The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services invested $1.6 Kathryn Meyer, left, attorney at the Center for Children’s Advocacy, and Christiana Mills, are part of the Yale Child Student Center in New Haven, Connecticut. Department of Health and Human Services invested $1.6 Last year, the U.S. A recent survey of U.S.

Tradition 118

Tradition Advocacy Public School Library 118

Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 24, 2015

Learning and teaching and schooling MUST do a better job of being relevant to our new information, economic, and learning landscapes. Autonomy is a fundamental human need. (I You deserve the strongest support and advocacy that leadership can provide. We can change if we choose to. Question everything. Ethic of care.

Leadership 106

Leadership Advocacy Economics Humanities 106

ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

She then informed me that it would be my first and last day at the school before I left to go to my classroom. These relationships have been instrumental in sustaining my advocacy efforts; by engaging in these efforts, I strive to create an educational landscape where every student and educator feels valued and respected.

Professional Development 22

Professional Development Advocacy Cultures Humanities 22

Digital Promise

MARCH 5, 2020

As a former librarian and district leader, I found that success was the best form of advocacy—when the great work of librarians is shared and documented, good things follow for students and library programs. More information can be found at [link]. A key part of the Future Ready Librarians Framework is empowering students as creators.

Library 120

Library Artifacts Advocacy Tradition 120

Political Science Now

MAY 15, 2025

The collection, Why Political Science Matters: Resources for APSA Members in Times of Political and Institutional Upheaval , offers members tools for advocacy, professional development, and public engagement. This resource hub includes: Advocacy Opportunities : Learn how APSA is advocating for discipline and how members can get involved.

Political Science 28

Political Science Civic Engagement Civics Advocacy 28

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Turner works as the head of human resources for a flooring manufacturer and her husband works as an environmental health and safety manager for a field turf company. Because of the delay in FAFSA forms becoming available, the application figures on some scholarships that require FAFSA information are down significantly.

Advocacy 116

Advocacy High School Humanities Education 116

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2024

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: The pandemic underscored the stark differences in pay, working conditions, and respect between K-12 educators and child care teachers in many communities.

K-12 132

K-12 Advocacy Leadership Tradition 132

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. This will inform how the state will pursue additional federal dollars.”. More advocacy.”. It’s a start,” said Hammett.

Advocacy 111

Advocacy Government High School Humanities 111

ED Surge

MAY 16, 2023

The film is made as a work of advocacy, by the group Represent Justice, but it goes out of its way to try to understand the views of all the parties involved, including the campus resource officer, Ben Fields. And without him, all the information wouldn't have been out there. So it just challenged me to do more work.

Humanities 94

Humanities Advocacy Cultures High School 94

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Our Voice Nuestra Voz, a non-profit education advocacy group in New Orleans, analyzed the school performance scores data and found that approximately 15,000 students attend these failing schools. And failure is trending. This all sounds familiar. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

Charter School 93

Charter School Advocacy Public School Tradition 93

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Godfrey Rivera is the co-director of the Autism Initiative Project at Sinergia, a bilingual nonprofit that provides community, advocacy, and outreach for parents of children with autism, especially those who don’t speak English. The nonprofit offers workshops, one-to-one advocacy, and a monthly Spanish-speaking support group for families.

Advocacy 99

Advocacy Cultures Elementary School Research 99

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Candace Cortiella, the director of The Advocacy Institute. And that’s not the case,” said Candace Cortiella, the director of The Advocacy Institute, a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., Leave this field empty if you're human: The accuracy of these numbers, though, is fuzzy. that works on behalf of people with disabilities. “A

High School 89

High School Advocacy Middle School Education Policy 89

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Students with disabilities process information differently, so they need more explicit instruction to develop and use these skills than general education students do. This plan uses student interests and other information about a student to outline post-high school goals. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

High School 97

High School Advocacy Teaching Critical Thinking 97

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The condition impedes a person’s ability to process written information and can negatively affect their career and well-being. 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.

Psychology 145

Psychology Elementary School High School Humanities 145

ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

The state partnered with Asian Americans Advancing Justice Chicago (AAAJ Chicago) — a local advocacy organization focused on advancing civil rights and racial equity, which advocated for the passage of the TEAACH Act — to support implementation.

Inclusive Curriculum 104

Inclusive Curriculum American History Primary Sources Professional Development 104

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: “The certificates made students attend school less,” said Robinson, clearly dismayed by what her experiment had wrought. The advocacy organization Attendance Works encourages schools to reward good attendance. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Weekly Update.

Tutoring 98

Tutoring Advocacy Psychology High School 98

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2016

These safe spaces might as informal as a supportive teacher or a group of close friends. 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.

K-12 75

K-12 Advocacy Classroom Management History 75

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

Department of Health and Human Services deems “affordable.” Leave this field empty if you're human: “This whole notion of a targeted program is a really American thing,” Cascio said. The political will is really not terribly informed by evidence,” Save the Children’s Perry said. Choose as many newsletters as you like.

