ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

That’s according to the latest State of Computer Science Education report , released last week by the Code.org Advocacy Coalition, Computer Science Teachers Association, and the Expanding Computing Education Pathways Alliance. The report found that disparities in participation are the lowest in K-8 classes.

K-12 132

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

And for Williams, a higher education senior policy analyst at the advocacy group Education Trust, the personal is also professional. Now, he studies the impact of student loan debt on the ability of Black people to advance economically, he said. The ultimate goal is to close the racial wage gap.

Economics 133

Economics Advocacy Leadership Education Policy 133

Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 23, 2024

In awareness of the economic challenges our lower-salaried members face, the new dues structure does not raise rates at all, or only by very little, for these members. Your membership supports the Society’s goals of advancing the field of Classics through advocacy, growth and inclusion, and yet we haven’t raised dues for a decade now.

K-12 52

K-12 Advocacy Economics 52

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2024

Widespread improvements in educational equity and economic mobility will happen only when minority-serving and broad-access institutions receive our respect and support. Supporting and expanding these initiatives through advocacy and philanthropy would directly benefit the completion rates of historically marginalized students.

Education 84

Education Advocacy Economics Private School 84

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In the last few years, the American education system has been bludgeoned by changes that have upended decades of progress toward better academic, economic and social outcomes for all. We must do this through teaching, learning and advocacy — as well as social activism and civic engagement.

Civic Engagement 105

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ED Surge

MAY 30, 2024

This issue is not a social issue, it’s an economic issue and frankly, it’s a simple question of math,” Raimondo wrote in an emailed statement to The 19th. “If It’s why Department of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has focused on addressing barriers they have historically faced in these industries — and the most obvious barrier is child care.

Government 116

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ED Surge

JULY 26, 2022

The way we accommodate child care, and time for our loved ones, is both the greatest challenge and the greatest economic opportunity of our time,” Nooyi said, adding that it is a core challenge for employers. economic health and competitiveness, noted Reshma Saujani, founder and CEO of Marshall Plan for Moms in an interview.

Economics 123

Economics Advocacy Education EdTech 123

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 encouraged Black Americans to work as communities to create their own system of producers and consumers to fight against economic discrimination.

Museum 52

Museum Social Studies Advocacy History 52

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2020

Research shows low income families, and especially mothers, have not only been hit harder by the country’s economic collapse due to coronavirus, but also have largely been left out of federal relief packages , which means these conditions will likely get far worse. Programs & Advocacy.

Advocacy 121

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2022

The country’s next generation of leaders is pushing for racial equity, economic equality, disability justice and gender and sexual liberation; to succeed they will need the observational and analytical skills that can be developed by studying ideas, historical events, aesthetic works and cultural practices.

Social Justice 116

Social Justice Humanities Archival Research Archiving 116

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

He had to get help from an advocacy group called College Possible to pay his rent. An athlete while he was in college, Agyei had to work to pay some of his expenses and needed help from an advocacy group to keep paying his rent as his tuition increased. Your heart breaks that you can’t do more, but there are certain economic realities.

Advocacy 131

Advocacy Political Science Public School Economics 131

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Sonya Thomas, co-founder of the parent advocacy group Nashville PROPEL and a supporter of the law, said Tennessee’s renewed focus on reading was a long time coming, though her own children are now too old to benefit from it. percent of third graders held back or the more than 12,000 fourth graders who could be held back this spring.

Tutoring 102

Tutoring Advocacy Public School Economics 102

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.

Advocacy 113

Advocacy Economics Government Leadership 113

The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2024

The lawsuit , which was brought on behalf of current and former students by the nonprofit legal and advocacy organization Student Defense, accused La’ James of delaying financial aid payments and causing them financial hardship in violation of the Iowa Consumer Fraud Act.

Advocacy 84

Advocacy Economics Education 84

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Lozada, who is majoring in political science and minoring in economics, initially thought she’d be a lawyer, but she is now set on becoming an elected official. Their advocacy work has already begun, one high school senior at a time. “At Now, she plans to work as a health care manager in a hospital or medical center.

Advocacy 130

Advocacy High School Political Science Research 130

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

Related: Simpler FAFSA complicates college plans for students and families “As much staff as government has, it’s not enough for students right now,” said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the national advocacy group Complete College America. She wants colleges to do more to directly help applicants still struggling to fill out the forms.

Advocacy 129

Advocacy Library Government Public School 129

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.

History 92

History Teaching Civics Civic Engagement 92

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

Black, Hispanic and economically disadvantaged students are likely to be affected the most by the most recent version of the law. Children have been behind in literacy for decades,” said Sonya Thomas, the co-founder of the parent advocacy group Nashville PROPEL. But the older law left retention decisions up to districts.

Tutoring 105

Tutoring Elementary School K-12 Advocacy 105

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.

Teaching 145

Teaching K-12 Elementary School Advocacy 145

Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Adult education remains critical for workers who are looking to advance economically, including those in low-wage earning jobs, opportunity youth, immigrant-origin adults, and parent learners. The National Literacy Council’s website also has an extensive list of helpful resources for teaching and learning, programs, and advocacy.

