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Credit: Manuel Orbegozo for The Hechinger Report California has been a leader in prison education programs, starting with a 2014 rule authorizing state funding for community colleges to set up programs for students who are incarcerated.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

spending on elementary and high school education declined 3 percent from 2010 to 2014 even as its economy prospered and its student population grew slightly by 1 percent, boiling down to a 4 percent decrease in spending per student. In some countries it rose at a much higher rate. spends less appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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JULY 22, 2019

Source: Adam Looney and Constantine Yannelis in the August 2019 issue of Economics of Education Review. The $50,000 is adjusted for inflation in constant 2014 dollars.). In 2014, almost third of borrowers with large debts had taken out their loans to finance their undergraduate education. In 2014, that had jumped to 11 percent.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

These grade-by-grade projections start to show a drop in first-grade children beginning in 2014, six years after the 2008 recession, when Americans started making fewer babies. Economic uncertainty apparently has this side effect.) Those 2014 Census figures also factored in higher levels of immigration, which have since fallen.

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OCTOBER 8, 2018

Their best shot at earning one is passing a high-school equivalency exam, what was known as the GED before 2014 but has now splintered into three exam options: the new GED , the TASC and the HiSET. In 2014, the old GED the exam was revamped and the two new exams, TASC and HiSET, entered the market.

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MAY 11, 2020

In another measure of the massive economic toll of the pandemic on higher education, the resulting shutdowns have been singularly devastating to the college towns in which these campuses are situated. Related: What has happened when campuses shut down for other disasters? Mindy Domb, whose district includes Amherst.

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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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MARCH 15, 2021

The paper, “ Not Too Late: Improving Academic Outcomes Among Adolescents ,” was circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research on March 8, 2021. “It is not too late or too difficult to substantially change the academic outcomes of children who are struggling academically even once they have reached adolescence,” the authors concluded.

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MARCH 2, 2020

In February 2020, Jackson presented these early findings at conference of the National Center for the Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) and the paper was circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

From just before the recession until 2014, the latest year for which figures are available, higher education central system office staffs grew by nearly 4 percent, according to federal data analyzed by the American Institutes for Research in collaboration with The Hechinger Report. See a larger version of the graphic Graphic: Davin McHenry.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Fewer college students today could also mean future economic troubles. In a separate analysis, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center is noticing that graduation rates for students who started college in 2014 are starting to falter, especially for students who began at a community college.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Sustainable development ties together concern for the carrying capacity of natural systems with the social, political, and economic challenges faced by humanity (Kahle and Gurel-Atay 2014). Promote sustained inclusive and sustainable economic growth. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water for all 7.

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MARCH 19, 2018

In their study, Goodman, Melkers, and Pallais examined data on spring 2014, fall 2014, and spring 2015 applicants to the OMSCS, alongside fall 2013 and fall 2014 applicants to the MSCS. Their main takeaway: The OMSCS students likely would have had no other way to obtain a master’s in computer science without this online option.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

Toward the end of filling out the class, there would definitely be a push to look for more men to admit,” said Medley, who was in her role at Brandeis from 2012 to 2014. At private four-year universities, those figures are 51 percent and 47 percent, respectively, according to 2014-2018 data from the National Center for Education Statistics.

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APRIL 22, 2024

On the international Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) , American 15-year-olds rank toward the bottom of economically advanced nations in math achievement. In 2014, San Francisco heeded that call , mixing different achievement levels in middle school classrooms and delaying algebra until ninth grade.

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OCTOBER 25, 2017

The shift towards enrolling wealthier students is not only occurring at flagship universities and prestigious public research institutions, but also at regional universities that have traditionally provided access to college for a broad range of students, regardless of their socio-economic background.

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JUNE 30, 2020

Propelled in part by the 2014 passage of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), UNM-Taos initiated a program overhaul in 2015 with the goal of aligning educational programs to in-demand career pathways. As Victoria Gonzalez of UNM-Taos poignantly notes: “The ego must die. Leveraging Existing Resources.

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JULY 9, 2018

However, the latest data from the federal government, covering the 2014-15 school year, still shows an advantage to the wealthy across the nation’s public elementary, middle and high schools. percent fewer funds per child than the 25 percent wealthiest districts during the 2014-15 school year. That has changed.

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MAY 4, 2019

In 2014, the labor market analysis firm Burning Glass Technologies tried to capture the extent of degree inflation. Using a four-year degree as a proxy for employability shuts out the most economically vulnerable job seekers. The staff at Resilient Coders sees this racial and economic inequality up close. “If Degree inflation.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

“You can’t see that in most places,” said Daniel Kreisman, an economics professor at Georgia State University who helped launch an effort to inform CTE policymakers by compiling data and producing research. Without that, they’re making decisions in the dark.” Louisiana bet big on career education.

