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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

That’s because Louisiana, like many states, lacks a system for tracking students once they enter the workforce. And in 2022, 36 states enacted policies promoting career training for high schoolers, college students, and adults, according to Advance CTE , a professional organization for state CTE leaders.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2023

“ Idaho really is the state where we can solve climate change,” Shiva Rajbhandari tells me over bagels and lox at Russ & Daughters Cafe in New York City. “It’s Currently, Rajbhandari is one of approximately 500 student school board members in 42 states serving almost 20 million students. We have a responsibility.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

This story also appeared in High Country News. That year, 2019, the district changed its policies to allow Indigenous students to wear cultural items along with their caps and gowns. A staff member who was unaware of the new policy had confiscated Paoli’s cap. “I I felt completely violated.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Samantha, from a small town in Massachusetts, sees stories about climate change on social media and in the news. The goal of climate education should not only be to teach students the scientific basis of climate change but also to empower them to address it — not thrust them into a state of despair. There is no time to waste.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

As a result, more states and school districts have adopted policies and practices that downplay the role of intelligence testing in special education evaluations. The California case had a big impact on the state with the largest public school enrollment but was an anomaly nationally.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Federal and state governments and postsecondary institutions can and should adopt policies and practices that will help students build career pathways and make alternatives to a college degree more accessible, affordable and practical. He leads the postsecondary education and workforce policy portfolio and partnership strategy.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Topics covered include citizenship, governance, civil rights, the constitution, politics and public policy, state and local governments, media, news literacy, and many more. Engaging Congress Engaging Congress 'teaches students the key concepts of representative government and citizenship.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

It is especially abhorrent that a government program intended to create equitable opportunities for all students instead perpetuates racial and economic gaps in financial stability and mobility. By seizing these benefits, the federal government takes away critical financial lifelines that reduce poverty for millions of families.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2024

This unit covered the Constitutional Convention, the factions that formed in early American history, and the establishment of the American government system. Students began to think more critically about who was being represented by the Constitution, and more importantly, who was not. This pivot changed everything for students.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

States had the opportunity this summer to participate in a program this year intended to fill those holes. But South Carolina is one of 15 states that missed the January 1 deadline to opt in for this year. Henry McMaster said the state decided not to participate in Summer EBT because officials are trying to move past pandemic aid.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

We should instead be asking this: Why are we so laser-focused on the graduates of a tiny number of schools, presuming they are the rightful inhabitants of leadership posts in business and government? If we treat those outcomes as fixed, unless these schools diversify, we won’t have diverse leadership in government, business and academia.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2024

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift But state air monitoring stations aren’t placed to capture all the hazards concentrated in that small area. We need the principle of environmental justice embedded in our climate policies. We need the principle of environmental justice embedded in our climate policies.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2024

The think tank Rand recently reported in its 2023 State of the American Teacher survey that two-thirds of teachers nationally said they were limiting discussions about political and social issues in class. And this leads to a broader lack of knowledge about how power works in society, say some experts. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

News & World Report released its first-ever rankings of public elementary and middle schools in the United States. I chose New York City middle schools to illustrate this point because New York publishes a lot of data on its public schools. State and local school report cards already do this. Last week, U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: In some states, child care can cost as much as college tuition. In the midst of this crisis, some states are trying to come up with their own creative solutions.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2023

But she saw more opportunity in the United States, where there is a projected demand for more than 160,000 new software developers and related specialists per year, and where tech companies said in a survey that recruiting them is their biggest business challenge. But coming to the U.K. turned out to be “much easier to navigate.”

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eSchool News

AUGUST 7, 2023

This funding will be dedicated to implementing the renowned Laying the Foundation training program for 6th- to 12th-grade teachers in the Newport News and Hampton Roads areas while playing a crucial role in STEM teacher recruitment efforts. The three-day event takes place at Norfolk State University (NSU).

