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AUGUST 4, 2020

Back in March, student loan borrowers received a reprieve with the passage of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, which included provisions that suspended loan payments. The effects of the pandemic on economic activity will last well beyond the end of the social distancing, as my Brookings colleagues have pointed out.

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This broad field draws upon various disciplines, such as anthropology, archeology, economics, geography, history, law, and philosophy. Aspects of economics, geography, history, and civics weave together to inform deep learning experiences that reinforce students’ understanding of their place in the world.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2022

The country’s next generation of leaders is pushing for racial equity, economic equality, disability justice and gender and sexual liberation; to succeed they will need the observational and analytical skills that can be developed by studying ideas, historical events, aesthetic works and cultural practices.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

students in global assessments in math and science is another troubling statistic: According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, fifteen-year-old girls in 65 countries generally outperformed boys worldwide, but in the United States, boys outperformed girls in quantitative studies. News STEM Summit 2012.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

On the international Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) , American 15-year-olds rank toward the bottom of economically advanced nations in math achievement. Tens of thousands of teachers and parents flocked to her 2013 online course on how to teach math. But she didn’t address their legitimate research questions.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Public schools are attended by students from various cultural, linguistic, and socio-economic backgrounds, having different assessed levels of cognitive and academic ability. Students who are not performing at grade level in the core subject matters (Dove & Honigsfeld, 2013, pp. Who Are the Not-So-Common Learners? Honigsfeld, A.,

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

iii] According to anthropologist George Dalton, “Peasants were legal, political, social, and economic inferiors in medieval Europe. This relationship, and the prevailing economic forces that impinge upon the countryside, have stamped certain qualities on the peasants and largely determine the underdog position in which they continue to live.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 15, 2024

Making Education More Equitable Universal pre-K can give families their economic footing. In the long term, better access to education means increased economic opportunities for families and a more equitable society. 2013, May 2). The benefits of universal quality education reach everyone. First Five Years Fund. 2023, May 23).

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

That’s according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s annual report of education indicators , released last week. It found that education spending for elementary and high school students had fallen for several years in a row from 2009 to 2013, due to a combination of federal, state and local budget cuts.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2021

The paper, “ Not Too Late: Improving Academic Outcomes Among Adolescents ,” was circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research on March 8, 2021. “It is not too late or too difficult to substantially change the academic outcomes of children who are struggling academically even once they have reached adolescence,” the authors concluded.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

It was 2013, and I was on my first trip to Colombia. We felt the pulse, the affective reality of what US funds support, teach, and hope for: communal destruction for economic profit. After my first trip to Colombia in 2013, I began to grapple with this question.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2019

For most of their lives, they’ve been told that a college degree will set them on a path to economic mobility, and they have arrived on their campuses filled with a sense of possibility. When I was a teacher, I promised my students that college was the ticket to economic mobility. This fall, 1.2

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

Harvard University’s Roland Fryer set out to test just that in an experiment , published in the June 2018 issue of the American Economic Review. Fryer convinced the Houston school district to randomly assign 23 elementary schools to adopt specialized teaching for two years, from the fall of 2013 to the spring of 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

A new book by Arthur Levine and Scott Van Pelt asks, How will America’s colleges and universities adapt to remarkable technological, economic and demographic change? A 2019 Gallup poll reported that a decreasing proportion of Americans consider a college degree to be very important — from 70 percent in 2013 to 51 percent in 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

This story is part of our Map to the Middle Class project , where we ask readers what they want us to investigate about educational pathways to economic stability. He asks : What are the projections for the size of the middle class assuming current economic and demographic trends? This question comes from Kieran Hanrahan.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 3, 2017

Shockingly similar digital divide findings from 1998 and 2013. www.edtechresearcher.com/2013/06/shockingly_similar_digital_divide_. See also: Economically-disadvantaged students learn to do what the computer tells them. Anyone have more recent data? Download this slide: jpg.key.pptx. Source: Reich, J.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2018

As an ESL student and a child from an immigrant, economically disadvantaged family raised in blue-collar northern Ohio, I know first-hand the power a good book can have on a child who feels different and inferior from everyone around him. Students who are economically disadvantaged, black, Hispanic, and have IEPs (i.e.,

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2021

The six-year graduation rate for students who participated in 2013 in a summer academic “boot camp” run by Purdue’s Minority Engineering Program exceeded the rate for the College of Engineering by 11 percentage points. Their absence could have consequences that are not just economic. Credit: AJ Mast for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2019

percent from 2013-14. A small upswing in education spending first began in 2013-14 after cuts of $600 per student. California raised school funding by more than 16 percent to $11,420 per student over the two years from 2013-14 to 2015-16. (For some states, prekindergarten is included in these spending calculations.) That’s a 2.9

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Exactly how many remote workers live in Burlington “is hard to gauge because we all are sort of like hermit crabs in our own little shells and under our own little rocks,” said Tyler Littwin, art director at the marketing software developer HubSpot, who moved here from HubSpot’s headquarters outside Boston and started telecommuting in 2013.

