The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2024

“A certain amount of humility is absolutely required in almost any of those situations, and universities haven’t been terribly good at humility in the past,” said Kirk Dombrowski, vice president for research and economic development at UVM, who oversees its new Leahy Institute for Rural Partnerships and other community engagement projects. “We

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

With enrollment in traditional teacher education programs declining nationwide in the past few years, it is drying up at an alarming rate. As the nation grapples with the profound effects these challenges have on school communities, the term “ learning loss ” has made its way into the spotlight.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Anne Henderson, National Association for Family, School, and Community Engagement. Out-of-school factors weigh heavily on student success, studies show, and research indicates family engagement can lead to higher grades and test scores, improved attendance and better behavior. Photo: Caralee Adams for The Hechinger Report.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Yet as schools break away from traditional models of education, new challenges emerge. Collaboration among all education stakeholders, including researchers, entrepreneurs, community members, and educators, is needed to alter traditional teaching and learning processes and successfully meet these challenges.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Union Capital Boston (UCB) , a nonprofit working across low- and middle-income neighborhoods in Boston, is seeing positive gains among younger and older learners alike via its community engagement program. To address troubling declines in postsecondary enrollment, high schools and colleges may need to move beyond business as usual.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2017

Traditional grades no longer exist, children get extra help based on their individual learning needs and classrooms run very differently. The district also created a family and community engagement coordinator position. Picard’s older children went through the traditional education system and she can see a difference. “I

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

Instead of silos focused on global education — diversity initiatives and community engagement each working separately — we will connect these areas so they can work together, as they should. It combines intentional educational experiences with practical applications and experience on campus, in the greater community and abroad.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The committees are different from traditional student government, she said, because any student can join. It’s not just about getting out the vote, it’s about talking about, learning about electoral issues, discussing and elevating issues in the community, engaging with elected officials and ensuring they represent you,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Most posts collect a handful of “likes,” shares, and comments, while a few videos have gone viral – such as the Fall Creek tradition of driving tractors to school for homecoming. “We We have a lot of parents who work two and three jobs, so it’s hard for them to visit our school for open houses, conferences and things like that.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

This includes student demographics, programs, curricula, academic performance, and community engagement.”. Hertz points out that while schools are customers, they’re not traditional customers. Ben Grimley, CEO and co-founder of Speak Agent, says that before his sales team approaches a district, “We do our homework.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

In Pasadena, Dufford said, it has been tradition for established families not to send their children to public schools. “So She was stunned to find out that none of the families had actually heard such comments. It was the first time she had spoken to a group of parents who hadn’t been warned away.

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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. There was nothing like this.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 11, 2019

#EdClusters19 kicked off with site visits to the Barack Obama Academy of International Studies 6-12 ; the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh – East Liberty ; the University of Pittsburgh: Community Engagement Center – Homewood ; and Assemble , a community space for arts and technology. — Cricket A.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2023

Students thrive when they have a choice in what they learn and how they engage with the content, such as “having a way for them to demonstrate their learning that makes the most sense for them,” adds Rebecca Hare, a community engagement manager at Adobe.

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Sapiens

MARCH 19, 2024

Other objects, including fragments of African ceramics and a cowrie shell, show the perseverance of cultural traditions among the enslaved workers. In official circles, cultural heritage is equated with Tchiloli —a theater tradition performed with masks, music, and dance. Community engagement and participation also proved difficult.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2024

We dig into these issues on this week’s EdSurge Podcast, where we hear from two experts working to expand educational efforts around AI, to make sure those efforts reach traditionally underserved communities, and to work to expand engagement with ethical issues of the technology.

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ED Surge

MAY 25, 2022

Meanwhile, EdSurge researchers facilitated community engagement events, such as our Virtual Learning Circles, bringing together diverse educators from across the country to connect, reflect and share about issues they’re facing in their practice.

Education 107

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2022

Department of Education has invited applications for $68 million in grants for community schools, representing almost four times more money than was made available in 2018. And the Biden administration said it aims to dedicate as much as $468 million to community schools in 2023. Community schools are more like smartphones.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

the school won points for its planetary health electives and a climate-based fellowship, but did not score well on community engagement. Traditions and longstanding education formats exert influence and by and large, institutions themselves are resistant, not impervious, to change,” she said. They gave UCSF a ‘B’ grade ?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2020

This stuff doesn’t happen overnight,” said Amy Carroll-Scott, co-lead of policy and community engagement in Drexel University’s Urban Health Collaborative. That’s below the figures for the overall city population, though the gap has narrowed slightly each of the last two years.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Tracy Hill , executive director of family and community engagement, Cleveland Metropolitan School District. And I thought about it, and I realized, ‘Oh my gosh, he hasn’t put on a bookbag in a year.’. We have to start those things over again. Tracy Hill, Cleveland, Ohio.

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Political Science Now

JULY 17, 2024

Goodnow Award for service to the community of political science by teachers, researchers, and public servants who work in the many fields of politics Recipient: Cathy J.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

The plaques provide a “platform to have a conversation both about our history and also the direction that we see ourselves going as an institution,” said Katrina Caldwell, the school’s first vice chancellor for diversity and community engagement, who started the job in January of 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2017

They’ve endured a number of Republican-led efforts to reduce arts funding since the 1990s, and in keeping with this tradition, President Trump’s budget blueprint, released in March 2017, proposes significant cuts to virtually every agency except Defense, Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs.

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Oral History Civics Economics Tradition 53

The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2019

The best interests of public school kids in the city won’t be served by neighborhood community engagement if it’s left unchecked.”. Protestors were trying to convince the elected board not to turn McDonogh 35 College Preparatory High School, the city’s last traditional public school, into a charter school.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

In addition to its growing dual language program, the district checks all the more traditional boxes on how to help students who speak a language other than English at home. School offices across the district were decorated for Christmas and holiday concerts were planned, many chock full of traditional Christmas carols.

Middle School 91

Middle School Cultures Tutoring High School 91

Sapiens

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

But most of the time, the militias act as loose community engagement groups. My interviews with militia members seemed to confirm this: Many felt that the country had evolved away from the traditional structures they often valued, such as religion and gender norms, and felt their “way of life” under attack by progressives.

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