The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

They created multicolored posters to explain what different departments of local government do, from sanitation to human resources. 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.)

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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.

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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. After the Great Recession hit in 2007, the number of business majors nationwide went, up while enrollment for humanities majors dropped. This story also appeared in American Public Media.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: “We see a lot of spending everywhere on tablets, computers, counting the ratio of computers per student,” said Helen Lee Bouygues, who founded the Reboot Foundation in 2018. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

BOSTON — When the Boston Public Schools opened the Margarita Muñiz Academy in 2012, it was a first-of-its kind dual-language high school meant to address issues faced by the city’s growing Hispanic population. The exception is in the two humanities classes students take every day, one in each language. Walsh, Boston mayor.

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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. Weekly Update.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Anyone studying the humanities probably has a story of someone raising a skeptical eyebrow and asking: “What do you plan to do with that?” But that perception might be overly simplistic, according to a new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research. Read the original version here.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2016

After years of promising to save money by streamlining operations, cutting duplicate staffs and maximizing purchasing power, some university systems have been forced by political pressure and economic realities to finally start doing it. From 1987 to 2012, it doubled, far outpacing the growth in the numbers of students and faculty.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Delgado Community College in New Orleans, Louisiana, began construction on a new campus in the city’s West Bank community of Federal City in May. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

In contrast, Onalaska’s population rose from 731 residents in 2012 to 772 residents in 2016, according to U.S. In a home economics classroom, she runs through how to file taxes, balance a budget and apply for college. But that changed in in 2012, when the Onalaska Alliance purchased the 72-acre property. Census data.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

In addition to its reputation as an international powerhouse in the field of economics and a home to multiple Nobel Laureates, the school has grounds that are designated as an official botanic garden. The University of Chicago moved its economics department into the former home of the Chicago Theological Seminary. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2020

But now the professional degree that could propel her entire family toward the economic stability they had never known was vanishing from sight. “I One day in June 2012, Hernandez told him to leave. At BMCC, whose students are among the most economically disadvantaged in the U.S., There were more setbacks. The couple argued.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The Muñiz Academy opened in 2012 as one of Massachusetts’ first “innovation schools,” free from many district policies and granted flexibility with its curriculum, budget, school schedule and annual calendar, among other things. But bilingual education isn’t the school’s only innovation. Music saved my life.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

In 2012, Estonia’s 15-year-olds ranked 11 th in math and reading and sixth in science out of the 65 countries that participated in an international test that compares educational systems from around the world, called the Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA. Related: Ranking countries by the worst students.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: But after years working seasonal jobs sorting equipment at the local Ford plant and dealing blackjack at nearby casinos, Perez wanted to rise to a management position — and she couldn’t without a bachelor’s degree. It closed its child care center in 2012, citing low demand. Weekly Update.

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Steven V. Miller

JANUARY 10, 2024

Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which ran from 2001 to 2003, was tasked with investigating the human rights abuses committed in the country during its armed conflict with Sendero Luminoso. One of those data sets is from a 2012 publication by Benjamin J. Appel and Cyanne E. post-conflict justice institutions).

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

We felt the pulse, the affective reality of what US funds support, teach, and hope for: communal destruction for economic profit. Throughout the Cold War, campaigns of discreditation against capitalist alternatives flourished in the United States, and identity-based and human-rights-focused campaigns became more prominent.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: “‘You guys have really high grades, so we expect you to be able to at least go to a SUNY,’” Mejia recalls staff telling the group. ‘“But A 2012 study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that most high-achieving low-income students don’t apply to any competitive colleges.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Since 2012, when the government exhorted more écoles maternelles to open their doors to 2-year-olds, the rate of participation in France’s “priority education networks”—networks of schools that serve heavily low-income, immigrant communities that are targeted for extra social support—has steadily risen. It’s bureaucratic.”. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

It’s all part of an awareness campaign called “15 to Finish,” pioneered at the University of Hawaii in 2012, that has taken hold in dozens of states. Archaeology of Human Origins” may sound interesting, but if you wait too long to focus on your economics major, you may not get in all the requirements you need.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

