The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2023

I entered college in 1989 with an interest in human rights advocacy, planning to be a lawyer. These majors were designed for cultures that the vast majority of today’s students would barely recognize, and many have outworn their usefulness. I am a poster child for the English major.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2022

Without a significant change in the economics of education, changing the grammar of schooling is actually the most realistic approach. Elementary schools could have “one day where younger kids engage with experiential learning with partner organizations,” suggests Scott Goldstein, founder of a teacher advocacy organization in Washington, D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

Nesbitt African American Cultural Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. But the outcomes aren’t showing that,” said Justin Nalley, senior policy analyst at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a Black think tank. It’s just the way society is.” Patrick Ben III at the Bruce D.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2019

Earlier this month, sports and culture news site The Undefeated published a story about NASA mathematician Clyde Foster. The initiative works with businesses, investors, and other stakeholders to promote economic growth in the North Huntsville area, particularly in underrepresented communities.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

It’s also the only way we are going to reach an actual inclusive economic recovery.”. That culture discourages not only female workers, but also men who might ally with women to transform the trades, O’Neill said. an advocacy group in Oakland, California. “We Credit: Sarah Garland.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

“This is self-perpetuating,” said the superintendent, Patrick Sánchez, who is trying to change that culture and hangs out with students as a mentor and a coach. Related: Economics, culture and distance conspire to keep rural nonwhites from higher educations. “The scope of this problem is huge.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

In addition, 84 percent of students enrolled in public school were deemed economically disadvantaged in 2014. There’s a historical and cultural tradition of going where your family has been,” she said. However, without a deliberate effort to mix enrollees of free federal programs with paying students, we won’t get economic diversity.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2022

It’s about a shift in the culture,” Capp said. That doesn’t make sense, from a moral perspective, an economic perspective — from any perspective,” said Susan Mayer, chief learning officer at Achieving the Dream, which works with more than 300 community colleges to improve completion.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2019

It’s that fewer than one in five of adults in the entire surrounding Humphreys County have at least an associate degree, according to census data analyzed by the nonprofit advocacy organization Complete Tennessee. Related: Economics, culture and distance conspire to keep rural nonwhites from higher educations.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance. It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance,” said Aponte, who also served as U.S. It’s not a thing.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2018

Related: Economics, culture and distance conspire to keep rural nonwhites from higher educations. The United States is facing a dramatic shortfall of skilled workers , and the economic-modeling company Emsi says a huge wave of retirements will hit blue-collar industries particularly hard in the next few years.

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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.

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

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The uniformity and scale of the state logging — and the prioritization of profit and yield — do not align with the tribes’ forestry plans, which are tied to cultural values and use of land, Incashola said. Tribes in Minnesota do not receive revenue from state trust lands on their reservations, nor do tribal schools, Kunesh says.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

Colleges and universities usually require 120 credits for a bachelor’s degree but students graduate with about 135, on average, according to data compiled by Complete College America, a nonprofit research and advocacy group. s “Diversity in Western Culture” requirement and the state-mandated writing requirement. And what if it’s full?

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Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

Students are navigating an increasingly polarized landscape where they feel isolated and disconnected from our democratic institutions and civic culture. Carr and Van Hulle study how municipal boundaries affect equity in land-use, tax, and economic development policy, with a focus in Cook County, Illinois. Trojahn et al.

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MPSA

OCTOBER 12, 2021

While Wikipedia’s breadth and depth are staggering, it still consists of glaring content gaps, and no where is this more evident than in historically underrepresented areas, such as women, minorities, and non-Western peoples and cultures. They expanded the entries on the Constitution of Ghana as well as Human rights in Ethiopia.

