The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

Around 60 percent of large school districts surveyed by the National Council on Teacher Quality, an advocacy group, increased pay for subs during the pandemic. Chad Golden, executive director of human resources, also added a position in his office dedicated to recruiting substitutes. Credit: Terra Fondriest for The Hechinger Report.

Elementary School 138

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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.

High School 101

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: The Center for American Progress report found that 66 percent of children enrolled in Head Start in Mississippi live in rural areas, where 55 percent of Head Start child care centers are located. Sign up for our Mississippi Learning newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

Advocacy 68

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Nearly half of first-generation students who did continue went to community colleges, which spend less per student than many public primary and secondary schools , and where the odds of ever graduating are also comparatively low. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

High School 94

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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 14, 2023

It’s unfair, it’s discriminatory, and it disadvantages already economically disadvantaged kids,” said Jack Fletcher, co-founder of the Texas Center for Learning Disabilities in Houston and one of the first scientists to question the discrepancy model’s validity. Dyslexia is the most common reading disability.

Psychology 145

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2020

But now the professional degree that could propel her entire family toward the economic stability they had never known was vanishing from sight. “I These declines confirm worries that poor and minority students are being left even further behind, their problems exacerbated by the economic devastation of the coronavirus.

Economics 114

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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. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

Heritage 99

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2017

Despite concerns from students, parents, and advocacy organizations, the tool will remain non-operational until the next FAFSA season begins this fall. If research is any indication, removing access to the Data Retrieval Tool could substantially drive down college enrollment among low-income students.

Advocacy 63

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: But after years working seasonal jobs sorting equipment at the local Ford plant and dealing blackjack at nearby casinos, Perez wanted to rise to a management position — and she couldn’t without a bachelor’s degree. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

Social Justice 110

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

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Rural colleges have always had trouble attracting instructors in most disciplines, but the outlook is particularly bleak in vocational programs. Related: Economics, culture and distance conspire to keep rural nonwhites from higher educations. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

Advocacy 64

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ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2024

The job fairs are already at capacity — the company has an attractive offer of benefits, a 401(k), and paid time off — and expects more than 750 new jobs to come to the area , including in manufacturing, operations, human resources and administrative roles. But we don’t have the child care infrastructure to support this,” Gale says. “If

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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. Some states’ figures are even higher. The process is overwhelming, with thousands of classes.

Archaeology 78

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Some 2,400 districts — from regions synonymous with economic hardship to big cities and prosperous suburbs — did not report having even one homeless student despite levels of financial need that make those figures improbable. Advocacy groups and researchers , too, have surfaced examples.

Advocacy 76

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

Area Educators for Social Justice has secured the following co-sponsors for this year, in addition to the co-host, the African American Civil War Museum and Memorial.

Teaching 52

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ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2023

That little girl went on to study math and economics in college, then became a math teacher and a teacher-coach. And that was another real experience that showed me what advocacy can do. So it’s advocacy that really changed my life. The goal is for] girls just being able to bring their full humanity to the space.

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MPSA

OCTOBER 12, 2021

They expanded the entries on the Constitution of Ghana as well as Human rights in Ethiopia. Students in a course on International Politics expanded the article on Complex interdependence , the idea that states are growing increasingly connected through economic relationships.

Political Science 52

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

Todd Ziebarth, senior vice president for state advocacy and support at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, says that, in some parts of the country, organizations that oversee charters have started to take a more active role in ensuring that the schools enroll a diverse student body. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Even though universal preschool programs are more expensive because they serve more children, Cascio found that these programs were also more cost-effective because low-income students did so much better. The effect on math scores is also positive but not statistically significant, Cascio said.

Advocacy 112

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

One in five Greeley residents lives below the poverty level, and the school district is trying to upgrade its technology to give students an economic boost. Lisette Martinez worked on a house for Habitat for Humanity during her senior year at Jefferson High School in Greeley, Colo., The national average is about $12,000 per student.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Human rights experts and activists have named the situation in Palestine “ scholasticide ” or “ educide ,” terms that refer to the systematic destruction of a people’s educational system. Protecting academic freedom and freedom of expression is crucial—especially given the widespread silencing of Palestinian human rights advocacy.

Anthropology 130

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

What followed were a series of ultimate insider jobs that culminated with heading the county’s Department of Health and Human Services from 1988 to 1991 and then serving as Milwaukee’s school superintendent from 1991 to 1995. I knew that to some I would be seen as ‘a sellout,’ ” Fuller writes in his memoir, “No Struggle, No Progress.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

percent for the European Union, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development , which tracks international economic trends. McNitt and Gottlieb, who sit at different points on the economic spectrum, agreed that more government assistance with the cost of high-quality child care would have helped them.

Economics 96

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

We see this hierarchy of human worth playing out now in Gaza and the West Bank, as Israeli government ministers call Palestinians “human animals.” Jews for Racial & Economic Justice’s “ Understanding Antisemitism: An Offering to Our Movement.” This dehumanization fuels violence and oppression.

Teaching 52

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

Department of Health and Human Services deems “affordable.” While existing economic segregation means that a universal preschool wouldn’t serve a perfect mix of lower- and upper-income families, it would be more mixed than the current system, which clusters children living in poverty. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

K-12 92

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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.

Government 50

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2019

And the United States remains stubbornly in 13th place in the world in the proportion of its 25- to 34-year-olds with degrees , according to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, behind South Korea, Canada, Japan, Russia, Ireland, Lithuania, Norway and other countries. It might not even take that long.

Economics 110

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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 (..)

Education 123

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2024

Barbara Mikulski, a Democrat from Maryland, worked with members of the child care advocacy community to draft bipartisan legislation that would, for the first time, establish national safety standards for child care. “After that, you can’t just close your eyes and walk away,” said Sims, who was then a senior staffer for former Sen.

Advocacy 113

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

It’s because they tap into a universal human need for safety, belonging, purpose, and order. As an anthropologist interested in warfare and its impact on human societies, I set out in 2021 to conduct a year of ethnographic research on gun activism and county militias in Virginia.

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