Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

According to Britannica, Du Bois published 16 research monographs and the first-ever case study of a U.S. 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. Black community.

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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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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

JUNE 11, 2020

Kids should be playing and learning and protected in an environment surrounded by family and friends,” said Nikki Gillette, a researcher with Save the Children. “So Programs & Advocacy. Programs & Advocacy, on a call with reporters. So when children are deprived of that, it launches them into adult roles far too soon.”.

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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

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

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. Yet the researcher also described the program as a “band aid.”

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Second, we advocate for the development of an action plan for educating the not-so-common learners that is research-based, achievable, and reaches beyond any current educational reform initiative for school improvement. Nonetheless, we contend that a concentration on the enhancement of teaching skills and strategies is not enough.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The measures that researchers have traditionally used to gauge adolescent well-being have become sharply out of step with the reality of adolescent life. “I Researchers have pointed to the introduction of smartphones — the iPhone was introduced in 2007 — and the rise of social media as the culprit. What happened then?

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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

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

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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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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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?

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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

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. The studies came just as the U.S.

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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 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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

said Miriam Jorgensen, research director for the Harvard Project on Indigenous Governance and Development. Kunesh, a descendant of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, has authored two bills that returned state land to tribes, each with a decade or more of advocacy behind it. Tony Incashola Jr., The justification for them is very old.

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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 More than one in five college students are parents , according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, and some 42 percent of them attend community colleges.

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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?”

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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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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. In some academic fields research is going global.

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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 6, 2017

But finishing in four years matters, because research shows that the longer it takes, the less likely a student is to make it to graduation. A quarter of students drop out after four years, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Some states’ figures are even higher. Missing one means waiting a full year.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

Erika Stump , a research associate at the Center for Education Policy, Applied Research and Evaluation at the University of Southern Maine, has written seven reports on proficiency-based education in the state. There was a sense that we needed to swing for the fences to make the economic transition the state needs to make.”. “In

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Much of the advocacy for net-zero buildings has focused on environmental and economic incentives. Right now, we have a lot of anecdotes,” said Seydel, “but the gold-standard research is not there.”. Starting in 2019, the plan is for all Discovery students to do sustainability audits, not just the Eco-Action club.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

Researchers at Stanford University recently set about solving this problem by creating a national database that uses a formula to put all the different state tests on a common scale. Researchers have linked suspensions with lost learning time and lower test scores.

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