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. Credit: Tanya Lieberman. Here’s what teachers are doing about it.

Education 143

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Since 2020, HHS has been monitoring data from the field, including data that showed a strained workforce. “It The outcomes were the result of many years of effort, advocacy and coalition building, Lloyd notes. That’s the kind of inspiration this field needs — “not an overnight solution, no magic bullet.” government.

Government 106

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Digital Promise

MARCH 5, 2020

As a former librarian and district leader, I found that success was the best form of advocacy—when the great work of librarians is shared and documented, good things follow for students and library programs. Spring 2020 Submission Window Open. Lesson learned: Thought partnership helps keep ‘fails’ to a minimum.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

One out of 10 Black students in the eighth grade math scores were scoring basic or above,” saidKristen Hengtgen, a senior policy analyst at the nonprofit advocacy group EdTrust, referring to last year’s National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the Nation’s Report Card.

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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.

Advocacy 109

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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Erin Roberts, a teacher leadership specialist. Educators can be good at teaching and bad at teaching reading, said Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), an advocacy group that studies teacher preparation. She pointed to the “p” again. Puh,” he enunciated. It sounds complicated because it is.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 30, 2024

“We are delighted to welcome Kim Mealy to this critical leadership role. We are very excited about this new chapter in the APSA’s evolution under Kim’s leadership,” said APSA President, Mark Warren. million dollar Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) (2020-2023 and 2023-2026).

Political Science 69

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

The word just hasn’t gotten out about the ability to do this,” said Todd Ziebarth, a senior vice president of state advocacy and support at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. Flying Earth acknowledged the challenges of running a charter network that spans schools in several states.

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The Hechinger Report

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. Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

His time in elementary school preceded both Johnson’s leadership at Collins Elementary and Duty’s in the district. Johnson started at Collins in 2016 as an assistant principal and took the top job in 2020. In the end, a leadership change paved the way to victory in Holmes County. Honestly, I see it coming,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

The City Council, largely supportive of Pre-K 4 SA, will decide whether the program’s continuation will make it onto the 2020 ballot. The program will need that support — and more — in 2020 when San Antonians will vote on whether to continue funding it. The program’s CEO, Sarah Baray, says the approach makes a big difference.

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MPSA

JUNE 11, 2021

Students have tackled subjects ranging from African Politics to Women, Politics, and Political Leadership and everything in between. They’ve also tackled subjects on a more national scale, such as the 2020 United States Census. More than 3,600 students from 154 courses have added over 3.7

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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

DECEMBER 22, 2020

His leadership isn’t out there on his shirtsleeve,” said Robert Villanova, director of the executive leadership program at the Neag School of Education at UConn, who worked with Cardona when he was a doctoral student. You know when we talk about preparing students for the jobs of the future, it’s critical thinking, it’s self-advocacy.

Education 133

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

By senior year, the dream is for students to have recovered from the trauma of homelessness and to have transitioned out, according to the school's leadership. A 2020 report for the U.S. That includes Barbara Duffield, executive director of SchoolHouse Connection, a nonprofit focused on homeless education advocacy.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Even as FAST Funds help to fill gaps in social services today, labor leaders think that in the future, the movement has the potential to organize faculty and staff around advocacy for campus policies that actually close those gaps for low-income students and educators. What if you were not just disseminating aid to students?” Kirtley says.

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ED Surge

MARCH 24, 2022

It was the Fall of 2020, and I delivered my testimony on Zoom to the Texas State Board of Education. However, teaching policy fellowships can potentially be the most impactful route for advocacy. As I finished my comments, I turned off my camera and sat silently in my classroom, unsure of how the board members received my words.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

Now, many worry that the district won’t rebound — and will head back into the cycle of rotating leadership, low performance and lack of public trust that existed before the turnaround. The graduation rate in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District rose from 56 to 81 percent between 2011 and 2020. Student outcomes improved.

Education 110

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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. Birkholz believes state leadership is necessary. During the 2020 legislative session Rep.

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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.

High School 145

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Sapiens

MARCH 4, 2025

A group of forensic anthropologists argues their field must reject the myth of pure objectivity and challenge systemic inequities through advocacy and activism. The AAFS did not issue a formal statement on its anti-advocacy position. times higher rates of hospitalization for the virus. This is the flagship U.S.

Advocacy 103

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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. Rodrigues’ organization, the National Parents Union (NPU), launched in January 2020, just before the pandemic upended schools and learning.

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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. But as Grimes’ star rose statewide, according to local educators and residents, his relationship with city leadership started to unravel. Russellville’s Hispanic population has grown from close to zero in the late 1980s to nearly 40 percent in 2020.

High School 145

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

They’re constantly looked over for promotions and leadership opportunities, or pigeonholed into disciplinarian roles. ” 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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

The 32 print and digital books we examined were published between 2012 and 2020, although most – some 84 percent – were released in 2015 or later. The teacher version of a 2020 Pearson California sixth grade science textbook discusses climate change on at least 25 pages, far more than most of the print books we reviewed.

Teaching 138

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2020

Centers and school-based programs account for many of these children, but home-based providers offer the majority of care options in more than 20 states, according to Child Care Aware of America, a research and advocacy group. and signed by 12 other sponsors, was sent to the House leadership. Everyone else pays their own way. “The

Government 145

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

In August 2020, the federal court issued a mixed decision. The National Indian Education Association, an advocacy group, has yet to issue a position on Trumps order but said in a statement that its closely monitoring potential impact on cultural preservation and access to education for Native students.

Education 119

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Political Science Now

MARCH 25, 2025

Scholars have also shown campaigns often mistake Latinx as a monolithic group and overlook the community’s nuanced identities ( Stokes 2003 ; Morales, Rodriguez, and Schaller 2020 ). Although Harris performed worse with Latino voters than Joe Biden in 2020, she still garnered most of their votes in 2024.

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Economics Cultures Social Justice Political Science 39

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. Anything is possible.

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