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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Anthropology News

MARCH 27, 2025

When NASAs early satellite data became inaccessible due to obsolete formats , it was not just information that was lost, but a record of human exploration. A government agency digitizing census records might preserve official documents while disregarding handwritten notes. Digital migration, like any form of migration, is not neutral.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Like Jehovahs Witness congregations in the rest of the world, Kombela Central Mandarin Congregation is governed by local elders in charge of pastoral work, selecting speakers, and directing public preaching. Jonah had worked in the past as a part-time IT consultant for various Chinese businesses around Kombela.

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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

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Starting in 2020, the federal government sent schools more than $200 billion in pandemic recovery funds. Central offices needed more administrators to handle recruitment and human resources because they were hiring for so many new positions. The third act was a pandemic-fueled “hiring bonanza.”

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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

While there’s no comprehensive data on how many schools lack air conditioning, some 41 percent of school districts responding to a 2020 Government Accountability Office survey reported that the majority of their school buildings needed heating and cooling upgrades. Many school systems are gravely unprepared for a warming world.

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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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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Working in Indonesia and Peru, we also use this research, and our close partnerships with local communities and organizations, to spur action that supports gender equality and the basic human right to water. For government authorities, we created policy briefs, translated into Bahasa Indonesian and Spanish. An estimated “1.8

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Nationwide, significant progress has been made since March 2020 on closing the digital divide – the chasm between those K-12 learners who have access to reliable internet and computing devices at home and those who don’t. The six public schools in Brunswick operated on a hybrid schedule for most of the 2020-21 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In 2020 for example, MacKenzie Scott donated $560 million to 23 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). In other contexts, when a donation is linked to a wrong, or a human rights violation, the donor is seen as complicit in that wrong. Some are guided by a moral compass. But who is excluded from that community?

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. history, European history, human geography, AP government. I was a freshman in college in fall 2020. I'll be leaving in 2024.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Dozens of colleges and universities nationwide started 2020 already under financial stress. They’d spent the past decade grappling with declining enrollments and weakening support from state governments. Chris Pines, former philosophy and humanities professor at the University of Rio Grande in Ohio.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 30, 2020

In early 2020, Nashville boasted unprecedented job growth and low unemployment—good news for residents of Tennessee’s largest city. American Job Center (via Mid Cumberland Human Resource Agency). Strategies for education providers, government agencies, employers, funders, and other stakeholders. Nashville Public Library.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

but Allen made it through, graduating in December 2020. Employers who rely on technology — a group that includes most manufacturers, many retailers and the government — are chasing the same workers. As IBM measures it , the federal government puts forward $130 billion annually in grants, loans, and other benefits?to

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Covington County Superintendent Babette Duty chalks those cases up to human error. Certainly, as long as human beings are running schools, you’re going to have that possibility,” she said, adding that the goal is to have policies and procedures in place that uphold the law and protect kids, while keeping parents informed.

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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. AIR publicized it February 2020 as a policy brief. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Nationwide, an estimated 41 percent of districts need to update or replace HVAC systems in at least half of their schools, according to a 2020 report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office. In 2020, Denver voters approved a bond measure that set aside funding to install air conditioning at 24 schools.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Their immersive stories will be screened at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on September 24 and 25, days on which heads of state and government from around the world will gather to comprehensively review progress in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 SDGs. Photo Credit: Rafael Bittencourt.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

That is $3,792 in 2020 dollars. A June 2020 study by the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program shows enrollments at regional public universities across six states — Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin — have fallen by over 10 percent since 2011. From 2005 to 2020, Vedder said, O.U. For everyone.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 20, 2024

The interest of the country is awakened and … the government responds.” Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings, in America? April 2020. Scene On Radio.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 24, 2023

Browne, who opened Kidz with Goals Unlimited, LLC, in early 2020, was hit hard by the pandemic. The federal pandemic stabilization funds provided a rare infusion of operating money, a move reminiscent of when the federal government briefly funded child care to support working parents during World War II.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Just past the rusty roof of the building across the road, we could see the top of Regjeringskvartalet, a cluster of government offices, the target of that car bomb. All kindergartens are governed by the same framework and requirements, designed to protect the sanctity of the early years. In 2020, UNICEF ranked Norway No.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Sixteen of them have closed just since 2020. Megan Hickerson: And I knew the humanities, because the humanities are always under attack these days, right? Rural voters are convinced that their communities get less government spending than they deserve. So let’s circle back to government professor Nick Jacobs.

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ED Surge

JULY 22, 2022

Sarah Glynn Women in Construction is the kind of program that leaders in the federal government say can help more women succeed in registered apprenticeships—and then break into better-paying fields. There is broad recognition that we are leaving a lot of talent on the table when we exclude women from certain occupations.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2021

Despite recent talk of debt relief and free college, little government help has been forthcoming, especially for working adults. With the government mostly out of the picture, employers set aside tens of billions each year for tuition benefits programs, supposedly with the hope of building the skilled workforce they need.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

A 2020 report from UCLA’s Center for the Transformation of Schools, funded in part by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, found that several indicators of educational distress — including suspensions and absenteeism rates — are, on average, worse for Black, American Indian, Pacific Islander, and multiracial students experiencing homelessness. (The

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ED Surge

JULY 28, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), not from the tribes themselves. There are a handful of government offices—like the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the Interior Department and HHS—that would need to collaborate on the issue, Smith says. Take the actual dollar amounts received by tribes in 2020.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

As part of this work, we are interviewing workers, employers, adult education and workforce training providers, higher education institutions, government representatives, and nonprofit leaders.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Related: COLUMN: Support for charters in 2020 elections comes at a price. Wise governments reward families who strive to propel their children. And charter educators teach us about the importance of human scale, attracting caring teachers, respecting — and expecting much from — all students. public education.

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Political Science Now

JULY 5, 2024

Social psychologist Shalom Schwartz, for example, posits ten basic human values. or “less or more government?”) In other work, he explores the implications of far-right parties in government. He holds an MA from Duke University, where he was a Fulbright Graduate Student (2018-2020). less or more equality?”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2023

Gavin Newsom, whose administration launched the program, has called it a way “to restore the social contract between government and its citizens,” one “that says if you work hard and dedicate yourself in service to others, you will be rewarded with opportunity.” That didn’t happen.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 30, 2024

million dollar Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) (2020-2023 and 2023-2026). million dollars in 2021; and serving as the co-Principal Investigator on the National Science Foundation (NSF) $1.4

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Besides the 26 percent of Alamosa students who are already chronically absent, Burnett’s data show that another 27 percent are considered at risk of becoming so. Missing that much school — roughly two days per month — hurts a student’s chances of reading on grade level, passing classes and graduating.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Standardized testing has constrained teacher autonomy and creativity, and charter and private schools have competed more aggressively for government funds. He called it his “20 x 2020” plan. The strikes are thus partly about reclaiming a sense of professional pride and middle-class stature. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

After decades of demands that this be fixed, a new report from the Government Accountability Office finds that students who transfer among colleges and universities still lose more than 40 percent of the credits they’ve already earned and paid for. .” ” He managed to finish the rest of his degree in three semesters.

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Teaching American History

JULY 9, 2024

Ohio House members from both sides of the aisle took turns reading the Declaration from its opening, “When in the course of human events,” through its closing pledge of “our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor,” along with the names of its signatories. The reading typifies Brennan’s creative approach to public service.

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