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JANUARY 6, 2025

(Reading Recovery was criticized for not providing enough explicit instruction in decoding words; New Zealand is set to end government funding of the program.) The government made a rightward shift in 2023 to the National Party, ending six years of leadership under former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who had an international profile.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Since the 2018-2019 school year, the number of institutions eligible to award federal financial aid fell from 6,281 to 6,063, or 3.47 However, Mills has since merged with Northeastern University. Such closures, mergers and other shifts to try to reach sustainability are reflected in National Center for Educational Statistics reports.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 30, 2024

But our research on firewood gathering by Diné people shows the federal government can do more to ensure the promises of equitable co-management. A number of different groups are engaged in this process, including federal, state, and local government agencies; conservation organizations; and tribes.

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DECEMBER 2, 2024

government’s campaign to break up Native American culture, language and identity by forcing children into abusive boarding schools. government back in the past,” she said. “We Schools also must navigate distrust dating back to the U.S. AP's analysis does not include data on schools managed by the U.S.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The basal regions—the parts responsible for basic survival instincts—still govern fundamental behaviors such as territorialism, reproduction, and fight-or-flight responses. According to Colombo, this shift rewired human cognition, embedding survival mechanisms deep within the brain's structure. Related Research Sapolsky, R.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 14, 2025

Back in 2019, Brenda Hagan, then a preschool program owner who had been hired as apprenticeship coordinator for the Kentucky Governors Office of Early Childhood, sent around a survey to early childhood program leaders, gauging their interest in apprenticeships.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The American Indian College Fund’s 2019-20 Student Ambassador cohort. Credit: Caitlin Alysse/American Indian College Fund 2019. Another survey conducted by the College Fund found that same fall 2019, one in 10 students said they were at risk of leaving college due to financial concerns.

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MARCH 1, 2022

It is especially abhorrent that a government program intended to create equitable opportunities for all students instead perpetuates racial and economic gaps in financial stability and mobility. By seizing these benefits, the federal government takes away critical financial lifelines that reduce poverty for millions of families.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

Between 67 and 100 percent of Indigenous languages in those three countries will disappear within three generations, according to a 2019 analysis of 200 years of global language loss by researcher Gary Simons. This is the one area left in the federal government, unfortunately, that is very much bipartisan,” she said of Native American issues.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

In 2018-2019, she was a Fox Fellow at the MacMillan Center at Yale University. Dr. Jamil Scott is an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Government Department at Georgetown University. She graduated Summa Cum Laude at Lee University, where she served as the 2019-2020 president of Phi Eta Sigma, a national honor society.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Washington state’s free-college program, enacted by law in 2019, is considered one of the nation’s most generous. The average cost of tuition and fees at a four-year, nonprofit, private institution was $36,900 in 2019-2020 for a full-time student. Jay Inslee signed into law in 2019. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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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

APRIL 18, 2021

Fifteen state flagships had at least a 10-point gap between the percentage of Black public high school graduates in their states in 2019 and the Black share of freshmen they enrolled that fall. About 7 percent of its freshmen in 2019 were Latino, compared with nearly 14 percent of Maryland’s public high school graduates. I want U-Md.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Surgeon General to declare a youth mental health crisis , and the federal government has rolled out billions of dollars since then to help schools respond. The rise in mental health needs among students following the start of the COVID-19 pandemic catalyzed the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

million students calculated that in the spring of 2021 students in each grade scored three to six percentile points lower on a widely used test, the Measures of Academic Progress or MAP, than they did in 2019. Students in grades 3 through 8 slid 6 percentage points in reading on state tests in the spring of 2021 compared to 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Harvard University paid about $10 million to the city of Boston in 2019 in a payment in lieu of taxes, or PILOT, although this amount fell short of what the city asked for. Harvard gave about $10 million to Boston in 2019, about $3 million less than what the city requested. million to Boston in 2019. Brown gave over $6.2

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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. The most recent scores are from 2019-20. Dordt has an estimated $43.4

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AUGUST 19, 2024

The average sixth grader knows more today in 2024 than he or she did in first grade in 2019. Sixth graders in 2024, on average, know far less than sixth graders did back in 2019. At the end of the 2023-24 school year, nearly as many kindergarteners were on grade level for phonics skills as kindergarteners in 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2022

