The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Researchers at the Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center at Vanderbilt University say that, over the past year, a small but growing number of states have adopted some — or all—of the five policies the Impact Center says are proven to increase infant, toddler, and family well-being.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2023

Related: To attract more students to STEM fields in college, advocates urge starting in sixth grade Number two: Youth ambassador opportunities that develop leadership and advocacy skills. Related: Researchers looked at how early STEM stereotypes begin for kids. In our own STEM journeys, we learned what it feels like to be the “only.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2023

This movement came after decades of structured, organized advocacy , much of which started after the commission’s report. Canadian labor groups have also supported the efforts , something that has recently become a more prominent strategy in the United States, especially after efforts to pass child care legislation faltered in 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

The researchers begrudged the lack of attention math gets in schools compared to reading, but suddenly their rival discipline – reading – was providing a role model for action. This time, in math, special education researchers are taking the lead. They launched a website , an advocacy group and an auxiliary group for teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2024

The number of college-educated women in the workforce has now overtaken the number of college-educated men, according to the Pew Research Center. Women who go to college are also 7 percentage points more likely than men to graduate , the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center reports. Szoo has plans to get a Ph.D.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2022

This is likely due to several factors: increasing involvement from parents as schools moved online; advocacy from groups like Decoding Dyslexia; social media conversations and coverage in the popular press; and a push by state legislatures toward improving our nation’s stagnant and dismal reading scores.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

“The average amount of tuition is going to be more than the actual voucher, not to mention transportation and uniform costs,” said Nik Nartowicz, state policy counsel for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a legal advocacy group. Hungerman’s own research, conducted in partnership with an economist at the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2024

Through the local advocacy of several organizations, the community will have nine Spanish-speaking providers by this summer — including Aguilera. So we see this sort of segregation going on,” said Julia Mendez, a researcher for the center. I’m looking for another opportunity.’”

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ED Surge

AUGUST 12, 2022

This week, the Aspen Institute announced its 2022 Ascend fellows, a cohort of 22 individuals hailing from a range of disciplines including medicine, research, entrepreneurship, government and policy, and nonprofit leadership and advocacy. A lot of people talk about the issue of hiring. It’s not an issue. It’s not an issue.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

In April 2022, Natalie was selected as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. Her work also aims to advance understanding and advocacy for tribal sovereignty rights. She is a proud tribal member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa tribal nation. Read about the funded projects.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2024

About 23 percent of Latino adults between the ages of 25 and 29 have a bachelor’s degree, compared to 45 percent of their white peers, according to a 2022 Pew Research Center report. It has six campuses in Michigan along with its online program.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2024

Researchers argue that many students like these are still meaningfully less advantaged compared to students who have two parents with degrees. New research from Common App shows that expanding the definition of first-generation expands enrollment data, and thus can tell a different story about who is ready for college.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 27, 2023

This workshop is part of a tech ambassador program, which builds technology advocacy across the district. Fast forward to September 2022, and I am finalizing modules on Canvas, our learning management system, to continue to deliver the same quality professional learning, but in an entirely different format.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2021

students in July 2022, when the Emergency Connectivity Fund expires – with no concrete plan to extend it. There’s plenty of data showing that student performance has been negatively impacted [by the pandemic],” said Phillip Lovell, associate executive director at the education advocacy nonprofit, All4Ed. Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2024

The research firm Mathematica found that, by the end of 2022, the program’s initial payments had increased child care employment levels in Washington by about 100 additional educators, or 3 percent. Early data suggests that the pay equity program has helped the city hire, recruit and retain child care employees.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The research team at Rapid-EC , an early childhood and family well-being survey launched in April 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, led by Dr. Phil Fisher at the University of Oregon, has tracked child well-being weekly since the onset of the pandemic. There are many more since the arrival of COVID-19.

