Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Bachelor of Arts in History from the historic Tuskegee University. BHM Black History Month Political Science Black Sociopolitical Lecture Series. I hold a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Bachelor of Arts in History from the historic Tuskegee University.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Despite their rich history and Hall’s documentation of her heritage, Hall and her ancestors are not acknowledged by the United States government as a tribal nation. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history. I started thinking … how hard their lives are, and how much of a difference could be made.”

History 85

History Government Cultures Heritage 85

The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

Because students missed so much instruction during the pandemic, teachers should get extra time to fill all those instructional holes, from teaching mathematical percents and zoological classifications to discussing literary metaphors and American history. That’s worked well in Chicago high schools but not in Miami middle schools.

Tutoring 135

Tutoring Charter School Middle School American History 135

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Michael is a senior at Vertus High School , an all-boys charter school in the Rochester City School District whose hallmark is a program that blends online classes with more traditional classroom teaching. For his part, though, Michael appreciates the opportunity to work faster than traditional classrooms allow.

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Charter School Advocacy Middle School Social Studies 110

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Spokespeople from the schools say the criticism doesn’t reflect the fact that they often enroll students who are struggling academically, are enrolled for short periods, and have a history of changing schools frequently, a metric shown to hurt academic performance. They also say they are taking steps to improve retention and graduation rates.

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Charter School Education Policy History Public School 123

MPSA

OCTOBER 12, 2021

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

Political Science 52

Political Science Human Rights History Economics 52

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Those efforts allowed the district of 520 schools and educational centers to transition relatively smoothly from traditional learning to distance learning when the school system shut on March 16, Carvalho said. Half of the 20 most destructive wildfires in state history have occurred since 2015.

Charter School 115

Charter School Middle School Tutoring Advocacy 115

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

King, consultant for research, policy and advocacy at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. It’s a problem with a long history , and some experts say that even if colleges can graduate more students with teaching degrees, that alone won’t reverse the trend without broader reforms.

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K-12 Teaching Advocacy Classroom Management 98

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2016

Therefore, any idea that not liking reform is somehow a refutation of black educators in charter schools is a terrible interpretation in the face of history. But the singularly bland names, including Strong Economy for Growth and Education Reform Now Advocacy, give no hint of who is writing the checks.”. The report found: “A new $2.3

Charter School 44

Charter School K-12 Advocacy Tradition 44

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

So it’s nice to be around other people who understand where you’re coming from, instead of being around people who don’t really know you or know the history.”. “We may not have had the kind of racially charged experiences as our ancestors, but we all know there are problems, and we understand each other. What that says is there’s hope.

Sociology 111

Sociology Advocacy Psychology Cultures 111

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. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. That’s just under 10 percent of its enrollment. “Students beat themselves up about this.

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Advocacy Research Government Tradition 99

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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Charter School Heritage K-12 Education 115

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

The principal reason their institutions are pushing dual-credit programs, administrators said in a survey , is that, with traditional enrollments plummeting , it gets high school students on the hook and helps recruit them. It’s an innovation that’s increasingly crucial to colleges, too.

Tutoring 85

Tutoring Archiving High School K-12 85

The Hechinger Report

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. plastic bags) from accumulating in the first place.

Civic Engagement 137

Civic Engagement Civics Teaching Middle School 137

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Louis, Missouri, she had a long history of disrupting her classes and getting into confrontations with teachers. Instead of taking traditional or legal pathways,” she said, “there’s a pattern that the easiest solution is to remove a student rather than deal with the underlying issues.” A seventh grader at a charter school in St.

Middle School 98

Middle School Charter School Advocacy Tradition 98

Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 26, 2020

Advocacy role Apart from the strict routine duties of anthropologists in development agencies, they are increasingly becoming a mediator between the developers and those to be ‘developed.’ A classic attempt to fuse neo-Marxist political economy with anthropological perspectives is Eric Wolf’s (1982) Europe and people without history.

Anthropology 130

Anthropology Economics Cultures Advocacy 130

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

If history holds true, however, fewer than half of them actually will. They’re pulling a bait and switch on students,” said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the advocacy group Complete College America. Who are we measuring this for, and to what end?” But for most people, he said, it’s not.

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Government Advocacy Tradition History 137

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

We can’t keep structures that would allow us to fall back into a more traditional system,” said Steiner. “If Northern Cass students Jaenna Wolff (left) and Abby Richman work on history and physical science, respectively, at the Jaguar Academy. Others, however, echo Northern Cass superintendent, Cory Steiner. “We Nor are seniors.

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Tradition Charter School American History Cultures 111

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. And some say programs that make Latinx feel welcome on campus have dried up in recent years.

