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OPINION: The low-cost steps the government could take right now to ease hunger and homelessness on college campuses

The Hechinger Report

This office, which would be led by a director of basic needs, would report directly to the undersecretary of education, who has the primary responsibility for higher education policy at the department. Department of Education, where she worked on issues including ensuring equal access to career and technical education.

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Study: The U.S. isn’t doing enough to prepare students for the automation age

The Hechinger Report

Leave this field empty if you're human: “Very few countries are taking the bull by the horns when it comes to adapting education systems for the age of automation,” Saadia Zahidi, head of education, gender and employment for the World Economic Forum, said in the report.

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Joshua Dunn, Teachers Discuss Judiciary’s Involvement in Education

Teaching American History

Since the middle of the twentieth century, “seemingly no aspect of education policy has been too insignificant to escape judicial oversight,” writes Professor Joshua Dunn, in a 2008 essay he coauthored with Martin R. West, “The Supreme Court as School Board Revisited.” These included Epperson v.

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This math tutoring program gets ‘blockbuster’ results in high-poverty schools

The Hechinger Report

Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: Recent college graduates, working as Americorps members, serve as Saga’s tutors. Monica Bhatt, senior research director of the U Chicago Education Lab, said results for kids in ninth and 10th grade during the 2014-15 school year are even more impressive. Weekly Update.

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GOP education bill would make college even less affordable for many, experts say

The Hechinger Report

The Higher Education Act, first passed in 1965 and revised perodically, regulates how the federal government financially assists postsecondary institutions and students. Schools “know that pretty much regardless of what they charge, students are going to be able to find the loans from the federal government.”.

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Students have their own demands for school reopening

The Hechinger Report

Emanuelle Sippy, a rising senior at Henry Clay High School in Lexington, Kentucky, and student director of the Prichard Committee Student Voice Team, another organization involved in the campaign, views student participation in education policy as mandatory. “We Related: As we talk about reopening schools, are the teachers okay?

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Should We Rethink Our Notion of Who is ‘Smart’?

ED Surge

These days he’s often weighing in on education policy issues in his personal newsletter. He argues that public discussions of education too often center on what he sees as a “crisis narrative” that schools in the U.S. are losing pace with those of other nations and need significant reform. And that's typically uncontroversial.

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