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With Students Lagging Globally in Science, the U.S. Looks to Inspire an Untapped Resource

A Principal's Reflections

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.

Economics 289
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School Leadership in the Common Core Era

A Principal's Reflections

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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COLUMN: Now imagine if your school closed for good

The Hechinger Report

550 billion — the investment needed to bring schools nationwide up to standard due to damage caused by postponing repairs, according to a 2013 federal estimate. Whatever the reason a school has to close, something needs to fill the educational, economic, and social voids created by the closure.

Economics 143
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PROOF POINTS: Schools staff up as student enrollment drops

The Hechinger Report

When kids go to school right now there are more adults in the building of all types than there were in 2013 and more than when I was a kid,” said Marguerite Roza, director of the Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University, where she has been tracking the divergence between students and staff at the nation’s public schools.

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COLUMN: Black college grads end up with $25,000 more in loans than whites. Cancel that debt.

The Hechinger Report

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.

Economics 143
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OPINION: Studying humanities can prepare the next generation of social justice leaders

The Hechinger Report

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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Striving Readers? Hire Librarians.

Digital Promise

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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