The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2020

NEW YORK — Countless ideas about getting students to and through college have come from policymakers, lawmakers and any number of advocacy groups. I had been scheduled to talk with author Paul Tough at SXSW EDU about his book “ The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

Universities, which once were given the benefit of the doubt, say the people scouring their books are misinterpreting what they’re seeing, sometimes for their own purposes. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum that focuses on economic policy. The institute is a liberal think tank associated with the Franklin D.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Educators can be good at teaching and bad at teaching reading, said Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), an advocacy group that studies teacher preparation. It sounds complicated because it is. Related: Why reading comprehension is deteriorating. There are several reasons for this, Walsh said.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

While existing economic segregation means that a universal preschool wouldn’t serve a perfect mix of lower- and upper-income families, it would be more mixed than the current system, which clusters children living in poverty. The economic incentive for middle-class American parents to send their child to a free public preschool is clear.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

Hanging on an office door in Hawthorn Hall, for example, is a pastel-colored advertisement from Student Support Services inviting Latinx students to stop by for help with academic advising, tutoring and mentoring, book and laptop loan programs and financial literacy education. Debra Santiago, CEO, Excelencia in Education.

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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 Black Americans to work as communities to create their own system of producers and consumers to fight against economic discrimination.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

In English classes, you see students reading books about exotic animals and dinosaurs. Under the Common Core, students are encouraged to read more nonfiction books to get ready for the reading they’ll do in college someday. They don’t have the choice to, say, tax real estate developers to fund their schools.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

The company also announced a partnership in August with the University of London and the London School of Economics and Political Science to offer a Bachelor of Science degree in data science and business analytics for $25,000. That’s substantially less than overseas undergraduates pay to attend the London School of Economics in person.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2016

There’s an economic imperative for them to do this,” Ebdon said in the library-quiet headquarters of the Office for Fair Access in London’s Chancery Lane legal district. There’s an economic imperative for them to do this.”. That’s up from six times more likely in 1970. Even the highest-income U.S. Men in the U.K.

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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.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Even as FAST Funds help to fill gaps in social services today, labor leaders think that in the future, the movement has the potential to organize faculty and staff around advocacy for campus policies that actually close those gaps for low-income students and educators. What if you were not just disseminating aid to students?” Kirtley says.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2023

That little girl went on to study math and economics in college, then became a math teacher and a teacher-coach. EdSurge recently talked with Joseph about her new book, “ Making Black Girls Count in Math Education.” That third grade class, where I open the book, really did change my life, because my mom advocated for me.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Rand recognized the classroom sets of literature books she studied from as a senior. Fourth graders in the state from almost every racial and economic background improved their scores on the exam. Historian William Hustwit writes in his book “Integration Now” that the district “took baby steps to comply.”.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2022

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. I didn’t have time to exercise. I didn’t have time to cook. Your baseline shifts,” she says.

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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. That’s an average of $3,562 per year per household, when adjusted for inflation.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2017

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. That’s an average of $3,562 per year per household, when adjusted for inflation.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Instead, they gleaned their knowledge of topics such as the murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till and the March on Washington from reading books and searching the web. They get a deeper understanding of advocacy,” she said. The theme of the five-day event was “Hope for Our Future: From Weeping to Working for Justice for Our Children.”.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

Books by Black, Indigenous, authors of color, LGBTQ+, and Palestinian American writers are increasingly being banned. If you are looking for speakers, here are sources: Historians for Peace and Democracy Civil Rights Movement Veterans Local voting rights and climate justice organizations Books to symbolize banned history.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2017

Most involve individual school districts teaming up with nearby colleges and universities and use public money, private contributions or a combination of support, and with varying income and academic requirements, the advocacy organization College Promise says. Martha Kanter, former U.S.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2025

Books by Black, Indigenous, people of color, LGBTQ+, and Palestinian American writers are increasingly being banned. Read about a 4th-grade class s banned books study and share your teaching stories Get involved with the school board. Event hosts can receive a Teach Truth pop-up installation box with banned books and other resources.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

