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

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The already converted policymakers, school leaders and teachers ready to transform traditional schooling came to this annual conference last week from around the world to share a common refrain: Out with the old. Photo: Austin Haeberle. NASHVILLE, Tenn. – No more simply “sitting on your butt in class,” as one educator put it. Getty Images.

Advocacy 87

Advocacy K-12 Tradition Economics 87

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

The strategy of adding career and technical education is being quietly rolled out by several traditional higher education institutions, including a growing number of liberal arts colleges that are responding to student and parent demands for a return on their tuition investment by adding practical training that has proven value to employers.

Tradition 123

Tradition Advocacy Economics Leadership 123

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 76

Economics Advocacy Tradition Research 76

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

In addition, 84 percent of students enrolled in public school were deemed economically disadvantaged in 2014. There’s a historical and cultural tradition of going where your family has been,” she said. However, without a deliberate effort to mix enrollees of free federal programs with paying students, we won’t get economic diversity.

Education 80

Education Charter School Private School Advocacy 80

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

These strategies range in impact and difficulty, and some have been more practiced in the children’s advocacy world than others. In Boston, these payments augment the traditional K-12 education system and help low-income children gain access to the middle class. Therefore, it is critical that no money be left on the table.

Government 64

Government K-12 Advocacy Leadership 64

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.

Advocacy 96

Advocacy High School Economics Tradition 96

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 97

Economics Junior High Advocacy Critical Thinking 97

MPSA

OCTOBER 12, 2021

While many students choose to tackle one of Wikipedia’s equity gaps, others focus on improving more traditional content. 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

Political Science Human Rights History Economics 52

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Traditional language learning in the U.S. Costel-Tudor Voica, a junior from Moldova majoring in economics, said that being in a class with native speakers was thrilling: “I can take my Chinese to the next level.”. is in trouble. Is this approach an answer? Most kids don’t want to become a linguist or get a Ph.D.

Heritage 88

Heritage Global Studies Advocacy Psychology 88

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

There is something of an annual tradition among New York City mayors and school chancellors. It’s very difficult to compare Rochester, Buffalo and Syracuse to New York City,” said Billy Easton, executive director of the Alliance for Quality Education (AQE), a left-leaning education advocacy group. Photo: Emmanuel Felton. SYRACUSE, N.Y.

Elementary School 66

Elementary School Tradition Charter School Advocacy 66

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Much of the advocacy for net-zero buildings has focused on environmental and economic incentives. Dozens of these ultra-green schools are going up in every sort of district – urban and rural, affluent and lower income, blue state and red state.

K-12 106

K-12 Elementary School Middle School Advocacy 106

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2023

I entered college in 1989 with an interest in human rights advocacy, planning to be a lawyer. Though they may not have the luxury of building from scratch, traditional universities could design degree pathways more like Minerva’s: interdisciplinary and project-based. I am a poster child for the English major.

Humanities 90

Humanities Advocacy Human Rights Social Science 90

Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 26, 2020

The role anthropologists play in facilitating economic growth, designing and implementation of specific policies and plans whether at the level of the state, donor agencies or indigenous social movements. There are several works anthropological in nature which focus on the social and cultural effects of economic change. Consultants 3.

Anthropology 130

Anthropology Economics Cultures Advocacy 130

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2023

For almost two years, we told families that school can look different and that schoolwork could be accomplished in times outside of the traditional 8-to-3 day. And the effects of online learning linger: School relationships have frayed, and after months at home, many parents and students don’t see the point of regular attendance.

Advocacy 75

Advocacy High School Tradition Elementary School 75

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Advocates argue that this will help to decouple institutional racial bias from life outcomes for children, such as their long-term physical health, economic status and educational success. “So She explains that her experiences as a parent whose son didn’t receive enough early care have helped to shape her advocacy.

EdTech 103

EdTech Education Social Justice Advocacy 103

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. They can earn a higher daily rate than traditional substitutes, or put the extra amount toward health benefits. Credit: Terra Fondriest for The Hechinger Report.

Elementary School 129

Elementary School High School Public School Advocacy 129

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 69

Advocacy Government Public School High School 69

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

2U has historically given colleges only the opportunity to partner through a traditional revenue share, in which it offers its full suite of services in exchange for a cut of the tuition. That’s substantially less than overseas undergraduates pay to attend the London School of Economics in person.

Education 56

Education Advocacy Political Science Economics 56

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

And given the former abundance of well-paying, blue-collar jobs in this corner of Indiana, the university is also up against a regional tradition that doesn’t necessarily place a high value on a college degree, she said. Debra Santiago, CEO, Excelencia in Education. But Debra Santiago, CEO of the D.C.-based

Social Justice 108

Social Justice High School Tutoring Advocacy 108

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. Instead of spending the fall semester watching a parade of instructors on his bedroom computer monitor, he decided to keep his job at a coffee shop and wait out the pandemic.

