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. It’s in her basement, recently renovated to include cribs, small chairs and a table, organizers filled with colorful books and crafts, an alphabet rug and more.

Advocacy 137

Advocacy Heritage Library Elementary School 137

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

Charter School 137

Charter School Heritage K-12 Education 137

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2023

One professor reached out to tell me how impressed he was by the self-advocacy that students from our district demonstrated. Every state now has policies on the books that provide the flexibility needed for more learner-centered approaches. But the true indicator of impact came directly from students and their eventual professors.

K-12 133

K-12 Advocacy High School Tradition 133

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2024

Over 20 years ago, I co-authored the best-selling “ Quarterlife Crisis,” one of the first books to explore the transition from college to the workforce. However, there are hundreds of jobs, such as public policy research and advocacy, with which students may not be as familiar.

Economics 124

Economics Advocacy Critical Thinking Research 124

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2023

I entered college in 1989 with an interest in human rights advocacy, planning to be a lawyer. in English from an Ivy League school followed and then a career that more than justified it: 10 years as a professor, author of a well-received book, 15 years leading nonprofit organizations. I am a poster child for the English major.

Humanities 109

Humanities Advocacy Human Rights Social Science 109

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2022

Latino students may be grappling with heated debates on immigration policy that affect their loved ones, or the challenges of straddling two different cultures. Research shows mental health treatment is more effective when it’s in line with the client’s culture and when clients perceive their therapist to be culturally competent.

Advocacy 105

Advocacy Psychology Cultures Research 105

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Godfrey Rivera is the co-director of the Autism Initiative Project at Sinergia, a bilingual nonprofit that provides community, advocacy, and outreach for parents of children with autism, especially those who don’t speak English. The nonprofit offers workshops, one-to-one advocacy, and a monthly Spanish-speaking support group for families.

Advocacy 103

Advocacy Cultures Elementary School Research 103

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. I also definitely want to be heavily involved in advocacy for young black youth, or, for youth in general, and just promoting student leadership.

Oral History 104

Oral History Advocacy Cultures Leadership 104

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

When you’re the only one, you don’t have much choice but to conform to the culture. When there are many of you, you get to shape the culture.” Samantha Tran, senior managing director of education policy at Children Now, a nonpartisan research, policy and advocacy organization, noticed. “I Here’s what teachers are doing about it.

Education 143

Education Education Policy Sociology Cultures 143

ED Surge

OCTOBER 5, 2022

As trauma-informed education expert Alex Shevrin Venet points out in her recent book, Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education : This is the uncomfortable truth: schools cause trauma and harm. However, when it comes to sources of mental health struggles, schools themselves are not blameless.

Charter School 101

Charter School Advocacy Leadership Professional Development 101

ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

In her book, “ The Spirit of Our Work: Black Women Teachers (Re)member”, Cynthia Dillard explains how the legacy of imperialism and the enslavement of our ancestors endures in teaching and learning; yet, it’s presumed that Black folks “just happened to be here,” to be enslaved.

Education 127

Education Heritage Tradition Teaching 127

ED Surge

AUGUST 30, 2023

Those spaces included things such as therapeutic herbal diffusers, earphones to listen to calming sounds, books and journals to write their thoughts. Teachers began building lessons centered on identity formation, and soon after, students began to embrace their identity and individuality which transformed our classroom and community culture.

Community Engagement 96

Community Engagement Advocacy Middle School Cultures 96

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Raylan Li, 15, is excited to become a co-president of the Asian Culture Club this fall. Then she praised the book “American Born Chinese”. It’s about my connection with family members and my culture. Though I’m guilty of losing my mother tongue, I’m in a place where I don’t know how I’m going to reclaim my culture”.

History 114

History Heritage K-12 American History 114

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.

Inclusive Curriculum 104

Inclusive Curriculum American History Primary Sources Professional Development 104

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Advocacy focused on math disabilities has been less widespread than that for reading disabilities. A lot of times, [parents] let it go for a long time because it’s culturally acceptable to be bad at math,” said Heather Brand, a math specialist and operations manager for the tutoring organization Made for Math.

Tutoring 140

Tutoring Elementary School Advocacy Teaching 140

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

But as the movement against seat-time learning grows, more schools nationwide will be grappling with grade levels, deciding whether to keep them or to hack through thickets of political, logistical and cultural barriers to uproot them. Others, however, echo Northern Cass superintendent, Cory Steiner. School District.

Tradition 111

Tradition Charter School High School Cultures 111

The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

The Oregon Tribal Student Grant covers tuition, housing and books at public institutions and some private universities for undergraduate and graduate students belonging to Oregon’s nine federally recognized tribes. Oregon joined this list, beginning with the 2022-23 school year, when then-Gov.

Government 97

Government Cultures History Heritage 97

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In just a few short years, the school has managed to create a culture in which going to college is becoming the norm rather than the exception. The conservative-led state legislature chose to fund CCP by making a student’s local school district pay for tuition and books, with funds coming right out of the high school’s per-pupil budget.

High School 98

High School Social Studies Leadership Political Science 98

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

They’re adding more faculty who reflect the school’s increasing diversity, introducing cultural programming and establishing counseling and mentoring programs to help Latinx students overcome stubborn academic resource gaps. In response, some universities are starting to cater to their growing Latinx populations.