A groundbreaking study, published in Nature Human Behaviour 1 , offers unprecedented genetic evidence that these communities lived without clear social stratification. This glimpse into the past underscores the diverse social structures humans have experimented with throughout history. Source: Science , 2012. 1 Gelabert, P.,

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Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 11, 2024

For scholars of gender archaeology and history, the body has become a privileged site for the investigation of women’s lives in antiquity (Liston 2012; Shepherd 2012). 1999) ‘Human Skeletons from the Greek Emporium of Pithekoussai on Ischia (NA): Culture, Contact, and Biological Change in Italy after the 8th Century BC’, in R.H.

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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. We’re treading water and there’s no raft. “A

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

In the heart of an economically depressed area of the South known as the Black Belt — both for the color of its soil and for its large, African-American population, most descended from slaves — Greene County seemed a strange place to put a Ritz-Carlton and a golf course. The family amassed more than 10,000 acres of land in the area.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: TOPS’ windfall disproportionately goes to rich white students. These numbers are striking in a state where, overall, 45 percent of public school students are white, 43 percent are black and 70 percent are economically disadvantaged. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Weekly Update.

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Political Science Now

JULY 30, 2024

These processes enabled political trajectories that led to higher levels of human development and more robust postcolonial democratization in contexts previously characterized by forced settlement than those that experienced colonial occupation. University of Notre Dame, 2012). He holds degrees in International Relations (B.A.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

One in five Greeley residents lives below the poverty level, and the school district is trying to upgrade its technology to give students an economic boost. Lisette Martinez worked on a house for Habitat for Humanity during her senior year at Jefferson High School in Greeley, Colo., The national average is about $12,000 per student.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Jonas Vlachos, economics professor at the University of Stockholm. By 2012 , they were below average in math, reading and science. “The tension that you see is that if you’re very … laissez-faire about who can run a school, you will end up in a situation that you need more regulation.”. Future of Learning. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

1 in childhood education in the world by both UNICEF and the World Economic Forum. and one of the largest, most influential and most racially and economically segregated systems in the world. In the summer, my child also attends a teacher-training lab school that is part of a public university in Finland, a nation ranked No.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2020

In my classes, and through direct engagement with our community in Hamilton, New York, I teach the complexity of migration, politics and the interconnectedness of humanity. Since 2012, I’ve been able to live and work legally because of DACA. My family moved to the United States in the mid-1990s to escape the Mexican economic crisis.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

We see this hierarchy of human worth playing out now in Gaza and the West Bank, as Israeli government ministers call Palestinians “human animals.” Jews for Racial & Economic Justice’s “ Understanding Antisemitism: An Offering to Our Movement.” This dehumanization fuels violence and oppression.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2021

It was 2012, and construction work had yet to rebound from the recession. They wanted a human, and I was at their door.” Her union, like others, is now — on its face — more open to women, something she and others told me was largely the result of the economic gains of the past decade fueling a demand for workers. “We

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2019

And the United States remains stubbornly in 13th place in the world in the proportion of its 25- to 34-year-olds with degrees , according to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, behind South Korea, Canada, Japan, Russia, Ireland, Lithuania, Norway and other countries. It might not even take that long.

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Sapiens

MARCH 18, 2025

Ecologists have cautioned that labeling something an invasive species can inform how humans relate to itand sometimes justify a disproportionately negative response. In other words, the signs outlined not just how to kill, but a justification for it. This language isnt neutral. Scientific metaphors shape our perceptions of the world.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2018

The program, passed in 2012 during President Barack Obama’s administration, was designed to protect Dreamers from deportation. He’s pursuing a double major in marketing and human resources, with the goal of working for a business or nonprofit that focuses on poverty, education or human rights.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

Like air, humanities-driven work is everywhere but taken for granted, so much a part of life its easy to overlook. Published by Cambridge University Press, Public Humanities is pitched as a very large tent. Its open to all disciplines, geographies, periods, methodologies, authors, and audiences across the humanities.

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