The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

A report published Thursday by the Student Borrower Protection Center , a nonprofit advocacy group focused on student debt, attempts to quantify the scope of this problem. Schools can refer students to state tax collectors to have their tax refund garnished or send them to debt collection companies, which often charge high fees.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. While some students remain unconnected, Oakland’s effort has emerged as an example of how to tackle a citywide digital divide. “We

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

In Part II of this series, participants will examine powerful examples and methods for applying global education in learning environments. This skill is often referred to as "transliteracy." Who has experienced successful results and what is the impact on students? Lisa Petro of Know My World hosts. Register at [link].

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools. Students would be required to pay.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

Nancy Loome, executive director and founder of the Parents’ Campaign, a nonprofit and grassroots education advocacy organization. The class sizes at Enterprise Attendance Center are an example of these struggles. “We should be spending more than any other state because we have more poverty — significantly more poverty.”.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

As an example of that: a good friend of mine has been teaching for 20 years now. And they talk about how female teachers are referred to as gentle and kind and sweet, where male teachers have control of their discipline or understand their content. I’ll refer to Goldstein’s book. His classroom walls are bare.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2023

Getting child care is simpler for student parents when they have a predictable schedule, for example, rather than classes that meet at different times on different days. Credit: Aaron Law for The Hechinger Report The library, for instance, has only books connected to the subjects of the classes. Media and performance courses meet here.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2016

And while the progress is uneven and vulnerable to still more changes ahead — including a shift next year from grants to loans for students’ living expenses — how they have succeeded shows it can be done, and offers some examples of exactly how. students from affluent areas are 2.4 That’s up from six times more likely in 1970.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Advocacy and LGBTQIA+ rights organizations are desperate for teachers to share classroom experiences that might inform policymakers’ decisions. Advocacy and LGBTQIA+ rights organizations are desperate for teachers to share classroom experiences that might inform policymakers’ decisions.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

For two years, the club, known as PRISM (People Respecting Individuality and Sexuality Meeting), gathered in the town’s public library, because its dozen members couldn’t find a faculty adviser to sponsor it. Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report Following Meryl’s death, Ketron decided to continue her daughter’s advocacy.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2021

To the surprise of many students and parents, public colleges in every state in the country except Louisiana use for-profit debt collection agencies to retrieve overdue tuition, library fees and even parking fines. Instead, the university referred the debt to a collection agency without telling him, he said. The search for solutions.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

It hit us like a ton of bricks,” said Laura Foster, a local mother who helped create the progressive advocacy group the Ridge Network to fight the right-wing dominance of Pennridge’s schools. The district’s website was scrubbed of references to DEI, and a new, board-directed committee was created to review DEI initiatives.

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