Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 24, 2015

Learning and teaching and schooling MUST do a better job of being relevant to our new information, economic, and learning landscapes. You deserve the strongest support and advocacy that leadership can provide. Every single one of us needs to be dreaming much bigger when it comes to our students and schools. Question everything.

Leadership 106

Leadership Advocacy Economics Humanities 106

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 130

Social Justice Humanities Archival Research Critical Thinking 130

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

Lillian Pace, vice president of policy and advocacy, KnowledgeWorks. There is real appetite for something more whole-child, more comprehensive, more longitudinal, that really informs [teacher] practice,” he said, adding, “Competency-based assessment does a much better job, frankly, of really informing practice.”. And Daniel A.

K-12 143

K-12 Advocacy Elementary School Tradition 143

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 140

Advocacy Political Science Public School High School 140

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. It’s important to inform hard-to-reach and undercounted groups and communities that the 2020 Census process can be quick, easy, and safe.

Library 90

Library Education Advocacy Economics 90

Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Watching includes the acts of staying informed and of being a participant observer. The declining economic value of routine cognitive work. Naming includes the willingness to label things as they really are. The example she used was the so-called ‘alt-right.’ Image credit: I’m watching you… , Christine Krizsa. Related Posts.

Advocacy 99

Advocacy Economics Government Education 99

Political Science Now

APRIL 9, 2025

In this workshop, the co-leaders will support early career researchers in considering the utility and sharpening the application of mixed methods approaches to key political economy questions including, but not limited to, such topics as redistribution, democratization, economic policy, unionization, and social policy.

Civic Engagement 46

Civic Engagement Civics Economics Professional Development 46

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. Information. In that role, he actively recruited hundreds of black students into the space program.

Charter School 106

Charter School Advocacy Economics Government 106

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 108

Advocacy Cultures Economics Research 108

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. This is information I’m trying to figure out.

Tutoring 129

Tutoring Elementary School K-12 Advocacy 129

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

Anyone who has dealt with the FAFSA knows how needlessly complicated and unreliable it can be: In the midst of back-to-back college application season for my two kids, the site kept kicking us out, then losing the previous information we’d painstakingly provided. A bipartisan law passed in 2020 initiated a complete overhaul of the FAFSA.

Advocacy 142

Advocacy Library Government Public School 142

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.

High School 111

High School Economics Psychology Political Science 111

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

It’s interesting that students here at MSU are concerned about investments but haven’t once reached out to our investment office, requested information or asked for a meeting,” said Philip Zecher, Michigan State’s chief investment officer. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum that focuses on economic policy.

Library 104

Library Sociology Economics Museum 104

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Unlike after previous economic downturns, state spending on higher education has not bounced back as the economy rebounds. One nonprofit advocacy group calculates that 10 states spend more on employee pensions than on higher education; in Illinois, more than half of the $4.1 It’s improved only slightly since.

Education 105

Education Political Science Advocacy Economics 105

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. For example, in Canada, non-licensed, home-based providers have been left out of the system, as have other, more informal kinds of care.

Heritage 145

Heritage Government Advocacy Economics 145

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2021

In Virginia, where enrollment fell by 13 percent , researchers found equal declines among families of different socio-economic status. Some basic information would be useful to schools. When measured by race, however, the largest declines were among white families. For some kids, it may take a bit longer than six weeks. “We

Tutoring 135

Tutoring Advocacy Research Economics 135

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

The education provisions of the law’s definition of homeless — “individuals who lack a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence” — encompasses unaccompanied and unsheltered youth, students in homeless shelters, kids living at a hotel or motel and children staying with friends or family due to economic hardship.

Elementary School 136

Elementary School Government Advocacy Public School 136

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

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. The economic incentive for middle-class American parents to send their child to a free public preschool is clear.

K-12 89

K-12 Government Economics Public School 89

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 112

Tutoring Middle School High School Economics 112

The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2017

Through a connection with the IRS, the tool automatically takes information from an applicant’s tax return and fills in the relevant sections on the FAFSA. Without access to the tool, applicants must transcribe information from old returns or wait several weeks to receive tax transcripts from the IRS.

