The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Credit: Yuvraj Khanna for the Hechinger Report Since the partnership began in March 2023, at least 8,600 adults assisted by ReUp have reenrolled in college and 350 have graduated, according to the state Office of the Secretary of Higher Education.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 7, 2024

The American Political Science Association is pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) Awardees for 2023. The post Meet Mary McLoughlin, 2023 APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grantee appeared first on. Learn more about the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Those laws will go into effect between 2023 and 2026. We’re optimistic that Congress will follow suit and put kids and families at the forefront of its agenda,” said Christy Gleason, Vice President of Policy, Advocacy and Campaigns at Save the Children Action Network, a nonprofit advocacy group, in a statement. “At

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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. on October 19, 2023. Photo by Michael A.

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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

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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Political Science Now

MARCH 12, 2024

The American Political Science Association is pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) Awardees for 2023. There, he served as the Research and Advocacy Director of ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights, working with politicians and civil society leaders across Southeast Asia.

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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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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

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

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. This doesn’t help low-income families.” This doesn’t help low-income families.”

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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

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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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 24, 2023

And so it begins… I am on sabbatical in Spring 2023, unpacking deeper learning in elementary and middle schools. EL , Design39 , or EPiC ), most of the schools that are featured in deeper learning research, advocacy, and publicity conversations often are at the secondary level (e.g., However, with some exceptions (e.g.,

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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

As The Casey Foundation recently highlighted in our 2023 KIDS COUNT ® Data Book , shortcomings of the child care system already cost the country $122 billion a year in lost wages, tax revenue and productivity. averaged $10,600 a year in 2021, according to an analysis by the advocacy organization Child Care Aware.

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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

This roundtable will build upon the recent contributions in this idiom of Chambers (2019), Farrell et al (2022), Niemeyer et al (2023), and Minozzi et al (2023), with participants from the authors of all these papers.

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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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