ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

The other is creating belonging at NAEYC, a professional and advocacy organization with nearly 60,000 members across its 52 affiliates. “I Events and professional development moved to a virtual setting. So Kang is listening. That’s one of the two priorities weighing heavily on her mind.

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OCTOBER 24, 2016

They are releasing a flurry of policy papers and hosting events meant to persuade states to try new models of education. States must submit plans for how they will measure and improve student achievement to the federal government in the spring. Most are trying to figure it out.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The Executive Director provides leadership and vision; gives strategic advice to the governing officials and committees and implements their goals; communicates with members; manages the staff and budget, oversees all Association activities; and represents the Association to the outside world.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2024

I’ll get back to you,’ ” said Marjorie Sims, managing director of Ascend at the Aspen Institute, one of a growing number of research, policy and advocacy organizations focusing on student-parents. “Ask community college presidents what percentage of their students are parents, and they’ll say, ‘That’s a really good question.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 9, 2025

Our in-person events are held on the Wednesday prior to the APSA Annual Meeting. There is currently a concerted effort at the local, state, and federal levels of government to undermine, discredit, and discourage those tasked with teaching and studying black politics. APSA sponsors in-person and virtual dissertation workshops annually.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Educating families : The initiative hosts open houses, sets up tables at community events, and has published advertisements across television, radio and social media outlets to help families learn about available high-quality seats in their neighborhoods. It’s really just flooding them with support,” Kelly said.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

What a horrific false choice,” said Morgan Craven, the national director of policy, advocacy and community engagement at the Intercultural Development Research Association, a San Antonio-based group that advocates for bans on corporal punishment. Advocates wonder why the federal government hasn’t stepped in to quash the practice entirely.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. The federal government has played a role in the growth of these charters by granting charter startup grants to schools without considering whether they will lead to increased segregation. Board of Education decision. Some black families, however, did join the school.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

As the government has weaponized antiterror laws and foreign funding directives to arrest activists and shut down civil society organizations, scholars contend that no country is a better exemplar of our global democratic recession than India. Both of his electoral victories have been achieved with record turnouts.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2017

Nearly $500 million is restricted to use only in the event of a funding shortfall. The government could use it to give larger scholarships or grants to students in state universities, colleges and technical schools. Altogether, the state has more than $1 billion in reserves for the HOPE Scholarship and pre-K programs. It’s our money.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

The Puerto Rican rate is from 2009-2010, the latest available in a territory whose government produces few up-to-date statistics, and which federal counts often don’t include; experts say it’s likely only gotten lower since then. Department of Education says. A counselor advises a high school student at Kinesis headquarters in San Juan.

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MPSA

JUNE 11, 2021

They created the article on the Villagization of Ethiopia , a largely unsuccessful and ultimately detrimental attempt by the Ethiopian government in the 1980s to reform agriculture. While many students take on specific events, places, and persons, others have tackled broader, more general topics.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2024

Kirk: Well, in the wake of Mount Ida, education officials in Massachusetts created a so-called financial stress test for colleges like the one the federal government launched for banks after the 2008 recession. State agencies should be requiring institutions to have plans in place in the event that a closure happens. What’s that?

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Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

Murray, Weber State University (Presenter) Allison Rank, SUNY, Oswego State Session Description: Democratic erosion in the United States—rendered vivid in the events of January 6, 2021—as well as the global decline of democratic regimes should push us to reflect on how we introduce politics to students.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

Related: Government data single out schools where low-income students fare worst. After about 45 minutes, the students filed out and collected the free pizza that had helped to lure as many of them to the event as possible. based policy and youth-advocacy organization. Heads nodded.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The event often felt like a pep rally for options beyond traditional school districts, where enrollment fell in the pandemic and is expected to drop another five percent by 2031. The Network for Public Education, an advocacy group, last month published an interactive feature chronicling “voucher scams.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

Instead it is often up to people like Bazemore, other PTA board members and school staff to donate their own money to cover membership fees, buy lunches during teacher appreciation week or help families afford tickets to attend special events. “We Everyone wanted to do right by the kids. Credit: Kam Yee. Credit: Dawn Larson.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2024

