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OCTOBER 2, 2024

Jon: But the decline in college opportunity for rural high school graduates is only widening social, economic and political divides between rural America and the rest of the country. Political science. Rural voters are convinced that their communities get less government spending than they deserve.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Thrailkill was a third-year teacher happily settled at Skyline High School in Mesa, AZ, when Lindblom phoned to ask her to apply for an opening at nearby Mountain View High. Not only was Mountain View the high school from which she’d graduated; Lindblom was a teacher she admired.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

But at the nation’s most selective schools, where most students follow the traditional pipeline from high school to a degree within four years — and from which many go on to leadership roles in government and industry — veterans like Fendler are an anomaly. Aimee Chartier served four years in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

Even in high school, Miguel Agyei worried about how he’d pay for college. This story also appeared in USA Today The son of parents who work at a hospital and for UPS, Agyei wanted to go to a school away from his home state of Illinois, but that was too expensive. It’s supposed to be the great equalizer,” she said.

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APRIL 22, 2019

Nayeli Perez, an 18-year-old senior at the Academy at Palumbo, a public magnet high school in central Philadelphia. Nor did she understand how to identify schools that would allow her to major in zoology and prepare for her dream job as a veterinarian, but where she could also explore her interests in political science and film.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Roosevelt Montás, who spoke no English when he arrived in New York City at age 12 from the Dominican Republic, leads Columbia University’s Freedom and Citizenship summer program for New York City high school students. The program relies on local high school guidance counselors to find participants, DeSmidt said.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

These students are increasingly the children of parents who helicoptered them through elementary, middle and high school or who didn’t go to college themselves and can’t provide much help with it. This is increasingly true among high school graduates less accustomed to forging their own paths, he said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Meadowbrook High School students entering the school’s Colt College center, where they can take tuition-free college courses without leaving the campus. Turning around struggling high schools is the toughest work in education reform. Related: The high school grads least likely in America to go to college?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

Tuition and fees at the law school at St. The federal government even charges higher interest rates for graduate than for undergraduate loans : 6.6 In this day and age the bachelor’s degree is what the high school diploma used to be and the master’s degree is what the bachelor’s degree once was,” said Armstrong.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2017

Education is a provincial responsibility in Canada and is highly centralized by the Alberta government. The curriculum is developed and coordinated by government officials and staff, but the writing is done largely by committees of practicing teachers according to agreed-upon directives (a broad curriculum revision is currently underway now).

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 12, 2023

For secondary and post-secondary government and political science educators, we are proud to recommend our CDC volume, Religious Liberty: Core Court Cases. As Justice Thomas notes in many of his 14 th amendment opinions, the Bill of Rights was originally intended to restrict actions of the federal government only.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

She’s one of a growing number of academy cadets who are starting their higher educations later in life, rather than right out of high school. More than half of the cadets here graduated in the top 10 percent of their high school classes, the academy says. We want to get that experience and grit into what we do,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Related: After its college closes, a rural community fights to keep a path to education open His classmates who will be affected by the changes “are such creatives at heart, and they all came here because they loved what they were doing,” said Bertram, who is also student government representative for the university’s College of Creative Arts.

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Political Science Now

MAY 16, 2024

David Broockman , Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley, The Nature and Origins of Political Polarization in America Lisa A. David Broockman , Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley, The Nature and Origins of Political Polarization in America Lisa A.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 27, 2024

Walz, who served several terms in Congress before becoming the governor of Minnesota in 2018, is a former high school social studies teacher and football coach who, to this day, holds those identities close. Jahana Hayes of Connecticut, a former high school history and government teacher. Chad King Wilson Sr.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

Now red-state governors increasingly use the takeovers to undermine the political power of cities, particularly those governed by Black and Hispanic leaders, according to some education experts. “I’ve Austin Senior High School, in Houston. The exception was 96-year-old Phillis Wheatley High School.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

WASHINGTON — Like many high school seniors, Grant Austin Robert Simms was bombarded with marketing materials from colleges that showed euphoric students enjoying athletics, extracurricular clubs and the excitement of living on campus. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. Nobody talks about that.”.

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MPSA

MARCH 30, 2022

Smith, Professor of Political Science, Emporia State University Between 10 and 15 years ago, Political Science experienced a renewed interest in civic education. I had already begun teaching the book in an introductory political science course and I was anxious to talk with him about it. by Michael A.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

But for Robinson, who attended an art high school in New York, “It was definitely worth the risk” to enroll in the fall at this small college with its alternative curriculum of self-directed learning and no grades or majors — shaky though its fate might seem. he was a political science major with plans to become a lawyer.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

And she says while some of these schools are doing better than others, she’d like to see the federal government hold them all accountable under the so-called Gainful Employment Rule. Some students just aren’t going to college straight out of high school. And I didn’t take a lot of that in high school.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2021

This happened despite or perhaps because of the fact that so few teachers have a formal voice in the way we govern our schools. To better understand why and avoid a string of unwanted sequels, it’s worth taking a moment to reflect on our Byzantine school governance systems and ask if we can do better. Paul, Minnesota.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Tulsa Public Schools Superintendent Deborah Gist presents a Golden Apple Award to Dr. Abraham Kamara at Memorial Junior High School. Now the fight is less about how public schools can achieve excellence, and more about how they can survive. “In In some ways, the Obama-era school reform skirmishes were a problem of luxury.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

The programs occupy a gray area between corporate sponsorship and promotion at a time when climate science has increasingly come under siege at the highest levels of government. Nearly a third of middle- and high-school science teachers nationwide have wrongly suggested global warming is naturally occurring.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

A student group committed to free markets and limited government gave students at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Ore., Political science major Tabitha Pitzer, 20, showed up here with a few close friends at 1:45 a.m. Murrow High School on time and was admitted to John Jay the next fall. CORVALLIS, Ore. —

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

But rates of voting by young people have quietly been rising to unprecedented levels, despite their lifetimes of watching government gridlock and attempts in some states to make it harder for them to vote. Jared Williams, president of student government at The College of New Jersey, and Aria Chalileh, vice president. Census Bureau.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

Government and philanthropy have poured untold millions into the former industrial powerhouse with the worst-performing school district in the nation. The schools have opened their doors to Hoyleton Youth and Family Services, to provide student and family counseling. high schools? It is a common story. “We

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MAY 28, 2021

As Chris Tims, a high school teacher in Waterloo, Iowa, sees it, history education is about teaching students to synthesize diverse perspectives on the nation’s complicated past. Chris Tims, Iowa high school teacher. Historically, government and philanthropy haven’t been particularly generous to social studies.

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