The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Related: To fight teacher shortages, some states are looking to community colleges to train a new generation of educators The traditional perception of teachers as the sole arbiters of knowledge, dispensed within school buildings from 8 a.m. for 10 months a year, needs to be expanded. We cannot wait.

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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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Then, in May 2017, a friend told her about a new Delta-based nonprofit, Regional Initiatives for Sustainable Education (RISE), which offered tutoring for the Praxis. “I was just a secretary fighting to be a teacher,” she said. It proved to be an academic lifeline. McWilliams said she felt convinced that God was answering her prayers.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

“We want to stop that disconnection, catch them before they become opportunity youth,” said Jerome Jupiter, the former schoolteacher who heads up YEP’s educational arm, which combines tutoring with case management. The goal with the first two groups was to help them earn a traditional diploma, if possible. Laci Hargrove, 18.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

While the tutoring and on-the-run support that have replaced it may smooth their paths, at least one university president wonders whether future engineers will sufficiently master the calculus they need. “I Students work on an assignment in a high school civics class. It’s an innovation that’s increasingly crucial to colleges, too.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

It suffocates the civic impulse. It just was a big change, was having to lose a school that was our tradition.”. Math and literacy tutors showed up once a week, or just once a month. Matthew Baptist Church in Highland Park. “It The school board has no power.”. Highland Park is a microcosm of the Rust Belt. “It

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Millions in state funding originally set aside for diversity, equity and inclusion programs, or DEI, is now being redirected to race-neutral programs, including civics education. But today on campus, things are considerably different. UNC student Samantha Green believes the university is trying to turn back the clock.

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