Advocacy 66

Advocacy Economics High School Government 66

ED Surge

JUNE 7, 2023

I interviewed five women — all Central American immigrants — in Spanish, and with support from Early Edge California , a statewide policy and advocacy organization I interned for, I paid each participant a stipend for their time. There are millions of FFN providers. Martinez volunteered to be a community representative. “In

Government 101

Government Advocacy Economics History 101

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

based advocacy group Excelencia in Education, said universities need to go beyond that sort of passive outreach, especially for students who may be hesitant to seek out help. “We At IU Northwest, in the absence of these kinds of programs, some Latinx students have created their own informal peer cohorts.

Social Justice 111

Social Justice High School Tutoring Advocacy 111

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. And many more districts are likely undercounting the number of homeless students they do identify.

Advocacy 86

Advocacy Government Public School High School 86

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Much of the advocacy for net-zero buildings has focused on environmental and economic incentives. On other days, they brainstorm math problems using information from the many placards lining Discovery’s hallways, offering scientific facts about native songbirds, the ecology of Virginia’s forests, the ocean or the galaxy.

K-12 111

K-12 Elementary School Middle School Advocacy 111

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Related: Colleges provide misleading information about their costs. The company also announced a partnership in August with the University of London and the London School of Economics and Political Science to offer a Bachelor of Science degree in data science and business analytics for $25,000.

Education 73

Education Advocacy Economics Political Science 73

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

Logistical hurdles, resistance from teachers fed up with top-down reforms, confusion about exactly what the law requires, and missing information about how districts will be judged on their compliance are among the challenges that come with overhauling the state’s high schools. Chris Sturgis, co-founder, CompetencyWorks.

Education 0

Education High School K-12 Economics 0

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The condition impedes a person’s ability to process written information and can negatively affect their career and well-being. The dyslexia advocacy community has in some states also been predominantly white and financially privileged, with low-income families and parents of color more likely to fear the stigma of a disability diagnosis.

Psychology 145

Psychology Elementary School High School Humanities 145

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Or are they exposed to information via social media that is leading to a greater sense of anxiety and depression? 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.

Tradition 60

Tradition Advocacy Leadership Economics 60

Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

As the authors debated, drafted, and shaped the meaning and purpose of this book, the following questions came to the forefront: How does democratic erosion in the United States inform our teaching of political engagement? What is the long-term ambition for these schools?

Political Science 55

Political Science Civics Civic Engagement K-12 55

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2016

There’s an economic imperative for them to do this,” Ebdon said in the library-quiet headquarters of the Office for Fair Access in London’s Chancery Lane legal district. There’s an economic imperative for them to do this.”. That’s up from six times more likely in 1970. Even the highest-income U.S. Men in the U.K.

Government 64

Government Economics High School Advocacy 64

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2017

I’ve had guests from all industries offering information and advice on marketing, taxes, legal matters, finance, technology, exporting, and more. Tim Sullivan , formerly with the SBA Office of Advocacy and the Bipartisan Policy Center, but more recently represented the U.S. Stroll down memory lane.

Advocacy 42

Advocacy Economics Government 42

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

And while not all states have publicly accessible lessee information with land-use records, of the ones that did, Grist and High Country News found that at least four other tribes also lease nearly 11,000 acres, combined, on their own reservations: the Southern Ute Tribe, Navajo Nation, Pueblo of Laguna, and Zuni Tribe. They want the land.”

Government 87

Government Public School K-12 Cultures 87

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. Accessing reliable information. Emphasizing digital equity and advocacy. Connecting with families.

Library 147

Library K-12 Pedagogy Advocacy 147

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. EdSurge: Please tell us about your own journey as a young student in math and how that informs your work today. And that was another real experience that showed me what advocacy can do.

Advocacy 110

Advocacy K-12 Humanities Teaching 110

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.

High School 145

High School Advocacy Economics Research 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

They were among 450 students, teachers, preachers, child advocates and social justice activists from across the country who gathered for the Children’s Defense Fund’s 23rd Annual Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry. They get a deeper understanding of advocacy,” she said.

History 82

History Teaching Social Justice Advocacy 82

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2017

Most involve individual school districts teaming up with nearby colleges and universities and use public money, private contributions or a combination of support, and with varying income and academic requirements, the advocacy organization College Promise says. Martha Kanter, former U.S.

High School 74

High School Economics Advocacy Research 74