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Political Science Human Rights History Economics 52

Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 26, 2020

Rather than challenging it, anthropologists overlook the ways in which development operates as an arena of cultural contestation and identity construction. It sees development linked policies as cultural constructs and aims to explore their impact both theoretically and empirically. Social Development Advisors (SDA). Consultants 3.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The effect is the same — forging partnerships with the city and local organizations to invest in the economic development of the community,” she said in a statement. We focus on meaningful investments that provide local jobs and economic opportunity, along with sustainable community partnerships.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2024

I toured a lot of schools where they weren’t open to new ideas about culture. .” — Benjamin Heinz, a rising sophomore at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois When deciding what college to attend , what were your criteria? Did your political beliefs play a role? “I We need more open discourse.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

Fewer students equal less revenue for community colleges, which could lead to cuts at the very institutions so many depend upon as a first step toward economic mobility. How bad that cycle gets depends in part on how many low-income students and students of color can emerge from the pandemic still on a path to higher education.

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ED Surge

JUNE 17, 2022

The post-Civil War era then ushered in the advent of “Black codes,” described as laws that “criminalized every form of African American freedom and mobility, political power, [and] economic power.” Students are forming clubs, organizing sit-ins and walk-outs, and engaging in advocacy about all sorts of issues.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

It is treated as this extra piece that is not a central part of education,” said Amanda Seewald, president-elect of the Joint National Committee for Languages and the National Council for Languages and International Studies, a legislative advocacy group. Mississippi Learning. In some academic fields research is going global.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

That argument can only help propel support for young Hispanics aspiring to go to college, said Deborah Santiago, co-founder and vice president for policy at the advocacy organization Excelencia in Education. But clearly there is a college-going culture among the Hispanic population.”.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2017

That argument can only help propel support for young Hispanics aspiring to go to college, said Deborah Santiago, co-founder and vice president for policy at the advocacy organization Excelencia in Education. But clearly there is a college-going culture among the Hispanic population.”.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The project investigates how communities accommodate differences in culturally resonant ways and asks what everyday practices and justifications they draw on to maintain civil relations and avoid conflict and violence. But doing so does not address the full extent of the problem. We can and must do more.

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Anthropology Human Rights Humanities Cultures 141

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

As the grandchild of Mexican immigrants, she didnt find her language or culture welcome in the school. Little Mexican girls see their culture celebrated on the walls of every classroom. Flores was punished for speaking Spanish in this classroom in 1953. Credit: Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local Flores only spoke Spanish.

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Elementary School Education K-12 History 124

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

And an estimated 28 percent of families need child care but can’t access it, a gap that prevents some parents from working and bolstering the economic well-being of their families. Leaders at the Idaho Association for the Education of Young Children, a nonprofit advocacy group, were not making progress persuading lawmakers at the statehouse.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2025

In the past, said Deborah Santiago, chief executive officer of the Hispanic advocacy organization Excelencia in Education, higher education institutions could hit their [enrollment] numbers without engaging this population. The Center for Cultural Liberation at Dominican University near Chicago. Thats no longer the case.

High School 125

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

He also pitched a new, five-year strategic direction that will emphasize tribal sovereignty and cultural education both promises the bureau made in its reform agenda more than a decade ago. The agency oversees law and justice across Indian Country, as well as agriculture, infrastructure, economic development and tribal governance.

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Education Elementary School Government K-12 116

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

context and shared cultural history. Jews for Racial & Economic Justice’s “ Understanding Antisemitism: An Offering to Our Movement.” Challenge Islamophobia , a project of Teaching for Change, addresses that gap by placing Islamophobia firmly within a U.S.

Teaching 52

Teaching K-12 Human Rights Social Justice 52

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Fuller’s stance on school choice has created unlikely alliances with deep-pocketed conservatives and has put him at odds with mainstream civil rights advocates, but his work is impacting a younger generation of black school leaders striving to create culturally relevant institutions for the students they serve. The trade-off.

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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.

Education 114

Education High School K-12 Advocacy 114

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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Economics Cultures Social Justice Political Science 31

Sapiens

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

As an Afghan American, I often encounter perceptions that radicalization and political instability in Afghanistan are intrinsic to Afghans or Middle Eastern “culture.” But the reason extremist organizations successfully recruit among the disenchanted is not because of a shared, unchanging cultural heritage among their members.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

That includes, the editors note, anthropology, archaeology, classics, cultural studies, disability studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, history, law, linguistics, literary studies, performing arts, religious studies, philosophy, postcolonial studies, queer studies, psychology, sociology, visual arts, and women's studies. and elsewhere.

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