Public two-year community colleges achieved a new budgetary milestone in fiscal year 2021 as they reaped 6 percent more money per student from state and local governments than public four-year institutions did for their regular operating expenses: $9,347 versus $8,859 for each student. College is optional.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

Mothers Gwyn Hainsworth, far left, Vernee Fletcher, Jamie Zimmerman, Katy Strange and Leticia Bazemore pose at Jefferson Park in Seattle during a June 2019 soccer scrimmage. Parents from the Green Lake and Rising Star elementary schools in Seattle meet for a spaghetti dinner in late 2019. It was never about the money,” she said. “We

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MAY 1, 2023

Michael Itzkowitz, education consultant and former director of College Scorecard, an online federal government tool At Brenau, the lowest-income students paid $24,640 out of pocket in 2020-21 after all the discounts, grants, and scholarships. It provides a further reflection on what’s the purpose of higher education as a whole.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

A community school or wraparound services model is when a school partners with other government agencies and/or local nonprofits to support and engage with the local community (e.g., Federal funding for community schools tripled during the pandemic to $75 million in 2021-22 from $25 million in 2019-20.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In Nevada, just 4 percent of students who took a career-oriented science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) course in the 2019-20 school year — 88 students total — were Black, even though Black students make up more than 11 percent of the state’s public school enrollment.

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ED Surge

JULY 31, 2024

A 2019 report from the Century Foundation, called “ Dear Colleges: Take Control of Your Online Courses, ” urged institutions to turn away from outsourced programs. OPMs have come under scrutiny in recent years, particularly for tuition-sharing contracts that critics say encourage predatory marketing practices and swell student loan debt.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Based on these early successes, education leaders in government and nonprofit organizations sought to bring the power of text messages to hundreds of thousands of students. Nudging texts even prompted parents of preschoolers to read to their kids more. But as the texts reached larger numbers of people, they stopped working.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2024

Still, these neediest children were projected to be one third of a grade level behind low-income students in 2019, before the pandemic disrupted education. Researchers explained that these students are on track to approach 2019 achievement levels because they didn’t suffer as much learning loss.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 26, 2020

During the 2019–2020 school year alone, 13 percent of Golden Plains students experienced chronic absenteeism. Now, Pecina and his team at Golden Plains are leveraging their district’s customized learning plan to establish a governance structure to serve as the basis for their work.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

In March 2019, McBride finally succeeded in getting her daughter identified as having an emotional impairment and given an individualized education program, or IEP. Smith Howard has been advocating for years to have the federal government address shortened school days. In 2016, following requests from her group, the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Without it, kids can’t attend virtual classes or complete homework at home, and families can miss out on critical healthcare or government services. We’ve seen the federal government step up and say, ‘You know what, we need to pay for that.’”. However, 28.2 million U.S. The pandemic really changed the political will.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Though an exact count of closures is still not possible, 166,800 fewer people were working in child care in December 2020 than had been in those jobs in December 2019, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Many of the child care businesses that closed in 2020 won’t be reopening no matter what the federal government offers.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift Rajbhandari, who beat an incumbent to win a seat on Boise’s school board last year, sounds like any other boosterish local elected official — except he’s an 18-year-old high school senior in the same district he governs. And it’s a very resilient ecosystem. The difference is you have a vote.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2024

Each year, the federal government budgets billions of dollars for research and development, and gives much of the money to universities and research laboratories that train and support STEM researchers. Many of the women who earn STEM degrees trickle out of academia after receiving years of government investment in their specialized training.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2020

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. percent for fall 2020 over fall 2019, according to federal data — OTC says it had a 14 percent rise last summer and only a 2 percent drop this fall.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

That year, 2019, the district changed its policies to allow Indigenous students to wear cultural items along with their caps and gowns. It means the government failed in their effort to ‘kill the Indian and save the man’ … Our family ties, cultural ties, ties to our land are strong.”.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

Why it matters: The federal government spent almost $2 billion on tutoring over the course of 2020 and 2021, and venture capitalists followed suit in 2022, investing more than $300 million in tutoring companies. Industry heavyweight Canvas bought Learn Platform , citing the company’s capabilities in assessing product efficacy as a rationale.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

But each year since 2019, fewer sponsors have signed up to participate, going from 78 in 2019 to 45 in 2023, according to the South Carolina Department of Education. The state’s biggest program is run by the USDA and relies on sponsors, like the Lowcountry Food Bank, to distribute the food.

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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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