The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2020

Families have, for years, parked outside of businesses that offer free Wi-Fi or taken their children to libraries to find a way to complete assignments that do require the internet. And the level of advocacy and support for a solution has snowballed.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Too often, though, that advocacy for the future overshadows immediate opportunities to expand Dreamers’ college access despite state and local policies. Modern States offers a library of 32 online courses is designed to teach learners what they need to know to pass the College Level Examination Program (CLEP) exams.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

The children’s library at the Yale Child Study Center in New Haven, Connecticut. 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. The center houses the first medical-legal partnership focused on children’s behavioral health.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 4, 2019

Events are hosted by a variety of organizations, such as schools, museums, libraries, community centers, and more. Inspire advocacy for more experiential learning in schools. Remake Learning Days Across America (RLDAA) is a festival of experiential learning events for youth and their families in regions across the country.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2024

Through the local advocacy of several organizations, the community will have nine Spanish-speaking providers by this summer — including Aguilera. Werth recalled the library closing around them one evening as they helped participants use computers for the first time. I’m looking for another opportunity.’”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

Department of Education promise, and many are calling for an urgent push for help, including through legislation and a marshalling of resources from institutions like libraries and groups such as AmeriCorps. “I It’s a terrible time for anyone who counted on that U.S.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Critical programs and services that adult education communities rely on, such as libraries and nonprofit organizations, could be impacted. The National Literacy Council’s website also has an extensive list of helpful resources for teaching and learning, programs, and advocacy. How does this affect adult learning providers?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2019

We didn’t pay a parking ticket or a library fine, and our college refused to release our transcript. But imagine that a student’s debt went beyond failing to pay a library fine. trillion in debt, but for many low-income students, even something as comparatively paltry as a library fine can amount to a week’s food budget.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 9, 2022

Bringing together more than 100 organizations across the fields of disability advocacy, special education, civil rights and K-12 nonprofits, the Educating All Learners Alliance (EALA) is one such network formed to ensure equity and support for students with disabilities and learning differences across education environments.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 14, 2025

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. In 2012, Holdens biography was entered into the U.S. Congressional Record. Dr. Holden’s impact was not confined to academia. – Dr. UIS professor Matthew Holden, Jr.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2021

Gabrieli, who is also a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, wondered aloud why entire transcripts are being withheld if students owe money only for a single course or a semester, or for library fines or parking tickets. And a coalition of advocacy groups in New York is pushing for legislation there like California’s.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2024

Those could include making multilingual posters and brochures available at libraries, parks and recreation services; technical assistance in navigating digital applications; and tax guidance so the caregivers don’t have to worry about jeopardizing other forms of government aid to access the subsidies.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2021

Unpaid bills can be not only for tuition but also for room and board, fees, parking and library fines and other costs that students sometimes don’t know they owe. People just see student loans,” said Marissa Munoz, the New York-based regional director of the student advocacy organization Young Invincibles.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 3, 2019

CLX now has substantial, informative data they can use as a foundation or justification when making decisions around funding, advocacy, partnership, and expansion. In the same vein, CLX hopes its data will help Chicago understand the importance of informal DMTT-focused learning experiences for the city’s students.

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ED Surge

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. With Covid, we’ve lost so many of our elders who are libraries of language and cultural information.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2020

In the midst of such disruption — with hastily prepared classes delivered remotely, and without professors’ office hours, libraries or advisors — students were demanding the option to pass or fail their courses this semester, instead of getting letter grades. This story also appeared in PBS Newshour. Many universities and colleges agreed.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

He’s encountered subs in the hallway, looking for the library or a place to make copies of classwork. Around 60 percent of large school districts surveyed by the National Council on Teacher Quality, an advocacy group, increased pay for subs during the pandemic. Roberts is a substitute, too, but by now he knows his way around campus.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. The Oakland Reach, a parent-led advocacy group that works with underserved communities, also joined the partnership. OAKLAND, Calif.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2021

For low-income kids it’s really hard for programs to run in person,” said Jodi Grant, executive director of Afterschool Alliance, a nonprofit advocacy group. “It Jodi Grant, Afterschool Alliance. She said it’s frustrating that the concerns of after-school and child care providers are not being heard in the same way as other businesses.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

The word just hasn’t gotten out about the ability to do this,” said Todd Ziebarth, a senior vice president of state advocacy and support at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. The third graders juggled the books as they traversed a courtyard ringed by adobe houses-turned-classrooms, with teacher Paul Chavarria trailing them.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

A report published Thursday by the Student Borrower Protection Center , a nonprofit advocacy group focused on student debt, attempts to quantify the scope of this problem. Other times, they’ve paid tuition in full, but owe money for overdue parking, library or housing fees.

