The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

As of 2020, nearly 2,300 colleges and universities have joined the program. Intervening to ensure students have adequate food and housing isn’t just compassionate – it is critical to protecting the financial interests of the government overall. These steps could be adopted today, without authorization or appropriation from Congress.

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2025

Burton has the unique advantage of operating her program inside a building owned by the university, which does not charge her rent, but everything else from utilities to cleaning supplies to food has continued to rise since 2020, she says.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

As Logan details in her 2020 book The Scarcity Slot , West African farmers often have preferred to cultivate crops with methods developed over centuries that reduce long-term risks, rather than generating high yields in the short term. “My But why not grow corn, which often provides more harvestable food per field?

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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 It felt like the right time for the federal government to have an explicit focus on this — and one that is cross cutting,” Hamm tells EdSurge. government. The fact that the center was proposed and exists is exciting.”

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The next census in 2020 will require counting a population of around 330 million people in more than 140 million housing units. and it affects the allocation of more than $800 billion in federal government funding nationwide. The post Every Person Counts: How the 2020 U.S. Every 10 years, the U.S. population. Everyone counts!

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 1, 2020

Books I finished reading (or rereading) in June 2020… On Liberty , John Stuart Mill [government]. Books I read in January 2020. Books I read in February 2020. Books I read in February 2020. Books I read in March 2020. Books I read in April 2020. Books I read in May 2020. Related Posts.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Teacher shortages didn’t start with the pandemic, Boren explains, as her organization tracked a teacher turnover rate that hovered between 7 percent and 9 percent prior to 2020. But she says the pandemic did accelerate turnover, with some regions of the South now experiencing 18 percent turnover among teachers.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 6, 2025

If researchers can match specific canals to textual references, it would provide an unprecedented look at how these systems were governed. Cuneiform records provide detailed accounts of agricultural management, taxation, and irrigation laws. Rayne, L., & Jotheri, J. Water History, 7 , 397–418. & Allen, M.B.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 5, 2022

Right now we see a number of extant challenges to some very basic political precepts that we have taken for granted for far too long (for instance, voting rights, the peaceful transfer of government control, and the ability of Congress to actually get anything done, just to name a few). Books I read in May 2020. Related Posts.

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The Hechinger Report

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

MARCH 24, 2024

Yet, for far too long, students have been left out of decision-making conversations, even though our voices are needed more than ever, and our perspectives are vital for fostering inclusive and effective governance. Hunter Holt was elected, at age 18, to the Marana Unified School District Governing Board in Arizona in 2020.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 27, 2025

A government agency digitizing census records might preserve official documents while disregarding handwritten notes. Large-scale digitization projects, such as those undertaken by museums or archives, often prioritize materials based on perceived cultural or historical value. But what about the materials that dont make the cut?

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The Hechinger Report

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. This was over $5,000 more than what the highest-income students had to pay.

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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. In a November 2020 study, he argued that they’re ultimately more cost effective. Nudging texts even prompted parents of preschoolers to read to their kids more.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Lesson 4: How Does Our Government Work? 18, 2020 • Studies Weekly Learning Objectives: Students will identify the three branches of the federal government. is governed. is governed. Explain that after the Revolutionary War, the new United States didn’t have a strong government. government.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2020

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. GPA, and were launched by July 2020. Another reason the Washington College Grant program stands out is that it garnered support outside of local government, Jones said.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

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. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from Michigan State University.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2025

He is also a Research Associate at the Center on the Politics of Development at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Fellow at the Governance and Local Development Institute. Nau III Assistant Professor of the History and Principles of Democracy at the University of Virginia.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 15, 2025

Large settlements were often better resourced and more capable of managing complex challenges—irrigation, trade, defense, and governance among them. These capacities also provided the scaffolding upon which economic disparities could rise. Yet this does not mean inequality caused durability. Nature, 551(7682), 619–622. Ortman, S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2021

The March 2020 shift from face-to-face classes to what many call “Zoom University” was triage for faculty and administrators accustomed to being in the same room as their students. To get a better understanding of what has happened in online classrooms since March 2020, Acosta said, the report’s authors spoke to more than 50 students.

