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JUNE 25, 2013

PIRG Panelist Nicole Allen discussed her work as Public Interest Research Group (PIRG)’s Textbook Advocate. 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.

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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.

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JUNE 10, 2019

The latest research comes from the Reboot Foundation, which released a study in June 2019 that shows a negative connection between a nation’s performance on international assessments and 15-year-olds’ self-reported use of technology in school. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Choose as many as you like.

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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.

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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. Further Reading and Related Research Kohler, T. Journal of Archaeological Research , 29, 371–413. Bogaard, A., Feinman, G. Peterson, C. Hamerow, H.,

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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.” That might include doing research, building tech tools or helping manage organizations.

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AUGUST 4, 2020

Now, with the added pressures of the coronavirus pandemic, the fabric of American higher education has become even more strained: The prospect of lower revenues has already forced some schools to slash budgets and could lead to waves of closings, experts and researchers say. Over the last decade, enrollment slipped as the economy grew.

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JULY 30, 2024

From their responses, and analysis by PISA researchers, several themes stand out, including disconnection from school and teachers, a lack of motivation and a sense that math does not clearly connect to their real lives. They also were more likely to report that they saw fewer potential benefits from studying math.

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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.

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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. But we’ve struggled as a nation to appropriately determine the “who” in public policy and research, cherry picking who should benefit from student debt abatement or who should shoulder its burdens.

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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.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Teaching quality has been defined as “instruction that enables a wide range of students to learn” ( Darling-Hammond, 2012 ), and it is the strongest school-related factor that can improve student learning and achievement ( Hanushek, 2011 ; Nye, Konstantopoulos, and Hedges, 2004 ; Rivkin, Hanushek, and Kain, 2005 ).

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NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Since 2012, U.S. The researchers told those students they would take away one dollar for each incorrect or unanswered question. from 36th to 19th in the 2012 international rankings. from 36th to 19th in the 2012 international rankings. math scores have slumped down into the bottom half. Meanwhile, the U.S. Guess what?

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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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JULY 16, 2019

New research used tax return data to determine the income, at age 33 to 35, of 2,850 children tracked by the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Kindergarten Children , an academic research project following kids from kindergarten through adulthood. These findings held even when economic status and IQ were taken into account.

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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.

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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.

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AUGUST 27, 2018

A group of researchers from the University of Michigan and Michigan State University followed students using the same social studies curriculum as the one used in Waterford in 20 high-poverty schools in Michigan. The researchers controlled for academic differences among the kids at the start of the school year.)

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APRIL 28, 2024

I did some research to try to find out if I would be eligible for academic scholarships. Like many of my students, I wanted to be the first in my family to earn a college degree, but my research results were discouraging. I made several inquiries to tri-state college admissions counselors. I only wish more could join me.

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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.

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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.

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AUGUST 29, 2017

Research by the state’s 114-campus community college system showed that families and employers alike didn’t know of the existence or value of vocational programs and the certifications they confer, many of which can add tens of thousands of dollars per year to a graduate’s income. Other local companies and colleges have invested, too.

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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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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.

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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. For his research, he spent a year inside three college admissions offices at Emory in Atlanta, Davidson in North Carolina, and the University of Washington in Seattle. Kirk] This is College Uncovered.

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MARCH 11, 2019

The Hechinger Report conducted a survey in collaboration with the APM Research Lab and APM Reports’ Educate team. To view the full results of the survey, visit APM Research Lab. Paul, Minnesota, but dropped out because of health issues in 2012. “I But more than half of them still believe it’s worth the price tag.

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

From just before the recession until 2014, the latest year for which figures are available, higher education central system office staffs grew by nearly 4 percent, according to federal data analyzed by the American Institutes for Research in collaboration with The Hechinger Report. See a larger version of the graphic Graphic: Davin McHenry.

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MARCH 22, 2023

Credit: Camilla Forte/ The Hechinger Report Back in 2006, when Luciano was researching degrees that would lead to a good job in the fashion industry, she came across the website of the now-shuttered International Academy of Design and Technology, or IADT. It was just so demoralizing,” she said.

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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.

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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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JUNE 11, 2019

Just like any construction project, building a new college campus offers economic and educational opportunities through training and jobs to people without a postsecondary degree — something the black-majority population of New Orleans desperately needs. Not only should local newspapers and consumer protection groups follow the $9.4

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JUNE 23, 2024

Some researchers think these small-scale efforts to teach math in context could transform how it’s taught more broadly. She had to drop out in 2012 after getting injured in a house fire. “We actually learned equations I’m going to use, like setting ladder rungs,” he said. Stone explained how math in context works.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

based research organization focusing on Hispanics. Hispanic high school graduates nationwide have started to enroll in college at slightly faster rates than non-Hispanic whites and blacks, according to the Pew Research Center. With the help of several scholarships, Jose Perez enrolled at the school in 2012 as a freshman.

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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.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 24, 2018

As education researchers, we see two different ways that educators can build alternative mathematics courses. In 2012, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology called for a 34 percent increase in the number of STEM graduates by 2020. Both new and old pathways can benefit from new and more flexible methods.

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AUGUST 11, 2017

Tahiv McGee, who graduated from North Star this spring and will attend Pomona College this fall, explains the research study he worked on at Rutgers-Newark. Tahiv McGee spent Fridays during his senior year of high school at Rutgers University-Newark, where he worked with faculty and a doctoral student on a psychology research study.

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JANUARY 14, 2019

With people of color expected to make up a quarter of the state’s population by 2035, these gaps represent an economic threat to Minnesota; unless more residents get to and through college, there won’t be enough qualified workers to fill the jobs that require a post-secondary degree or certificate. Will jobs go begging?

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