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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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JULY 30, 2024

In a 2014 file photo, Salma Bah, Jennifer Feliz and Paola Francisco work on a math problem in an Upward Bound program based in San Francisco. In New Zealand, where math scores on international tests in the past decade have fallen steeply, a new government campaigned on bringing a “back to basics” approach to education.

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AUGUST 4, 2020

They’d spent the past decade grappling with declining enrollments and weakening support from state governments. At worst, institutions under financial stress can fold — sometimes overnight, as government and accrediting oversight fails to prevent precipitous closures that throw students’ lives into disarray.

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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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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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OCTOBER 8, 2018

Artwork decorates the government-run nursery classroom at Badock’s Wood Primary School in Bristol, England. The study was funded by the National Center on Education and the Economy, a think tank focused on the connection between education and economics. We were established to escape government tyranny. Photo: Lillian Mongeau.

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Foreign investors working with the Ecuadorean government started planning to extract minerals in the region on an industrial scale in the early 2000s. At first, some Shuar people were hopeful about the economic opportunities promised to them. Other serious environmental concerns remain unanswered.

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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. Brandeis accepted 44 percent of male applicants compared to 36 percent of female applicants in 2012-2013, according to data the university reports to the federal government.

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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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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

MINNEAPOLIS — Charles Golding looked for two things when he was researching colleges: a top economics program and a connection to his native culture. Asking native students to enter into loan agreements with the federal government can be fraught given the U.S. Photo: Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report.

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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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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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JUNE 24, 2018

Yet, with few exceptions, families earning $88,000 a year — right in the middle of the middle class — get no government help to cover the cost of educating their 4-year-olds. In contrast, attendance at government-funded preschools is the norm in many countries. The government is subsidizing middle class child care anyway. ”.

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JANUARY 21, 2019

According to the government’s report, education spending rose for the third straight year in 2015-16 to $11,841 per student in kindergarten through 12th grades. According to the government’s report, education spending rose for the third straight year in 2015-16 to $11,841 per student in kindergarten through 12th grades.

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APRIL 30, 2022

The analysis used data from 2015, the latest available at the time, though more recent government statistics produce a similar conclusion. Triton said the data on its students’ earnings was collected in 2014.). But regulation advocates say that debt is not the only way to measure what students give up for a degree.

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Their mission is to “transform the educational aspirations and economic realities” of township communities by preparing youth for first-generation higher education and social mobility. When we met in 2014, he was a confident grade twelve student who saw his Launch education as “a ticket” to a life beyond the township.

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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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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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But not everyone has reaped the benefits of Nashville’s economic growth equally, particularly among the approximately 55,000 adults without high school degrees. Strategies for education providers, government agencies, employers, funders, and other stakeholders. Leveraging Existing Resources across the Community.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

The latest study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in October 2023 , tracked the college applications of 70,000 students at 220 public high schools over five application cycles, from 2014-15 to 2019-20. That study looked at only 8,000 students at one unidentified school district in the mid-Atlantic region.

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JANUARY 16, 2017

According to the 2014 report, “The 1,852 facilities housed a total of 50,821 justice-involved youth who were younger than 21.”. According to the 2014 report, “The 1,852 facilities housed a total of 50,821 justice-involved youth who were younger than 21.”. This is the lowest number of resi­dential placements since 1975.

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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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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

in 2014, the most recent federal data available. Andreas Schleicher, director of the education and skills unit at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, has long been arguing that the U.S. Pupil-teacher ratios declined from 22.3 in 1970 to 17.9 in 1985 and dropped to a low of 15.3

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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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SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

It was worth it, John Fulgencio said, to see his daughter become vice president of student government, graduate magna cum laude with a 3.7 Unlike after previous economic downturns, state spending on higher education has not bounced back as the economy rebounds. grade-point average, and give a commencement speech in May.

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MAY 25, 2016

Across all four-year institutions, the graduation rate for first-time students seeking bachelor’s degrees was 60 percent in 2014, which represents a slight increase since 2000, when 57.5 The government calculates the graduation rate by counting the number of students who entered college and completed their degrees within six years.

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AUGUST 23, 2016

1 is guaranteed 15 hours a week of free child-care or preschool for 38 weeks a year, or 570 hours total, paid for by the national government. “We Apparently, so do most parents, 94 percent of whom take the government up on its offer of free education starting at age 3, according to government data. think tank. Like the U.S.,

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MAY 13, 2019

The adjective “full” emphasizes that even in real dollars, after adjusting for inflation, more resources were pouring into prekindergarten through 12th grade classrooms across the country than before state and local governments started cutting spending in the 2009-10 school year. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Brown spent years pushing schools to follow the law, after giving up her job doing administrative support work for a government relations firm. Nationally, 76 percent of white students in special education who exited high school in 2014-15 earned a traditional diploma. But those racial gaps are much wider in some states.

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APRIL 15, 2019

Jared Maymon, a Nichols College junior and a student government vice president, has become convinced that Nichols will survive. Colleges are closing or merging at an accelerating rate, from about eight per year between 2004 and 2014, to an estimated 20 per year moving forward, with small private colleges particularly vulnerable. “I

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DECEMBER 30, 2018

“We’re ahead of the game in terms of awareness of the problem,” said Daniel Weinstock, director of the Institute for Health and Social Policy at McGill University, which has received a grant of nearly 1 million Canadian dollars ($730,134) from the provincial government to study why people leave and what might make them change their minds.

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JUNE 17, 2018

Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. The federal government has played a role in the growth of these charters by granting charter startup grants to schools without considering whether they will lead to increased segregation. In 2014, the charter was awarded a coveted National Blue Ribbon from the U.S.

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JUNE 12, 2017

Still in its early stages, this ambitious project relies on a little-known public resource — a slice of electromagnetic spectrum the federal government long ago set aside for schools — called the Educational Broadband Service (EBS). Josh Walton, principal, Walton Middle School, in sAlbemarle County, Virginia.

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OCTOBER 2, 2016

law — what makes it a unique and hopeful case — it’s unclear anyone in government will be watching to make sure it achieves its goal. This economic divide was mirrored in the school system. The school district had a 27 percent dropout rate in 2014. So even as Starkville attempts to go above and beyond what’s required by U.S.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

She was not happy with the first school she and her husband chose, but found a match in 2014 when a spot opened at Homer A. Plus, Gisleson liked the idea that Otto would be surrounded by kids who came from racial and socio-economic backgrounds that were different from his own. “It Sixty-nine percent were economically disadvantaged.

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MAY 18, 2016

In spite of a gradual economic recovery and improving revenues, most states are spending dramatically less on public higher education, a new report says. The Topic: Reduced spending by state governments on higher education. Related: Former chancellors of research universities warn their future is in peril.

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