Social Justice 111

Social Justice High School Tutoring Advocacy 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

The group’s acronym, RISC, was deliberate, according to a book by its creators, “Delivering on the Promise.” Nearly a decade in, the culture of competence is deeply ingrained in the district; most of today’s high schoolers have never experienced anything different. In 2003, the Gates Foundation gave RISC $5.8 They’re up to five now.

High School 111

High School Tradition Cultures Advocacy 111

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 believed that African Americans should embrace their heritage and culture and work together to overturn oppression.

Museum 52

Museum Social Studies Advocacy Heritage 52

All Things Pedagogical

JULY 10, 2024

Herb Childress (2019) in The Adjunct Underclass , ends his book with “The Academic Career Calibration Protocol” which is basically a quiz to determine and predict your academic career outcome, and it includes things like gender, age you completed your PhD, where you went to school, how well known your supervisor is.

Advocacy 40

Advocacy Pedagogy Geography Tradition 40

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

According to a 2015 report by the advocacy non-profit Child Care Aware, the average cost of center-based infant care in Louisiana—one of the four poorest states in the nation—was roughly $110 a week in 2014. percent of Louisiana’s at risk families with 1-year-olds received childcare assistance, leaving nearly 39,500 families in the lurch.

Primary Sources 83

Primary Sources Advocacy Government Education 83

Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

As the authors debated, drafted, and shaped the meaning and purpose of this book, the following questions came to the forefront: How does democratic erosion in the United States inform our teaching of political engagement? political system within a global context, and 3) to engage with the political process as educated and empowered citizens.

Political Science 55

Political Science Civics Civic Engagement K-12 55

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.

Charter School 87

Charter School Middle School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 87

All Things Pedagogical

MAY 28, 2023

I am still working on a final version of this and it will certainly become part of the book on accessible pedagogy that I am writing. I workshopped what I thought that diagram would look like in a workshop I did on campus this week for my departmental colleagues.

Pedagogy 40

Pedagogy Advocacy Cultures Research 40

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

In each case, teachers are being deputized as culture war cops, called upon to police their own behavior, and that of their students. Can teachers read second graders a picture book with two dads? What about a book featuring heterosexual romance? Neither poll asked specifically about culture war issues.

Cultures 25

Cultures Library Elementary School K-12 25

A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

The desire to increase agency in the form of voice, choice, and advocacy should be viewed as just as important for educators (teachers and administrators) as it is for students. Voice Educators, both teachers and administrators, should have a say in many elements that influence a school’s learning culture.

Education 216

Education Advocacy Leadership Professional Development 216

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The Network for Public Education, an advocacy group, last month published an interactive feature chronicling “voucher scams.” Much of what I heard dovetailed with conclusions in Cara Fitzpatrick’s exhaustively researched new book, “The Death of Public Schools: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America.”

Advocacy 141

Advocacy Public School Charter School Tradition 141

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

Several weeks ago, for example, staff offices at Florida Atlantic University’s Center for Inclusion, Diversity Education and Advocacy in Boca Raton were vacant, with name plates blank and abandoned desks, plus LGBTQ+ flags, posters and pamphlets left behind. There is also mounting resistance to the laws.

Sociology 133

Sociology Advocacy Anthropology Government 133

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Meanwhile, many districts and schools continue to believe they can hire their way out of the teacher diversity problem—if they acknowledge it’s a problem at all—and fail to take on the hard work of transforming school culture. “I think my voice was heard at Lusher—until it was something they didn’t want to hear.”

Leadership 145

Leadership Charter School Cultures Social Studies 145

ED Surge

MAY 2, 2022

In the past year, they’ve endured culture war attacks, worsening student behavior, and endless health and safety regulation changes. Former teacher Emily McMahan Teachers Are Not OK For months, advocacy groups, including the National Education Association, the country’s largest union, have been driving home the point that teachers are not OK.

Teaching 143

Teaching Middle School Museum Educational Technology 143

The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

While working with other teachers on an instructional leadership team planning an anti-bias and anti-racist curriculum, Katherine Hanna, an elementary school teacher in Massachusetts, identified herself as a person of color and began to share her perspective on the importance of teaching others about her culture.

K-12 123

K-12 Education Advocacy Human Rights 123

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The number of households in poverty would increase 64 percent, a book Murdock coauthored last year, “Population Change in the United States: Socioeconomic Challenges and Opportunities in the Twenty-First Century,” predicts. But clearly there is a college-going culture among the Hispanic population.”.

K-12 111

K-12 Advocacy Government Leadership 111

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

There shouldn’t be laws on the books that allow officers to write citations for immaturity.” There shouldn’t be laws on the books that allow officers to write citations for immaturity.” There shouldn’t be laws on the books that allow officers to write citations for immaturity.”. “We can call if we have an emergency.”.

High School 143

High School Advocacy Research Middle School 143

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2023

Related: Online therapy for babies and toddlers with delays often works well, but the funding isn’t keeping up with the need The growing wave of advocacy aims to combat the disparities in different ways. In some instances, medical or educational staff might be racially biased or culturally ignorant.

Cultures 110

Cultures Advocacy Psychology Research 110

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The national infection facing public schooling—the tug-of-war between education professionals and extremist culture warriors—has brought chaos and damage to West Bonner County. It’s about the viability of public education in their community. This is not hyperbole. Hall’s campaign signs were later tagged with rainbow stickers.

Elementary School 142

Elementary School Junior High High School Public School 142