The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: When the pandemic threatened to shutter child care centers and their enrollment was sporadic and unreliable, many used federal emergency funds to keep their doors open.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2016

“It’s disheartening to families, and it fosters the ‘check mentality,’ ” said Carrie Guiden, executive director of The Arc of Tennessee, a nonprofit disability advocacy group, referring to government checks. More advocacy.”. They need more counselors to efficiently meet the demand for services.”. It’s a start,” said Hammett.

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

In the wake of the Atlanta Spa shootings and a surge in violence against Asian Americans throughout the pandemic, Illinois made history by becoming the first state to mandate that Asian American history be taught in public K-12 schools beginning in the 2022-23 school year. Let’s get them to recognize there is an absence.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The backup in Milwaukee is so severe that it is not uncommon for people to wait six weeks to get a first appointment to begin the eligibility process, said Cathy Steffke, an advocacy specialist at Disability Rights Wisconsin. “I Cathy Steffke, an advocacy specialist at Disability Rights Wisconsin.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

Students who take time off from four-year universities, opt for community colleges instead or shift to part time all could end up spending longer in school and are more likely to drop out, history and research show. That’s the inescapable lesson of history and research. Credit: Gregory Shamus/Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. I also definitely want to be heavily involved in advocacy for young black youth, or, for youth in general, and just promoting student leadership.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

s long history of segregation and racist policies. He knew Montgomery County had a long history of high performance for most students, but not all of them. Longtime advocates of this federal transparency mandate hope the new data will spur more widespread advocacy. Sixty-five percent of Centennial’s students are white.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

The city itself has had a scrappy commitment to existence in its 123-year history, surviving the boom and bust of the timber industry that first gave it life and weathering the 21st century with a fairly steady population of about 2,500. Covington County Superintendent Babette Duty chalks those cases up to human error.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Credit: Austin Anthony for The Hechinger Report Speaking comes naturally to most children, being a gift of human evolution, but reading and writing are inventions that must be consciously and painstakingly learned. Because human brains are organized in diverse ways, some people’s reading circuits end up being inefficient.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2016

As an educational leader in your community, you are in a unique position to mitigate against the harmful effects of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and policy proposals while promoting acceptance, compassion, and humanity. history happen, that is terrifying. Related: What it’s like to be a transgender student in Mississippi. That is numbing.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

A client might meet with the collegiate recovery program coordinator, for example, to receive counseling about which career paths might be a good fit and which ones might present obstacles due to the client’s history with addiction and the legal system. But this college, this club, has given me hope for the future — I know that there is one.”

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

13, 2024 • By Studies Weekly History would not be the same without the inspiring lives of Black humanitarians. For Black History Month, we honor four heroes who advocated for civil rights, fought for the underserved, and spoke out for the welfare of others. 4 Inspiring Black Humanitarians Feb.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

Meanwhile, at one of the tables in the hallway set up for kids working together, a girl named Silver Anderson said that doing three courses in Jaguar Academy (physical science, English and American history) gave her the schedule flexibility to meet with the band teacher on Friday mornings for an informal class in music theory and composition.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: La Verne takes more than 250 undergraduate transfer students per year and about 500 older-than-traditional-age adults who also cash in prior credits. .” He managed to finish the rest of his degree in three semesters. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 30, 2024

Mealy has developed extensive external partnerships with leaders of other associations such as the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), where she has served on the Science and Human Rights Coalition Council since 2017. Dr. Kimberly A.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: But after years working seasonal jobs sorting equipment at the local Ford plant and dealing blackjack at nearby casinos, Perez wanted to rise to a management position — and she couldn’t without a bachelor’s degree. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

Colleges and universities usually require 120 credits for a bachelor’s degree but students graduate with about 135, on average, according to data compiled by Complete College America, a nonprofit research and advocacy group. Instead of taking some random history course, you might choose “History of Science,” which counts toward both F.S.U.’s

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2018

. — In front of the iconic Old Manse, the oldest building in Arkansas constructed solely for the purpose of educating black students, there’s a plaque recounting the rich and poignant history of Arkansas Baptist College. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Among those standards is the one that governs who provides these classes. Eighty-four percent of students go on to attend the colleges from which they took their dual-enrollment classes, the CCRC study found. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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All Things Pedagogical

JULY 10, 2024

So this takes me to where my activism and advocacy started from and it is Ruskin, yes problematic fav Ruskin. I also teach professional communications as an adjunct to business students, and my content reflects how accessibility needs to be part of what is taught in marketing, in human resources curriculum but isn’t.

