ED Surge

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The idea to create a better statewide platform to aid families in finding care came out of recommendations released in fall 2021 from a task force created by Iowa Gov. These systems could also, Smigielski points out, help state leaders make an argument to the federal government that they need more funding.

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Teaching American History

MAY 7, 2024

Recently I emailed a question to teacher friends who are graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program. How do you teach students about the challenge of preserving self-government?” I asked them, “What have you learned about the challenge of preserving self-government? I’m Madisyn,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

And the states extremely decentralized school governance system has hampered haphazard efforts to get the services into schools. In 2021, 23 states were spending less on pre-ETS than the 15 percent required by law. New Jersey officials acknowledge that theres a problem.

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Teaching American History

MAY 7, 2024

Recently I emailed a question to teacher friends who are graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program. How do you teach students about the challenge of preserving self-government?” I asked them, “What have you learned about the challenge of preserving self-government? I’m Madisyn,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2025

Countries building out early childhood systems and investing more Although global investment in early childhood is not at the levels experts would hope for, many are heartened by a few government-led efforts to inject more funding and strengthen standards. And in Austria , the government recently committed to provide more than 4.5

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2025

The solution, one that has strong bipartisan support, is as prominent as John Hancocks signature: a generational investment in teaching students how the government works. When it comes to civics, the federal government usually plays a limited role, reasonably restricted from imposing a national curriculum.

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The Effortful Educator

MARCH 2, 2025

The two end up sharing a flat in London and working to solve crimes for the British police and government, monarchs, aristocrats, and others. For those of you who may not know, Sherlock has a knack for seeing what others dont see and stringing together seemingly meaningless clues to solve crimes. His sidekick of sorts is a Dr. Watson.

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TCI

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

State Evaluations Reveal Gaps in Civics Education In 2021, The Thomas B. Responding to these concerns, the federal government increased funding for K-12 civics and history education funding from $7.75 Fordham Institute evaluated the state-of-state standards for civics and history across all fifty states.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

To better understand roti through both the personal and the political, I created the Roti Collective in 2021. In a 16th-century Ain-i-Akbari report on Mughal Emperor Akbars government, an author refers to roti explicitly , explaining that the dish made with flour, milk, ghee, and salt tastes very well, when served hot.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In 2021, Canada’s leaders committed $30 billion (about $24 billion in U.S. Having women in positions of power — including Chrystia Freeland, the nation’s first female minister of finance — was crucial to ushering the proposed program through Parliament in 2021, experts say, despite continued opposition from some conservative lawmakers.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

18, 2021, in Brunswick, Maine. The American Rescue Plan in March 2021 created the $7.2 billion Emergency Broadband Benefit is part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, which provides broadband subsidies for individuals and families. Due to supply chain delays, the district finished distributing devices in January 2021.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2025

When I began my classroom career in 2021, I expected my school would embody the same tech-forward identity I observed at the district level. During the pandemic, our district embodied this tech-forward identity by providing Chromebooks and hotspots for all students to go fully remote for an entire academic year of virtual learning.

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World History Teachers Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

In May 2021, the German government acknowledged what happened in Namibia was genocide and agreed to pay the Namibian government 1.1 In a fascinating essay for Al Jazeera, Hamilton Wende, author and journalist based in Johannesburg, outlines this first holocaust in an essay called "Our Auschwitz, our Dachau."

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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. Source: “Nudging at scale: Experimental evidence from FAFSA completion campaigns,” March 2021 issue of Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

They were notified that there was a spot for them in a nearby child care center that had recently signed on to a government-led initiative to lower parent fees to just $10 a day. In 2021, the country’s leaders committed $30 billion (about $24 billion in U.S. Then, in September 2022, the family experienced a dramatic shift in fortune.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Over the past few months, district and charter leaders from 11 districts participating in Digital Promise’s Data Ready 2021 cohort have created actionable data interoperability implementation plans centered on a high-need use case anchored in secure data use, data management, and data integration.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 16, 2025

But the way those lands were used—how they were divided, worked, and governed—did more than sustain life. When Governance Intervened—Or Failed To The story isn’t one of inevitability. We found that governance mattered," noted archaeologist Helena Hamerow. Nature , 551(7682), 619–622.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2022

Public two-year community colleges achieved a new budgetary milestone in fiscal year 2021 as they reaped 6 percent more money per student from state and local governments than public four-year institutions did for their regular operating expenses: $9,347 versus $8,859 for each student. College is optional. percent that year.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

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. After finishing the roughly seven-month-long program and passing her certification exam in late 2021, she found that no one would hire her. On paper, she would count as a win for MedCerts.

