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But it was traumatic when, in Fall 2021, they figured out it had happened. According to Tameka, staff visited her in Spring 2021 after receiving calls from the school complaining her children were not attending online classes. The social workers interviewed the children, inspected their home and looked for signs of neglect and abuse.

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DECEMBER 28, 2022

But after the episode at the hospital, the threat assessment team determined that AJ was an ongoing safety threat due to a history of “concerning behaviors,” according to the state investigation, which was prompted by a complaint Richmond filed with the Colorado Department of Education. The district decided to ban him from in-person classes.

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JULY 13, 2021

At the beginning of 2021, The Hechinger Report’s members (individual readers who donated money to our nonprofit news organization) asked us if we would report on the best practices for helping the nation’s public school system recover from the pandemic. Your stories. When given the opportunity, then they will succeed.

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million dollars in 2021; and serving as the co-Principal Investigator on the National Science Foundation (NSF) $1.4 million dollars in 2021; and serving as the co-Principal Investigator on the National Science Foundation (NSF) $1.4 Mealy brings a wealth of organizational experience and expertise to the position. Dr. Kimberly A.

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He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Bachelor of Arts in History from the historic Tuskegee University. In 2021, Dr. Lewis was honored with a Missouri State Resolution “for service in higher education” from the Missouri House of Representatives, Resolution No. 254, Adopted February 17, 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2022

The Schenectady district fortified its five-year-old diversion program in 2021 when it started to see more students, even those in middle school, landing in long-term suspension because of post-pandemic behavior problems after they returned to in-person learning.

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JULY 18, 2023

This story also appeared in Oregon Public Broadcasting Hall — who graduated in 2021 with a doctorate in linguistics from the University of Oregon — is the language coordinator for the Coquille Indian Tribe. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history. We need those to sustain ourselves as students.”

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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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JULY 7, 2019

Shell weaves in discussions of history, ethics and ecology. We’ve talked about the history of the Mars Rover and space exploration and debated how much freedom a robot should have,” Shell said. 50 million — The price tag for a Center for Advanced Studies that will open in the Charleston County School District in South Carolina in 2021.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Although the majority of educator-preparation programs saw no or relatively small enrollment changes in fall of 2020 and fall of 2021, 20 percent of institutions saw a decline in new undergrad enrollment that exceeded 10 percent, according to survey data from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

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Doing so also offers valuable resources that can be used to help bring history to life. Many cultural centers curate history, geography, and civic exhibits that connect the past with the present. My intent as an UGRR participant was to stretch my local history knowledge and to sharpen my historical-geographical thinking skills.

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JANUARY 15, 2024

For the past three summers, teachers rallied across the country to speak out against anti-history education bills and to make public their pledge to teach the truth. The teacher-led rallies received national media attention, providing a valuable counter narrative to the oversized coverage of the well-funded anti-CRT movement. In Florida, Gov.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Experts — and history — suggest that school districts need much more than what federal and state governments have provided so far. White students could lose four to eight months of learning by June 2021, and students of color could lose six to 12 months, according to a McKinsey & Company report published in December.

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APRIL 7, 2024

A client might meet with the collegiate recovery program coordinator, for example, to receive counseling about which career paths might be a good fit and which ones might present obstacles due to the client’s history with addiction and the legal system. But this college, this club, has given me hope for the future — I know that there is one.”

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JUNE 2, 2023

People from those cultures have nuanced histories, perspectives, and experiences in the U.S. For example, NCES reported that in 2021, Asian students earned 13.6 The Making of Asian America: A History." and in its schools. percent of STEM undergraduate and 17.4 percent of STEM master’s degrees.[i] iii] Lee, Erika, 2016.

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They created the entry on Settler colonialism in Canada , describing the important history of the displacement and mistreatment of Canada’s indigenous populations by European settlers. The deadline to apply for Wiki Education’s free support in Spring 2022 is November 21, 2021. Helaine has a Ph.D.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

It was his dream, and he began teaching the course a couple years before debates about teaching Black history and critical race theory swept the nation. ” 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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APRIL 21, 2023

Aid from the most recent of the COVID-19 aid programs – the American Rescue Plan passed in 2021 – likely prevented 75,000 centers from permanently closing and preserved 3 million child care slots, according to researchers at The Century Foundation, a think tank.

