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MAY 21, 2016

The focus of Day 1 was on exposure to the societal contexts surrounding school, including new literacies, economic and workforce trends, and how technology is transforming everyday life. See more details at: Investing in leadership capacity: The amazing, wonderful District 59. Related Posts. Connected Educator Month launches today.

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MARCH 29, 2024

In the semester-long course, volunteers from employer partners coach and mentor a small cohort of students on career skills, including leadership, problem-solving and communication. Students must apply for internships, ideally completing two in person and for pay before they graduate. “We

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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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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 number of college students with one or more mental health problems has doubled since 2013 , according to a study by researchers at Boston University and elsewhere. She worked 40 hours a week on top of school and ended up changing her major, which was originally business management economics. “I

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AUGUST 21, 2020

As crises go, the pandemic is unusual in that it combines a public health emergency and an economic downturn while isolating kids from school, friends, activities and other support. The Philadelphia school system, for example, eliminated hundreds of school counselors and nurses during a 2013 budget crisis.

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AUGUST 25, 2017

Baker is introduced as new Northern Illinois University president on April 2, 2013. These are complex corporations that require real bold leadership. These are complex corporations that require real bold leadership. Baker resigned after state investigators declared he mismanaged the university. They’ve cut courses.

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MARCH 16, 2021

Segregating public school children on the basis of race or ethnicity is inherently suspect,” he wrote in his 2013 decision. Judge Robert Gettleman, a Clinton appointee, didn’t buy the district’s contention that the Hispanic students needed a separate class. He ruled that the gifted program was discriminatory.

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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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MAY 5, 2016

STR is one of 658 alternative teacher prep programs nationwide according to a 2013 U.S. But in short order, a whirlwind of leadership turnover — four superintendents in four years — led the partnership to a very public impasse that pitted the school district against its fundraising partner, the alliance. “We

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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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MARCH 15, 2024

Making Education More Equitable Universal pre-K can give families their economic footing. In the long term, better access to education means increased economic opportunities for families and a more equitable society. 2013, May 2). The benefits of universal quality education reach everyone. First Five Years Fund. 2023, May 23).

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MAY 3, 2016

” A National Bureau of Economic Research study released this year from economists at University of California-Berkeley and Northwestern University in Chicago suggests that money does actually affect school performance. per student in the 2013-2014 school year. Tate County School District spent $7,103.52, and was a B district.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Some are reversing declines that date to the economic downturn of 2008. But although HBCUs drew 80 percent of all black college-goers four decades ago, that number had been hovering at just over 10 percent, according to a 2013 report by Gasman. and Oprah Winfrey.

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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. The pace of their educational gains, the political leadership and styling of the women behind the Women’s March and Rep.

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JANUARY 3, 2017

Far fewer of those students graduate, moving on to work that pays less than they could have earned if they had, and don’t move up the economic ladder higher education was supposed to help them climb. That’s down $531 per student since before the recession, when adjusted for inflation. It’s perverse,” said Carnevale.

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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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JANUARY 31, 2021

Men, who make up more than 97 percent of the employees in construction and nearly all of its leadership, have tended to view females entering the trades as intruders, routinely denying them equal opportunities for training and work. The next year, 2013, Carman journeyed out in front of a crowd of 50 or so at the union hall.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

At Duke, he is the founder (and sometimes director) of the Modeling Economic and Political Systems Focus program (MESS) and the Decision Science program. Pablo Beramendi is Professor of Political Science at Duke University. He works mostly on comparative and historical political economy.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The agency oversees law and justice across Indian Country, as well as agriculture, infrastructure, economic development and tribal governance. In 2013, then-Interior Secretary Sally Jewell assembled a study group to diagnose the root causes of academic failures in BIE schools. A year later, the group released the Blueprint for Reform.

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JULY 12, 2016

ranked 35th among developed economies in pre-primary or primary school enrollment for 3- to 5-year-olds, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), an international economic association. In 2012, the U.S, While the return on such an investment could run as high as $7.20

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JANUARY 9, 2024

And as we extend that definition to larger groups of people, as we introduce power, we begin to understand that who gets to decide what those rules are and what those norms are becomes much more complicated, and often an expression of political, economic, and cultural power. They are killed for the crime of their economic success.

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MARCH 25, 2025

Cultural Values and Economic Priorities: The not-so-shocking Rise of Latino Support for Trump by Andrea Silva , University of North Texas Trends in Latino Voting Behavior What factors explain the increasing support for Trump and other Republican candidates among Latino voters from 2016 to 2024?

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