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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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. There is a long history of US imperial politics in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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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

MAY 27, 2020

Everybody’s already talking about program reviews,” said Rudy Fichtenbaum, a professor of economics at Wright State University in Ohio and president of the American Association of University Professors. Will history repeat? These programs started because of political pressures, and the political pressures are no longer there.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2017

Bowie, 24, dropped out of Georgia State after financial problems derailed him from his dream of becoming a history teacher. In doing so, he joined more than 108,000 other students who withdrew from Georgia’s public colleges and universities between 2013 and 2015 with thousands of dollars in federal student debt but no degree.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

They have teamed up with local educational organizations to advocate for the school district, and by extension, for racially and economically diverse schools. Having lived through the desegregation order, Hirahara, who is now an award-winning mystery writer , wishes more people knew about the history of the city’s schools.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

And in 2001, the engineering accreditation body ABET added a new criterion so as to ensure that students get “the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context.”. It is not a “history course for engineers.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

More than 99 percent of students are economically disadvantaged, and approximately one-third of those who enter our school won’t stay through the school year. In 2013-14, we reduced the failure rate by 10 percent on our state assessment. Of course, these are only a fraction of the efforts we’ve undertaken to help our children.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Overall, the campus has attracted nearly 60 percent more students from Newark since 2013, the result of a concerted effort by Rutgers and other local groups to boost college-going rates in the city, university officials said. “We Treasury secretary or chairman of the Federal Reserve, and influence economic policy from within the system.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2020

Their testimony amounted to a warning, though, of what schools may face when they restart this fall: kids with a history of mental health problems whose symptoms have worsened, students who maybe experiencing anxiety or anger for the first time, children in households that have become financially precarious and those who are experiencing loss.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

ESSA leaves too much accountability up to the states, they argue, with little history to suggest that it’s warranted. Before NCLB, states were not required to break out test scores by socio-economic status, ethnicity, English language proficiency or whether students received special education services. Indeed, a 2013 report from the U.S

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2016

students in kindergarten through 12th grade that is Hispanic increased from 19 to 25 percent between 2003 and 2013, while the black non-Hispanic population dropped from 17 to 16 percent and the white non-Hispanic population fell from 59 to 50 percent. Hispanics are on track to make up more than a quarter of the U.S. The share of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

To help address the problem, in 2013 CUNY designated that three courses in each of its most popular majors would count toward requirements on every campus.). Archaeology of Human Origins” may sound interesting, but if you wait too long to focus on your economics major, you may not get in all the requirements you need.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

In several districts, the percentage of uncertified teachers has doubled since 2013-14. After passing the core tests, most educators then take one or more of the Praxis II exams, which are focused on various subject specialties (so a would-be high school history teacher would take a Praxis II history test, for example).

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2017

Baker is introduced as new Northern Illinois University president on April 2, 2013. And they have this package for the outgoing chancellor,” Marlene Kim, a professor of economics at the university and president of the union representing faculty and staff, said with evident exasperation. Wire photo: © Scott Strazzante/TNS via ZUMA Wire.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

And Nichols College, where Maymon is a junior double-majoring in economics and finance, fit the same profile: small and with a comparatively low endowment and a student body drawn mostly from a few surrounding states. “It million in 2013 to $15.4 Related: Switching majors is adding time and tuition to the already high cost of college.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2018

She was widowed in 2013, and lost her son in 2015. Many of the students hail from economically disadvantaged households; 78 percent of the students in the school system qualify for free or reduced meals. Related: A ‘civil rights camp’ teaches kids a history they’re not learning in school.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

The plan means that unlike schools in many big urban districts, every school here has some level of racial and economic diversity. Only by being proud of their history can students reach their highest levels of achievement.”. The kids from the other parts of the city are bussed here as part of a managed choice plan.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Lincoln County is rural and rugged, forged by industry and ecology and steeped in a complicated history of extraction, exploitation and economic struggle. Economic uncertainty in the 1990s and 2000s forced fluctuations in demand. Related: Interested in innovations in the field of higher education? Forest Service.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

In New Orleans, 81 percent of public school students are economically disadvantaged, according to data from the Louisiana Department of Education. Audrey Watters, author of a forthcoming book on the history of education technology.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 17, 2024

Since 2013, overdose rates have spiked with wider access to powerful synthetic opioids, especially fentanyl. As history shows , anti-drug policies have often targeted Black drug users, who are seen as less deserving than White drug users of sympathy , help , and the benefit of the doubt. for a decade.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2017

The successes of the recent movies Girls Trip and Hidden Figures and the economic and cultural power of the Essence Music Festival are testaments to the power of black women. Black women are reclaiming spaces with their perspectives, creativity, political savvy, sexual power and economic influence.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2023

Harris, chair of the economics department at Tulane University and director of the National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice. Students’ academic performance often suffers, some families opt to leave as their neighborhoods become less desirable, and important histories are erased.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

There is a combination of a moral imperative and an economic imperative,” said Paul Davidson, president of Universities Canada, the principal association of Canadian universities. An economic imperative worth $90 billion in Saskatchewan alone, according to the Gabriel Dumont Institute of Native Studies. Then, of course, there’s money.

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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

AUGUST 4, 2020

Many colleges and universities have a history of mismanaging their finances, increasing spending even as enrollments fell or going deeply into debt to construct new buildings. They’re a really great starting point,” said Doug Webber, an associate economics professor at Temple University. Colleges in Crisis.

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ED Surge

JUNE 8, 2023

She went on to earn her bachelor’s degree in history and then her master’s degree in curriculum and instruction with a focus on English language arts. González Camarena says that roughly 400 educators with DACA protection have gone through the teaching program since 2013.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2018

In an effort to bring social studies back and make it more coherent and challenging, the National Council for Social Studies in 2013 published the C3 Framework , an inquiry-based guide for states to use as a supplement to the Common Core standards. Serriere said C3 is being used across the country.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

There is a long history of underinvesting in education — and economic opportunity operations as a whole — within the department,” Cloud said. Curt Coy, who was the VA’s deputy under secretary for economic opportunity from 2011 until his retirement in late 2017, said it was hard to find resources for veterans’ educational issues.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

One in five Greeley residents lives below the poverty level, and the school district is trying to upgrade its technology to give students an economic boost. And a state push to fund schools more equitably with another tax measure failed in 2013. Photo: Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor. But computers are expensive.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

In 2013, 7,758 were enrolled, and in 2016 that number fell to 3,944. She says retaining teachers is as much a problem as attracting them if not more so because the decline of manufacturing jobs in her area has created a downward economic spiral, and teachers want to live where their spouses can find jobs. ’”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Black male matriculates are sprinkled throughout Harvard’s history , but the overwhelming majority of its graduates have been white men. SFFA’s history provides a clue to the political considerations underpinning its suit against Harvard. It turns out that other people of varying backgrounds have much to offer a democracy.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2021

The next year, 2013, Carman journeyed out in front of a crowd of 50 or so at the union hall. Our history, our culture, has not been good,” he said, “but we are going to change that culture one local at a time.” It was one of the first times she’d felt encouraged or supported within the industry.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Since she graduated in 2013, the name of the old high school had changed, but not much else. Back in 2013, more than a fifth of her senior class didn’t graduate. Fourth graders in the state from almost every racial and economic background improved their scores on the exam. The class of 2018 didn’t fare much better.

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