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ED Surge

MAY 30, 2024

The grant money comes from the CHIPS and Science Act, which passed in 2022 and includes $50 billion to expand semiconductor manufacturing and research in the United States. New York in 2022 passed the Green CHIPS Act, which provides tax incentives for companies to expand semiconductor manufacturing there.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 9, 2022

Bringing together more than 100 organizations across the fields of disability advocacy, special education, civil rights and K-12 nonprofits, the Educating All Learners Alliance (EALA) is one such network formed to ensure equity and support for students with disabilities and learning differences across education environments. percent to 22.5

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Researchers characterized this subset of students as “non-submitters.” “Non-submitters” It’s one relevant to past research about barriers preventing students from enrolling in college, said Taylor Odle, an assistant professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and co-author of the “non-submitters” study.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report Last year, New Orleans added more than 1,000 child care seats for children from low-income families after voters approved a historic property tax increase in 2022. The referendum raised the budget of the program seven-fold — from $3 million to $21 million a year for 20 years.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2024

Credit: The Baltimore Banner James Murphy, the director of postsecondary policy at the advocacy group Education Reform, said he expects legacy admission preferences to disappear through a combination of legislation, like Maryland’s bill, and institutions voluntarily dropping the practice. Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Then, in September 2022, the family experienced a dramatic shift in fortune. The new Canada-wide system was “very much situated in the context of economic recovery,” said Morna Ballantyne, executive director of Child Care Now, an advocacy association in Canada. Related: The child care crisis is reaching crisis proportions nationally.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

Now, a new annual report about attitudes toward Asian Americans from the advocacy organization LAAUNCH has provided some disturbing answers to some of these questions. As an Asian American, my lived experience and this research make me firmly believe that we must do a better job of teaching Asian American history and culture in the U.S. —

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Political Science Now

APRIL 22, 2025

His diverse experience bridges policy, education, and advocacy, reflecting his commitment to academic excellence and civic engagement. Her research interests include municipal election reforms, the structure of local electoral management bodies, and teaching and learning in political science. Department of Agriculture and the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Ary Amerikaner, vice president for P-12 policy, practice and research at The Education Trust, which fights for more equitable spending in schools, has long sought to draw attention to the variation in per-student spending within school districts. Related: A decade of research on the rich-poor divide in education. That’s a problem.

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ED Surge

MAY 18, 2022

Earlier this month, as thousands of early childhood educators and advocates gathered in Baltimore for the 2022 National Head Start Annual Conference, attendees exchanged first-hand accounts and anecdotes from the field, sharing what the last couple of years have been like for them and what it’s like right now.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

We know that these obstacles exist, and we haven’t addressed them,” said Wil Del Pilar, vice president for higher education policy, practice and research at the Education Trust, a nonprofit organization that focuses on helping students of color and low-income students. The odds for Hare now appear good.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Some research supports this view, but there’s no evidence to date that use of the protocols prevents school shootings. Research in Virginia and Colorado by academics, including Cornell, suggests complaints like those lodged by Colorado parents likely aren’t isolated cases.

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Recent world migration reports note that, by the end of 2022, the total number of refugees was the highest ever recorded with modern statistical techniques. Moli also took careful notes on participants’ contributions, which were later developed into a manual that blended community perspectives with recent research on translanguaging pedagogy.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Louis, in the spring of 2022. After a fight broke out involving two of her children and other classmates in October 2022, Crawford and her lawyers say all five of her kids were placed on virtual learning. A single mom, Crawford left her longtime home of Memphis to get her family away from gun violence near their home.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

It's not anything that we've really done research on, so I wouldn't even be able to speculate” as to why, said Stacy Yogi, executive director of state and federal programs for the district. Under federal law, Petersen’s son had a right to free transportation — and to remain in the school he attended at the time he lost permanent housing.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

When devising a definition of “reading disability” based on the population of nine- to 11-year-olds on the island, the researchers distinguished between poor readers who read at levels predicted by their IQs and those who did not, looking for evidence of dyslexia only in those in the latter group. The studies came just as the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In recent years, the group’s advocacy has led to changes in the district’s graduation requirements, to align them with admissions requirements for California’s university systems, and an expansion of funding for an after-school meal program that had been cut by the school board. Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

As world leaders return home from the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference ( COP27 ), an annual international climate meeting that was held in Egypt this year, they have many action items to attend to. There is a coalition of children's rights and children's advocacy groups that has been at COP, led by UNICEF.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2022

One reason Back a Boiler has been suspended is that program servicer Vemo Education went out of business, said Brian Edelman, president of the Purdue Research Foundation. Ben Kaufman, director of research and investigations, Student Borrower Protection Center. Purdue’s pause points to bigger problems in the ISA industry.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Oregon joined this list, beginning with the 2022-23 school year, when then-Gov. According to the College Board, the average cost of tuition and fees at a public, four-year school was $10,940 for in-state students in 2022-23 or $28,240 for out-of-state students. Kate Brown announced the introduction of a statewide grant fund.

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