K-12 91

K-12 Government Economics Public School 91

The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2017

Through a connection with the IRS, the tool automatically takes information from an applicant’s tax return and fills in the relevant sections on the FAFSA. Without access to the tool, applicants must transcribe information from old returns or wait several weeks to receive tax transcripts from the IRS.

Advocacy 65

Advocacy Economics High School Government 65

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Covington County Superintendent Babette Duty chalks those cases up to human error. Certainly, as long as human beings are running schools, you’re going to have that possibility,” she said, adding that the goal is to have policies and procedures in place that uphold the law and protect kids, while keeping parents informed.

Elementary School 145

Elementary School Public School High School Government 145

Political Science Now

APRIL 9, 2025

punctuated equilibrium, policy diffusion, advocacy theory, multiple streams theory), and policy areas such as but not limited to education, higher education, housing, immigration, and environmental/energy policy. The topics can span the breadth of the fields in both public administration and policy.

Civic Engagement 44

Civic Engagement Civics Economics Professional Development 44

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.

Social Justice 111

Social Justice High School Tutoring Advocacy 111

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In the absence of detailed information about Asian American history at school, they’re teaching themselves through social media — such as videos on Tik Tok and infographics on Instagram — and their networks of friends. This generation is hyper-aware of the way that history has been framed — what is included and what is left out.

History 110

History Heritage K-12 American History 110

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.

Tradition 111

Tradition Charter School High School Cultures 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2018

The figures provide the first-ever look at the return on taxpayers’ investment in the largest single federal financial aid program; this information was never before collectively available, and while individual colleges were required to disclose it if asked, some refused. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Weekly Update.

Tutoring 85

Tutoring Advocacy High School Research 85

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2017

She struggles with decision-making and executive function, which are the skills that allow people to organize information and respond to it. He and his mom looked at a federal report with salary information for various jobs, and he realized an office job would provide a higher quality of life than a food industry job. Weekly Update.

Education 100

Education High School Advocacy Professional Development 100

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: It’s not too often people announce big problems solved. EducationSuperHighway’s advocacy supported the district’s efforts perfectly. EducationSuperHighway also drove bandwidth pricing way down making prices transparent (the group collected information from districts to create a searchable tool).

Advocacy 56

Advocacy Library Humanities High School 56

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Earl Edwards, an assistant professor at Boston College’s School of Education and Human Development, argues that McKinney-Vento was premised on an idea still pervasive in the policy debate on homelessness: Like a tornado that levels towns at random, housing misfortune has an equal chance of afflicting anyone, regardless of who they are.

Advocacy 83

Advocacy Government Public School High School 83

All Things Pedagogical

JULY 10, 2024

I am doing this because I am not a fan of gatekeeping information behind log-ins and I think if we are going to be talking about activism it is important to model the kind of inclusion we would want to see in the space we are sharing. So this takes me to where my activism and advocacy started from and it is Ruskin, yes problematic fav Ruskin.

Advocacy 40

Advocacy Pedagogy Geography Tradition 40

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

But maybe American-style debate and discourse is just an inevitable consequence of having more information out there, and being in a democracy means confronting that. From there, now a freshman in high school, Ta joined the team as a student journalist, where they tried to put a “human touch” on complex issues.

Civics 119

Civics Education Government K-12 119

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Meghan Whittaker, director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. I don’t think anyone’s going to say that what we were doing worked or was equitable,” said Meghan Whittaker, the director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. Here’s why they’re not.

Education 145

Education Advocacy K-12 Public School 145

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

Government 137

Government Primary Sources Elementary School Humanities 137

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Related: The human cost of college debt that becomes ‘purgatory’. In our survey, 75 percent of respondents said their financial aid office did not inform them that child care expenses could be taken into account in determining their financial aid award. Credit: Generation Hope. But the challenges go beyond bureaucratic hassles.

Civics 142

Civics Advocacy Humanities Education 142

ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2024

To be considered affordable by the Department of Health and Human Services, they must cost no more than 7 percent of a family’s income. Because of those high co-pays, low-income families that qualify for the program haven’t used it, said Anne Hedgepeth, the chief of policy and advocacy at Child Care Aware, a national advocacy group.

Advocacy 94

Advocacy Government Humanities Research 94

ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2023

EdSurge: Please tell us about your own journey as a young student in math and how that informs your work today. 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.

Advocacy 109

Advocacy K-12 Humanities Teaching 109

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

After a phishing attack in 2019, the Atlanta Public Schools district hired a private firm to conduct security assessments of its networks to find blind spots and weaknesses, according to Olufemi “Femi” Aina, the district’s executive director of information technology.

K-12 130

K-12 Library EdTech Government 130

ED Surge

MARCH 22, 2023

Depending on their interests, Chao says, the student-led chapters might exchange letters based on a theme, focus on education around mental health, or participate in advocacy for mental health resources at their schools. It’s OK to be a work in progress as much as anyone else.”

Advocacy 111

Advocacy High School Humanities Education 111