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

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

JUNE 24, 2018

Yet, with few exceptions, families earning $88,000 a year — right in the middle of the middle class — get no government help to cover the cost of educating their 4-year-olds. In contrast, attendance at government-funded preschools is the norm in many countries. The government is subsidizing middle class child care anyway. ”.

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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

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

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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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

Psychology 111

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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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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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2016

“What we’re seeing is the Democrats driving a conversation about what the federal government’s relationship to supporting higher education should be,” said Colin Seeberger, strategic campaigns advisor for the Young Invincibles , a non-profit advocacy group focused on issues that affect young adults.

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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

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

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

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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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

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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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

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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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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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.

Education 129

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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

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

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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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

She said it was confusing, poorly written, and not vetted by the board’s legal counsel (instead it was reviewed by the anti-LGBTQ Christian legal advocacy group, Alliance Defending Freedom). Hall’s campaign signs were later tagged with rainbow stickers. The policy ended up passing 4-0. Related: Florida just expanded school vouchers — again.

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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

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.

Elementary School 86

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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Kirk: Especially for a generation of students that lived through the isolation of Covid-19 and has never seen a national government that wasn’t deeply divided. Rauch is author of the book ‘The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth.’ And so you have to start with the basic building blocks.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2024

Free speech is a vital liberty that the American Civil Liberties Union has fought to protect at all levels of government, on campuses and across society for over 100 years. In the case of public institutions, giving in to such pressure is unconstitutional. The consequences for students are not hypothetical.

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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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Anthropology Human Rights Humanities Cultures 140

The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2016

Grove City College, which sued the federal government for linking accepting federal financial aid with following anti-discrimination rules. In the storm over how much money the federal government spends on student aid, and the spiraling amount of federal loan debt graduates face, Hillsdale College is an oasis.

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Government Human Rights K-12 Advocacy 58