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OPINION: The low-cost steps the government could take right now to ease hunger and homelessness on college campuses

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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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A dismal report card in math and reading

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Administered by the federal government, it tracks student performance in fourth and eighth grades and serves as a national yardstick of achievement. More than two-thirds of students in the bottom 25 percent are economically disadvantaged. Reading comprehension scores for middle schoolers had been declining for a decade since 2013.

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COLUMN: Now imagine if your school closed for good

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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.

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PROOF POINTS: Schools staff up as student enrollment drops

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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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Learn more about: Examining Women’s Representation in Tribal Governance: An Analysis of Executive and Legislative Roles

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Project Title:Examining Womens Representation in Tribal Governance: An Analysis of Executive and Legislative Roles Tessa Provins, University of Arizona Tessa Provins is an assistant professor in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona. in economics from Stanford University in 2013.

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While the rest of the world invests more in education, the U.S. spends less

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The world’s developed nations are placing a big bet on education investments, wagering that highly educated populaces will be needed to fill tomorrow’s jobs, drive healthy economies and generate enough tax receipts to support government services. local, state and federal governments chose to cut funding for the schoolhouse.

Education 107
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When a college degree is no longer a ticket to the middle class

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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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