The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2022

Latino students may be grappling with heated debates on immigration policy that affect their loved ones, or the challenges of straddling two different cultures. Research shows mental health treatment is more effective when it’s in line with the client’s culture and when clients perceive their therapist to be culturally competent.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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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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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. 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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Meanwhile, construction was one of just two industries in which the number of women workers increased since February 2020, she said. That culture discourages not only female workers, but also men who might ally with women to transform the trades, O’Neill said. an advocacy group in Oakland, California. “We Credit: Sarah Garland.

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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

MAY 15, 2023

Nesbitt African American Cultural Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Yet while 67 percent of white high school graduates went directly to college in 2020 — the most recent year for which the figure is available — 54 percent of Black high school graduates did, the National Center for Education Statistics reports.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2022

A concerted campuswide campaign that includes interventions like the one that rescued Dickinson has since more than doubled that proportion, to nearly half in 2020, the last year for which the figure is available. It’s about a shift in the culture,” Capp said. At community colleges, nearly half the students quit after their first year.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 12, 2022

This week, the Aspen Institute announced its 2022 Ascend fellows, a cohort of 22 individuals hailing from a range of disciplines including medicine, research, entrepreneurship, government and policy, and nonprofit leadership and advocacy. Early childhood educators are tired and burned out from the onslaught of changes since early 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

By the fall of 2020, all Northern Cass students will plot their own academic courses to high school graduation, while sticking with same-age peers for things like gym class and field trips. Grade levels are part of our culture, deeply rooted in how we think about learning and childhood more broadly. “If School District.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

The graduation rate in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District rose from 56 to 81 percent between 2011 and 2020. The graduation rate rose from 56 to 81 percent between 2011 and 2020. The proportion of chronically absent students doubled to about half of the entire student body from 2020 to 2022. Student outcomes improved.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2024

But her motivations are also deeply personal, cultural, and, in some ways, unique to Philadelphia. Nearly 15,000 of Philadelphia’s more than 197,000 students attended a virtual cyber charter school last year — a 55 percent increase since the 2020-21 school year. For financial literacy class, they go to the bank to open an account.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2019

It’s that fewer than one in five of adults in the entire surrounding Humphreys County have at least an associate degree, according to census data analyzed by the nonprofit advocacy organization Complete Tennessee. About three-quarters of Colorado jobs will require some education beyond high school by 2020, Baer said.

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ED Surge

MAY 16, 2023

In fact, in the period from 2015 to 2020, Black students were charged under the South Carolina disorderly conduct law at a rate roughly seven times of their white peers. We're working with educators and talking about school culture and safety and nurturing, and what do thriving schools look like? It challenged me to go deeper.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Its transfer-friendly strategy stems partly from the university’s history and culture; the stern, stiff-collared and mostly bearded countenances of its presidents staring down from portraits in the main administration building testify to its 1891 founding by a Christian denomination similar to the Quakers called the Church of the Brethren.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

That lack of communication and difference in management strategies is evident on other state trust lands on the reservation: One logged state parcel is adjacent to a sensitive elk calving ground, while another parcel, logged in 2020, sits atop a ridgeline and impacts multiple streams with bull trout and westslope cutthroat trout.

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All Things Pedagogical

JULY 10, 2024

So this takes me to where my activism and advocacy started from and it is Ruskin, yes problematic fav Ruskin. MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture , (6). You should take it; it is a good reflective tool to identify levels of privilege. Are they scholar-activists? I mean 15 plus years of adjuncting will do that to you I guess.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

But within those blanket terms to describe “minorities” are dozens of cultures with unique heritages, ethnicities, and geographic locations. People from those cultures have nuanced histories, perspectives, and experiences in the U.S. who are not white. and in its schools. Claire Jean Kim, Ph.D., What Can Education Leaders Do?

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 5, 2022

In 2019, Detroit Public Schools Community District officially declared themselves a Sanctuary District , a testament to parent organizing and advocacy in the city. Schools Have to Work on Themselves When I started therapy in 2020, I quickly learned that simply attending therapy sessions wasn’t enough to improve my mental health.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2022

In the past year, they’ve endured culture war attacks, worsening student behavior, and endless health and safety regulation changes. Former teacher Emily McMahan Teachers Are Not OK For months, advocacy groups, including the National Education Association, the country’s largest union, have been driving home the point that teachers are not OK.

