The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

were underfunded by $580 billion in federal dollars alone — money that was specifically targeted to support 30 million of our most vulnerable students,” says a new report published by the education advocacy nonprofit, the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools. “Between 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

“Frankly, students didn’t lose anything, they just never had the opportunity to learn it,” said Allison Socol, an assistant director at The Education Trust, a nonprofit education research and advocacy organization. When given the opportunity, then they will succeed. And so we always talk about it as ‘unfinished learning.’ ”.

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techlearning

JUNE 14, 2018

About the DEA Educational Foundation Established in 2001, the DEA Educational Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to preventing drug abuse. The foundation supports the DEA through advocacy, outreach, and educational programs.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

program, and help advance rural education advocacy regarding the federal No Child Left Behind law. Secretary McCulloch served three terms in the Montana House of Representatives, from 1995 to 2001.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

“The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning. Yet, that idea didn’t play out in most states’ first-year ESSA plans.

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techlearning

MAY 1, 2018

About the DEA Educational Foundation Established in 2001, the DEA Educational Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to preventing drug abuse. The foundation supports the DEA through advocacy, outreach, and educational programs. Learn more at www.deaeducationalfoundation.org.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Standards — the knowledge and skills students must acquire to master a subject — became universal under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, which mandated annual tests and penalized schools with low pass rates. The Education Reform Commission approved the proposal this month and will forward it to the governor.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The high point came in 2001 when states spent an average of $9,100 per student, in 2015 inflation-adjusted dollars; that covered more than 65 percent of tuition, the State Higher Education Executives Association, or SHEEO, reports. So have state employee pension obligations.

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MindShift

JULY 15, 2021

“Frankly, students didn’t lose anything, they just never had the opportunity to learn it,” said Allison Socol, an assistant director at The Education Trust, a nonprofit education research and advocacy organization. When given the opportunity, then they will succeed. And so we always talk about it as ‘unfinished learning.’ ”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The No Child Left Behind targets, set in 2001, became more flexible in 2011, after U.S. State Board of Education spokesman Kevin Calbert said the 10 percent number was based on the improvement the state needed to make to meet federal No Child Left Behind standards, which required 100 percent proficiency by the year 2014.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, first enacted in 1987 and expanded in 2001, requires that districts take specific actions to help unstably housed students complete school. Advocacy groups and researchers , too, have surfaced examples.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Meghan Whittaker, director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. I don’t think anyone’s going to say that what we were doing worked or was equitable,” said Meghan Whittaker, the director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. Here’s why they’re not.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2017

If public education is ever going to meet the needs of low-income students, ideas for change must get beyond the constant war of words fueled by advocacy journalism, partisan blogging and fake news. The pervasiveness of advocacy writing helped usher in a “post-truth” era, where people consumed copious amounts of narrative over fact.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

South Carolina has seen its highest number of educator vacancies this year since the Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention and Advancement started tracking the trend in 2001. These issues can have a greater impact on Black male teachers and other teachers from underrepresented groups.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 7, 2020

“I don’t think anyone’s going to say that what we were doing worked or was equitable,” said Meghan Whittaker, the director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. Vaughn’s advocacy on behalf of her kids came to a temporary standstill this spring, when she was hospitalized with the coronavirus.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

11, 2001 graduated at a rate of between 66 percent and 68 percent. Two Democrat senators, Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin and Jon Tester of Montana, have called for the VA to speed this up by letting the National Student Clearinghouse formally track veteran graduation rates on the government’s behalf.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2017

The program was created by Congress in 1998 and greatly expanded in 2001 under President George W. Advocacy groups like the Young Invincibles and the Institute for Women’s Policy Research have argued that expanding campus-based childcare for low-income families would help boost graduation rates.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

For years, voters from all political parties have been telling pollsters at the First Five Years Fund, a nonprofit advocacy organization focused on early learning, that they are in favor of more funding for early childhood education. “What if higher income kids are needed to make prek more productive for disadvantaged kids?”.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Patrick Farenga is a leading and unique authority on homeschooling, bringing more than 30 years of fieldwork, advocacy, and personal experience (he and his wife homeschooled their three daughters) to help parents and children learn in their own ways.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 30, 2015

Patrick Farenga is a leading and unique authority on homeschooling, bringing more than 30 years of fieldwork, advocacy, and personal experience (he and his wife homeschooled their three daughters) to help parents and children learn in their own ways. See you online!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Patrick Farenga is a leading and unique authority on homeschooling, bringing more than 30 years of fieldwork, advocacy, and personal experience (he and his wife homeschooled their three daughters) to help parents and children learn in their own ways.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. His larger argument, though — that the alliance between education policymakers and billionaire technologists could undermine the role of teachers and the public sphere — has only become more relevant. The George W.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Pat will share his 30-plus years of fieldwork, advocacy (he published Growing Without Schooling magazine from 1986 to 2001), and personal experience (he and his wife homeschooled their three daughters) to help you and your children learn in their own ways. Join the email list for to register for the series at [link].

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2020

Families who earn more than poverty-level wages but still live on a subsistence budget account for about 33 million American households, according to Laura Bruno, a spokesperson for United for ALICE , a research and advocacy organization focused on America’s working poor.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

He is a member of the Latino education advocacy group Nuestra Voz and a student at Cohen College Prep in New Orleans. But better even than DACA is the DREAM Act — or the Development, Relief and Education of Alien Minors Act, which was originally introduced in 2001 by Sen. Then came 9/11.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2021

to purchase what would have cost $100 in 2001 , he said. The nation’s districts spend about $46 billion less per year on facility upkeep than what is needed to maintain a “healthy and safe” school setting, according to a 2016 report from the 21st Century School Fund, a research and advocacy organization.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

A study by George Washington University’s Center on Education Policy found that between 2001 and 2007, 36 percent of districts decreased elementary classroom time spent on social studies, including civics – a drop that most affected underfunded schools serving working-class, poor, rural, and inner-city kids. Naturally.

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