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 112

Sociology Advocacy Anthropology Government 112

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 205

Education Advocacy Leadership Professional Development 205

All Things Pedagogical

JULY 10, 2024

I am joining you from the traditional land of the Haudenosauneee and Anishinaabe peoples, but I grew up on the traditional land of the Abitibiwini Aki and lived for 30 years on the traditional land of the Mississaugas of the Credit. You should take it; it is a good reflective tool to identify levels of privilege.

Advocacy 40

Advocacy Pedagogy Geography Museum 40

ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

Healing affinity spaces for Black women teachers are necessary for us to not only honor our ancestors but also honor ourselves and carry on this important tradition of education and learning. Researchers have connected the knowledge and values of Black feminism with culturally congruent mental health resources for Black women.

Education 120

Education Heritage Tradition Teaching 120

ED Surge

JULY 19, 2023

public schools raise questions about whether curricula and edtech are staying culturally relevant. It’s not enough for a school to simply offer these students computer science classes — teachers like Noriega are working to tear down the invisible mental and cultural barriers that keep Latino students from considering the field altogether.

Educational Technology 89

Educational Technology EdTech Education Heritage 89

Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The Association has a long tradition of support for advancement of underrepresented groups in the discipline. Congress, foundations, funders, and other associations in the U.S. APSA staff and committees frequently work with other professional organizations and government entities.

Political Science 65

Political Science Advocacy Government Professional Development 65

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The model stems from an idea laid out in a paper almost a decade ago by Emily Ayscue Hassel and Bryan Hassel, co-presidents of Public Impact, an education advocacy organization. They’d also had a hard time supporting the many early-career teachers who dominate their staffing pool and saw Opportunity Culture as a way to do that better.

Elementary School 111

Elementary School Advocacy Cultures Public School 111

The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Launched last October, Home Flight not only works to recruit more Native students to the university but also provides funding, mentors, culturally specific programs and support to help Native students adjust to life on campus. But he said tuition assistance isn’t enough to attract and retain Native American students.

History 85

History Government Cultures Heritage 85

ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

The other is creating belonging at NAEYC, a professional and advocacy organization with nearly 60,000 members across its 52 affiliates. “I In northern Virginia, she watched her parents navigate language barriers, cultural differences and caregiving responsibilities as best they could, sometimes stepping up to serve as the translator herself.

K-12 103

K-12 Advocacy Leadership Professional Development 103

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The Council for Adult and Experiential Learning and the Latino student advocacy group Excelencia in Education have joined forces to introduce an initiative this academic year to shrink this gap by helping working, adult students. Yet, the percentage of Latino college students between the ages of 18 and 24 rose from 21.7 percent in 2000 to 39.2

Advocacy 76

Advocacy Professional Development Tradition Cultures 76

ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

I also wore my hijab, which is a symbol of my faith and tradition in the Muslim community. Still, despite these challenges, I believe my story is important — not only to create a better understanding of Muslim culture and Muslim women’s identity, but also to build a more welcoming educational environment for Muslim educators and students.

Professional Development 18

Professional Development Advocacy Cultures Humanities 18

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Michael is a senior at Vertus High School , an all-boys charter school in the Rochester City School District whose hallmark is a program that blends online classes with more traditional classroom teaching. For his part, though, Michael appreciates the opportunity to work faster than traditional classrooms allow.

Charter School 110

Charter School Advocacy Middle School Social Studies 110

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Traditional language learning in the U.S. For many, the case for language learning is simply about being able to interact with people from other cultures. is in trouble. Is this approach an answer? Most kids don’t want to become a linguist or get a Ph.D. In some academic fields research is going global.

Heritage 88

Heritage Global Studies Advocacy Psychology 88

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.

Advocacy 96

Advocacy High School Economics Tradition 96

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Providing students personalized lessons has been a strategy “accessible to people with the means for a while,” said Maria Worthen, vice president for federal and state policy at the International Association for Online Learning, or iNacol, a nonprofit advocacy organization that promotes online and blended learning.

Education 103

Education Advocacy Leadership Education Policy 103

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

There’s a historical and cultural tradition of going where your family has been,” she said. Hoffman’s ED, Walker, is a New Orleans native who attended a mix of public and private schools growing up. She understands how enrollment patterns develop around race and class.