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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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2022

The rate of teachers quitting and retiring from the profession, according to Goldhaber’s calculations in one state, Washington, was about 11 percent in 2020-21 – actually a smidge lower than it was in 2006-07, another year of high turnover when a strong job market lured educators away. Most departures were filled with new hires.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Percentage of New Online Courses 20202021Coursera31%39%edX16%26%FutureLearn38%51% Class Central analyses show that the fraction of new non-university courses created on Coursera increased from 31 percent in 2020 to 39 percent in 2021. It led me to call 2020 the “Second Year of the MOOC.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2020

Many colleges and universities anticipate a sharp decrease in international students for fall 2020. Institutions are now scrambling to rethink how they recruit and teach students from abroad as they prepare for fall 2020. “As Shuai “Eddy” Jiang, a rising junior at Boston College, on Acorn Street in Boston.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

And in the edtech world, normal meant more ed and less tech than in 2020 and 2021. Dozens of companies raised venture funding at equal or lesser values —“down rounds”— compared to rounds raised during the pandemic-induced edtech boom of 2020 and 2021. This shift makes sense in a lot of ways—the Zoom classes of the early pandemic stunk.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 24, 2025

The Disruptive Effects of Polarization on the Law-Making Process By David Jgr , University in Prague and Zdenka Mansfeldov , Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Krastev ( Reference Krastev 2020 ) predicted that the world would change significantly after the COVID-19 pandemic. However, society and politics remain divided.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Their multifaceted mission s are enduring and essential; these institutions are focused on increasing college attainment for Native Americans, nation-building and counteracting the deleterious and lasting effects government-forced assimilation. By March 2020, that number had reached one in five.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

The starkest example is eighth grade students, who were in fourth grade when the pandemic first erupted in March of 2020. But the pace of learning, or rate of academic growth, has been rocky since 2020, with some students missing many months of instruction. This is a crisis moment with middle schoolers,” said Lewis.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Dora Bray Magilke had been unemployed for over a month when someone from her local career center in Branson, Missouri, reached out in the summer of 2020 with an offer. Magilke qualified for a government grant to go back to school, she was told, at a place the center suggested: an online company called MedCerts.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

In 2020, there were 39 million or one out of every five American adults under 65 who had dropped out of college and never finished their degrees, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Floyd, who is Black, was one of these statistics until he finally earned his bachelor’s degree in August 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2020

million in 2020 to Providence, Rhode Island, and recently created a $10 million endowment for public schools. Nonprofit property tax exemptions originate from the idea that the government ought to subsidize socially desirable, charitable actions or services that the government would otherwise perform. Brown gave over $6.2

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2020

The nation’s highest spending school districts tend to be wealthy white suburbs whose education spending increased at a faster rate than other school districts between 2000 and 2015, according to a May 2020 study by a Penn State researcher. There are consequences for education, too.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Fortunately, in light of democracy’s fragility, there has been a steady increase in initiatives from federal and state governments to incorporate civics education in K-12 classrooms. In 2020, California adopted a State Seal of Civic Engagement that high school students can earn upon graduation. To reach every student in the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2021

The internships could be in government, in nonprofit organizations or in the private sector. The civil unrest of spring 2020 laid bare racial inequities and accelerated the job market’s readiness to embrace young and diverse workers. The time is right. Despite the economic upheaval created by the pandemic, many jobs remain unfilled.

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ED Surge

JUNE 18, 2024

It also comes nearly four years after the RAPID project’s launch in April 2020. Many providers mentioned the need for the government to invest more money in the early care and education system, including one in Wisconsin who said, “As an in-home provider, I do not even bring home minimum wage, as my parents can’t afford to pay that much.”

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In a report publicly released in October 2020 , the Government Accountability Office (GAO) counted 99 school data breaches over the past four years, from July 2016 to May 2020, that compromised the personal information of thousands of students in kindergarten through high school.

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