High School 145

High School Advocacy Economics Research 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

That argument can only help propel support for young Hispanics aspiring to go to college, said Deborah Santiago, co-founder and vice president for policy at the advocacy organization Excelencia in Education. “How well we do in providing more resources for minority students is really the key to how well all of us will do,” Murdock said.

K-12 102

K-12 Advocacy Government Economics 102

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2017

That argument can only help propel support for young Hispanics aspiring to go to college, said Deborah Santiago, co-founder and vice president for policy at the advocacy organization Excelencia in Education. “How well we do in providing more resources for minority students is really the key to how well all of us will do,” Murdock said.

Research 58

Research K-12 Archiving Advocacy 58

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

Metro Nashville Public Schools, a bureaucratic institution, runs the city’s traditional public schools. In traditional district schools, teachers teach the same curriculum through a one-size-fits-all approach. He is in the process of organizing an education advocacy group called P.O.W.E.R.

Charter School 142

Charter School Public School Elementary School Advocacy 142

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Education advocacy nonprofit Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools found that “[b]etween 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S. By making the connection between educational adequacy and equity, Warren’s policy breaks from the choice-driven reform movement that ignores the economic context in which children, families and schools reside.

Charter School 67

Charter School Education Education Policy Advocacy 67

The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

The Magnolia State’s road to economic recovery has been pitched as a matter of disinfecting workspaces, conducting daily temperature checks, encouraging social distancing and using masks to keep workers and customers safe — and staying patient as the state enters a painful recession. You’re stuck,” she said.

Advocacy 139

Advocacy Tradition Economics Public School 139

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

It’s where districts and schools decide to spend their money,” Worth, a veteran educator who has also taught in Greene County’s traditional public schools, explained. Many charters hire teachers who don’t belong to a teachers union or haven’t gone through a traditional teacher preparation program, for example.

Charter School 112

Charter School Tradition Public School K-12 112

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Even as many states, including politically conservative ones, have begun to invest in early learning, Idaho has resisted, with some far-right lawmakers arguing that more government intervention in education would only harm children and erode “traditional” values including the nuclear family. Yet that doesn’t reflect the reality of Idahoans.

Education 127

Education Government K-12 Advocacy 127

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Fueling the reforms and the funding behind them are a projected shortage of workers with the necessary degrees to fill the jobs of the future, a public backlash in response to budget cuts made during the recession and a concern that the state had been abandoning its long tradition of high-quality, low-cost education.

Education 97

Education Tutoring Advocacy Sociology 97

Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Protecting academic freedom and freedom of expression is crucial—especially given the widespread silencing of Palestinian human rights advocacy. These relationships call on older traditions of religious tolerance in the region. But doing so does not address the full extent of the problem.

Anthropology 128

Anthropology Human Rights Humanities Cultures 128

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. Keith Krueger, chief executive officer of the Consortium for School Networking, a technology advocacy group, calls the digital divide in the US “the civil rights issue” of our time.

K-12 81

K-12 Library High School Elementary School 81

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Fuller’s ideas revive a long-standing tradition of African-American educational self-reliance. To raise those funds Fuller often relies on a network of conservative school choice allies he has cultivated over the years, despite their support for social and economic policies that contribute to black impoverishment. The trade-off.

Charter School 98

Charter School Private School Heritage Social Justice 98

The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2016

“Once you agree to accept federal funds for anything, you have to comply with all federal laws,” said Donald Heller, provost at the University of San Francisco, whose research focuses on educational economics, public policy, and finance and who has testified to Congress about college access and financial aid.

Government 48

Government Human Rights K-12 Advocacy 48

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2023

That means coordinators avoid directing too many recipients into education, said Bryce McKibben, senior director of policy and advocacy at the Hope Center for College, Community and Justice at Temple University. But experts say that a degree or credential could help achieve that while generating other economic benefits for states.

Advocacy 108

Advocacy Government Economics US Government 108

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.”

Private School 145

Private School Heritage K-12 Tutoring 145

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.

Economics 109

Economics Education Policy Advocacy Humanities 109

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2020

Many Americans believe that attending a traditional four-year college is critical to obtaining economic success. Apprenticeships can help fill workforce demands while students earn a living wage, said Katie Spiker, director of government relations for the National Skills Coalition, an advocacy group for improved skills training.

Advocacy 109

Advocacy Tradition Economics Government 109