Social Justice 108

Social Justice High School Tutoring Advocacy 108

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2016

And finally, though many juvenile facilities focus almost solely on getting their students to pass high school equivalency tests, Domenici encouraged his students to become confident in their ability to learn and to earn the traditional class credits that they would need in order to return to high school upon release.

Advocacy 56

Advocacy Psychology High School Tradition 56

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The education department defends allocating the funds to the 13 schools, saying that they incur more costs by exceeding the academic requirements of traditional high schools. Adam Stevens, a history teacher at Brooklyn Tech, has seen both sides, having taught in schools that receive the academic bonus as well as those that do not.

High School 51

High School Leadership Tutoring Advocacy 51

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.

Charter School 69

Charter School Middle School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 69

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

It was his dream, and he began teaching the course a couple years before debates about teaching Black history and critical race theory swept the nation. ” Eric Duncan, part of education advocacy organization Ed Trust’s policy team, said Thorne’s story is one echoed by Black male educators nationwide who feel perpetually overlooked.

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Education Elementary School High School Leadership 133

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Initially, Honani put some blame on herself as a mother, chiding herself for failing to stay on top of her son’s teachers and deprioritizing traditional schooling during a hectic time. Out of this activity comes respect for history, science, land and the weather, she said. There was no follow-up.”. Credit: COURTESY OF SAMANTHA HONANI.

Government 124

Government K-12 High School Tradition 124

The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2017

Homeschooling mom Andrea Forte, right, pauses in her reading to answer a question from her daughter, Elena Forte, left, during Elena and her brother Devon’s language arts and history class time upstairs in the Forte family home on Aug. 11, 2014 in Wake Forest, N.C. Wire photo: © Harry Lynch/TNS/ZUMA Wire. Why the states?

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K-12 Private School Charter School Advocacy 80

The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2017

Understanding how hard-fought the Pell surplus is requires a look at the program’s recent history. But the financial crisis beginning in 2007 meant that more people — traditional-aged students as well as adults — couldn’t get jobs, so education became the answer to their predicament.

Archiving 50

Archiving Advocacy Government Tradition 50

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Because of the pandemic and the timing of Meryl’s death, the family was not able to have a traditional funeral. Because of the pandemic and the timing of Meryl’s death, the family was not able to have a traditional funeral. Because of the pandemic and the timing of Meryl’s death, the family was not able to have a traditional funeral.

Library 132

Library Advocacy High School Psychology 132

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. So how can we improve conditions for our students?

Education 124

Education K-12 Advocacy Government 124

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2022

Rodrigues had been traveling the country for weeks, meeting with parent advocacy groups in city after city, and working with them to get their grievances heard and addressed by local school boards. But beyond this day-to-day advocacy, critics see an organization with larger aims of discrediting teachers unions and public education.

Advocacy 104

Advocacy Charter School Political Science K-12 104

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. We can and must do more.

Anthropology 128

Anthropology Human Rights Humanities Cultures 128

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2024

It is creating so much more work and chaos,” said Emma Grasso Levine, the Title IX policy and senior program manager at the advocacy group Know Your IX. In some cases, schools in the very same district are subject to different rules. “It Are we enforcing this rule or that rule?“

K-12 105

K-12 Advocacy High School Government 105

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Mattivi, whose eighth-grade English students discuss articles about the environment, civic life, and American history after using online literacy programs that provide similar material at different reading levels. I could never go back to the old model,” says Ms. But computers are expensive.

K-12 81

K-12 Library High School Elementary School 81

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

Related: What do classroom conversations around race, identity and history really look like? In Texas, where the governor’s order is being challenged in court, Adrian Reyna, an eighth grade history teacher in San Antonio, said he won’t be “intimidated” into reporting his transgender students to state authorities.

Cultures 21

Cultures Library Elementary School Advocacy 21

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

But he also sees in the school’s decline a long history of white leaders, conservative and liberal, repeatedly asking black families to accept failure for their children. Fuller’s ideas revive a long-standing tradition of African-American educational self-reliance. As racial separation in U.S. The trade-off.

Charter School 98

Charter School Private School Heritage Social Justice 98

The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2016

We want to offer the choice to Christian students who want to go to school in a place that believes the traditional things that the Bible and Christian churches have believed for thousands of years about marriage and sexuality, among many other things,” McCracken said. “We

Government 48

Government Human Rights K-12 Advocacy 48

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2017

But 77 percent of white students are enrolled in “A-” and “B-” rated schools, according to a new report by non-profit advocacy group Urban League of Louisiana. Their imbalance rating is roughly four times that of traditional public schools. It is unthinkable that this situation would be tolerated if the students’ races were reversed.

Charter School 80

Charter School Advocacy Public School Government 80