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SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

So the state improvised an internet solution through the Kids Connect program , which created more than 1,000 wireless hotspots in parking lots at schools, libraries and parks. How do we make sure that our students have access in this changing world?”

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FEBRUARY 9, 2023

“Everyone is talking about declining enrollment, but no one is talking about who’s leaving the system and why,” said Tom Sheppard, a New York City parent and representative on the city’s Panel for Educational Policy. “No Instead, she cruised the hallways or read in the library. No one,” he said, “is forthcoming.”

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Digital Promise

JUNE 10, 2019

The study , conducted by education policy researcher Kathleen Lynch , parses out how various summer activities, such as attending camp, reading and talking about math at home, vacations and daytrips, and summer school, have distinct academic effects. The Research.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Even unpaid library fines and balances on campus cards can trigger a windfall of consequences that push thousands of students into debt and degree-less purgatory every year. This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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APRIL 29, 2019

There’s no evidence to show that a one-day training for teachers and staff will foster change,” says Circe Stumbo, president of West Wind Education Policy, an Iowa-based group that provides analysis of school equity policies. This isn’t a quick fix. The effort must be ongoing.

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AUGUST 5, 2021

Emily House, executive director, Tennessee Higher Education Commission and the Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation. “It Free college” or “promise” programs have long focused on recent high school grads. Some even earn degrees — but leave without getting them.

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AUGUST 17, 2018

A student walks past the Bender Library on the American University campus in Washington, D.C. That’s depriving them of a big chunk of their educations, said Peter Huidekoper Jr., a retired English teacher who blogs about education and is the Colorado coordinator of the Education Policy Fellowship Program.

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DECEMBER 22, 2018

But in this county of fewer than 19,000 residents, just 38 percent of recent high school graduates sought more education, according to the latest available data from the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission. That’s well below the statewide rate of 55 percent. He’s the first one.”.

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MAY 21, 2024

In 2016, she received a grant from the Pasadena Arts & Culture Commission and the City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division to present “Loma Alta: Tales of Desegregation,” a talk at a public library that featured her and two other district alumni sharing their experiences. “So

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AUGUST 3, 2016

New York City’s public schools, like those in the state’s other big cities, educate large numbers of (traditionally struggling) poor black and Latino students, and sometimes those students outperform even their white and more affluent peers in Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo and Yonkers on state tests. In Rochester, for example, just 6.7

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OCTOBER 27, 2017

ATLANTA — School had already let out for the day, but the teachers at Hollis Innovation Academy in northwest Atlanta were gathered around tables in the library, laptops open, strategizing. Miriam Greenberg, director of education and communications at Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research.

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DECEMBER 16, 2019

In addition to employing qualified elementary, middle and high school music teachers, David Douglas offers inexpensive instrument rentals ($25 per year), a library of musical scores, connections to reduced-price or free private lessons and a closet of free marching band uniforms and orchestra dress blacks, among other necessities.

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MARCH 16, 2017

“One of the arguments we had for years and years in Mississippi was: ‘We shouldn’t have state-funded pre-K because students should be home with their mothers,’ ” said Rachel Canter, executive director of Mississippi First, an education policy nonprofit that helped craft the 2013 legislation that created the program.

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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. . — Remi Savard is one of the last students at Montpelier High School who remembers what class was like before the school switched to a proficiency-based model three years ago. “If

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JULY 25, 2016

The backlog of maintenance has only grown since the economic downturn, up 18 percent since 2007 at private, nonprofit campuses and 22 percent at public universities and colleges, according to Sightlines , a higher-education facilities consulting firm. Cal students in the Doe Library at UC Berkeley. Photo: Alison Yin/Hechinger Report.

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AUGUST 11, 2016

But when the new building opened in 2015, the school district didn’t have enough money for her to order new library books. Dillon was lucky to have the president personally invested in improving its schools. Media specialist Marcia Bethea said the new school’s media center is nice, with good technology. They need a lot more, she said.

