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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. Schools hold the history and culture of a place through yearbooks, trophy cases, and photo archives. Many students have fun on the playground when the school is closed.

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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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Revisiting the Spiritual Violence of BS Jobs

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. ✽ The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. His best-known writings challenged views in liberal economics about the origins of money, attempting to reconceive the historical relationship between debt and social institutions.

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A dismal report card in math and reading

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The starkest example of growing inequality is in eighth grade math, wherethe achievement gap grew to the largest in the history of the test. More than two-thirds of students in the bottom 25 percent are economically disadvantaged. By contrast, fewer than a quarter of the students in the top 25 percent are economically disadvantaged.

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Two studies point to the power of teacher-student relationships to boost learning

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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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OPINION: Meet certificates and “microcredentials” — they could be the future of higher education

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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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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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