The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

The sharing of stories is as human and fundamental as breathing itself. Despite our differences, stories are what keep our bond of humanity intact. Alhassan Susso teaches government, economics and personal development at the International Community High School in New York City. And the process begins at the foundation.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2022

Larry Hogan announced in March that the state government would strip bachelor’s degree requirements from thousands of job listings. Jared Polis directed government agencies in his state to embrace hiring workers for skills , not degrees. jobs like registered nurse, human resources assistant, or help desk technician.)

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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. That often requires lots of human interaction and supportive relationships — things that don’t scale easily. We’re narrowing in on where nudging is useful.

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Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Many dedicated, brilliant, and diverse trailblazers have illuminated our path and brought their findings to the forefront of humanity. He implemented the American Indian Telecommunications Satellite Demonstration Project, linking the All-Indian Pueblo Council and the Crow Indian Reservation with the federal government at Washington, D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 25, 2023

Students list their top five picks from among the group’s 70-plus worksite partners across the city — restaurants, libraries, pizza shops, architectural firms, radio stations, corporate offices, national nonprofits, and government offices like the one where Tejani works. Many of us were maybe awkward teenagers,” he said.

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ED Surge

JULY 28, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), not from the tribes themselves. The center worked with the National Indian Child Care Association to analyze 184 tribal child care plans submitted to HHS for the 2019-2022 fiscal year. But even if funding was based on population, there isn’t an accurate count of Native children.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. This is her third year in the profession.

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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. Treasure hunts conventionally presume that the treasure itself is artefactual, that is, it is generated through the processing of natural substances by humans (e.g.,

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

The federal government provided billions of dollars to help schools recover from Covid, and some tapped that money for temporary stipends to attract new substitutes. Last fall, in the district, nearly half of teacher absences went unfilled, compared with 26 percent in fall 2019. But the stakes to find more permanent solutions are high.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Since around 2019, Detiege says she’s contacted district officials, spoken at meetings, and posted on local Facebook pages with one goal: moving the first day of school to after Labor Day. Government Accountability Office. The first day of school in Palm Springs this year was August 7, when temperatures reached 109 degrees.

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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. A number of states have seen the changes ARPA made possible as a positive shift that should be continued, and their governments have poured in historic investment to build better child care infrastructure.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

And though the struggles in early childhood education are largely systemic, it’s the individual, humanizing, heart-wrenching stories that are more likely to change public perception and, eventually, shift policy. Kang joined NAEYC as chief strategy and innovation officer in 2019, a few months before the pandemic began.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

Neural systems that most distinguish the human brain from those of other animals actively develop during early childhood. We ask district leaders, government officials, foundations, corporations and philanthropists with bold visions and deep commitments to the well-being of our children and country: Are you willing and able to help?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

More than a dozen states don’t have any language in their science standards about human-caused climate change, according to the National Center for Science Education. It’s more ambiguous as to the causes of climate change, and the human role in causing climate change, than some other states,” she says. They raise cattle.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

As humans continue to unleash greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, fires, hurricanes, floods, droughts and heat waves are intensifying, in some cases forcing kids to flee their homes and classrooms and shattering their sense of security. “We A school bus makes its way on the flooded Hopper Road on September 19, 2019, in Houston, Texas.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2019

Source: Adam Looney and Constantine Yannelis in the August 2019 issue of Economics of Education Review. Leave this field empty if you're human: Experts haven’t typically worried about people with large student loan balances. It’s a staggering number: $1.5 trillion in student debt. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: The history of early college high schools dates back to the 1960s with the founding of Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, a private school. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose from our newsletters. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2021

Thomas earned her bachelor’s degree in July 2019 though an online program; she is now on her way to an MBA. which owns and operates a group of McDonald’s restaurants in Louisiana, is pictured with her spouse, Larry Thomas, after receiving her bachelor’s degree in July 2019 from Colorado Technical University.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

Zhang, who reenrolled in college in the fall of 2019, plans to become a certified nursing assistant or licensed practical nurse, in-demand occupations that would increase her earnings and enable her to take on more complex, interesting work. Department of Labor to promote on-the-job learning. The necessary learning happens on the job.

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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

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. In 36 states and Washington, D.C.,

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

You’re not just a teacher, but you’re also a human.”. While professional standards recommend at least one counselor and one social worker for every 250 students, a 2019 ACLU study found that school-based mental health program weren’t close to meeting the need even before the pandemic.

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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. Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images.

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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

AUGUST 19, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Beginning in 1997, a series of laws and regulations were put into place to monitor and fix how schools across the country put children of different races and ethnicities in special education. Morgan presented his research findings at a conference of the Society for Prevention Research in May 2019.).

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Digital Promise

JUNE 30, 2020

American Job Center (via Mid Cumberland Human Resource Agency). Within the first year of adopting the collective impact framework, the AECI focused on building trusting relationships, creating governance, aligning resources, and ensuring all organization representatives understood strengths and core competencies. YWCA of Nashville.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Unlike at Olmsted, the highest-scoring elementary school in the city, students at Eve scored around the dismal city average in math and English in 2019, when fewer than a quarter of students passed state tests. Purdue University’s Gifted Education Research and Resource Institute found in 2019 that inequity is the norm.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

When Wheatley High received a seventh “F” rating from the Texas Education Agency in 2019, it triggered the state takeover of the district. I knew I wasn't preparing them for anything in life besides a STAAR test,” Yarborough says, referencing the state’s annual standardized test, “and I was having to deny their humanity while we did that.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2023

At least 43 percent of young children in Hawaii were watched by friends or relatives in 2019. Tūtū and Me and Keiki Steps get most of their funding from the federal government, an amount set aside for Native Hawaiian Education programs, as well as from foundations and other private donors. Subscribe to our Early Childhood newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

SAN FRANCISCO — On a Friday evening in the fall of 2019, Maria Flores stood waiting with her “crazy heavy” duffel bag and her teenage son outside the office of a man whose home she cleans. In 2019, the two were evicted from the apartment Mateo had lived in since birth. But the idea persisted and turned into a plan and then a place.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

The latest research comes from the Reboot Foundation, which released a study in June 2019 that shows a negative connection between a nation’s performance on international assessments and 15-year-olds’ self-reported use of technology in school. That’s the equivalent of a year of education or an entire grade level.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

With emergency child care options varying so much across the country, many parents who work in healthcare do not have access to a government-run child care program for essential workers. Presley Parris, now 4, examines a horseshoe crab on the beach in the summer of 2019. Credit: Photo: Courtesy of Ernest Parris.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

In the 10 years through 2016, college tuition and fees increased by 63 percent , or three times as much as all the other products and services measured by the government, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. Tuition and fees rose less than 1 percent from September 2019 to July 2021, a period during which inflation was more than 7 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2019

In September 2019, a young Canadian ed tech company called Classcraft announced that it had raised $7.5 Leave this field empty if you're human: Classcraft is an example of impact investing, investments that seek social or environmental benefits along with financial returns. Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report. Weekly Update.

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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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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

After all, schools are governed by plenty of federal and district policies intended to ensure that they impart a rigorous education. Yet the college enrollment rate within six months of graduation has been falling — from 56 percent for the class of 2019 to 51 percent for the class of 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2019

The adjective “full” emphasizes that even in real dollars, after adjusting for inflation, more resources were pouring into prekindergarten through 12th grade classrooms across the country than before state and local governments started cutting spending in the 2009-10 school year. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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