At an event called Youth Votefest, near the Republican National Convention, young adults gathered to learn about how to mobilize their peers to vote. Yet several offered ideas for increasing unity on campus and said they believe it’s still possible. What follows are some of my questions and their replies. My mom is a single mother.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 14, 2025

and Grace Doherty Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs was marked by his contributions to political theory, public administration, and race and politics. He was deeply engaged in public service and community advocacy, lending his voice and expertise to advance policies aimed at creating a more equitable society.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Lori Raineri, president of the Sacramento-based independent public consulting company Government Financial Strategies, says she frequently hears from school district leaders who relied on relationships, referrals or marketing to choose their financial team but lack the quantitative expertise to evaluate the advice they get.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2021

Government Accountability Office. Structural reinforcements to protect against catastrophic weather events are not. And, as in Seward, many communities struggle to cover school facility maintenance costs without help from the state or federal government, which have long been parsimonious. In October 2020, it took $209.82

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2022

Former teacher Emily McMahan Teachers Are Not OK For months, advocacy groups, including the National Education Association, the country’s largest union, have been driving home the point that teachers are not OK. After events, teachers and principals would flag her down in the parking lot. I didn’t have time to exercise.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

He also worked for the US government, polygraphing German prisoners of war during World War II, as well as hundreds of employees of the top-secret uranium production facility at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. His advocacy for the polygraph backfired when he testified in defense of James Frye , a Black man who had recanted a murder confession.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

She said it was confusing, poorly written, and not vetted by the board’s legal counsel (instead it was reviewed by the anti-LGBTQ Christian legal advocacy group, Alliance Defending Freedom). Hall’s campaign signs were later tagged with rainbow stickers. The policy ended up passing 4-0. Related: Florida just expanded school vouchers — again.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2024

Free speech is a vital liberty that the American Civil Liberties Union has fought to protect at all levels of government, on campuses and across society for over 100 years. These events have caused inconceivable pain to many and will have untold effects on our collective future.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Jamar McKneely (background) tours a science and technology event at Edna Karr High School, one of the schools in his InspireNOLA charter school network. Like McKneely, some educators, government officials and policy experts around the country say the coronavirus carries lessons for another global crisis of our time, climate change.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

Approximately 18 educators and community leaders in Russellville, many of them with knowledge of the events, told me that Grimes’ support for the growing English learner population was key to his loss of support among top city leadership. Those events took place long before Dr. Grimes came to Russellville.”

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2024

Many we selected because they had made headlines for banning library books; others we chose because government records showed they had purchased web filters or because they were mentioned by students interviewed for this article. She now serves as the policy and advocacy director for SIECUS, a national nonprofit advocating for sex education.

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ED Surge

MAY 7, 2025

Though AHA researchers stress they found no indoctrination, politicization or deliberate classroom malpractice, the heavy-handed political rhetoric from the White House harms teachers, says Emma Humphries, a former history teacher and now chief education officer at the civics advocacy group iCivics. We feel so polarized right now.

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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.” A social studies teacher uses conflicting narratives to engage students in studying the history of Palestine and Israel, focusing on the events of 1948. government. ”; and more.

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Teaching K-12 Human Rights Social Justice 52

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2019

Park Guthrie (upper left), founder of Schools for Climate Action, believes that government inaction on climate change is a form of child neglect and argues that educational organizations have a responsibility to press Congress to do something. But after attending an advocacy event in Washington two years later, and hearing that the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2025

The billions in aid that the federal government spent to help students recover had some modest impact , but students are still behind where they would have been academically. I got to go to sporting events, and I even became a tour guide. Focusing on that self-advocacy component, that is crucial for that population.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2025

Now, this work is under threat because of cuts by the Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE. There are things that the Department of Education does that probably should be better left to the states, or, quite frankly, the federal government shouldn’t be involved in, he said. Many of those data collections were canceled.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Political scientist Barbara Walter tracks the phenomenon of rising anti-government violence in regions around the globe in her book How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them. The impact of such events, ranging from joblessness to heartbreak or a death, often left the prospective members feeling alone, alienated, and/or in search of a purpose.

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