The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

She would also lead an upcoming meeting on the school’s finances, including how to spend federal pandemic relief dollars. And she was running for the school’s governing board. The Boston Teachers Union Pilot School, where Snyder has worked since 2012, is a “teacher-powered” school.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2017

One was that the university refuse to work with, or provide students’ immigration status to, government authorities. The goal of such resource centers and undocumented-student coordinators is to help tens of thousands of undocumented students stay in school and graduate. There are an estimated 750,000-plus people with DACA status.

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The Hechinger Report

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. Rural voters are convinced that their communities get less government spending than they deserve. Kirk: So how can we close these gaps? Philosophy.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics. We could engage in government simulations at GovGames or iCivics or Cyber Nations. government as well.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2021

When 18-year-old Ernesto Rubio graduated from high school in June, he knew what he wanted to do next: take a summer class in the basics of becoming an emergency medical technician, the first step toward his dream job as a paramedic. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. The challenge? Getting to the class.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

In his sociology class, the Western Way of War, he felt it might add to the conversation. “I A disproportionate number of the public leaders who send other people’s children to war went to [elite] schools,” said Sloane, who authors an annual survey of veteran enrollment at top schools. She carried a 4.0

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2019

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. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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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

MARCH 29, 2019

“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. She said her high school internship was relevant to her Cornell major in labor relations.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

Earlier in the school year, a white student came to the office of the Black Student Union, a space it shares with the student government, and told her she had no right to be there. “It If it was up to McNeil, the school would rename the buildings — and not just Vardaman Hall. “We Instead, it will be renamed.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Before Hurricane Katrina, just half of New Orleans public school students earned a high school diploma , and few went on to succeed at a university. She’d spent four years at a high school determined to send minority students like her to college. She actually liked the country song. Plus, she had little to lose.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

FIRST STEP TO THE MIDDLE CLASS: More than 27 million Americans age 25 or older don’t have a high school diploma or GED, the basic credential needed to qualify for nearly 80 percent of jobs in this country. Getting students to class is just the first step toward Jacobs’ ultimate goal: increasing the school’s graduation rate.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2016

The school began pushing to increase its diversity 15 years ago, offering more loans and doing outreach to urban high schools. Not all projects got the green light: A proposal to start a small band to boost school spirit was rejected. Denison has just over 2,000 students.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

JULY 5, 2023

While many of these are universal tips for any middle or high school classroom, several are social studies-specific. I also have them for Civics or Sociology. In the five classrooms I’ve had in my career, I’ve discovered the must-haves that make my social studies classes run smoothly. Things that go way beyond classroom décor.

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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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 25, 2020

That’s a principal reason more and more information about job opportunities and salaries is being made available to students and their families, most recently by the federal government, which this month expanded a feature of its College Scorecard website showing the earnings payoffs of 37,459 majors at 4,434 colleges and universities.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. History class.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2023

Despite the presence of a nearby government school, Sodi’s son and two daughters study at the Assembly of God Church in the Indian border town of Rupaidiha, where Sodi himself once studied. Hindi, the medium of instruction there, is easier for Awadhi speakers to comprehend than the Nepali used at the local school.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

She’s a sociology professor at the University of Virginia and coauthor of the book Academically Adrift. 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. Be really hard to do that.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2025

government. Department of Education and putting an end to any federal role in education by returning all governance and funding to the states. In large measure, our states still play a significant role in education via funding and governance, but before the federal role was cemented, the states were essentially in charge.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Match Charter High in Boston, where students are scrambling to meet college deadlines while balancing classes, sports and multiple Advanced Placement courses. This story is second in an occasional series on the senior class at Match High School , a college preparatory charter public school in Boston. Photo: Kim Palmer.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The trend is similar in Canada, where humanities enrollment plummeted by more than 5 percent — the biggest drop of any discipline — in just the one year ending in 2015, also the most recent period available, and where the share of students majoring in the humanities is an equally low one in 20, the government agency Statistics Canada reports.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

We share the text of their conversation for discussion in high school classrooms and professional development workshops. Wells-Barnett, is increasingly becoming a household name and being taught more commonly in high school, especially in Chicago, where I’m from. Muhammad: Yeah. So I’m hoping that Ida B. Hagopian: Wow.

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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., Hall, a busy senior majoring in sociology who is also the president of the Black Student Union at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, cast her first presidential ballot for Clinton. Photo: Lillian Mongeau.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

I got the chance to connect with high school students in my breakout room and it was a refreshing reminder that the Black Freedom Struggle is not only being taught despite truth-teaching being criminalized, but also it is being learned and put into practice! Don’t miss upcoming sessions — register now. Muhammad: Yeah.

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