The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

Though the concept of medical-legal partnerships has existed since the 1990s, the Yale partnership, launched in November 2020, is the first in the nation focused exclusively on children’s behavioral health. Last year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services invested $1.6 Department of Health and Human Services invested $1.6

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Cole-Ochoa is among the educators nationwide who are trying new approaches to social-emotional learning in hopes of helping students deal with the continuing mental health struggles that took shape or worsened during the isolation of remote learning that started in 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

A bipartisan law passed in 2020 initiated a complete overhaul of the FAFSA. Related: Simpler FAFSA complicates college plans for students and families “As much staff as government has, it’s not enough for students right now,” said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the national advocacy group Complete College America.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Just as the scramble to spin up remote learning shined a light on school inequities in 2020, Gilmore says mental health resources — or the lack thereof — continues that now. Can every taxpayer see the value of having mental health professionals [in schools]? Your mileage is going to vary.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

And for Williams, a higher education senior policy analyst at the advocacy group Education Trust, the personal is also professional. Now a doctoral student in education leadership policy at Texas Tech University, Williams often thinks about the student loan debt she is still accruing. Nearly two-thirds of the $1.7

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

In early 2020, at an academic conference just before the pandemic hit, Powell commiserated with other experts in special education and students who struggle in math. In December 2020, she invited dozens of like-minded education researchers to the first science of math Zoom meeting. I see it as a huge equity issue.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

NEW ORLEANS—Before the 2020-21 school year, Christa Talbott, a 20-year veteran of New Orleans schools, had never considered leaving the profession she loved this early. By the end of 2020, the 44-year-old was agonizing over whether the school year might be her last teaching there. This story also appeared in Time. Into a burning house.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. Guilford sent its first batch of tutors to middle schools in November 2020. It’s a long road of recovery.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

He had to get help from an advocacy group called College Possible to pay his rent. An athlete while he was in college, Agyei had to work to pay some of his expenses and needed help from an advocacy group to keep paying his rent as his tuition increased. Meanwhile, he noticed that his bills from the college kept going up. Miguel Agyei.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

A bout with Covid in late 2020 had forced Suka, a single mother of seven, to take time off from her job as a home hospice caregiver. million kids as homeless in 2020-21, the most recent school year for which data was available. VANCOUVER, Wash. Public schools identified 1.1

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Digital Promise

APRIL 4, 2019

Inspire advocacy for more experiential learning in schools. Sign up to help bring RLDAA to your region in 2020. Help parents in understanding the nature and value of 21st century learning. Build awareness of experiential learning opportunities for youth in a region. Spark curiosity and learning for youth.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2022

The number of students expressing interest in fields associated with social justice has seen a monumental increase since the beginning of the pandemic in early 2020. That must change now that the field has been given a tremendous opportunity: training our next generation of social justice leaders.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In August 2020, Amanda Nemergut was looking for alternatives to in-person public school for her three daughters. At OHDELA, enrollment more than doubled to about 5,200 students in the 2020-2021 school year, according to state data. She had enough to manage with her evening bartending job, so she was seeking a simpler option.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2022

This is likely due to several factors: increasing involvement from parents as schools moved online; advocacy from groups like Decoding Dyslexia; social media conversations and coverage in the popular press; and a push by state legislatures toward improving our nation’s stagnant and dismal reading scores.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2024

The suit was brought against La’ James International College in 2020 following a Hechinger Report investigation into cosmetology schools in Iowa. It will also discharge debts those students owed to the school and make changes in how it communicates about financial aid.

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ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2023

In the winter of 2020, I participated in a two-day youth organizing retreat in Detroit. In the summer of 2020, I worked with youth organizers in Detroit to conduct listening sessions with youth across the city and state; we wanted to support local organizations in developing their own education justice campaigns.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Clough takes her daughter, Diane Roznowski, 23, and granddaughter, Carter Gens, 4, to visit Clough’s brother near Juneau, Alaska, in March 2020. But for grandparents raising grandchildren, that’s not possible, said Jaia Peterson Lent, deputy executive director of Generations United, a nonprofit advocacy group. Critical Condition.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

According to the most recent data from 2020-21 school year, two thirds of the 7 million students with disabilities who receive special education services spent 80 percent or more of their time in traditional classrooms. . It seems a humane policy not to wall off those with disabilities and keep them apart from society.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2022

According to the Afterschool Alliance, an advocacy group for after-school programming , 7.8 million students were enrolled in after-school programs in 2020 , with millions more seeking access to such programs. Like the child care industry as a whole, after-school programs often operate on tight revenues and low pay.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

