The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The drop in college graduates who majored in humanities ranges between 16 percent and 29 percent since 2012. In the post-war boom of the 1950s, college students were confident of their economic futures and many studied liberal arts subjects such as English, history and philosophy. Credit: Meenakshi Van Zee for The Hechinger Report.

Humanities 143

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 25, 2013

The economics are staggering. For more discussion on the role of OER in education, read “The Massive Open Online Professor,” by Steve and Philipp from the May, 2012, volume of Academic Matters: a Journal of Higher Education. It is gratifying that MIT is willing and able to meet needs like these.

Education 261

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2022

An international study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development found that students who had more books at home reported that they enjoyed reading more. Simultaneously, reading performance around the world, which had been slowly improving up until 2012, declined between 2012 and 2018.

Economics 145

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 16, 2025

A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers 1 one of the most detailed archaeological analyses to date of the roots of economic inequality. Labor, land, and the global dynamics of economic inequality. It shaped who got rich, who stayed poor, and how power was passed on across generations. Hamerow, H.,

Archaeology 52

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Only a handful of states, colored in blue, are predicted to see an increase in the number of students attending regional four-year colleges and universities between 2012 and 2029. But student demand is expected to grow for the nation’s most elite colleges and universities between 2012 and 2029. million in 2012 to 1.27

Economics 111

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ED Surge

APRIL 13, 2023

As the group’s new CEO, Stephanie Khurana, put it in an interview with EdSurge this week: “The focus of the mission is to really help postsecondary completion and issues of economic mobility.” An Unusual Backstory When MIT and Harvard each invested $30 million to start edX back in 2012, it was surprising news.

Economics 132

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2023

rose from 29th place to 28th place, still in the bottom half of economically advanced nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), an international organization of 38 member countries that oversees the PISA exam. students in this lowest level has swelled; back in 2012, a little over a quarter of U.S.

Economics 144

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2018

Education spending hit a high of $11,621 on average per student in 2008-09 before budget cuts kicked in, and sank to a low of $11,019 in 2012-13. Its Democratic Governor, Jerry Brown, convinced voters to raise taxes for education in 2012. And state income tax revenues sharply rebounded with the economic recovery.

Public School 110

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Think of the revenue shocks these universities are suffering,” said Gregory Price, an economics and finance professor at the University of New Orleans, noting that if students aren’t on campuses for the coming academic year or choose not to attend at all, schools could miss out on even more. Both institutions have recently faltered.

Economics 145

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Chantal Fulgencio had the bad timing to start as a freshman in the fall of 2012 at public East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania. Unlike after previous economic downturns, state spending on higher education has not bounced back as the economy rebounds. Vincent Hughes (not pictured). Photo: Chantal Fulgencio.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

In Germany, where scores have dropped faster than those of many other PISA nations, researchers pointed to a collapsing interest in math as a subject that started around 2012, among other factors. And about 31 percent said they never or almost never asked questions when they didn’t understand the math they were being taught.

Government 140

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2021

From 1993 to 2012, the share of students taking out loans to finance their degrees rose from roughly half to over two-thirds. This chart illuminates the results of Black people’s efforts to obtain economic equality, our lack of wealth and our need for federal aid. Not only are individuals saddled with debt, so are entire neighborhoods.

Economics 145

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2020

Using endowments to avert layoffs also could help spur a faster economic recovery. During the 2008 financial crisis, university layoffs contributed to broader public-sector job cuts that undermined federal efforts to stimulate economic recovery. This would encourage universities to use their endowments to reduce growing inequities.

Sociology 113

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Among the 35 industrialized nations that are members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the U.S. In 2012 math scores deteriorated a few points. Among the 60 nations and regions that took the PISA test in both 2012 and 2015, the U.S. now ranks 31st. achievement didn’t improve.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Toward the end of filling out the class, there would definitely be a push to look for more men to admit,” said Medley, who was in her role at Brandeis from 2012 to 2014. Brandeis accepted 44 percent of male applicants compared to 36 percent of female applicants in 2012-2013, according to data the university reports to the federal government.

Geography 145

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2019

These findings held even when economic status and IQ were taken into account. But a 2012 report on the subject from the University of Alabama suggests some solutions. The study was published online in the journal JAMA Psychiatry in June 2019. 1,271 per year – amount inattentive kindergarten boys fail to earn as adults.

Economics 111

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Since 2012, U.S. from 36th to 19th in the 2012 international rankings. The researchers conducted the same experiment in Shanghai, China, where students had posted the highest scores in the world on the actual 2012 PISA test. An educated workforce is supposedly a big predictor of a country’s income and annual growth.

Economics 89

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2018

Temple has started a master’s degree in sport business, among the 41,446 degree or certificate programs colleges and universities have added since 2012. New programs are often tied to social, demographic and economic trends. Students walk on the Temple University campus in Philadelphia. Photo: Matt Rourke/The Associated Press.