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JUNE 8, 2023

who are undocumented but are able to work thanks to DACA protection, granted before the policy entered legal limbo most recently in 2021. Stuck in Limbo In a recently released report , immigration advocacy organization FWD.us Indeed, it seems like an essential part of their advocacy.

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DECEMBER 3, 2019

Because we had that history, because we knew what a well-functioning higher education system could do, we aspire to that again.”. We have a long history of not catering to these populations,” Mora said. Texas will also require this, beginning in 2021-22. Among UC students, they take on higher-than-average levels of debt. “We

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DECEMBER 9, 2022

During the 2021 legislative session, there were over 50 bills introduced targeting transgender youth participation in sports as well as bans on gender-affirming healthcare. In May 2021, at the peak of the debate over Texas’s HB 25 , calls from the state to the national Transgender Lifeline Crisis Center increased 71.6 State officials.

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DECEMBER 17, 2023

Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report Following Meryl’s death, Ketron decided to continue her daughter’s advocacy. Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report Across the country, the number of GSAs is at a 20-year low, according to GLSEN, an LGBTQ+ education advocacy nonprofit.

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MAY 23, 2022

Related: What do classroom conversations around race, identity and history really look like? In Texas, where the governor’s order is being challenged in court, Adrian Reyna, an eighth grade history teacher in San Antonio, said he won’t be “intimidated” into reporting his transgender students to state authorities.

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APRIL 24, 2024

Rockwood School District gets its web-filtering platform, ContentKeeper, from a company called Impero, which, in 2021, was reportedly used by over 300 school districts in the U.S. He offered no comment on the idea that blocking LGBTQ+ advocacy websites through the “sexual content” category is discriminatory.

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AUGUST 28, 2024

It is creating so much more work and chaos,” said Emma Grasso Levine, the Title IX policy and senior program manager at the advocacy group Know Your IX. In some cases, schools in the very same district are subject to different rules. “It Are we enforcing this rule or that rule?“

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JULY 16, 2024

Murray, Weber State University (Presenter) Allison Rank, SUNY, Oswego State Session Description: Democratic erosion in the United States—rendered vivid in the events of January 6, 2021—as well as the global decline of democratic regimes should push us to reflect on how we introduce politics to students.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2021

Despite this history, Brown, like many of his colleagues, said a bill requiring schools to provide suicide prevention education to students was legislative overreach. In November, 2020, Cossaboon and the Youth For Justice students started their advocacy in their home district before taking the issue to the legislature.

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JUNE 6, 2022

The city itself has had a scrappy commitment to existence in its 123-year history, surviving the boom and bust of the timber industry that first gave it life and weathering the 21st century with a fairly steady population of about 2,500. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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OCTOBER 23, 2023

In a nutshell, these programs exemplify meaningful, targeted investments in marginalized populations and represent a significant course reversal from much of United States history. In February 2021, Los Angeles approved a reform initiative known as the Black Student Achievement Plan. million for a 5,000-student district.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Adelyn Vigil, 13 poses for a photo before her birthday party on July 24, 2021 in Edinburg, Texas. Adelyn Vigil, 13 puts on makeup before her birthday party at her uncle’s home on July 24, 2021 in Edinburg, Texas. And in late July 2021, a federal judge temporarily halted the implementation of a trans student sports ban in West Virginia.

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APRIL 27, 2024

Barbara Mikulski, a Democrat from Maryland, worked with members of the child care advocacy community to draft bipartisan legislation that would, for the first time, establish national safety standards for child care. Three state ones, of the criminal history, sex offender and child abuse registries. She got to work. Burr and then-Sen.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

It hit us like a ton of bricks,” said Laura Foster, a local mother who helped create the progressive advocacy group the Ridge Network to fight the right-wing dominance of Pennridge’s schools. Also in 2021 came Pennridge’s first serious battles over diversity programs. Then there was the curriculum.

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Capitol in 2021. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the country’s collapse to the Taliban in 2021. As an anthropologist interested in warfare and its impact on human societies, I set out in 2021 to conduct a year of ethnographic research on gun activism and county militias in Virginia. We in the U.S.

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DECEMBER 2, 2024

The proposal would “help address the shortage of child care through smart removal of cost-­increasing red tape,” testified Elizabeth Patton, state director of Americans for Prosperity Kansas, a conservative advocacy group. In 2021, he wrote on X that “‘Universal day care’ is a class war against normal people.”

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