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MAY 18, 2015

If ISLLC truly was interested in fostering innovative leadership practice, there would be greater recognition of and emphasis on the seismic transformations that are occurring in our information, economic, and learning landscapes. When it comes to educators and technology… ISTE Follow-Up 20: Principal blogs (THE PUSH 2014).

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AUGUST 22, 2016

For America to become the world leader in college degrees — and to reap the economic and social benefits that come with that success — we must close the educational attainment gap between Latinos and their white counterparts. In 2014, Latinos represented 26 percent of students enrolled in K-12 education.

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MARCH 30, 2015

STEM in Iowa’s Re-Envisioned Economic Development Roadmap (2014 Battelle Report) , Kathryn Kunert & Carrie Rankin. See Iowa’s 2014 Battelle Report. Local chambers of commerce and economic development organizations are nice resources for career / workforce information, speakers, data, etc. Pleasant Middle School.

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MARCH 13, 2017

According the Louisiana Department of Education, enrollment of African-American students decreased from 93 percent of total enrollment in 2004 to 87 percent in 2014. In addition, 84 percent of students enrolled in public school were deemed economically disadvantaged in 2014. This effort does that.

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JUNE 18, 2018

That’s the “doomsday scenario” Vermont is trying to avoid through programs like Randolph Union’s, says Joan Goldstein, the state’s commissioner of economic development. But Goldstein, who helped create a hands-on manufacturing course at Randolph Union in 2014, says “retention is much easier than recruitment.”

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APRIL 18, 2021

Seven percent of freshmen in fall 2018 were Black, down from 10 percent the year before and 13 percent in 2014. They tend to have higher graduation rates, and their alumni networks provide powerful economic and political connections. At UMBC, about 18 percent of freshmen in 2019 were Black, up from 12 percent in 2014.

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AUGUST 28, 2017

Government Accountability Office found the percentage of all schools with racial or socio-economic isolation grew from 9 percent to 16 percent from 2001 to 2014. In 2011, South Carolina established academic standards for what students should learn in social studies classes, including “the economic necessity of slave labor.”.

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AUGUST 5, 2021

But now a convergence of factors — a dwindling pool of traditional-age students, the call for more educated workers and a pandemic that highlighted economic disparities and scrambled habits and jobs — is putting adults in the spotlight. But in the midst of his studies, he stumbled and had to retake an economics course.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

At first, some Shuar people were hopeful about the economic opportunities promised to them. Since then, most of the promises that investors and government leaders made have soured; very little economic growth is visible among Shuar communities. A cloud of discord divided the communities affected by or dependent on mining.

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MARCH 10, 2017

In Spokane, 48 percent of 2014 graduates who received free or reduced-price lunch — a typical indicator of poverty — went on to higher education the following year, compared to 65 percent of those who didn’t receive subsidized meals, according to state data.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

One 2014 study found that kids who were held back when they were young were less likely to graduate from high school. ” The study , still a draft paper circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in January 2019, is titled, “An Extra Year to Learn English? Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The 460 students at Boston Arts Academy reflect these economic burdens: Two thirds come from economically disadvantaged families, and one third entered ninth grade reading below grade level. The per capita income is just $26,292 , the second lowest in the Boston area, and almost more than $10,000 less than the city average.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Unlike after previous economic downturns, state spending on higher education has not bounced back as the economy rebounds. Dustin Weeden, senior policy specialist, National Conference of State Legislatures. Pennsylvania’s not the only state where higher ed funding remains stubbornly down since the beginning of the recession.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Phillip Levine, professor of economics, Wellesley College, and founder of MyinTuition, a net-price calculator. Since 2014, a year into the tuition freeze, the University of Wisconsin has seen its faculty ranks shrink, according to a report from the Wisconsin Policy Forum. Related: Tuition Tracker: Interactive search tool.

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MARCH 20, 2017

But there are still several health, economic and academic factors that have kept Mississippi at the bottom of rankings when it comes to overall child well-being. Casey Foundation , which collects data on children from every state.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2017

After the white flight transpired, an extended retreat from cities after the Second World War, migration back to urban areas over the last decade has been stimulating economic growth and technological innovation. We can create a new economic development model in which HBCUs sit in the center of the plan,” said Gallot.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Barton Hepburn Professor of Economics at Wellesley College, speaks at a panel discussion there. Yuna Ishikawa was in her senior year of high school in 2014 when she made the drive with her mother from Oberlin, Ohio, to visit Wellesley College in Massachusetts. in economics; I’m pretty good at this sort of thing.

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