Edsurge

MAY 1, 2019

Student government leaders then obtained a contract between ASU and Cengage detailing how the two would share revenue for a jointly developed adaptive learning tool for introductory economics. As questions mounted, the student government passed a resolution last week calling on the university to start an independent investigation.

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MARCH 22, 2023

Last month, when more than 200,000 students who had been victims of misconduct by their colleges began getting the news that their federal student loans were cancelled, Amanda Luciano felt a sense of satisfaction — and a pang of despair. I’m frustrated, because, what can I do? I’m so regretful, every day,” she said. “I

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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Related: OPINION: The Supreme Court just revealed what we already know — Meritocracy is a myth Fortunately, some universities have already taken legacy preferences off the table. MIT and Wesleyan, for example.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

(Mostly) back from my August hiatus, I’m pleased to offer up the next edition of A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News. additions to the K-12 Cyber Incident Map , including a couple of new TV news reports of the same. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 33 Edition).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Supreme Court upheld its use in college and university admissions by a vote of 4 to 3 in Fisher v. Despite the new ruling in Harvard’s favor by U.S. District Court Judge Allison Burroughs , a ruling with which I agree, it is likely that the issue will yet again reach the U.S. University of Texas.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2019

A public institution — a government institution — must be held much more strictly to “objective” admissions than private. Not only am I against government mandated affirmative action for public colleges, I am against those institutions choosing affirmative action. Unequal treatment by government is inescapable.

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MARCH 5, 2019

Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images. The federal government and the Department of Education need to start taking their responsibility for prohibiting discrimination seriously and crack down on schools that punish black people for their hair and hair styles. Late last year, U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2019

Stewart Lockett (right, grey shirt) leads a meeting of the student government executive team in late January. His team is the most diverse student government the university has ever had. He dug through the bottom drawer and pulled out a student government flyer from five years earlier. Casey Parks/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

When the news first broke that two neighboring school districts in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi had to consolidate, parents, teachers, and students on both sides of the district lines buzzed with anxiety. Students warm up in choir, one of the many extracurricular classes offered at Starkville High Photo: Nicole Lewis. STARKVILLE, Miss.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Brandeis accepted 44 percent of male applicants compared to 36 percent of female applicants in 2012-2013, according to data the university reports to the federal government. The number of men continued to fall this year more sharply than the number of women at public and for-profit universities. Sign up for our higher education newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2017

Students are suddenly eager to talk politics and government, but the hyper-partisan reality beyond school walls makes it hard to pull off these discussions in class. Johnson (on screen) overlooks the AP government class of Jo Boggess Phillips in Ripley, West Virginia Photo: Jo Boggess Phillips. President Lyndon B.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2017

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. At a local level, courts and state education departments often play an important role in making sure special education law is followed.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

The 1943 Supreme Court decision in West Virginia State Board of Education v. I’m really tired of our government taking advantage of us,” said Michalec. This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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The Jose Vilson

JUNE 4, 2016

On any given day during the NBA series, my students shout out any number of stats and names, solidifying their argument for who reigns supreme as of that specific game. So when I woke up this morning to the news of boxing legend Muhammad Ali’s passing, one of my first thoughts was “How am I going to explain him to my kids?”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2019

Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 decision in Brown v. Though many other cities fought desegregation orders, New Orleans, like Little Rock before it, became a national flashpoint for white supremacy during years of vehement court battles, legislative end-runs and family sacrifice. Board decision. Bettman/Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

But since 2009, according to David Smith, the district’s chief of communications and government relations, the district has had to cut more than $50 million from its already tight budget because of state cutbacks, threatening progress in a district that had seen some significant and surprising gains for its students. The money runs out.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Supreme Court declared racially segregated public schools to be unconstitutional. Even the current Supreme Court’s conservatives have embraced that Brown vs. Board of Education decision. Next year will mark seven decades since the U.S. She is also the author of “ Race, Rights and Rifles.”

