The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

When he entered first grade in 2008, after a half-day kindergarten program, his school district, in Eagle Point, Oregon, never even attempted a full-day schedule, Pearson said. One Oregon advocacy organization reported receiving calls from nearly 280 parents about shortened school days from September 2016 to December 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

These strategies range in impact and difficulty, and some have been more practiced in the children’s advocacy world than others. In 2008, the One Hill Coalition, a diverse group of 100 community groups in the city, brokered a collective-bargaining agreement with the developers of the new Pittsburgh Penguins arena.

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MindShift

JANUARY 13, 2018

Between 2008 and 2011, the researchers surveyed the study participants yearly. Perfectionism seems particularly harmful when one feels pressured to meet unrealistic expectations set by others. However, virtual volunteering, such as donating to a “Go Fund Me” campaign or writing an advocacy letter can also be worthwhile.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

In the summer of 2020, Talbott and her colleagues asked for a meeting with the charter school’s leaders to discuss racial justice at Lusher, one of the city’s most coveted for families and teachers alike; they also created an antiracism group for teachers. “A Yet she never contemplated leaving the classroom until the summer of 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The only face-to-face meeting was in October 2021, when Tameka sent her kids on the bus, only to learn they weren’t enrolled. Contact logs provided by the district show social workers from three schools have sent four emails and called the family 19 times since the pandemic closed classrooms in 2020. Communities such as St.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2016

For example, in early 2008, LPS noticed that students were falling behind in math. “Often, they’re not clear about what the goal is and how they want to evaluate changes in student outcomes,” Arnett said.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Last, for those who want to become civically engaged, Secretary McCulloch recommends reading and educating yourself, attending meetings, volunteering, visiting places of interest to you, advocating for an issue, writing, and voting. Secretary McCulloch was elected Montana’s first woman Secretary of State in November 2008.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. “I She expected much more than ‘You’re going to meet state standards,’” he said.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

He has proudly taught physics and calculus to more than one thousand students, chaired a science department, served as an assistant principal in Westport, CT, led Newtown High School in Sandy Hook, CT as its principal from 2008 to 2014, and served as superintendent of the Amity Regional School District.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 22, 2019

While the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) was last reauthorized in 2004, with amendments in 2015, and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) were updated back in 2008, the demand for accessibility and equality in education continues to grow.

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 29, 2017

Carry out the action through letters, talks, meetings with officials, policy proposals, and activities, depending on the specific goals of the project. For example, providing warm clothing for the homeless can grow into advocacy for more essential programs to end homelessness. Step 4—Carrying Out an Action. By Steven Zemelman.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

The last time schools were fully funded, in 2008, the state spent roughly $2.56 Nancy Loome, executive director and founder of the Parents’ Campaign, a nonprofit and grassroots education advocacy organization. We’re just trying to make ends meet with what we’ve got.”. billion on elementary and secondary education.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

When Hallowell tried to extend proficiency-based education to its high school in 2008, parents put up a fight, saying the change would make it harder for their children to compete for scholarships and admission to selective schools, according to a case study published by the state Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

When our kids came out of a meeting with those other kids, we saw a light in them we had never seen,” Eschman said. “We The Children’s Defense Fund (CDF), a nonprofit child advocacy and research organization, has been fighting for more financial support for relatives caring for children outside of the formal system for years.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Teachers Are Moonlighting As Instagram Influencers To Make Ends Meet,” Buzzfeed reported in 2018. In 2011, Barber went to work for Pearson as its Chief Education Advisor, continuing his advocacy for competition, data collection, measurements, and standards-based reforms. Aaron Swartz, 2008. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

” The proposal would expand the gainful employment rule to all schools that receive federal aid, but it would remove any penalties for schools that fail to meet acceptable levels. An op-ed in The Washington Post : “On ITT and the Education Department, no more excuses.” New hires at the Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2022

By 7:30, he was in his office, going through emails, checking for scheduled meetings, and tying up loose ends from the day before. This call was to a relative on a student’s contact list, an attempt to locate a parent who was a no-show for a meeting a day earlier. It helps him focus, he said.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

From 2008 to 2017, the share of Latinx students at this commuter school of roughly 4,000 rose from 13 percent to 22 percent — the highest of any public university in the state. Between 2000 and 2015, the number of Latinx college students more than doubled , to 3 million. Debra Santiago, CEO, Excelencia in Education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Longtime advocates of this federal transparency mandate hope the new data will spur more widespread advocacy. Jean-Claude Brizard took over as superintendent of the Rochester City Schools in western New York in January 2008. (He Brizard wanted to change that.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Have governments spent enough money to meet the unexpected and very steep costs of the last year? The communities that need the most will face the biggest hits,” said Zahava Stadler, special assistant for state funding and policy at The Education Trust, a nonprofit education research and advocacy organization. “If Travers said.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

She applied for financial assistance from the state of Louisiana, but, though she says she meets the income cutoff, she had by early September yet to hear if she qualified. Research suggests average families need twice the poverty level amounts to meet their basic needs, the report says.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The growth has helped it stay competitive within the Ivy League and meet its broader ambitions to become a global institution. To help Columbia expand, New York State condemned land in 2008 in the West Harlem neighborhood of Manhattanville and used eminent domain to seize properties for the university. Liset Cruz and Emma G.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Later that day, she planned to study for her summer session classes, English and public speaking, and to meet with an advisor. Started in 2008, the Seita Scholars Program is one of several efforts at U.S. After that, she’d head back to the dorm, which stays open year-round for students like her. colleges to help students like Mayes.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

Todd Ziebarth, senior vice president for state advocacy and support at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, says that, in some parts of the country, organizations that oversee charters have started to take a more active role in ensuring that the schools enroll a diverse student body. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Meanwhile, all but four states are spending less on higher education, per student, than they did in 2008 , according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal-learning think thank. The trend peaked during the recession that began in 2008, when UC hiked undergraduate tuition by nearly a third in a single year.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

We gear up to talk about one controversy, and we get to the meeting, and they’re upset about something else.”. Enrollment in traditional teacher-preparation programs dropped 35 percent in the decade between 2008-09 and 2018-19, and fell further during the pandemic. For gay teachers like Woods, the attacks can feel personal. “It

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2019

But black and Hispanic students in particular are not going to or graduating from college at levels anywhere near high enough for states like Iowa or the nation in general to meet its goals, the nonprofit advocacy group The Education Trust reports. People assume the needle’s going in the right direction.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

When Hispanic students first began attending schools in Mississippi, many school districts refused to enroll them if they didn’t have immigration papers, said Bill Chandler, executive director of the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance, or MIRA, a nonprofit advocacy group. We try to meet their needs, but it’s not easy.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

Barack Obama (D-IL) as he speaks to supporters at a rally in a high school gymnasium January 23, 2008 in Dillon, South Carolina. Obama had seen Corridor and wanted to meet him and the people in the film from Dillon and elsewhere. How Obama found Dillon. Young girls cheer for Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Obama asked.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

What a horrific false choice,” said Morgan Craven, the national director of policy, advocacy and community engagement at the Intercultural Development Research Association, a San Antonio-based group that advocates for bans on corporal punishment. These are the only possible two things we can come up with?”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Beatriz López taught seventh grade science in the Lake Travis Independent School District, in Austin, Texas, from 2008 to 2017. Beatriz López, who taught science in Texas middle schools for nearly a decade, said she wishes more students were introduced to climate change. Credit: Courtesy of Beatriz López.

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