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MPSA

OCTOBER 12, 2021

They expanded the entries on the Constitution of Ghana as well as Human rights in Ethiopia. They created the entry on Settler colonialism in Canada , describing the important history of the displacement and mistreatment of Canada’s indigenous populations by European settlers. Helaine has a Ph.D.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Since the information was being filtered through history and politics lessons, it meant he was learning about how an amendment changed women’s right to vote or how Andrew Jackson was able to mobilize the popular vote in the 19th century. Most of his education came through AP courses, Jefferson says.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2020

But in the legislation’s almost 50-year history, the federal government has never fulfilled its promise to pay 40 percent of the average cost of educating students with disabilities. Meghan Whittaker, director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. And this gives us a chance to rethink that.”

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ED Surge

JUNE 17, 2022

In order to create the systemic changes required to realize racial justice, we must transform ourselves into students and recommit to learning how our shared history influences modern practices. My organization, Facing History and Ourselves, and many others have been doing this necessary work.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: In recent years, division over how social studies should be taught has plagued school districts around the country.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

And it will differ from programs in military studies at colleges around the country, which focus on strategy, military systems and the history of warfare. He said veteran studies is more about the long-term impacts of war than the logistics of arming and deploying forces. The 39-credit curriculum is designed so that students can double major.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2020

Department of Health and Human Services. Haskins used to benefit from a child care subsidy program, commonly referred to by parents and providers here as DHS, shorthand for Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services. Department of Health and Human Services. Department of Health and Human Services. All told, 1.3

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

But when LGBTQ students take note of the “I’m Here” sticker on the back of his school ID, or his “We are ALL HUMAN” T-shirt, and come to him for advice or guidance, Woods is happy to provide it. Related: What do classroom conversations around race, identity and history really look like? I enjoy keeping my job.”.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2023

And that was another real experience that showed me what advocacy can do. So it’s advocacy that really changed my life. The goal is for] girls just being able to bring their full humanity to the space. How do we engage our young Black girls into mathematics in a way that we know to be productive and humanizing?

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2022

A Landscape of Discriminatory Policies and Hostile Environments According to the Human Rights Campaign , this has been the “worst year in recent history for LGBTQ state legislative attacks,” with nearly 40 states introducing 238 anti-LGBTQIA+ bills in just the first three months of 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

As a pediatric speech-language pathologist, I often find myself in settings where discussing Palestine, or even mentioning my identity as a Palestinian American, presents more challenges than when I worked in the field of human rights and law. My advocacy for Palestine is professional suicide,” Sawsan Jaber said. Do you mean Israel?”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2021

Middle school, that’s when you’re figuring out how to be a human,” Gallegos said. “We In a recent survey drawing responses from 1,219 teachers and conducted by the charter schools advocacy organization the Thomas B. The high school principal and I always talk about how we’re fighting history,” Harris said.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

For the past three summers, teachers rallied across the country to speak out against anti-history education bills and to make public their pledge to teach the truth. The teacher-led rallies received national media attention, providing a valuable counter narrative to the oversized coverage of the well-funded anti-CRT movement. In Florida, Gov.

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Teaching American History

MAY 28, 2024

By then, Muir had been writing articles advocating conservation—and, to the extent possible, preservation of virgin wilderness—for fifteen years, but he had never attempted to form a political advocacy group. These only distanced humanity from nature’s soul-healing influences.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

I teach history and social studies at New York University. The largest student protests in American history were in May of 1970, following the Cambodian invasion and the tragic shootings of student protesters at Kent State and Jackson State. If you’re a student or a parent, it can be confusing. I’m a historian.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Leave this field empty if you're human: “Too often in this country, we’re sticking to the middle and mediocrity,” said Elissa Stein, a former PTA co-president at Brooklyn Tech, the Fort Greene specialized high school with more than 5,500 students, who now runs an advisory service for public school parents. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2025

For the past three summers, teachers rallied across the country to speak out against anti-history education bills. Donate so that we can continue to organize events like these and defend the right of teachers across the United States to teach peoples history. Or plan a history walking tour, book exchange, rally, etc.

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