eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2015

The pass rates in social studies and science were each 9 percentage points higher. 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 school is drawing attention.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Before she did, Fulgencio and fellow student leaders went to the capital and begged for the cuts to stop, armed with a study showing that for every $1 put into higher education, the state got back $11. It was worth it, John Fulgencio said, to see his daughter become vice president of student government, graduate magna cum laude with a 3.7

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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. One state received less than $30 per student.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Preschool is most likely to help low-income children if their classmates come from a range of family incomes, according to a new study. That approach is based on the results of many earlier studies that have found attending preschool helps kids from disadvantaged backgrounds start kindergarten on a stronger academic footing.

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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. He started teaching social studies at Blythewood High School in Richland 2, a school district in the Midlands, in 2005, the same year the school was founded. “I

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

In all, the GI Bill — which costs $11 billion a year, according to the General Accounting Office — paid for all or part of 450,000 degrees earned by 340,000 students between 2009 and 2015, the study found. 11, 2001 graduated at a rate of between 66 percent and 68 percent. Some of those veterans earned more than one degree.

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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

JULY 10, 2019

For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. A few local pilot programs have been shown to slightly improve test scores and teacher satisfaction, but a 2017 study by RAND , commissioned by the Gates Foundation to study 40 Gates-funded schools, reads like a shrug.

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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. Department of Health and Human Services.

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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. Schools are the perfect teaching grounds for potential citizens because when students go to school, they are doing more than someone who simply studies the materials the U.S. Then came 9/11.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2021

billion by the end of the century, according to one study. billion, the study’s authors estimated. A study of the current levee, which was built after a catastrophic flood in 1986, found it was overbuilt and still protects against a 100-year flood event. to purchase what would have cost $100 in 2001 , he said.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

They struggle with facts about social studies. As Kristina Rizga wrote in Mother Jones this year , In 2011, all federal funding for civics and social studies was eliminated. Facebook said it would work with the ed-tech advocacy group Digital Promise to teach digital skills. This too has been a long time in the making.

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