The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

All students with disabilities need to develop strong self-advocacy and communication skills to make sure they’re getting the supports they’re due, especially in the sink-or-swim real world. The transition going from high school to college was definitely difficult,” he said. I utterly failed it. I got three words right.”.

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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. It was definitely a grind.” .” He managed to finish the rest of his degree in three semesters. Sign up for our newsletter.

Advocacy 107

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Earl Edwards, an assistant professor at Boston College’s School of Education and Human Development, argues that McKinney-Vento was premised on an idea still pervasive in the policy debate on homelessness: Like a tornado that levels towns at random, housing misfortune has an equal chance of afflicting anyone, regardless of who they are.

Advocacy 83

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

It definitely held me back.”. 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. Some states’ figures are even higher.

Archaeology 84

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All Things Pedagogical

JULY 10, 2024

So this takes me to where my activism and advocacy started from and it is Ruskin, yes problematic fav Ruskin. I also teach professional communications as an adjunct to business students, and my content reflects how accessibility needs to be part of what is taught in marketing, in human resources curriculum but isn’t.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Because, ultimately, if I don’t get assistance, I really don’t know how I will go about making this work … time is definitely ticking.”. According to a 2015 report by the advocacy non-profit Child Care Aware, the average cost of center-based infant care in Louisiana—one of the four poorest states in the nation—was roughly $110 a week in 2014.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: Bobbi Linskens’ daughter was 6 months old when she was diagnosed with a brain injury associated with learning disabilities and developmental delays.

Advocacy 130

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

He and many other experts also note that because of legitimate fears of overlooking kids at risk and vague definitions of abuse and neglect , school workers may sometimes be overzealous, calling in allegations over relatively minor issues such as broken eyeglasses, inappropriate clothing or small scratches. .

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Right away, King called the Department of Human Services, which oversees the state’s child care office. Neither the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services nor the Government Accountability Office have audited the states to ensure they were following the reporting provisions, both offices confirmed.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2020

Just before this crisis began, Arizona was poised to spend millions more on boosting its thin roster of counselors, thanks in part to the advocacy of students like Kumar. There are definitely counselors losing sleep over if their kids are OK.” Department of Health & Human Services. My job was mostly reactive.”. It’s tough.

K-12 145

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: In recent years, division over how social studies should be taught has plagued school districts around the country.

Social Studies 138

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2016

Thirty-eight religiously affiliated institutions have received exemptions from Title IX, according to a list released by the Education Department under pressure from Democrats in Congress after the gay rights organization the Human Rights Campaign used public-records laws to help expose the practice. They also make some other sacrifices. “If

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

Department of Health and Human Services deems “affordable.” Leave this field empty if you're human: “This whole notion of a targeted program is a really American thing,” Cascio said. That’s about $1,000 more than the national average per pupil spending in K-12 , as calculated by the National Center for Education Statistics. .

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2019

The real downside comes in 10 years or 20 years, when this incredible human capital engine that has fueled our economy over the last century starts to sputter,” he said. Related: New data show some colleges are definitively unaffordable for many. It might not even take that long.

Economics 111

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2024

If there are people that are my physics professors that are significantly further to the left than I am, I do feel concerned about what happens if I do start to get more vocal with my advocacy.” — Benjamin Heinz “Especially in the humanities, you have professors who are not necessarily the arbiters of truth but trying to facilitate discussion and teach (..)

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2016

The education advocacy group the Committee for Education Funding, which opposes the cuts, calculates that they would reduce Pell spending by $78 billion over 10 years. “An Student advocacy groups oppose the funding changes. Having the institution have some skin in the game is an issue that is definitely worth looking at,” Foxx said.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

But on a more human level, they’re affecting how welcome students from all backgrounds and points of view feel at many colleges and universities. And a national gay advocacy organization says young LGBTQ students who have been harassed are twice as likely to say they don’t plan to go to college at all. Kirk: Yeah.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

No matter your political views, this is a crisis for American higher education, and its leaders are definitely paying attention. In fact, the problems we’re seeing, the patterns of behavior that we’re watching on campus now in really vivid form, are very fixed patterns of human behavior.

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Civics Cultures Political Science American History 88