I found his work enlightening and suggested reading Hage’s recent book , which focuses on coexistence and religious pluralism, with the Praxis group. But a few days before we met on Zoom to discuss the book, the news broke that Hage had been fired from his position at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2016

“Once you agree to accept federal funds for anything, you have to comply with all federal laws,” said Donald Heller, provost at the University of San Francisco, whose research focuses on educational economics, public policy, and finance and who has testified to Congress about college access and financial aid.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

When Flores was a child, California still had an English-only law on the books from the 1800s. They just made everybody throw away their Spanish books. While policymakers didnt catch on right away, well-off and well-educated white parents did, seeing the economic benefits of bilingualism for their children very clearly.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

“It looks good from the curb, but when you get inside you see that Black and brown people are worse off economically than in West Virginia — and no one wants to talk about it,” says Frank Brown, who heads Communities in Schools of Atlanta, an organization that runs dropout-prevention programs in Atlanta Public Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

Educare Arizona classmates Nathan Jaramillo, far left, Esteban Cuevas and Melissa Gordillo “read” books during free time in their toddler classroom. percent for the European Union, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development , which tracks international economic trends. She earns $7.50

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

One in five Greeley residents lives below the poverty level, and the school district is trying to upgrade its technology to give students an economic boost. Many parents are obsessed with excessive screen time,” says Delaney Ruston, a physician and filmmaker who created the documentary and wrote a companion book with the same title.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

if studying in an online-only academic program — has been on the books for some time but was exempted to allow for flexibility during the coronavirus pandemic. The campaign to reinstate the exemption was the result of legal action by many elite four-year institutions and advocacy groups, notably Harvard University and MIT.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in the coming decades, politicians of both parties would respond to economic downturns by cutting higher education funding, causing tuition to rise. The goal, writes historian John Aubrey Douglass, was “broad access combined with the development of high quality, mission differentiated, and affordable higher education institutions.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

As a young attorney, she worked for the Children’s Defense Fund, an advocacy group. She also wrote her first book, “It Takes a Village,” about the importance of investing in young children. And yet, the kitchen table economics of the new American reality make less sense than ever.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Jews for Racial & Economic Justice’s “ Understanding Antisemitism: An Offering to Our Movement.” Books Social Justice Books list of titles for K-12 and educators on Palestine. The collection includes picture books, chapter books, poetry, and background reading for educators.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2020

To make it through coronavirus-era closures and the economic downturn, providers like Beaver say they need help, fast. The economics are fragile in good times. The economics are fragile in good times,” she said. Wendy Tilma reads a book to the children she cares for at her home in Byron Center, Michigan.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The agency oversees law and justice across Indian Country, as well as agriculture, infrastructure, economic development and tribal governance. They convinced DeLaCruz and two colleagues to book a helicopter ride into the village to hear directly from parents about their experiences with the BIE.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

To raise those funds Fuller often relies on a network of conservative school choice allies he has cultivated over the years, despite their support for social and economic policies that contribute to black impoverishment. It’s a strategy Fuller views as a necessary contradiction, but that others say has undermined his credibility.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

On a typically balmy December afternoon, a dozen students in teacher Olivia LeDuffs fourth grade structured language arts class at Louisiana Key Academy discussed the book Hatchet, which tells the story of a young boy surviving in the wilderness after a plane accident leaves him stranded. Still, the school has a B rating for student progress.

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MPSA

APRIL 11, 2019

A spate of books followed, including Richard Kimball’s Tenured Radicals and Thomas Sowell’s The Vision of The Anointed. Studies and even a new book show that conservatives can be successful in academia, while others show that that conservative students do not change their political views when being taught by liberal professors.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2025

Much of the Moms for Liberty agenda, including book bans and anti-trans advocacy , has been embraced by the Trump administration, in the form of executive orders and Office for Civil Rights investigations into diversity, equity and inclusion programs and related work. The pandemic left other marks too.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 25, 2025

Cultural Values and Economic Priorities: The not-so-shocking Rise of Latino Support for Trump by Andrea Silva , University of North Texas Trends in Latino Voting Behavior What factors explain the increasing support for Trump and other Republican candidates among Latino voters from 2016 to 2024?

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