The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

Related: Third graders struggling the most to recover in reading after the pandemic The retention law is not entirely new: A version has been on Tennessee’s books for more than a decade. Children have been behind in literacy for decades,” said Sonya Thomas, the co-founder of the parent advocacy group Nashville PROPEL.

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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. Related: Government data single out schools where low-income students fare worst.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2019

And classrooms needed more books and educational materials. Program officials purchased books, science materials, blocks and musical instruments for the center. Educating officials : PRE4CLE has prioritized advocacy at all levels of the government, according to Kelly. In September 2016, that all changed abruptly.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Despite their rich history and Hall’s documentation of her heritage, Hall and her ancestors are not acknowledged by the United States government as a tribal nation. Hall’s status meant that when she was earning her degrees, she didn’t qualify for financial assistance designed for Native students. That’s because the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2018

years from all other kinds of institutions, the advocacy group Complete College America says. There are institutional measures that we have from the federal government, from the state, from our board of directors. Department of Education reports that only 41 percent of them do. The average student takes 4.4

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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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Suddenly, she had four young children to care for by herself, with only government cash assistance to live on. One government agency has been able to reach Tameka. The little girl should be in second grade, learning to master chapter books, spell, and add and subtract numbers up to 100. But it was also about race and class.”

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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. The state and federal government has to give us the resources that we need.”.

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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. Related: Government data single out schools where low-income students fare worst.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

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. I always wanted to teach higher-level history and government,” said Ray Mertz, a social studies teacher who joined Meadowbrook in 2014.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

“We can’t leave behind families who need more assistance to close that financial gap,” said Ian Rosenblum, the executive director of Education Trust–New York, a nonprofit education advocacy group that published a report about the Excelsior Scholarship. Related: Just as it wants students to speed up, government won’t pay for summer courses.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2016

Universities here have been allowed by the government since 2004 to set varying levels of tuition — at first, up to £3,000 per year, or $4,236, a maximum that has since grown to £9,000, or $12,708. The American government, of course, does not regulate tuition, and has no such leverage over universities and colleges.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

of the Aurora Institute, formerly known as iNACOL, an advocacy organization promoting competency-based education. The government has since relaxed many of those regulations, offering waivers for educators scrambling to serve their communities.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

That means a family of four with two children survived on $24,008, the income level at which a family is considered to be extremely poor by the federal government. When the federal government overhauled America’s welfare system 20 years ago, TANF replaced the former cash-assistance program.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

One is that there’s no limit to how much the federal government will lend to graduate students to pay for school — they can borrow up to the entire cost of a program. It’s a simpler, more profitable market that also has an unlimited source of debt financing courtesy of the federal government.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2024

Kirk: Well, in the wake of Mount Ida, education officials in Massachusetts created a so-called financial stress test for colleges like the one the federal government launched for banks after the 2008 recession. And even if those policies are on the books, they’re not always being enforced. What’s that?

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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.

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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

MARCH 7, 2023

Credit: Vanessa Leroy for The Hechinger Report In 1986, the federal government mandated that states provide therapy for newborns and toddlers with developmental delays and disabilities, but the program has been dogged by severe racial gaps in access and quality since its inception. It was not working at all,” his mother said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2024

I’ll get back to you,’ ” said Marjorie Sims, managing director of Ascend at the Aspen Institute, one of a growing number of research, policy and advocacy organizations focusing on student-parents. “Ask community college presidents what percentage of their students are parents, and they’ll say, ‘That’s a really good question.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Jennifer Pokempner, director of child welfare policy at Juvenile Law Center, a legal advocacy group in Philadelphia, said the Seita program is “seen as a model.” Government programs have also freed up some financial support. The Seita program continues to try to close the gaps between campus and government resources.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Giroux, a professor for scholarship in the public interest at McMaster University in Ontario and the author of more than 20 books on education and American youth. These types of transactions enable private sector companies to be responsive to the requests from local/state government who have limited funding.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

In a dense, polemical book called “The Flickering Mind,” he warned of the industry’s tentacular reach into schools, steered by futurists such as Seymour Papert, the co-creator of the Logo programming language, who had a habit of proclaiming, every 20 years or so, that schools had 20 years left to either adapt or die.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2017

At those 20 institutions with 100 or more GI Bill recipients eligible to finish in 2014, the government data disclose, even the ones with the highest veteran success rates managed to graduate only one in five. There are several reasons why things are working for them. Photo credit: Peggy Peattie Photo: Peggy Peattie. Photo: Peggy Peattie.

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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

AUGUST 6, 2024

Experts, books, videos, detailed lesson plans — to teachers at the time, it felt like a blur of continuous learning. Grimes received a state award for his “remarkable contributions and tireless advocacy for English Learner funding in Alabama schools.” Slowly, educators began sharing strategies and co-teaching classes.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2022

By displaying the posters and photos of the teachers holding them up along the main hallway, my hope was that our trans students knew that despite what was happening in the state government, our staff and school would affirm and celebrate them. In libraries, books that simply acknowledge that trans people exist are pulled off the shelves.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

School leaders have solicited donations from local manufacturing plants, energy firms, even the federal government. 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. The measure failed.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The federal government is pushing for more information to be made available about college costs and success rates, saying that will help students avoid incurring unmanageable debt. The federal government has a website that promises you can “Calculate your personal net price.” College graduates in the academic year just ended.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2024

Many we selected because they had made headlines for banning library books; others we chose because government records showed they had purchased web filters or because they were mentioned by students interviewed for this article. Though banned books get more attention than blocked websites in schools, some groups are fighting back.

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Library Advocacy Humanities High School 101

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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2025

The billions in aid that the federal government spent to help students recover had some modest impact , but students are still behind where they would have been academically. Focusing on that self-advocacy component, that is crucial for that population. Today, more than five years after Covid arrived on U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

What a horrific false choice,” said Morgan Craven, the national director of policy, advocacy and community engagement at the Intercultural Development Research Association, a San Antonio-based group that advocates for bans on corporal punishment. Advocates wonder why the federal government hasn’t stepped in to quash the practice entirely.

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Elementary School Public School High School Government 145

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

We see this hierarchy of human worth playing out now in Gaza and the West Bank, as Israeli government ministers call Palestinians “human animals.” government. Books Social Justice Books list of titles for K-12 and educators on Palestine. This dehumanization fuels violence and oppression.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

One of the two other day care centers in town, even smaller than Giggles & Wiggles, is already fully booked. But at the state and federal level, child care has been treated like a political afterthought, cast aside as a nice-to-have in a country that has long viewed child care as a “family problem,” not a government one.

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K-12 Advocacy American History Library 122

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The Network for Public Education, an advocacy group, last month published an interactive feature chronicling “voucher scams.” We cannot give up on public education even though some government leaders have.” Enlow, president and CEO of the advocacy group EdChoice. “To

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

State waivers under the old No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) also gave rural schools needed flexibility, said Ellerson, the associate executive director for policy and advocacy at the American Association of School Administrators (AASA). Related: How I broke away from the endless cycle of poverty, meth and jail in rural Kentucky.

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