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Bristol, who examines national, state and local education policies that affect the recruitment and retention for teachers of color in schools, has been much in demand lately to talk about his research. He continued, “Recognition of the need is certainly there.”.

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“These schools are wealthy as heck, and they’re getting basically free advertising by claiming to meet need when they’re not meeting need,” said Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor of higher education policy and sociology at Temple University. So she and her husband never put aside any money for their college educations.

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Pilot programs in 17 states have so far conferred about 20,000 associate degrees in this way over the last five years, a report from the Institute for Higher Education Policy found. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education. Related: How to save the humanities? Choose as many as you like.

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Hanushek, an economist, believes that the inability to close the achievement gap shows the failure of our education policies to help the poor, especially the $26 billion a year the federal government spends on Title I funding on poor schools and for Head Start preschool programs. Higher Education. Weekly Update.

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AUGUST 17, 2018

“I don’t know anyone who doesn’t want to improve education, but our good intentions can make us unintentionally do the wrong things,” said Frederick Hess, founding director of the education policy studies program at the Washington think tank the American Enterprise Institute. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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Only 13 states publish data on enrollment in arts courses and none publish data on how much time is devoted to the arts, according to a 2019 study by the Education Commission for the States , a nonprofit think tank dedicated to studying education policy. There is no society, there is no human culture, without the arts.”.

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questions about how much flexibility educators and students really have to redesign their schools come up regularly, according to Hoffman, the district leader. After all, schools are governed by plenty of federal and district policies intended to ensure that they impart a rigorous education.

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Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), today, more than 7 million children, or 14 percent of public school students , are entitled to special services and accommodations to help them learn. Meghan Whittaker, director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities.

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Once a Public Servant, Always a Public Servant Plenty of former educators hold public office today, including at the federal level, such as Sen. Jahana Hayes of Connecticut, a former high school history and government teacher. Patty Murray of Washington state, a former preschool teacher, and Rep.

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A version of this story appeared in USA Today But someone has to do all that charming, and not everyone has the magic touch, explains Tim Berry, vice president of human resources for the Dollywood Company. government for some far-off future. They’re already here, and employees are already taking advantage of them.

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JULY 10, 2019

Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education. For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. The George W.

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Social Studies teacher Michelle Adler talks to sophomores Maiya Schwartz, left and Emily Terranova about an assignment in an Honors Human Geography class at Gray-New Gloucester High School on Thursday, June 1, 2017. “It’s the long arm of the state,” she says. ” Photo: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald. .”

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FEBRUARY 27, 2018

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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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

But France hasn’t erased the all the barriers that prevent lower-income families from accessing the best schools, even with huge amounts of government money poured into helping them get a leg up. They also agree to regular government inspections. Higher Education. They receive almost $9.9 Sign up for our newsletter.

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MARCH 16, 2017

Nevertheless, resistance to spending on preschool runs deep in Idaho and the other hold-out states, not least because they are home to voters and politicians who strongly believe in family autonomy and minimal government intervention. Department of Health and Human Services. Idaho State Sen. Stephen Thayn.

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JANUARY 22, 2018

Grand Valley State University professor in 2013 in the academic e-journal Education Policy. Higher Education. But Rising’s main contribution to history is how it properly situates the role that black colleges played in the civil rights movement. It’s a role they still play today. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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MARCH 8, 2017

Both have seen their governments investing less in higher education and students and families struggling to pay more, with many of the poorest ending up at campuses with low success rates while those who are wealthier and white have access to the best universities. Government funding per student fell 1.1 Photo: Ihsaan Haffejee.

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MAY 18, 2018

Allowing DACA recipients to get higher education and better-paying jobs translates into them paying more taxes — which in turn helps pay for the state’s public school system and other government services, said Andrew Lim, director of quantitative research at the New American Economy.

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Its also never been so at risk: First a federal funding freeze hit providers, then a chunk of Head Start federal support staff were fired by the Department of Government Efficiency. Head Start is in every community in America, said Cara Sklar, director of early & elementary education policy at the D.C.-based

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Related: Inside Florida’s ‘underground lab’ for far-right education policies By November, when a slate of Republican school board candidates who’d campaigned against DEI was elected , the changes started to come hard and fast. The new DEI committee was disbanded in early 2022, as students continued to report racial hostility.

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The mural, which stretches the length of a football field, intersperses student artwork with text from the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It was inspired by a group of eighth graders who, in December 2012, just months after Yousafzai’s shooting, had attended a human rights conference in Canada.

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“Obviously what we do legislatively is a statement of our philosophy and our principles,” said Virginia Foxx, Republican chair of the House subcommittee that oversees higher education and co-chair of the GOP platform committee. The Committee for Education Funding says that cut would add up to $27 billion over 10 years.

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OCTOBER 18, 2016

And economists wonder how long the government will be able to support these costs, especially with a new law looming that will limit the amount of money states, or Länder — which operate the universities — can borrow. Unable to charge for tuition, meanwhile, universities contend that they are blocked from an important source of revenue.

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Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Because in a very short time since our founding in January 2021, we and our moms have been making a difference.”

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JULY 18, 2016

Related: In era of high costs, humanities come under attack. If you ask the public what’s most important in higher education, they say two things: ‘What does it cost?’ About 40 percent of humanities undergrads go on to get advanced degrees, the report said, further boosting their incomes. It’s that simple.”.

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JANUARY 2, 2020

These columns provoked strong, favorable reactions — from charter advocates , parent advocates and policy analysts — suggesting that people want the federal government to take an active approach to elementary, secondary and higher education. Elizabeth Warren shows she understands education in ways charter advocates did not.

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AUGUST 12, 2024

Educating Early Read comprehensive coverage of young learners with Hechinger’s biweekly Early Childhood newsletter. Ariel Gilreath School choice Expanding school choice through private-school vouchers has been a key part of Trump’s education policy, but he had little success in getting his most ambitious efforts passed by Congress.

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