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APRIL 29, 2024

Kathryn Meyer, left, attorney at the Center for Children’s Advocacy, and Christiana Mills, are part of the Yale Child Student Center in New Haven, Connecticut. Dr. Barry Zuckerman, who created the first medical-legal partnership in Boston more than 30 years ago, saw the need for family advocacy first hand during his childhood, in the 1950s.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

One out of 10 Black students in the eighth grade math scores were scoring basic or above,” saidKristen Hengtgen, a senior policy analyst at the nonprofit advocacy group EdTrust, referring to last year’s National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the Nation’s Report Card. Just 22 percent of low-income students took advanced math.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

They launched a website , an advocacy group and an auxiliary group for teachers. One of their leaders held a Science of Math event in Pennsylvania in 2022 and is planning another in 2023. In January 2023, the NCTM, the math teachers group, reiterated its opposition to the rote memorization of math facts, such as multiplication tables.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 19, 2025

Welcoming policies and city-level advocacy like this are the focus of my current research agenda. “Welcoming policies and city-level advocacy like this are the focus of my current research agenda. We advocated to create a city-wide deportation defense program, which eventually was implemented. Learn more here.

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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. Next was a 10-week business class in 2023, followed by courses on parenting and safety that were provided in English with a Spanish interpreter. I’m looking for another opportunity.’”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Many of the advocacy groups that filed challenges did so multiple times in different school districts. John Fredericks is the ninth and 10th grade ELA and AP English Literature teacher at West Tallahatchie High School in Webb, Mississippi and is a 2023-2024 Teach Plus Senior Writing Fellow.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

YouthTruth's most recent survey of over 25,000 high school seniors in the class of 2023 found that 74 percent aspired to go to college but only 66 percent expected to go to college. Their advocacy work has already begun, one high school senior at a time. “At That meant her own college aspirations aligned with her family’s expectations.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2024

The program has been able to pay teachers more without passing the costs directly to parents, said the center’s advocacy manager, Adam Barragan-Smith. Comparing child care employment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics between 2019 and 2023, Mathematica associated the program with an increase of 219 educators, or nearly 7 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2023

where our school buildings are crumbling, where our students are not being adequately prepared to face the realities of the climate crisis, where there are vast inequities across race and class,” said Shiva Rajbhandari, a Sunrise Movement organizer and a 2023 graduate of Idaho’s Boise High School. There are reasons to be optimistic.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

By the end of spring 2023, about 40 percent of third graders achieved a “met expectations” or “exceeded expectations” score on the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program, or TCAP. About 900 students statewide will be held back because of their performance on the test.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

But just before the pandemic, she says she was approached by FreedomWorks, an advocacy group funded by the Koch brothers, big political donors, and associated with the “tea party” movement in favor of libertarian ideas. She had also worked in public schools before launching Mysa.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Advocacy focused on math disabilities has been less widespread than that for reading disabilities. In a 2023 survey by Education Week, nearly 75 percent of teachers reported that they had received little to no preservice or in-service training on supporting students with math disabilities.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Louis area home on June 10, 2023. Her sixth grader soon was at risk of being unable to move up to seventh grade in fall 2023. “I Failure to do so risked “further disciplinary action” that could result in “virtual learning for the remainder of the 2022-2023 school year.” Louis area home on June 10, 2023. Crawford said.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2024

In fact, Pennsylvania has quietly become the “cyber charter capital of the nation” according to a report from the education advocacy group Children First PA. Nearly 60,000 students statewide were enrolled full time in cyber charters in 2023-24, according data from the Pennsylvania Department of Education. statewide.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 12, 2024

Her work focuses on the intersection of elite advocacy, courts, and public policy. Shieh Marcy Marcy Shieh completed her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2023 and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of North Carolina- Charlotte and works at the intersection of courts and political behavior.

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

The state partnered with Asian Americans Advancing Justice Chicago (AAAJ Chicago) — a local advocacy organization focused on advancing civil rights and racial equity, which advocated for the passage of the TEAACH Act — to support implementation.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 30, 2024

million dollar Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) (2020-2023 and 2023-2026). million dollar Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) (2020-2023 and 2023-2026). Mealy brings a wealth of organizational experience and expertise to the position.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A 2023 report showed that the experience of solitary confinement is far more prevalent than most previous estimates: for at least 22 hours each day, at least 122,840 people experience solitary confinement in U.S. prisons and jails. The vast majority have been put in solitary for non-violent reasons.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Du Bois’ advocacy extended across the world through many Pan-African conferences and an appeal to the United Nations to recognize the suffering of Black Americans, according to the NAACP. He encouraged his readers to be proud of who they were and to see “Beauty in Black.”