Library 90

Library Education Advocacy Economics 90

A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Public schools are attended by students from various cultural, linguistic, and socio-economic backgrounds, having different assessed levels of cognitive and academic ability. In our attempt to identify these youngsters, we hope to better serve them through our advocacy for a school-wide framework to support their learning needs.

Leadership 260

Leadership K-12 Advocacy Public School 260

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

Lillian Pace, vice president of policy and advocacy, KnowledgeWorks. Home to the state’s largest school district, with nearly 60 percent of students considered economically disadvantaged, Manchester has consistently performed well below average on state achievement tests.

K-12 136

K-12 Advocacy Elementary School Tradition 136

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

We have to engage in a movement,” Susan Patrick, CEO of the nonprofit advocacy group known as iNACOL (International Association for K-12 Online Learning), told the cheering crowd of 3,000 true believers. No more simply “sitting on your butt in class,” as one educator put it. Why are we so stuck in an age-based, grade-based era?

Advocacy 88

Advocacy K-12 Tradition Economics 88

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

And then there are other social factors, such as economic precarity, a greater societal willingness to talk about mental health, so-called helicopter parenting, and the opioid epidemic, among many others. “I Are teens struggling because smartphone time is leading to less sleep ? Youth “all could use more support relationships.

Tradition 55

Tradition Advocacy Leadership Economics 55

ED Surge

MARCH 10, 2023

“It comes down to the curriculum — being able to talk about the Black experience in class, even if it is online, in almost every field, from economics to political science.” Digital tools may not fully convey the experience of going to HBCU football games and step shows, then. But college courses?

Education 105

Education Political Science Economics Advocacy 105

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2018

Leila Schochet, research and advocacy manager for Early Childhood Policy at the Center for American Progress, said Head Start is not only important for families, it’s also critical for rural economies. We know Head Start in rural communities is really important for promoting both healthy child development and family economic security.” .

Advocacy 105

Advocacy Economics Humanities Research 105

Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2020

Staying connected to students is especially critical for those whose families may be feeling the pandemic more acutely, whether family members are first responders or socio-economic factors make them particularly vulnerable. Emphasizing digital equity and advocacy. Connecting with families.

Library 109

Library K-12 Pedagogy Advocacy 109

Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Despite the heroic efforts of bloggers and school advocates, many educators STILL continue to be unaware of how think tanks, private foundations, corporations, astroturf groups, and government actors work together – often behind the scenes – to formulate harmful laws, policies, and advocacy campaigns. Related Posts. My son is 8.

Advocacy 99

Advocacy Economics Government Education 99

Digital Promise

AUGUST 29, 2017

According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), 36 million adults in this country read at or below a third grade level — a staggering statistic. It has spurred the publication of white papers, launch of incubators and conferences, as well as interest amongst journalists and advocacy groups.

Economics 68

Economics Advocacy Tradition Research 68

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2020

NEW YORK — Countless ideas about getting students to and through college have come from policymakers, lawmakers and any number of advocacy groups. But what if a solution comes from students themselves?

Advocacy 82

Advocacy Economics High School Education 82

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

The new Canada-wide system was “very much situated in the context of economic recovery,” said Morna Ballantyne, executive director of Child Care Now, an advocacy association in Canada. In 2021, the country’s leaders committed $30 billion (about $24 billion in U.S.

Heritage 145

Heritage Government Advocacy Economics 145

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

Rural districts tend to have a harder time recruiting school psychologists, said Kelly Vaillancourt Strobach, director of policy and advocacy for the National Association of School Psychologists. Trying to enter a field that makes you work for free for two years is impossible for some of our economically disadvantaged populations.”

Psychology 97

Psychology K-12 Economics High School 97

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

“It looks good from the curb, but when you get inside you see that Black and brown people are worse off economically than in West Virginia — and no one wants to talk about it,” says Frank Brown, who heads Communities in Schools of Atlanta, an organization that runs dropout-prevention programs in Atlanta Public Schools.

Public School 79

Public School Economics High School Advocacy 79

The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2019

His “quiet and relentless advocacy brought hundreds of African Americans into space industry jobs in the Deep South, helping to shift perceptions of black people in ways both subtle and profound,” wrote Michael Fletcher in the story. In that role, he actively recruited hundreds of black students into the space program.

Charter School 96

Charter School Advocacy Economics Government 96

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2022

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. At community colleges, nearly half the students quit after their first year.

Sociology 112

Sociology Political Science Advocacy Economics 112

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

From 2017-18 to 2021-22, districts with more economically disadvantaged students and Black and Latino students gave out more such suspensions per capita than their more affluent, whiter counterparts. Buffalo Public Schools assigned more than 2,200 long-term suspensions over those five years, the highest of any district that provided data.

Tutoring 96

Tutoring Middle School Economics High School 96

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

School administrators will have to explicitly address the racial biases and stereotyping that stifle black educators’ professional growth, argue researchers Ashley Griffin and Hilary Tackie in a new report from The Education Trust, a national nonprofit advocacy organization. Related: How do we stop the exodus of minority teachers?

Advocacy 99

Advocacy Cultures Economics Research 99