A report published Thursday by the Student Borrower Protection Center , a nonprofit advocacy group focused on student debt, attempts to quantify the scope of this problem. Researchers estimate that, from July 2020 to June 2021, some 321,000 community college students accrued a collective $107 million in debt to their campuses.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2022

In 2016, Polites, the state advocacy leader for nonprofit Media Literacy Now, began to contact her state legislators, advocating for an “information literacy” bill being proposed at the time. Related: How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

Lillian Pace, vice president of policy and advocacy, KnowledgeWorks. The pandemic unleashed “tremendous interest” in revisiting assessments, said Jean-Claude Brizard, president and chief executive officer of Digital Promise, a nonprofit organization that promotes innovation in education.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

A 2020 high school graduate from Marin City, California, Williams had entered an after-school college prep program, Bridge the Gap, when he was in third grade. Angel Vasquez, 2020 high school graduate from Providence, Rhode Island, of his family. “I Kamarree Williams had been on a path to college since before he learned long division.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

A 2020 report for the U.S. That includes Barbara Duffield, executive director of SchoolHouse Connection, a nonprofit focused on homeless education advocacy. But critics allege that this argument is self-serving, and the 2020 Senate report listed Monarch School as having a higher than average chronic absentee rate , at 58.8

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2021

For low-income kids it’s really hard for programs to run in person,” said Jodi Grant, executive director of Afterschool Alliance, a nonprofit advocacy group. “It She launched Girlstart At Home in April 2020, beginning with weekly Zoom meetings aimed at maintaining relationships with girls already in their program.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2022

In May of 2020, the Las Vegas native accepted an offer to become superintendent of the Elko County School District, which serves roughly 10,000 students in northeastern Nevada. As hard as those first months were, the gradual return to in-person learning in fall 2020 was harder. This story also appeared in The Nevada Independent.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2022

Teachers report being more stressed as the pandemic goes on, and much more likely to leave the profession than they were before March 2020. But if you’re reading this article—if you’re engaged enough in education to be reading EdSurge—you probably don’t believe that data. And for good reason.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

That changed in the summer of 2020. In 2020, after committee membership reached an all-time high, a white Fairfax mother spoke up at one of the Zoom meetings. The three groups spent the late fall and early winter of 2020 coordinating their efforts, strategizing on messaging and plotting a heavy-handed appeal to the district.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

The number of parents who reported missing work because of child care surged in 2020 at the start of the Covid-19 outbreak; it has yet to recede to pre-pandemic levels. The recent efforts also come during a time of reckoning in the U.S. Those services are only available for children who attend centers through City Seats, however.)

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. Oakland’s partnership, known as #OaklandUndivided , launched in May 2020. OAKLAND, Calif. The homework gap isn’t new.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The special education system can be “incredibly difficult for everybody,” said Ramona Hattendorf, director of advocacy for the Arc of King County , which promotes disability rights. About 791,000 English learners participated in special education in 2020, a jump of nearly 30 percent since 2012. In 2020, the U.S.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The research team at Rapid-EC , an early childhood and family well-being survey launched in April 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, led by Dr. Phil Fisher at the University of Oregon, has tracked child well-being weekly since the onset of the pandemic. There are many more since the arrival of COVID-19.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 9, 2022

Bringing together more than 100 organizations across the fields of disability advocacy, special education, civil rights and K-12 nonprofits, the Educating All Learners Alliance (EALA) is one such network formed to ensure equity and support for students with disabilities and learning differences across education environments.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Since 2006, the share of California Hispanic 19-year-olds with a high school diploma has increased from 74 percent to 86 percent, according to the Campaign for College Opportunity, a California advocacy group. You can’t just put together a program and expect parents to show up. Don’t just translate a website and think you’ve done something.”.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

And the group found that in the fall of 2020-21, 20 percent of undergraduate teacher-education programs had seen enrollment drops of 11 percent or more because of the pandemic. So how are teacher prep programs responding? Such outreach might be especially important to draw teachers from groups that are underrepresented in teaching.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

“This year’s NAEP results confirm the absence of political will in the last two years to do anything revolutionary to change the trajectory for our children’s futures,” a statement from Memphis Lift and Nashville Propel, two Tennessee-based parent advocacy groups said.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2021

The Los Angeles Unified School District reported a 14 percent drop in kindergarten enrollment for the 2020–21 school year, a loss of nearly 6,000 students. This might be a moment where all kids deserve to have an individualized education plan,” said Jenny Hontz, communications chief for the parent advocacy group Speak Up.

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