ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The legislation is the first of its kind in the states history, Day said. 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. It includes $26.25 Alabama has the flexibility to do so.

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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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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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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

million students calculated that in the spring of 2021 students in each grade scored three to six percentile points lower on a widely used test, the Measures of Academic Progress or MAP, than they did in 2019. Students in grades 3 through 8 slid 6 percentage points in reading on state tests in the spring of 2021 compared to 2019.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 11, 2024

Background on Juneteenth Here are key points from scholars Greg Carr, Christopher Wilson, and Clint Smith on the history beyond the traditional textbook narrative about Juneteenth. African American History Monument by Ed Dwight, State Capitol Grounds, Columbia, South Carolina. Source: Alamy.In The Brown v.

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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. By the spring of 2023, school districts had amassed more staff than at any time in history, the Edunomics Lab calculated. The third act was a pandemic-fueled “hiring bonanza.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

The failed attempt at college has left many in debt with marred credit histories and poor long-term employment prospects. A 2021 survey by the research firm Higher Ed Insight of more than a 1,000 returning students who were successful revealed a wide variety of things that helped them stick with their studies and complete their degrees.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

For example, the Clark County School District in Nevada has been spending more than $18 million per year on their school police department, and the federal government has given the district money for bulletproof vests. Many of us are in schools that feel like jails. Clark County is similar to many school districts across the country.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2021

A smaller servicer, Granite State Management & Resources, announced that it will not renew its government contract and will transfer its 1.3 The pause did little to change the high percentage of federal student loan borrowers in default — according to the College Board, 17 percent of borrowers as of 2021. million borrowers as well.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2021

I understand how the dysfunction of the federal government in the early stages of the pandemic crippled states and localities and their ability to respond. Would March 2021 look different from November 2020? I miss meeting kids from all over the city. Give us some leadership. Be transparent.

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Teaching American History

JULY 30, 2024

Little wonder that Dunn’s course in this year’s summer residential Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG ) program, “From Courthouse to Schoolhouse,” drew teachers from urban and rural areas across the country. West, “The Supreme Court as School Board Revisited.”

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Even if this decline doesn’t quite match the dire predictions of mass college closures that were popular in 2016, the recent history and near-term outlook for traditional higher ed is more negative than I imagined. And, the salary premium for advanced degrees remains high, meaning the degrees typically pay off.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Young people who exited the foster system before age 18, for example, typically don’t qualify for extended services, including a government program that gives housing support through age 24. During the 2021-22 academic year, eight CSU campuses referred students and funneled about $5.2 But holes remain.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

The group purposefully uses language to help the public understand that drugs belong to one of two categories: those that are approved for consumption by a government agency and those that are not. Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History. Consider the NHRC’s use of the phrase “licit and illicit” in principle 1.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Southeast Asia’s Ancient Cultural Heritage Beyond East Timor and Sulawesi, Australia holds some of the oldest continuous cultural heritage sites globally, reflecting its Indigenous populations' long history. Archaeological evidence in Australia dates back at least 60,000 years, highlighting the ancient roots of Aboriginal cultures.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Mateo Vela, 2021 graduate of CU-Boulder. percent of its first-time undergraduates in fall 2021. percent from 2011 to 2021. The university announced plans in May 2021 to invest $25 million over five years in diversity. Related: Why aren’t flagship universities enrolling more of their states’ Black students?

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

In the wake of the Atlanta Spa shootings and a surge in violence against Asian Americans throughout the pandemic, Illinois made history by becoming the first state to mandate that Asian American history be taught in public K-12 schools beginning in the 2022-23 school year. Let’s get them to recognize there is an absence.”

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Political Science Now

JULY 30, 2024

Since 1997, he has been associated with the University of California, Berkeley, where he has chaired the Department of Political Science and served as co-director of the Institute of Government Studies. Of particular note is his interest in exploring political history and American political development through the lens of the Congress.

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ED Surge

APRIL 20, 2022

And that has implications for higher ed providers trying to promote non-degree programs as a way for people to get ahead in the workforce , as well as for government officials considering how to hold job-training programs accountable for student outcomes. For a job seeker, impressing an HR manager or a potential supervisor matters a lot.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

She drives over an hour each way to teach world history at LaGrange High School in Lake Charles. Residents say the federal government has been slow to respond, and with so much rental housing destroyed , housing options are limited. “You could look up and see the sky,” she said. This story also appeared in Southerly.

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The Hechinger Report

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. That’s because the U.S.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In Black hair, we find art, creativity, history and connection. According to a 2021 research study by Dove, 53 percent of Black mothers revealed that their daughters experienced racial discrimination because of their hair — some as young as five years old. From the time I was a child, social norms governed my hair.

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The Hechinger Report

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. Advocates wonder why the federal government hasn’t stepped in to quash the practice entirely.

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The Hechinger Report

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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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 6, 2024

The goal is to raise awareness about how anti-history education laws and book bans — and their chilling effect — threaten any chance of an informed and engaged democracy. This was 2021, and Iowa had just passed its history censorship law. Here are highlights from the remarks. Why should we all be alarmed?

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Political Science Now

JANUARY 24, 2024

Nau III Assistant Professor of the History and Principles of Democracy at the University of Virginia. The research for this project won the 2020 APSA Best Fieldwork Award and the 2021 Juan Linz Prize for Best Dissertation in the Comparative Study of Democracy.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 30, 2024

million dollars in 2021; and serving as the co-Principal Investigator on the National Science Foundation (NSF) $1.4 million dollar Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) (2020-2023 and 2023-2026). Dr. Kimberly A. Mealy’s biography and LinkedIn profile are available upon request.

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Geogramblings

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Following a strong collective youth voice at COP26 , climate and sustainability education have become more prominent on governments’ agendas. Soon after COP26, the Scottish Government announced plans to update and strengthen its Sustainability Action Plan , designed to implement its flagship Learning for Sustainability policy.

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ED Surge

JULY 13, 2023

In 2021, recognizing the urgency of the situation, Congress stepped in and issued $52 billion in grants , primarily through the American Rescue Plan, to stabilize the industry. The child care sector was already fragile when the pandemic struck, causing immense damage.

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Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Official measures of multiple deprivation in each of the four nations of the UK are used to allocate billions of pounds of government money. This is important because their impacts are likely to be a partly a function of the deprivation history of an area (e.g.,

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Teaching American History has recently published World War I and the 1920s: Core Documents , a collection curated by Professor Jennifer D. Keene , Professor of History and Dean of the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Chapman University. appeared first on Teaching American History.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Adler, who has taught at the school for 40 years, sees the proficiency-based education mandate from the state as another foolish idea to come down from a state government that doesn’t understand or respect teachers. Each of Maine’s 124 high schools is required to offer such diplomas to the Class of 2021, next fall’s ninth graders.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 17, 2024

His history of political thought in twentieth-century Europe, Contesting Democracy, was published by Yale University Press in the summer of 2011. 2021 saw the publication of Democracy Rules by FSG in the US and Penguin in the UK. He is also an affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science where his office is located.

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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. “Students beat themselves up about this. They blame themselves.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 30, 2024

This blog post, written by faculty member Sarah Morgan Smith , was first posted on January 19, 2021. The first Presidential inauguration in American history entailed careful planning, with much behind-the-scenes negotiation. The minds of men are still heated: everything related to that species of government is odious to the people.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2021

One of the big issues is that we don’t believe everything the government and doctors tell us — we’ve learned our lesson throughout history.”. Student drummers Abdiel Snelling (front) and Andrew Cardoso (back) maintain social distancing during band class at West Middle School on April 28, 2021, in Brockton, Massachusetts.

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