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JULY 19, 2020

Supreme Court ruling brings the country closer to the original vision of the framers who crafted the federal and early state constitutions, and it helps erase the stain of 19th-century amendments to most state constitutions that were rooted in anti-Catholic bigotry. The Court’s June 2020 decision in Espinoza v. A recent U.S.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Ever since enslaved blacks arrived on the shores of the English colony of Virginia in 1619 , white legislators at various levels of government have designed laws to explicitly control and suppress black people. The Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal. Read more about education in New Orleans.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

More than 60 years after the court case Brown v. The new district’s name was telling: It had split that year from the larger — and mostly black — Hinds County School District in the wake of a lawsuit that had forced the larger district to desegregate. We have such an opportunity to say this works. Diversity works.”. Diversity works.”.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2018

But it looked like the teenagers would have to do without the advantages sports participation could bring: The nonprofit that governs Louisiana’s high school sports won’t allow most of the Central American students to play. Supreme Court, in Plyler v. Since 1982, when the U.S. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2023

This five-part series from the Rural News Network , made possible with support from Ascendium, explores how institutions and students are meeting their educational needs and the demands of today’s rural workforce. Outside of local government and a prison, the primary source of jobs are the farms that have existed since before the Civil War.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Supreme Court. Over the years Plessy’s namesake school has managed to achieve more diversity than most in New Orleans, but is now struggling to retain upper middle class, white families, according to Ben McLeish, the president of Plessy’s governing board. Read more about New Orleans.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

This story about school segregation was produced by The Texas Tribune , a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that provides free news, data and events on Texas public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Loading… Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Order from the court.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 3, 2023

government, and only 29 percent said they had a teacher whose primary responsibility is teaching civics. As a country, we have not invested enough in teaching the very fundamental knowledge, skills and dispositions young people need to be informed and engaged participants in our bold experiment in self-government.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

These materials help students learn about different social studies topics including civil rights, governance, citizenship, public policy, the constitution, media, news literacy, and more. government, including personal rights, the three branches, state powers, and the Supreme Court, into categories". Sortify: U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

For three-quarters of federal borrowers 65 and older, it’s money they borrowed for their own educations and have been paying off for decades the Government Accountability Office, or GAO, found. The Supreme Court blocked the Biden administration’s plan to forgive up to $20,000 of debt for recipients with incomes under $125,000.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2023

Related: Supreme Court decides the fate of millions of student loan borrowers In recognition of the burden this debt has placed on nearly 44 million Americans, the Biden administration has introduced a number of relief programs, including an improved income-driven repayment (IDR) plan called the SAVE Plan.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

In 1967, 13 years after the Supreme Court declared separate schools to be inherently unequal, the federal government charged that the parish had maintained a segregated system. In 2008, at a time when courts were releasing hundreds of school districts from oversight , the Avoyelles school board asked the court to lift its order.

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MindShift

AUGUST 14, 2018

How do you teach kids to be active participants in government? Or to tell the difference between real news and fake news? government works, and everyone has some interaction with government every day. But some students learn more about their government than others. government class online,” he says.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

AUGUST 23, 2018

Students picked current news topics that mattered to them, researched the topics, and created letters and art to send to local, state, and federal representatives. These 21 youth are suing the US Government for careless environmental practices that are impacting their right to life, liberty, and property. Two years ago, Ms.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Government is kind of leading from the rear here. It is one of only a few school districts in the state that is requiring masks after the state Supreme Court put a hold on a mask mandate ban South Carolina legislators approved in the spring. The main story out of Fremont? Resiliency. If I had to put it to one word.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2018

Related: A conservative Supreme Court could threaten the education of immigrant students. This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Professional circles are never strictly professional — they are social as well.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Now, these conversations are in seemingly every school district in the US and many make it into the news. The Collaborative Trust for Research and Training in Youth Health & Development released a report in 2019 for the Broadcast Standards Authority of New Zealand. Supreme Court Case such as Roth v.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

With the contentious Supreme Court confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh still weighing on many Americans’ minds and a closely-watched midterm election just days away, now seems as good a time as any for educators to teach their students some civics. citizens to understand their government and participate in democracy.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The long-term future of our system of government depends not only on restoring a supermajority of citizens who demand democracy but also on ensuring that that percentage exists across the generations. government, civics, and the problems and promise of democracy. Want to target student apathy toward the news and being informed?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2020

Supreme Court ruled in Espinoza v. Kendra Espinoza and two other parents took the state to court; the case eventually reached the Supreme Court. In a 5-4 decision, the Court’s conservative majority found that barring religious organizations from a “public benefit” was unconstitutional. “A

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