The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Indeed in 2016 the federal government designated Tennessee’s VR grant “high risk” for most of the year, due to the state’s repeated inability to track how much money was being spent and on what. If you support people with disabilities in jobs that they want to do, they will actually be much less dependent on government services.”.

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MAY 20, 2024

Mysa’s tuition costs parents who don’t receive aid around $20,000 a year, comparable to what it costs the government to educate a student in a public school. The COVID-19 pandemic drove a big increase in homeschooled students, according to Johns Hopkins University’s Homeschool Hub , a collection of homeschooling research and resources.

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AUGUST 12, 2022

This week, the Aspen Institute announced its 2022 Ascend fellows, a cohort of 22 individuals hailing from a range of disciplines including medicine, research, entrepreneurship, government and policy, and nonprofit leadership and advocacy. The local level is where the rubber meets the road.

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JULY 28, 2023

” Credit: Noah Willman for the Hechinger Report The rules that govern these barriers to entry are patchwork, scattered across federal, state and regulatory codes, and they can vary from field to field within a state. Caitlin Dawkins, co-director for the national re-entry resource center at the American Institutes for Research.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 14, 2025

I have fond memories of him regularly calling the APSA Office to share his latest research or to inquire about a recent program announcement. From 1969 to 1972, Holden served on the Social Science Research Council board and held a part-time position on the Presidents Air Quality Advisory board in 1972. Congressional Record.

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MAY 28, 2024

The research firm Mathematica found that, by the end of 2022, the program’s initial payments had increased child care employment levels in Washington by about 100 additional educators, or 3 percent. Early data suggests that the pay equity program has helped the city hire, recruit and retain child care employees. A classroom at Educare DC.

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government. Things … the government does affect us, but we can’t vote,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2017

New research shows that failing to get more Hispanics to go to college will lower incomes for all Americans. This story from the Hechinger archive lays out what researchers project will happen if there is not an increase in the number of nonwhites going to and through college. And they’ll all be hurtling toward college age.

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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. Meanwhile, he noticed that his bills from the college kept going up. Miguel Agyei.

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AUGUST 1, 2021

They point to dismal scores on national history and civics exams — less than 25 percent scored as proficient — as proof that schools need to spend more time teaching students core facts about our system of government, and warn that civics projects are displacing that instruction.

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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. People in more stable situations have an easier time getting help,” he said.

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MARCH 22, 2021

Students who have paid off all but a small number of completed classes can nonetheless have their entire transcripts held back, said Rebecca Maurer, counsel at the nonprofit advocacy group the Student Borrower Protection Center. A coalition of advocacy groups in New York is encouraging a measure there like California’s.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Districts have taken a wide range of approaches, as documented by the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, a nonprofit that studies how government policies impact low-income families.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2018

“When these programs were designed, it was an acknowledgment that there were low-income students who had need, and of the importance of going to college,” said Carrie Warick, director of policy and advocacy at the nonpartisan National College Access Network. Carrie Warick, director of policy and advocacy, National College Access Network.

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OCTOBER 9, 2024

One out of 10 Black students in the eighth grade math scores were scoring basic or above,” saidKristen Hengtgen, a senior policy analyst at the nonprofit advocacy group EdTrust, referring to last year’s National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the Nation’s Report Card. Mims has helped develop similar models in Florida and Texas.

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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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2020

In a survey released in October by the American Institutes for Research, 73 percent of school districts said the pandemic had made it more challenging to accommodate students with disabilities. Not all districts have complied, said Dustin Rynders, a supervising attorney with the advocacy group Disability Rights Texas. “In

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Kennedy School of Government, Victoria Dzindzichashvili pauses in the Harvard Square subway station and reflects on the decade it took her to get here. But not every student can make the leap to full-time status, said Karen Stout, president of the nonprofit advocacy group Achieving the Dream; many have neither the money nor the time.

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Beginning in the 1960s, with extensive foreign aid, the Tibetan exile government in India built an infrastructure of Tibetan medium schools specifically for Tibetan refugee children. The translocal nature of Tibetan diasporic kinship bonds has a history that extends beyond current transnational migrations.

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OCTOBER 27, 2016

New research shows that failing to get more Hispanics to go to college will lower incomes for all Americans. By 2060, more K-12 students will be Hispanic than any other race — 38 percent — while the proportion that is white drops from half to one third, according to projections by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin.

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OCTOBER 31, 2020

Ary Amerikaner, vice president for P-12 policy, practice and research at The Education Trust, which fights for more equitable spending in schools, has long sought to draw attention to the variation in per-student spending within school districts. Related: A decade of research on the rich-poor divide in education. That’s a problem.

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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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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

“We don’t need to panic,” said Cory Koedel, a University of Missouri economist who presented his preliminary findings at a conference of the National Center for the Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) in January 2019. “If percent of the students are in public assistance programs.

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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 7, 2023

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. Children have been behind in literacy for decades,” said Sonya Thomas, the co-founder of the parent advocacy group Nashville PROPEL. Because I email, I call.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Students who obtain a two-year associate’s degree typically complete a whopping 22 excess credits, according to a July 2017 report by Complete College America , an advocacy group that tracks these figures. Taxpayers incur additional costs because 60 percent of community college budgets are subsidized by state and local governments.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

When devising a definition of “reading disability” based on the population of nine- to 11-year-olds on the island, the researchers distinguished between poor readers who read at levels predicted by their IQs and those who did not, looking for evidence of dyslexia only in those in the latter group. The studies came just as the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

Schools were unable to cover teacher absences some 20 percent of the time in 2018-19, according to the Frontline Research and Learning Institute , a research firm. The federal government provided billions of dollars to help schools recover from Covid, and some tapped that money for temporary stipends to attract new substitutes.

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MARCH 28, 2023

I entered college in 1989 with an interest in human rights advocacy, planning to be a lawyer. I managed people, built schools, designed programs and lobbied at the highest levels of government; I raised money from philanthropy and created complex strategic plans. I am a poster child for the English major.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The reasons include a federal law so little-known that people charged with implementing it often fail to follow the rules; nearly non-existent enforcement of the law by federal and state governments; and funding so meager that districts have little incentive to survey whether students have stable housing. 17, 2022.

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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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Political Science Now

AUGUST 12, 2024

She earned her PhD from the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin and her Juris Doctorate from Oklahoma City University. Her work focuses on the intersection of elite advocacy, courts, and public policy. Read more about the funded projects here: Read more about the funded projects here.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2022

It’s a sign of fraught times for these schools and for the training boot camps that offer ISAs, with lawsuits mounting, federal and state governments imposing restrictions and students reporting mixed satisfaction. There’s another reason for Back a Boiler’s pause: clampdowns by the federal government on certain schools that offer ISAs.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2019

Researchers and school leaders have long used eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch under the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) as a proxy for measuring the level of poverty in a school or district. The federal government subsidizes breakfast for close to 12.5 percent of their white counterparts.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

Research suggests the practice has no significant impact on overall giving to schools.). Over the decades, however, local PTAs shifted their attention and efforts away from advocacy work to fundraising for individual schools. Widows and people with grown children would join,” Woyshner said of the early PTAs. Credit: Dawn Larson.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

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. an advocacy group in Oakland, California. “We

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

After decades of demands that this be fixed, a new report from the Government Accountability Office finds that students who transfer among colleges and universities still lose more than 40 percent of the credits they’ve already earned and paid for. But only 13 percent do, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

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