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While the rest of the world invests more in education, the U.S. spends less

The Hechinger Report

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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Ancient Instincts, Modern Power Struggles: How Evolution Still Shapes Human Society

Anthropology.net

From political power struggles to economic inequality and environmental exploitation, an evolutionary past rooted in dominance, survival, and competition still drives much of human behavior today. The drive to secure food and territory manifests in economic competition and resource hoarding.

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GED and other high school equivalency degrees drop by more than 40% nationwide since 2012

The Hechinger Report

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. In 2014, the old GED the exam was revamped and the two new exams, TASC and HiSET, entered the market.

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The new low-income big borrower of student loans

The Hechinger Report

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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Hundreds of thousands of students are entitled to training and help finding jobs. They don’t get it

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report Before 2014, state vocational rehabilitation agencies primarily worked with adults. And the states extremely decentralized school governance system has hampered haphazard efforts to get the services into schools. New Jersey officials acknowledge that theres a problem.

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Little-noticed victims of the higher education shutdowns: college towns

The Hechinger Report

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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When a college degree is no longer a ticket to the middle class

The Hechinger Report

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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