The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Since 2020, Native student enrollment in computer science courses has declined at most two-year and four-year institutions, she said, even as more students overall have received degrees in the subject. Correction: This sentence has been updated with the correct version of Sealaska Heritage Institute’s name.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 27, 2025

For example, when Adobe announced the end of Flash in 2020, a group of volunteers worked to archive thousands of Flash-based animations, games, and interactive projects pieces of internet history that would have otherwise been lost.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2020

The 18-year-old senior at Heritage High School, in Menifee, California, had just been accepted to her dream school, University of California, San Diego, and wanted to visit that campus and a few others before deciding where to spend the next four years. Photo: Gissel Cardenas. But not all school districts are able to provide technology.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

And — since the 2020 national reckonings about racial injustice, the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and ongoing debates about critical race theory — how can we reimagine the U.S. What stereotypes and misperceptions still abound? Even more importantly: How can policies and education help improve our status in the U.S.?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2021

In total, 137 Montana schools — 65 percent of which were classified as rural — employed unlicensed teachers during the 2020-21 school year. But word came back in spring 2020 that her paperwork was incomplete. The school was going to take a hit because of something that was out of our control.”

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

A participant at a Black Lives Matter protest in Las Vegas on May 30, 2020. We talked with folks who strongly identify with their heritage ancestry, language and culture and others who navigate the complex nuances of diasporic reality. Photo by RYO Alexandre / Shutterstock.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I learned truths about European imperialism and the humanness before slavery — how colonists from all over Europe stuck their flagpoles into African soils, controlling nations and influencing heritage for centuries. I learned how the absence of so many Igbo and Yoruba people felt for some growing up in West Africa under European reign.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

. * * * My most recent connection with a cultural center occurred over a year ago when BSC social studies teacher candidates worked with the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center (UGRR) during an informal service-learning project. Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center. Image via Step Out Buffalo.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

And yet the immigrant experience is still an unusual one in Iowa — a state that holds enormous sway over the 2020 election but looks quite unlike the rest of the U.S. No matter where you go, you see people from all different cultures and heritages.”. Another 23 Sioux City seniors are set to earn the honor in the spring of 2020.

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Studies Weekly

JULY 9, 2024

Many kindergarten and first-grade students missed out on crucial language learning during 2020 and 2021. Students across the country are falling more than one grade level behind where their reading scores should be. March 15, 2024 The post The Nationwide Reading Struggle first appeared on Studies Weekly.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 28, 2024

Educator’s Guide to Improving Student Attendance May 28, 2024 • By Studies Weekly Education in the United States has changed since the 2020 pandemic and still faces many lingering challenges due to the shutdown. One of the most pervasive issues is chronic student absenteeism.

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MPSA

JUNE 11, 2021

They’ve also tackled subjects on a more national scale, such as the 2020 United States Census. Canadian students improved the articles on the Department of Canadian Heritage as well as Open data in Canada. Students have improved topics ranging from the Constitution of Tennessee to the Idaho Military Department.

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Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Herrington honored his heritage by carrying six eagle feathers, a braid of sweet grass, two arrowheads, and the Chickasaw Nation’s flag into space. 2, 2020, for AIP.org. In 2002, Herrington was selected as a mission specialist for STS-113, the 16th Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 27, 2024

I’ve invited three exceptional librarians to share their expertise and recommendations in curating more inclusive collections: Julia Torres currently serves as a public librarian in Colorado and was named as a 2020 Library Journal Mover and Shaker. He has clinical depression.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

As one of the centennial issue’s authors notes, "Too often, African paleoanthropological heritage is the domain of international teams 4 , with little meaningful collaboration from local African researchers." The Taung Child changed our understanding of human evolution. American Journal of Physical Anthropology , 28 (S6), 1–52.

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Sapiens

MARCH 19, 2024

THE FOREST-SHROUDED ESTATE On an island 300 kilometers west of mainland Africa, in 2020, our small team began down a barely visible path flanked by shoulder-high, shimmering capim grass. While most African countries have defined guidelines for obtaining research permits and heritage is closely legislated, São Tomé lacks pertinent regulations.