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JULY 22, 2016

Cal students in the Doe Library at UC Berkeley. You wanna buy a college education? At least, that’s how things turn out for the average American graduate, according to the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. Photo: Alison Yin/Hechinger Report. Of course you do!

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

“I’m still thinking about how I’m going to pay for that last year” after the benefit runs out, she said in Spanish, in a glass-walled conference room in the university’s busy library. Fifteen percent of beneficiaries of free tuition in Chile would otherwise not have sought a college education, even if they had access to a scholarship or loan.

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AUGUST 7, 2023

The district also began holding workshops on Black studies for all educators, featuring speakers such as scholars Hasan Jeffries and Bettina Love. In kindergarten and middle school, we only ever talked about Rosa Parks and Harriet Tubman and Martin Luther King,” said Haajah Robinson, 15, speaking during an interview in the school library.

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AUGUST 4, 2023

Related: Inside an ‘underground lab’ for far-right education policies Nationally, takeovers are relatively rare: Between 1988 and 2016, states took control of 114 school districts, about four per year. Libraries in those schools are being turned into centers where students considered disruptive will participate remotely.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Below are some specific examples: Identify Evidence-Based Practices : Targeted Searches : Use Consensus AI to search for specific educational practices or interventions, such as early literacy strategies or behavior management techniques.

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MARCH 28, 2022

And at the end of the 20th century, groups like the Eagle Forum left a growing imprint on education policy in the state. “It People who in that time wanted to have books make a ton of money for them as public school adoptions had to understand: That was not an educational process. Many are no longer used in Alabama schools.

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DECEMBER 17, 2023

For two years, the club, known as PRISM (People Respecting Individuality and Sexuality Meeting), gathered in the town’s public library, because its dozen members couldn’t find a faculty adviser to sponsor it. The Legislative Record from Monday, April 17, 2023, on display at the Owen County Public Library.

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DECEMBER 7, 2017

It’s not because there aren’t plenty of low-income students who qualify, research by the Institute for Higher Education Policy found. Related: The rich-poor divide on America’s college campuses is getting wider, fast.

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APRIL 12, 2019

The stretch of grass overlooking the amphitheater, Reflection Pond and the library “is pretty breathtaking,” she said. And I’m like, listen, you should be more concerned about graduating,” said Rachel Fishman, deputy director for research on education policy at New America, a Washington, D.C., think tank.

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OCTOBER 18, 2016

Pausing in a corridor outside Freie Universität’s math and physics library, which looks like an alien spaceship crashed to earth, he said, “I don’t think going to university should be elitist. If you really want to educate yourself in this country, you’ve got the possibility.”. You’ve got to eat anyway.”.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Anti-trans policies were passed, school staff were ordered not to use “terms related to LGBTQ,” and a full year of social studies was cut from graduation requirements to make room for supposedly more patriotic instruction. The new DEI committee was disbanded in early 2022, as students continued to report racial hostility.

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JULY 28, 2021

A slim, poised young woman with waist-length hair, Viviana walked past the principal’s office, along the main hallway, and made a left into the building that houses the school library and the daycare.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Thanks to a relatively new state policy, all spring Clarke went to the school library during second period for an online sociology class. “It We think the market is infinite,” said Mary Gifford, senior vice president of education policy and academic affairs at K12 Inc.,

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JULY 8, 2020

As with community school models, institutions could partner with local organizations to make safe use of currently closed spaces, such as libraries and museums. To be sure, this all means increasing investment in public education.

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JANUARY 22, 2018

The Founder’s Library at Howard University in Washington, DC. The abolitionist, statesman and civil rights leader Frederick Douglass said that denying a person an education means adding another link in the chain of their servitude. Grand Valley State University professor in 2013 in the academic e-journal Education Policy.

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JULY 5, 2023

Related: Inside Florida’s ‘underground lab’ for far-right education policies Unlike the first Joyful Warriors national summit last year in Tampa, Florida, this year’s event drew large protests. “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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FEBRUARY 11, 2021

For years, the Three Rivers Local School District , which includes Taylor High School,has relied on UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, to help broaden minds in a school environment that library media specialist Marney Murphy describes as “sheltered.”.

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