Social Justice 111

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Another 2012 study also found that gifted instruction had no effect on achievement. But other researchers, including David Card, a University of California, Berkeley, economist who was awarded a Nobel Prize in economics in October 2021, have found that bright students of color especially benefit from being surrounded by high-achieving peers.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

Since its launch in 2012, the city’s high school graduation rate has climbed 15 points, to 64 percent, according to New York State education department figures , the highest rate the city has achieved in more than a decade. Since the Say Yes Buffalo launch in 2012, the city’s high school graduation rate has climbed 15 points, to 64 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2017

We needed to do a better job getting the word out,” said Van Ton-Quinlivan, the system’s vice chancellor for workforce and economic development. Skilled trades show among the highest potential among job categories, the economic-modeling company Emsi calculates. Other local companies and colleges have invested, too.

Economics 111

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2020

Students are choosing disciplines like business, economics and computer science – subjects they believe are better suited to the modern job market. The AHA launched the nationwide initiative in 2012 and called it “Tuning.”. The number of college students choosing to major in history has dropped dramatically over the past decade.

History 76

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

For this experiment, the researchers spent years developing four separate project-based units on history, geography, economics and civics. The curriculum development was the subject of a 2012 paper.)

Project-Based Learning 111

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2025

In fact, the median acceptance rate at four-year universities was about 8 percentage points higher in 2022 than it was in 2012. And if they’re not accepted, they’ll end up on the wrong side of this country’s economic divide. But as we approach the demographic cliff, in many ways, that is simply not true.

Archiving 88

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

But now a convergence of factors — a dwindling pool of traditional-age students, the call for more educated workers and a pandemic that highlighted economic disparities and scrambled habits and jobs — is putting adults in the spotlight. But in the midst of his studies, he stumbled and had to retake an economics course.

Economics 144

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2023

I’m president at Minerva University , established in 2012 and one of the few institutions of higher education that, in recent memory, has asked the question, “What would we build if we could build it from scratch?” prior to ever enrolling a student.

Humanities 107

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2023

In 2012, when Luciano started teaching preschool, the median annual salary for IADT graduates in Chicago was just $25,000 ten years after graduating, and more than half of students with federal loans were either delinquent or in default five years after starting repayment. “It was just so demoralizing,” she said.

Government 137

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

That’s what they called it in Maine, where, in 2012, state officials mandated that every district adopt it, and then, in 2018, abandoned the requirement. Among them, just under 12 percent were considered economically disadvantaged, slightly more had some type of learning disability and 4 percent were English learners.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Gallot graduated from Grambling in 1987 and leveraged his HBCU degrees (Juris Doctorate from Southern University in 1990) to become a state representative for the area in 2000 and state senator in 2012 before being installed as the tenth president of GSU in 2016. About half the nation’s HBCUs reside in majority-black cities.

Economics 84

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Results from Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a test in reading, mathematics, and science administered every three years in about 70 countries by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. On PISA, U.S. The top performing nations include Singapore, Hong Kong, Canada, Finland, and Estonia.

Economics 80

Economics Research Education K-12 80

Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

Between 2012 and 2015, thousands of P2P platforms emerged, only to crumble within a few years, destroying the life savings of countless middle-class families. In 2012, they started selling wealth management products, the borrowers’ debts bundled by the platform, to the lenders. Meng’s experience was just one among millions.

Archiving 98

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2020

Economic mobility and security across successive generations have been inaccessible to black communities. For instance, the families who lost the most in the foreclosure crisis were the same families who were denied Parent Plus loans in 2012 when a change was made to the underwriting criteria. Sources: American Community Survey, U.S.

Government 102

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD ) first detected a negative relationship between computer usage in schools and student achievement on its 2012 tests known as PISA, or Program for International Student Assessment, which are taken by high school students around the world every three years.

Research 112

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

This imbalance has worsened since the economic downturn. Those schools boosted their spending on athletics by 112 percent above inflation from 2003-2004 to 2011-2012 according to the AAUP. In 2012 the average salary for Football Bowl Subdivision head coaches was $1.64 They don’t exist.”.

Economics 90

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2018

These trends are confirmed by a 2012 survey conducted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development , which showed that the U.S. According to Joseph Fuller , a Harvard Business School professor, our students’ literacy and numerical skills have declined over the last two decades.

Social Justice 94

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2017

Mississippi schools saw increases in proficiency rates on state tests in math and reading for students in grades 3-8 over the course of six school years, with “significant decreases” in achievement gaps between racial/ethnic and economic subgroups, according to a new report.

Economics 58

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2019

Paul, Minnesota, but dropped out because of health issues in 2012. “I The wage gap between black and white employees grew the most among those with a bachelor’s degree or higher, according to a 2016 report from the Economic Policy Institute on race and salary earnings covering a 36-year period ending in 2016.

Economics 111

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