ED Surge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As the math educator in residence at Just Equations, a nonprofit focused on the intersection of math and equity, I research math education and I think a lot about my years in the classroom. In one of the lessons , students accessed the Agriculture Department’s Food Access Research Atlas to locate food deserts in their city.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

We were able to get more families and children access to quality early learning, while supporting families to get back into the workforce, providing that economic benefit and the need that businesses in our community have, Jones said. That same thinking must be applied to the people you're trying to convince to vote for this.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Brian Johnsrud Director of Education Learning and Advocacy, Adobe Recently, EdSurge spoke with Brian Johnsrud , the director of education learning and advocacy at Adobe , about using educational tools that not only harness the power of AI but also uphold the creative integrity of students and teachers.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Brian Johnsrud Global Head of Education Learning and Advocacy at Adobe The past two years have witnessed a notable surge in the use of artificial intelligence within education, marked by increased investment, deployment and integration into various educational practices. How would you respond to that?

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

“The average amount of tuition is going to be more than the actual voucher, not to mention transportation and uniform costs,” said Nik Nartowicz, state policy counsel for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a legal advocacy group. It makes complete economic sense,” Lewis said. “If This doesn’t help low-income families.”

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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. What does the research say? Well, there is something of a movement, despite an array of challenges.

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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. We become the representative for all of those children.”.

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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. It’s important that children have access to safe and quality childcare while their parents are working,” Schochet said.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

That’s similar to retention rates in previous years — a report from the Tennessee Education Research Alliance shows that around 1 percent of third graders were held back each school year between 2010 to 2020. But of the roughly 44,000 third grade students who scored low enough to be at risk of retention, just under 900 students , or 1.2

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

Already down by 22 percent between 2010 and 2020, or by more than 650,000 students, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, it has fallen by another 7 percent since then, more recent figures from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center show. Eighty-six percent have to borrow toward a bachelor’s degree.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Researchers characterized this subset of students as “non-submitters.” “Non-submitters” It’s one relevant to past research about barriers preventing students from enrolling in college, said Taylor Odle, an assistant professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and co-author of the “non-submitters” study.

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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. Research says if students are behind in reading by the end of third grade, they are unlikely to ever catch up with their peers. The research on retention is mixed. Because I email, I call.

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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.

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ED Surge

MAY 30, 2024

The grant money comes from the CHIPS and Science Act, which passed in 2022 and includes $50 billion to expand semiconductor manufacturing and research in the United States. 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

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2021

It’s the pig in the python,” said Steven Barnett, co-director of the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER). In Virginia, where enrollment fell by 13 percent , researchers found equal declines among families of different socio-economic status. Related: Where have all the kindergarteners gone?

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Political Science Now

APRIL 9, 2025

Comparative & Multi-Method Approaches within Political Economy Research Comparative scholars increasingly draw upon a variety of methods to investigate key questions raised by political economies across the global community. The workshop is open to participants who utilize two or more methodologies of any nature within their thesis.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2020

Related: Canceled research, sports, recitals — college students are coping with more than closed campuses. Nearly 4 in 10 college and university students transfer at least once , according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Many never get that far and just drop out.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

Eboni Walker, executive director of the Hoffman Early Learning Center, is currently recruiting “families who value the research that shows children learn best in these diverse environments.”. We want families who value the research that shows children learn best in these diverse environments.”. This effort does that.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2018

Norphlet-Thompson said that in Mississippi’s rural, under-resourced, economically challenged communities, Head Start is critical for providing child care as well as medical care that children may not otherwise receive.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2023

I entered college in 1989 with an interest in human rights advocacy, planning to be a lawyer. I am a poster child for the English major. I quickly fell in love with poetry in a class I’d somewhat randomly taken on John Keats and William Butler Yeats.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

In a survey conducted by Quest Research and the Kaplan test-prep company, they were four times more likely to say they’d hire an English major with a credential in cybersecurity than an English major without one. Only 26 percent of working U.S. Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report. Fifteen U.S. Only 26 percent of working U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

It is a research-based approach that experts say is essential for helping children — especially those who struggle — learn to read. Related: What parents need to know about the research on how kids learn to read. Erin Roberts, a teacher leadership specialist. 1 in the nation for growth in reading. It sounds complicated because it is.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

“No one has ever asked them that,” said Julio Garcia, a consulting senior research psychologist at Stanford who studies how assumptions people make about them — largely based on stereotypes — have as much of an impact on the success of students as their aptitude and preparation. . “Where do you want to go to college?”

High School 105

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2019

Bob Casey (D-PA) tweeted , “No child should have to imagine the horror of being ripped away from their parents because their family is struggling economically.” million in missing resources ,” according to a 2015 report on education funding by the nonprofit advocacy group EdTrust. For a 1,000-student high school, it means $1.2

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

Research continues to show the harmful impact of housing instability on kids’ learning: Each time students switch schools, for example, they are more likely to fall behind academically and less likely to graduate. Low-income housed students, meanwhile, performed much better.

Elementary School 137

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

It’s also the only way we are going to reach an actual inclusive economic recovery.”. Women’s share of construction trades jobs increased from about 3 percent to 4 percent over the past five or so years, according to Ariane Hegewisch, a senior research fellow at the nonprofit Institute for Women’s Policy Research.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

They say this research shows that there are almost four times more part-time than full-time faculty members but part-timers collectively get about one-tenth of the money the colleges spend on instruction. The default position, of course, among academics is to research issues and to publish findings.”. We pay for the school.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2022

More than a quarter of students dropped out between their first and second years in college in 2020, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center — the highest level in nearly a decade. At community colleges, nearly half the students quit after their first year. A hold would be placed, and then another hold,” Capp said.

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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.

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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 94

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

were underfunded by $580 billion in federal dollars alone — money that was specifically targeted to support 30 million of our most vulnerable students,” says a new report published by the education advocacy nonprofit, the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools. “Between 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S.

Advocacy 85

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

And graduate students are as much as six times more likely to suffer mental health problems than the general population, according to new research. The National Association of Graduate-Professional Students and other advocacy groups are lobbying Congress to mandate training for graduate mentors and advisors. Graduate students at St.

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