022

Although the federal government sent a massive influx of money to help schools troubleshoot , it left districts to grapple with how best to use the funds. In 2019, 70 percent were on grade level, said Rotundo. Some are turning to tutoring (which, if done well, can be effective ), while others are expanding after school programs.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

According to Berger, Crew fosters a schoolwide “culture and spirit of being on a team and looking out for each other.” Casco Bay’s principal, Derek Pierce, credits much of the school’s success to the way Crew culture personalizes each student’s journey over four years. “We And how to listen to each other.”. How am I doing?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Pierre, the student who left LSU for the Air Force, had a good job working in the executive branch of the federal government. We underestimated the cultural gaps between the communities our students come from and the more elite highly selective institutions that a lot of people got placed into.”. I struggled with that.

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