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Steven V. Miller

JANUARY 12, 2022

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

In December 2013, there were 29 million people with some college education but no degree. Economic motivation is a factor,” Ryu said. Of the 29 million who had not finished as of December 2013, 940,000 had completed their credential or degree by December 2018. Plus, the job market plays a role in the increase.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Between 1999 and 2013, the share of students in the bottom 40 percent of income at the University of Iowa dropped while those in the top 20 percent increased. Between 1999 and 2013, the share of affluent students at North Dakota State University rose by 17 percentage points, while the share of low-income students fell by 10 points.

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

He argues that one of the most important aspects defining Americans born between 1997 and 2013 is how diverse they are demographically.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Food and housing insecurity among college students isn’t new, but it has been exacerbated by the pandemic and accompanying economic calamity. In 2013, the departments of Education and Veterans Affairs jointly challenged schools to adopt best practices to support the educational success of veterans.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

It’s going to be a rebalancing of economic prosperity,” Gallup senior economist Jonathan Rothwell said, noting the trend of colleges closing and the resulting effects on their communities could parallel the impact the declining manufacturing sector has had on some areas. Moody’s projects the number of closures will continue to rise.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

Braven runs a three-credit career development course inside its partner schools, which in addition to City College include Lehman College in the Bronx; Rutgers University-Newark; Spelman College, in Atlanta; and San Jose State University, among others.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2019

On a national level, students in the lowest economic quintile who completed the FAFSA were 127 percent more likely to enter college than students who did not. In 2013-14, an estimated $43 million was left on the table by Pell-eligible high-school graduates in Louisiana who did not complete the FAFSA.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

That’s the “doomsday scenario” Vermont is trying to avoid through programs like Randolph Union’s, says Joan Goldstein, the state’s commissioner of economic development. In Vermont in 2013 18 percent of economically disadvantaged students dropped out of high school compared to only 3.5 percent from 18 percent in 2013).

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Instead, the regents approved a budget that left tuition at 2013 levels. Phillip Levine, professor of economics, Wellesley College, and founder of MyinTuition, a net-price calculator. “They have state funding that has not kept up with inflation, they have a tuition freeze that has been going for eight years.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

I met Luis Torres in 2013 when he enrolled as a freshman. One might say that Williamson offers the ultimate support system for its economically challenged student body. became Williamson College of the Trades’ 13 th president in 2013. Luis Torres ‘17 at Williamson’s graduation. A retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel, Michael J.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Economic uncertainty apparently has this side effect.) Fertility rates have continued to decline since, despite the economic recovery, and WICHE predicts the number of first graders will fall by more than 330,000 to 3.6 million first graders in 2013. million in 2019. That’s a 8.5 percent decline from a peak of 3.9

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2019

percentage points from the default rate of students who graduated or left school in 2013-14. That’s amounts to roughly 120,000 students in default from the class of 2015-16, down from 132,000 students in the class of 2013-14. And that doesn’t necessarily indicate that the economic outcomes of the students have improved.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2024

The first of those, math for welders, rolled out in 2013. The college asked the math department to design courses tailored to those students, starting with its welding, culinary arts and criminal justice programs.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2020

At Kent State University at Ashtabula, 55 black students received an associate or bachelor’s degree between fall 2013 and spring 2019. Between fall 2013 and spring 2019, university officials say, 55 black students received an associate or bachelor’s degree from Ashtabula. Very few have succeeded.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2020

And even without technology problems, catastrophic job losses are plunging some families into economic peril. In 2013, there were some 29 million students who had left college in the last two decades before earning a degree. Some students don’t have internet access or the computers they now need to do their coursework.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 7, 2019

The Tech Team ministry provides ample opportunities for learners to develop skills across the four broad categories of digital literacy as defined by Dudeney, Hockly and Pegrum (2013): language; information; connections; and re-design. A Closer Look at Four Categories of Digital Literacy for Adult Learners.

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