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ED Surge

MARCH 10, 2023

It’s an undertaking from the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), a philanthropy that supports HBCUs through scholarships to students, grants to higher ed institutions and advocacy for educating African Americans. Called HBCUv , the project aims to roll out a pilot product this fall.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

They stayed at the library working until closing time because they didn’t have laptops. Moises has his own laptop, bought for him by the nonprofit that helped him apply to college, but he was also at the library till they kicked him out most nights. “We I never thought I’d be in a library for two hours every day.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

“Last year I thought about it a lot because as a junior you start to realize how fast things are going,” she said in the library, otherwise empty but for students playing cards. No one in her family has ever gotten a degree. She never took the ACT or SAT. “I didn’t know better, and it was too late.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Undergraduates, on average, end up taking 15 credits more than they need to get degrees — a full semester’s worth — according to the advocacy group Complete College America. A committee gathers every Thursday morning in a conference room in the library to review these cases. “To All of this takes a toll on graduation rates.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

Angie Perez and some of her classmates are studying together in a covered plaza that connects a classroom building with the law library at St. The National Association of Graduate-Professional Students and other advocacy groups are lobbying Congress to mandate training for graduate mentors and advisors. MIAMI GARDENS, Fla.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

EducationSuperHighway’s advocacy supported the district’s efforts perfectly. E-rate is funded by collecting fees that telecommunications companies pass on to customers, and it supports massive discounts on goods and services for schools and libraries. It was a well-timed initiative.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

Most states have something on the books to encourage competency-based options, but only about a half-dozen have loosened seat-time dictates enough to dispense with grade levels, according to Matt Williams, chief operating officer and vice president of policy and advocacy for the personalized-learning nonprofit KnowledgeWorks.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

It also says that Riedlinger at one point instructed administrators to stop speaking with the Anti-Defamation League; told Corbett to cancel a staff book club meeting to discuss White Fragility, about white people’s discomfort discussing race; and expressed concern that Lusher had provided teachers with a resource library of antiracist materials.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

A student walks past the Bender Library on the American University campus in Washington, D.C. Related: Transfer students start getting more of the credits they’ve already earned.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

This disparity in home computer and internet access, dubbed the “homework gap,” was a slow-burning problem for most districts in the days when schools were in session and students could get online at libraries, after-school programs, coffee shops and other community gathering spots.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2023

Credit: Aaron Law for The Hechinger Report The library, for instance, has only books connected to the subjects of the classes. students at four-year universities, on average, accumulate 15 credits more than they need to graduate , and at community colleges, 22 credits more, according to the advocacy group Complete College America.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

Nancy Loome, executive director and founder of the Parents’ Campaign, a nonprofit and grassroots education advocacy organization. If E-rate didn’t fund our technology, we didn’t get it,” he said, referring to a federal program that makes telecommunications and Internet access more affordable for schools and libraries. “We

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

“It’s very difficult to compare Rochester, Buffalo and Syracuse to New York City,” said Billy Easton, executive director of the Alliance for Quality Education (AQE), a left-leaning education advocacy group. She points out, however, that they do get a period of music, art, physical education or library time every day.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

“In rural areas there’s often not the tax base you find in an urban or suburban school to fund additional programs,” said Lavina Grandon, co-founder and board president of Rural Community Alliance, a nonprofit school advocacy organization.

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All Things Pedagogical

APRIL 12, 2024

Work that may not be in any library, but is nonetheless present in a smile someone gives, a much needed laugh during a hard day, a piece of art drawn on a wall, a stomach filled with nourishing soup, or a warm blanket giving comfort.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

If you brought a pencil to class or not, that would be factored into your grade,” the high school senior said during a study period in the library. The idea, popular among well-funded education philanthropies and education advocacy groups, is gaining ground across the United States. It’s better than it was.”.

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