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For-profit beauty school settles class-action lawsuit

The Hechinger Report

The lawsuit , which was brought on behalf of current and former students by the nonprofit legal and advocacy organization Student Defense, accused La’ James of delaying financial aid payments and causing them financial hardship in violation of the Iowa Consumer Fraud Act.

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Sign Up Now - Fascinating New Sessions at "Privacy in the Digital Age" Virtual Mini-Conference

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NEW TO THE PROGRAM : Barbara Bailey, Janet Nocek, and Peter Chase , three of the four librarians who in 2005 challenged an FBI demand for patron records that came without a court order and forbid them from telling anyone they had received it. To register click here. To submit to present, see below!

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The number of grandparents raising grandchildren is up, thanks in part to the opioid epidemic

The Hechinger Report

The Census Bureau’s 2005 American Community Survey counted 2.4 million in 2005 to 7.1 Eschman first discovered the Clayton County program in 2005. Maybe then they’ll get a mobile home and just take off. million grandparents living with grandchildren for whom they were responsible. million in 2014. We’ll have a P.O.

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The 2019 Global Education Conference - Full List of 130 Sessions and 10 Keynotes!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Dana is an Ashoka Fellow, was named one of The New Leaders Council’s 40 under 40 Progressive American Leaders, and was winner of the Tides Foundation’s Jane Bagley Lehman award for excellence in public advocacy in 2014. I used to work in cafes and restaurants and in 2005 me and friend of mine set up this company with social responsibility.

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Why students are ignorant about the Civil Rights Movement

The Hechinger Report

In the 2015-16 school year, none of the social studies textbooks listed for use in the state’s fourth grade classroom was published before 2005. Yet, in the book most districts use — titled “Mississippi Studies” and published in 2005 — only five of 100 pages are devoted to civil rights struggles. Stennis as “politically moderate.”

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Not all towns are created equal, digitally

The Hechinger Report

But many students live in threadbare mobile homes and modest, low-slung dwellings on the edge of town. At least one Duke University study suggested that the arrival of broadband service in North Carolina between 2000 and 2005 correlated with a small, but significant dip in reading and math scores for elementary school students.

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Students take their future into their own hands on climate change activism

The Hechinger Report

Watford mobilized her impoverished neighborhood of Curtis Bay, canvassing the area for four years. The plan reeked of environmental racism , which occurs when communities of color are burdened with a lop-sided amount of environmental threats, including toxic waste sites, polluting industries, and other sources of pollution.