Education 80

Education Charter School Private School Advocacy 80

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Holloman, says the university’s “newness and brashness” made it easier to create a culture supportive of black students. We have a culture that supports you,’ ” said Holloman. Related: Black students are drastically underrepresented at top public colleges, data show. Georgia State’s dean of students, Darryl B. Photo: Terrell Clark.

Sociology 111

Sociology Advocacy Psychology Cultures 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

Kathryn Toppan switched to a 1-4 scale even before the administration required it, finding it “less arbitrary” than the traditional 1-100. 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 college, you can’t,” said Beaulieu.

High School 111

High School Tradition Cultures Advocacy 111

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The growth has largely been driven by advocacy from white, affluent families, as well as by districts responding to an influx of immigrant students. At the same time, he believes dual-language programs in majority-black classrooms can embrace students’ cultural and linguistic backgrounds, engaging them in ways traditional schools haven’t.

Elementary School 111

Elementary School Charter School Advocacy Public School 111

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.

Political Science 52

Political Science Human Rights History Economics 52

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

“The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning. Yet, that idea didn’t play out in most states’ first-year ESSA plans.

Advocacy 69

Advocacy High School Social Studies Tradition 69

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. There was nothing like this.

Charter School 115

Charter School Heritage K-12 Education 115

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: La Verne takes more than 250 undergraduate transfer students per year and about 500 older-than-traditional-age adults who also cash in prior credits. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. That’s just under 10 percent of its enrollment. “Students beat themselves up about this.

Advocacy 99

Advocacy Research Government Tradition 99

ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

But for Fiske, of Mysa, the popularity of alternatives to public school actually raises a concern: She fears that her approach to microschooling could be eclipsed by politics and cultural war clashes. While popular in some conservative circles, classical learning isn’t traditionally a byword for culture war politics.

Public School 120

Public School Civics K-12 Private School 120

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.

Humanities 90

Humanities Advocacy Human Rights Social Science 90

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.

Anthropology 130

Anthropology Economics Cultures Advocacy 130

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2021

The New Civics threatens to replace traditional civics education with Neo-Marxist ‘social justice’ propaganda, vocational training for left-wing activism, and Alinsky-style community organizing techniques,” the head of the association, Peter Wood, wrote in a blog announcing the coalition. plastic bags) from accumulating in the first place.

Civic Engagement 137

Civic Engagement Civics Teaching Middle School 137

ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2023

“We see that advanced math coursework is a huge predictor of college success, but this stuff is all foundational,” said Lakisha Young, founder and CEO of The Oakland Reach, a parent-led advocacy group focused on better supporting low-income students of color in Oakland. It’s a cultural hub and one of the city’s most diverse neighborhoods.

Education 97

Education Social Justice Tutoring Advocacy 97

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Extremist groups fueled and funded campaigns in Massachusetts urging parents to “opt out” of sex education, denying their children vital information about topics including puberty, healthy relationships, consent, self-advocacy and more.

Social Justice 89

Social Justice K-12 Lesson Plan Advocacy 89

Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2021

Here is a non-exhaustive list of some of these shifts in coaching and how they have contributed to cultures of continuous growth and changes in how the instructional technology coaching role is perceived: The shift to distance learning has removed many logistical and scheduling challenges coaches previously faced in a traditional school day.

Artifacts 126

Artifacts Middle School Advocacy Lesson Plan 126

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. We can’t keep structures that would allow us to fall back into a more traditional system,” said Steiner.

Tradition 111

Tradition Charter School American History Cultures 111

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 108

Social Justice High School Tutoring Advocacy 108

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

And even though many of them have moved to an online environment, you’re looking at first-generation college students that don’t come from a culture of knowing how to navigate the process.”. Enrollment at two-year schools swelled during the downturn a decade ago.

High School 145

High School Advocacy Economics Research 145

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.”. He agreed there’s room for concern, however.

K-12 102

K-12 Advocacy Government Economics 102

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.”. He agreed there’s room for concern, however.

Research 58

Research K-12 Archiving Advocacy 58

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 69

Charter School Middle School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 69

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

A self-described Southern conservative and man of faith from rural Alabama, Grimes, 48, set about overhauling instruction for English learners, establishing culturally relevant extracurriculars and reaching out to the Hispanic community. They love family. They’re hard workers and many have faith in Christ.

High School 140

High School K-12 Heritage Professional Development 140