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

AI and kids’ privacy have dominated the conversation in Congress and in the states this year,” said Sara Kloek, Vice President, Education and Children’s Policy, SIIA. “As The panel AI in the Classroom: What is it? How is it Made?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The early childhood education system in the United States is fundamentally broken. These challenges came into full view during the country’s vaccine rollout earlier this year, when K-12 educators in a number of states were prioritized over their counterparts in early childhood education. How will policy be reshaped?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The United States invests less in workforce development as a share of its GDP than many other developed nations, just 0.11 The United States has, historically, done a poor job of helping people who have been displaced by offshoring, automation, recessions and other economic dislocation. How do we help them get back on their feet?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2022

Austin Community College in Texas is emblematic of two-year community colleges around the nation that have benefited from higher state appropriations and property tax collections. Even with increased state and local funding, much less is spent on community college students in total. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

But her state’s constitution contains an amendment that bars taxpayer aid to religious institutions. When states choose to operate a program that involves public (or publicly governed) financing of private service providers, can the state choose to exclude religious providers? Now, it’s all up to the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2020

Our economic recovery — as communities, as states and as a nation — depends on them, but U.S. Even applicants with access to all of the necessary information may not fill out the FAFSA so as not to give away sensitive data to the federal government. There is simply no philanthropic substitute for good public policy.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2023

” Credit: Noah Willman for the Hechinger Report The rules that govern these barriers to entry are patchwork, scattered across federal, state and regulatory codes, and they can vary from field to field within a state. He appealed to the state supreme court, but it ruled against him, too.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Here in Washington state, one of our school board standards states that the job of school board members is to create conditions for students and staff success. For example, many boards have student representatives who can speak directly to their fellow members and have the ability to contribute input on policies.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2024

A Hechinger Report analysis across 20 states found that these types of categories are cited as justification in nearly a third of all suspension and expulsion records. States use different terms to describe the offenses – disrespect, insubordination, defiance – depending on their discipline code. Suspended for…what?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 12, 2023

HMH is a portfolio company of Veritas Capital, a private investment firm that focuses on companies that provide technology and technology-enabled solutions to government and commercial customers worldwide. NWEA partners can learn more about this agreement at nwea.org/news-center/. Goldman Sachs & Co.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Yvonne Mendez was only six months away from graduating with a registered nursing degree from Anamarc College in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, when the school abruptly closed. Government agencies and accrediting bodies have safeguards to protect students from such abrupt college closures, but the oversight is often weak or too late.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2021

almost certainly provided a “sneak preview of higher education’s future,” according to a new report from the progressive think tank New America. Alejandra Acosta, higher education policy analyst, New America. And the report says the federal government should create a grant program to get devices to students who need them.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

States such as Indiana, Idaho, West Virginia, Virginia and many others are modernizing learning and allowing parents the power to choose the education that’s best for their children. While that is one way to address the bus driver shortage, removing policy barriers is another. Craig Hulse is the executive director of yes.every kid.

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 30, 2024

With the UK government's Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Bill looming on the horizon, the outcome of this dispute holds significant implications for the future of the app store ecosystem. It has urged the UK government to prevent similar fees in the country.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Some teachers get some of that money back: Several states provide at least partial reimbursement for these expenses and the federal government allows a $250 tax deduction, according to Alyssa Evans, a policy researcher at the Education Commission of the States. In Nevada, for instance, the state created a $4.5

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

Their state test scores were neither better nor worse than students who didn’t get art. To the researchers, that was good news. And that’s what we found,” said Brian Kisida, an assistant professor at Truman School of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Missouri, and the other co-author of the study.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The findings provide further evidence of a trend identified last year by a Hechinger Report/Associated Press analysis of data gathered from 40 states that revealed a racial divide in career and technical education, or CTE. “It Yet CTE advocates have long had concerns — but little proof — about inequities that lie beneath the surface.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In recent years, students have led climate marches, gun control rallies and walkouts protesting federal immigration policies and racial injustice. Now they are demanding a greater role in school policy and the decisions that shape their educations. Andrew Brennen, National Geographic education fellow.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2021

At nearby PMG, a digital marketing agency, employees received a $500 stipend to set up a home workspace and paid time off beyond government minimums. The effect of the pandemic on some of this work has been to push the workplace policies five to ten years down the line,” Pena said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

When Iowa Wesleyan University announced in March that it would close, its biggest creditor was a federal government agency that had loaned it $26 million and then — in an attempt to help the university survive —softened the terms and extended the repayment period. million , is the soon-to-be-abandoned 60-acre campus, which is valued at $19.1

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