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Sapiens

APRIL 16, 2024

But in 2020—for the first time since polls began tracking people’s views on evolution—a majority in the U.S. Pseudoarchaeology robs Indigenous peoples of their heritage. A decade ago, science communicator Bill Nye publicly debated creationist Ken Ham. Some pundits called it a mistake.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2024

The local tribal artist who designed the murals also added a portrait of a young man the tribes lost to suicide in 2020. Some callers don’t have an Indigenous mode of self-care they rely on, Hamilton said, so counselors will urge them to find one as a way to reconnect with their heritage.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2024

But in 2020, when a growing number of children stopped showing up for schooltime classes during the pandemic, ourBRIDGE decided to expand its focus. Before 2020, the school attendance rate for English language learners across the country was high. In many schools, these students were more likely to show up to class than other groups.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2023

“There’s very little high-quality evidence, and no comparable mammalian example, to argue for the specialness of cow’s milk” after about age 2, Aaron Carroll, a professor of pediatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine, wrote in a 2020 New York Times article. In the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2020

Now, district officials are trying to regroup for the 2020-21 academic year amid a global pandemic and financial crisis that threatens to outmaneuver even the most well-thought-out school reopening plans. 20 percent — Percentage of residents out of work in Holmes County, Mississippi.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The matter became international news in 2020 when a group of scientists reported several red and blue polyester strings more than five miles above sea level near Mount Everest’s peak. Local communities fret about bunched-up prayer flags stuck in glaciers and rivers that are already threatened by climate change.

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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. We often use catch-all acronyms and shorthand like “POC,” “BIPOC,” and “Black and brown people” to describe experiences of discrimination and oppression of people in the U.S. who are not white.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2020, when the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others rocked the nation, they joined the nation’s Black Lives Matter movement and led a protest march in downtown Helena. My former students have answered that question in myriad ways.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Starting in 2020, the office began putting together educator guides out of “a real and immediate need” to address political events, school shootings, hate crimes and various heritage months, as topics within the classroom, she said. Her staff reaches out to community groups and others for their input.

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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. Russellville’s Hispanic population has grown from close to zero in the late 1980s to nearly 40 percent in 2020. When the poultry processing plant opened in 1989, the Hispanic population was about 0.5 So from then on, Grimes was marked,” the resident told me.

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Sapiens

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The region had, and still has, a rich cultural heritage: For instance, today eight Native languages are spoken in FSM alone. In late 2020, Netflix released Operation Christmas Drop , a holiday love story with Guams breathtaking beaches as backdrops. Spanish explorers started establishing outposts in Micronesia five centuries ago.

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Life and Landscapes

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

© 2020 Ronald R. For this essay, I will focus on a 40-year period, from 1980 until 2020. (4). The years 1980 through 2020. 17) So here follows a discussion of the history of environmental protection in Kentucky between 1980 and 2020, highlighting some of the interesting people responsible for its application. By Ronald R.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2021

BROWNSVILLE, Texas — On a chilly morning just before Valentine’s Day 2020, Viviana Longoria, 16, joined the stream of girls getting off the bus at Lincoln Park School, infant bucket seats in tow. Ríos, the school’s librarian, holds a paper flower made by students for a Mexican heritage celebration. Lee en Español.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2025

Project 2025, the conservative policy handbook organized by the Heritage Foundation, which the Trump administration has been following closely, calls for eliminating Head Start altogether. The program has always been underfunded: In 2020 Head Start served barely one in ten eligible infants and toddlers and only half of eligible preschoolers.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

In August 2020, the federal court issued a mixed decision. In 2016, the right-wing Heritage Foundation proposed turning the BIE into an education savings account, or ESA, which would grant families a portion of their childs per-pupil funding to spend on private school tuition, home-school supplies and other educational expenses.

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Diane Ravitch

JULY 16, 2024

John Thompson writes: KOSU’s Beth Wallace reports that the Executive Review Committee assembled by Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters features prominent conservatives, including Dennis Prager of PragerU , David Barton of the Christian Nationalist organization, Wallbuilders , and the president of the Heritage Foundation , Kevin Roberts.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Educators encourage students to share their personal stories as a way to feel proud of their heritage, recognize how strong they are and process trauma. He was just settling into a routine at school when he learned gangs had murdered his other brother. “We We were three. Now it’s only me,” he said. A whiteboard in a classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2021

23, Amia was teaching a lesson on Hispanic Heritage Month when news broke that the panel had decided not to charge the detectives with Taylor’s death , though one former officer was charged with wanton endangerment for allegedly firing blindly into a neighboring apartment. On the afternoon of Sept. Maybe, if I was able to see him,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2024

With the former president and his allies still denying that he lost the 2020 election, with Trump and his running mate embracing unfounded stories about Haitian immigrants eating household pets and with Trump’s obsession with the size of his cheering crowds , any analytical projection about his future agenda is all but impossible.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

But the reason extremist organizations successfully recruit among the disenchanted is not because of a shared, unchanging cultural heritage among their members. Supporters of the Virginia Citizens Defense League met at the Freedom Shooting Center in Virginia Beach in 2020 to plan upcoming political actions.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

In 2018 he proposed cuts to the Child Care and Development Block Grant, a federal program that helps low-income families pay for child care, but ultimately approved funding increases passed by Congress in both 2018 and 2020. During a speech in June 2020, Trump called school choice the “civil rights statement of the year.”

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