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GED and other high school equivalency degrees drop by more than 40% nationwide since 2012

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Red states are where the annual issuance of new high school equivalency diplomas has fallen by more than 50 percent between 2012 and 2016. Specifically, the annual number of test takers who completed one of the three exams has fallen more than 45 percent from more than 570,000 in 2012 to roughly 310,000 in 2016. Data source: Thomas J.

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A trend colleges might not want applicants to notice: It’s becoming easier to get in

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percentage points higher in 2022 than it was in 2012, AEI found. Those are the most recent available admission figures reported to the federal government, and do not include institutions with open admission, which take 100 percent of applicants. The median acceptance rate at bachelor’s degree-granting universities and colleges was 7.6

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Living With Parakeets and Other Migrants

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When I came to Amsterdam as a graduate student in 2012, I was surprised to find the citys parks teeming with vibrant green feathers, red beaks, and bluish tails. In October, the hard-right Dutch government approved a series of policies intended to severely restrict human migration; the legislation is awaiting approval from parliament.

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The Architecture of Inequality

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Governance also played a role. By making high-quality implements more widely available, iron smelting may have helped reduce inequality in some societies. This contradicts the common belief that technological change always benefits elites first. “There are factors that may increase inequality,” Kohler notes. link] 1 Kohler, T.

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Rethinking Inequality: What 50,000 Ancient Homes Tell Us About Power, Wealth, and Human Choices

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People in different places made different choices about governance, resource sharing, and social cooperation. . “The idea that big populations or new technologies automatically lead to widening inequality simply doesn’t hold up in the archaeological record.” ” Instead, the picture that emerges is one of human agency.

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Farming Inequality: How Ancient Land Use Split Societies

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But the way those lands were used—how they were divided, worked, and governed—did more than sustain life. When Governance Intervened—Or Failed To The story isn’t one of inevitability. We found that governance mattered," noted archaeologist Helena Hamerow. link] Flannery, K. V., & Marcus, J.

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Mathematics test scores in some countries have been dropping for years, even as the subject grows in importance

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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. The government has mandated an hour of reading, writing and mathematics in school each day and has banned cellphones.