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ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2024

But the funds ran out in September 2023. Her advocacy has started to take on a larger role in her life: She recently accepted a position as the executive director for the West Virginia Women’s Alliance. Across the country, ARPA stabilization dollars went to more than 220,000 child care programs, affecting 9.6

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2024

Jon: And last year, 2023, was a record year, with about 80 colleges closing, many of them small liberal arts colleges with enrollments around 1,000 students or less. Sitting in his living room, looking back on 2023, Horn told me that he and his research team were right. And 2023, the federal money is gone. Kirk: Eighty!

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Credit: Bianca Vázquez Toness/Associated Press “This was about balancing the number of students in schools,” says Tiffany Fick, director of school quality and advocacy for Equity in Education, a policy organization in Atlanta. Tameka’s 8-year-old daughter ties her shoe before running out to play in Atlanta on Dec.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. The Oakland Reach, a parent-led advocacy group that works with underserved communities, also joined the partnership. The homework gap isn’t new. The ESSR funds expire in 2024.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

million subsurface acres, a term pertaining to oil, gas, minerals, and other underground resources, which distributed $62 million to public institutions in 2023. Related: COLUMN: The world is waking up to education’s essential role in climate solutions In 2023, a wildfire swept the Flathead Reservation, just west of Flathead Lake.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

Decades of chronic underfunding is often at the root of the struggles in districts like Cleveland to serve high proportions of Black and Latino students from low-income backgrounds, said Allison Rose Socol, a vice president at The Education Trust, an education advocacy group.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

My equity-forward teaching was recognized in 2023 with the Ed Roberts Faculty Defender of Equity Award. Most notably, I was recognized by the Missouri House of Representatives for my advocacy and championing of equity in education with State Resolution No. 254 in my honor on February 17, 2021.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

Coordinators Co-sponsors Below are the 2023 co-sponsors. Below are some ideas from the events in 2021 ( June and August ), 2022 , and 2023. For more ideas , see the actions from June and August , 2021 , 2022 , and 2023. We are confirming continued co-sponsorship for 2024. Every action counts. Determine type of action.

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Sapiens

MARCH 4, 2025

A group of forensic anthropologists argues their field must reject the myth of pure objectivity and challenge systemic inequities through advocacy and activism. The AAFS did not issue a formal statement on its anti-advocacy position. This is the flagship U.S.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2024

Without the historic level of operational funding that was distributed monthly to child care programs across the United States through September 2023, many providers are experiencing staff departures and shouldering rising costs, leading many to increase tuition for families and some to close classrooms — or worse, close their doors entirely.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2022

“We knew the pandemic put a huge strain on a system that was already strained, so this is just a continuous struggle that’s been made worse,” said Nina Perez, the early childhood national campaign director for MomsRising, a nonprofit advocacy group that focuses on supporting policies that help women, mothers and families.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2025

Below are some ideas from the events in 2021 ( June and August ), 2022 , and 2023. events in 2021 , 2022 , and 2023. For more ideas , see the actions from June and August , 2021 , 2022 , and 2023. The group can be any size. Determine type of action. There are a lot of options for organizing your event.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

that published 2023 data, California had the highest number of deaths last year: 10; one child died at a child care center and nine died at in-home day cares. Child Care Aware, a national child care advocacy group, then took the issue on, releasing an analysis of state rules and regulations around safety every year from 2007 to 2013.

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Political Science Now

JANUARY 23, 2024

The American Political Science Association is pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) Awardees for 2023. The following PhD candidates have been awarded the grants for the 2023 award cycle. Awards support basic research which is theoretically derived and empirically oriented.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2023

Khloe Warne, 12, stands for a photo with her mother, Alyssa, at the family bakery Beef Cakes, Thursday, May 18, 2023, in Grants Pass, Ore. Credit: AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson Alyssa Warne and her daughter, Khloe, 12, read at the Josephine Community Library, Thursday, May 18, 2023, in Grants Pass, Ore. Across the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2023

Roy Cooper, a Democrat, proposed $500 million in child care stabilization grants in his 2023-25 budget after legislators initially requested $300 million. And Minnesota is a state with strong advocacy and potentially the political willpower to do it, said Ferrette, of CLASP. In North Carolina, Gov.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Saturday 2nd September 2023 New York, NY Credit : Amir Hamja/ The New York Times Credit: Amir Hamja/The New York Times Even as Columbia has swallowed up more land, it has taken fewer students from New York City. built a 23-story glass and steel building in Greenwich Village for $1.2 billion as part of its expansion plans in Lower Manhattan.

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