The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

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.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

They’d spent the past decade grappling with declining enrollments and weakening support from state governments. At worst, institutions under financial stress can fold — sometimes overnight, as government and accrediting oversight fails to prevent precipitous closures that throw students’ lives into disarray.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2019

According to the government’s report, education spending rose for the third straight year in 2015-16 to $11,841 per student in kindergarten through 12th grades. (For percent from 2013-14. A small upswing in education spending first began in 2013-14 after cuts of $600 per student. That’s a 2.9

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

High school graduation rates have soared in recent years, hitting a new record of 84 percent for 2015-16 in the most recent federal government count, but there are still millions of Americans who didn’t get a diploma in high school. Economic recovery after the 2008 recession also reduced demand for equivalency degrees.

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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 post-graduation).

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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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Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2019

Government Accountability Office, nearly one in four Foreign Service officers do not meet the language proficiency requirements that they should meet to do their jobs. Research also shows immersion programs in general have many educational and cognitive benefits , as well as cultural, economic and social benefits both locally and globally.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2020

Only 14 percent of the lowest-income students earn a bachelor’s degree within eight years of first enrolling, according to the most recent government data. And even without technology problems, catastrophic job losses are plunging some families into economic peril. The coronavirus pandemic is exacerbating those pressures.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

million going toward the construction, they should demand that the New Orleans residents who need jobs and education the most benefit from the 10,000 potential private and government jobs developers and politicians are working to create in Federal City. Not only should local newspapers and consumer protection groups follow the $9.4

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2022

Larry Hogan announced in March that the state government would strip bachelor’s degree requirements from thousands of job listings. Jared Polis directed government agencies in his state to embrace hiring workers for skills , not degrees. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. requirements too. trillion in student loans.

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2024

Additionally, social studies encompasses a wide range of disciplines, including history, geography, civics and economics, each with its own set of disciplinary practices. The C3 Framework was released in 2013. This variation reflects the diverse historical and cultural priorities of different states.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

according to Holroyd Pearce, partners with universities, colleges and governments, which typically fund the program or grant academic credit — often to students who face barriers to getting work experience. The company, whose biggest market is now the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2021

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. Medley challenged the idea that a gender imbalance on a campus is a bad thing. “We

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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2016

College is less affordable now, when adjusted for inflation, than it was before the economic downturn, student financial aid no longer is enough to fill the gap, and low- and middle-income families already are having trouble making ends meet just to cover living expenses, the report said. Click here to enlarge.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

A Congressional Research Service report from last December estimated that if returns from private college endowments were taxed at 35 percent, the government would collect $11 billion in revenue, based on 2014 figures – money that could be spent helping low-income students.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

In July 2013, the Mississippi legislature mandated the consolidation of Starkville and Oktibbeha County school districts in an effort to save money and ensure a better education for students in the low-performing Oktibbeha County schools. This economic divide was mirrored in the school system. One county, two districts worlds apart.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2016

In spite of a gradual economic recovery and improving revenues, most states are spending dramatically less on public higher education, a new report says. The Topic: Reduced spending by state governments on higher education. percent, the equivalent of 900,000 full-time students.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

Instead of attending neighborhood schools with students of the same race and economic status, as most children do in Mississippi, Osborn went to school with an even mix of black and white classmates, some from the town’s wealthy subdivisions and others from Clinton’s poorer areas. They’re also extremely successful. I just went right on.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2017

Baker is introduced as new Northern Illinois University president on April 2, 2013. Richard Legon, president, Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges. Baker resigned after state investigators declared he mismanaged the university. Wire photo: © Scott Strazzante/TNS via ZUMA Wire. They’ve cut courses.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

The reforms have required school districts and other local government agencies to contribute more of their budgets toward paying down the pension debt, while also obligating workers to make financial sacrifices and cutting benefits for current retirees. “At At the end of the day, it’s just this big item that needs to be paid.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

Your heart breaks that you can’t do more, but there are certain economic realities. The college said the information it had submitted to the federal government was incorrect, but did not respond when asked to provide the correct figures. You have to be well in order to do good, and that’s a harsh reality for a lot of colleges.”

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 23, 2023

B) Plan view of Coro Trasito cave, showing the location of the 2011 and 2013 test-pit and the area of the extended excavation. Notably, the study highlighted the increasing economic significance of pigs during the Neolithic period. A) Above: Image of the southern slope of Sierra de Tucas (Huesca, Spain). (A) DOI: 10.3389/fearc.2023.1309907

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2017

More than 108,000 students who had taken out federal loans withdrew from Georgia’s public colleges and universities between 2013 and 2015, the most recent time period measured in federal data. But experts say dramatic improvement is impossible unless the government does something to make college more affordable.

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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

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

In 2013, the program’s developer, the nonprofit Waterford Institute, received an $11.5 million grant from the federal government to expand UPSTART to children in rural Utah. In 2013, the Waterford Institute’s $11.5 million grant from the federal government went toward expanding the program to children in rural Utah.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

Jared Maymon, a Nichols College junior and a student government vice president, has become convinced that Nichols will survive. million in 2013 to $15.4 He’s “okay to sleep at night, comfortable that I’m going to graduate. And kids after me are going to graduate.” Gretchen Ertl for The Hechinger Report. DUDLEY, Mass. —

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

In addition to the economic consequences of a glut of college graduates, many also decry the personal, social and financial costs created by a system that creates intense pressure for students to get into a top college. Parents also pay a high price for top test rankings. Related: How does South Korea outpace the U.S. in engineering degrees?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

Nearly half of Syracuse’s 20,000 students were suspended during the 2013-14 school year. 45% of Syracuse’s 20,000 students were suspended at least once during the 2013-14 school year. “We The state and federal government has to give us the resources that we need.”. But that’s easier said than done.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2019

In the fall of 2013 , two district pre-K classrooms were paid for with limited state taxpayer money, but more than a dozen families remained on a waitlist. Scott Waller, who heads the Mississippi Economic Council, said early education is an omnipresent topic among the state’s business community.

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Steven V. Miller

JANUARY 12, 2022

Economic Threats or Societal Turmoil? External Territorial Threats and Tolerance of Corruption: A #> Private/Government Distinction.” Peace Economics, Peace Science and #> Public Policy* 24(1). #> Economic Anxiety or Ethnocentrism? Economic Threats or Societal Turmoil? #> #> #> Gibler, Douglas M.,

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

After three years in an expeditionary learning school, students outpaced traditional school peers by 7 months in reading achievement and 10 months in math, according to a 2013 study by Mathematica Policy Research that EL commissioned. Overall, the approach gets good academic marks. Chris Berdik/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

Former state education commissioner Stephen Bowen was a cheerleader for the idea during his tenure at the Maine Department of Education from 2011 to 2013. There was a sense that we needed to swing for the fences to make the economic transition the state needs to make.”. “In Key tenets of proficiency-based learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. The federal government has played a role in the growth of these charters by granting charter startup grants to schools without considering whether they will lead to increased segregation. Board of Education decision. Some black families, however, did join the school.

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Civics U

JANUARY 27, 2022

Preface Part I briefly summarized democracy and capitalism, socialism, and communism as major and currently familiar forms of government and economy, and the predominant systems in the United States, Russia, and China respectively. The country has a wealth of oil and gas reserves, and the government has control over major economic activities.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

One is that there’s no limit to how much the federal government will lend to graduate students to pay for school — they can borrow up to the entire cost of a program. It’s a simpler, more profitable market that also has an unlimited source of debt financing courtesy of the federal government.”.

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