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MPSA

OCTOBER 12, 2021

While Wikipedia’s breadth and depth are staggering, it still consists of glaring content gaps, and no where is this more evident than in historically underrepresented areas, such as women, minorities, and non-Western peoples and cultures. They expanded the entries on the Constitution of Ghana as well as Human rights in Ethiopia.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

By 2000, it had grown to 13 percent, and in 2020, it was almost 40 percent. A self-described Southern conservative and man of faith from rural Alabama, Grimes, 48, set about overhauling instruction for English learners, establishing culturally relevant extracurriculars and reaching out to the Hispanic community. They love family.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

In the spring of 2020, Chelsea Kelley’s second grader received live instruction from his teacher just once a week for 45 minutes. Tanya Lieberman, pictured in May 2020, had to figure out how to hold public hearings on proposed legislation during a pandemic. When there are many of you, you get to shape the culture.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

As the grandchild of Mexican immigrants, she didnt find her language or culture welcome in the school. Little Mexican girls see their culture celebrated on the walls of every classroom. Flores was punished for speaking Spanish in this classroom in 1953. Credit: Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local Flores only spoke Spanish.

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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. Also, some families have a cultural distrust of therapy or lack the time to take advantage of it.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

“Preston Thorne was a unique piece of what made our school culture so great,” she said. ” Eric Duncan, part of education advocacy organization Ed Trust’s policy team, said Thorne’s story is one echoed by Black male educators nationwide who feel perpetually overlooked.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

When Ta was in middle school — when the country was embroiled in the 2020 presidential election and reeling from COVID-19 — political questions seemed suddenly relevant for them. While Ta is too young to vote in this election, they are highly engaged in politics. Still, the path was winding and not limited to school.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2022

Data from the 2020-2021 academic year shows that 42 colleges previously designated as HSIs dipped below the threshold that qualifies them. This is the first time in two decades that the total number of HSIs has fallen, according to the advocacy group Excelencia in Education, which tracks colleges that are at and around the HSI threshold.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

But in April 2020, during her freshman year, Meryl died by suicide after facing years of harassment over her identity. Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report Following Meryl’s death, Ketron decided to continue her daughter’s advocacy. Rachelle Ketron at her daughter Meryl’s memorial site.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2021

We’ve run into challenges where legislators are reluctant to pass an unfunded mandate,” said Nicole Gibson, the senior director for state policy and grassroots advocacy at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. That’s important in Utah, which shares a border and a good deal of culture with Wyoming.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The Every Student Succeeds Act, passed in 2015, requires states to report school-policing data, but, according to Losen’s research, not one state had met that obligation by July 2020. have voted to end or reduce the presence of police in schools since the police killing of George Floyd in May 2020. There’s no teeth to it.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2022

Rodrigues had been traveling the country for weeks, meeting with parent advocacy groups in city after city, and working with them to get their grievances heard and addressed by local school boards. She didn’t see parents angry about culture war issues, but parents who were worried about their kids learning in a safe and inclusive classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Bills that restrict trans students from playing on sports teams that correspond with their gender identity have been introduced in 36 states in 2021 and have passed in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Mississippi, Montana, Tennessee and West Virginia, according to the legislative tracker run by the advocacy group Freedom For All Americans.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2024

Louis, Missouri “I came from a pretty conservative family but didn’t develop an interest until 2020. I toured a lot of schools where they weren’t open to new ideas about culture. Did your political beliefs play a role? “I Subscribe to our free biweekly Higher Education newsletter. What is the purpose of an American higher education?

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

As an Afghan American, I often encounter perceptions that radicalization and political instability in Afghanistan are intrinsic to Afghans or Middle Eastern “culture.” But the reason extremist organizations successfully recruit among the disenchanted is not because of a shared, unchanging cultural heritage among their members.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Donald Trump’s administration was known for its advocacy of school choice, but that wasn’t something he talked much about on the campaign trail in 2015 or 2016; it only came into focus with his selection of Betsy DeVos as secretary of education.

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