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ED Surge

JULY 31, 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic’s forced experiment in emergency remote instruction prompted more colleges to seek support from outside companies like 2U to create more-permanent online learning options, argued Robert Ubell, vice dean emeritus of online learning at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering, in 2021 in a column for EdSurge.

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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. Not financially—edtech funding is down from 2021 to 2022 —but geographically.

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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. Nicholas Scotti was elected in 2021, at age 19, to the Nutley Board of Education in New Jersey.

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ED Surge

APRIL 20, 2023

Government Accountability Office. That shot up to 50 percent at the beginning of the 2021-22 school year, when many districts were still giving remote instruction. That surged to a whopping 64 percent at the start of the 2021-22 school year, though it fell to 61 percent in fall 2022. Data visualization by Nadia Tamez-Robledo.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

That triggered a series of financial setbacks and, by October 2021, she owed more than $10,000 in back rent. Once a school identifies a student as homeless, the federal government requires districts to pay to transport the student to their preferred school, regardless of cost or distance.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2022

Goldhaber estimates that in a school with 1,000 students, there was half an unfilled vacancy, on average, in the fall of 2021 – the most recent data he has analyzed. The script suddenly flipped during the 2021-22 school year as the federal government sent pandemic recovery funds to schools. Indeed, the U.S.

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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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APSA Educate

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

u) Active learning is an important component of classrooms as it helps students reinforce information after listening to a professor’s lecture (Lang 2021). By Elizabeth Dorssom (DorssomE@lincolnu.ed

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2021

(Source: Map is Panel A, Figure 1 in The Effect of Teacher Evaluation on Achievement and Attainment: Evidence from Statewide Reforms , December 2021 EdWorking paper at the Annenberg Institute at Brown University). One of the most controversial and largest education reforms of the Obama era was an effort to improve teacher quality.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The telemedicine program was launched in fall 2021 by Guilford County Public Schools, North Carolina’s third largest school district, as a way to combat chronic absenteeism. If they’re feeling sick, they can walk in to the school’s health clinic, log on to a computer, and connect with a pediatrician or a family medicine provider.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

The average college student spent $339 on course materials in the 2021-2022 academic year, or about $38 per course, according to an annual student spending survey from the National Association of College Stores , a foundation that collects information about retail in higher ed. In part, students are using more free content.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

State match to local investments A partnership between local and state governments with revenue from sin taxes like those on gambling is expanding access to child care for those who need the most help. About 13% of children who qualified for assistance were accessing the program in 2021. Alabama has the flexibility to do so.

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Political Science Now

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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Teacher BrieAnne Stout (center) guides students through a closing circle during a forest school session in Tijeras, New Mexico on February 3, 2021. Sally Anderson, the director of Sol Forest School, collects acorns with Aldo Stearnes, 3, in early 2021. Credit: Adria Malcolm for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Without it, kids can’t attend virtual classes or complete homework at home, and families can miss out on critical healthcare or government services. We’ve seen the federal government step up and say, ‘You know what, we need to pay for that.’”. percent of eligible Americans were enrolled in the federal EBB initiative as of October 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2021

That’s actually slightly lower than the percentage of mothers with school-age children who were not working as of January 2021, according to the United States Census Bureau.). Yet these employment changes have hit moms of young children hard, the RAPID-EC survey data found. Some experts say that’s why more support is needed for parents.

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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 Summer Youth Employment Program alone will employ 75,000 young people in 2021. Champions of work-based learning have emerged in business, city government and the school and college systems.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Yet the reality is that government funding decisions about education have long been a way to install and preserve racial inequality in our society. And since these inequalities have origins in funding malpractice, to remedy them, the government must use targeted funding for racial equity going forward.

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