The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

His mother chaired the university’s history department. 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. About half the nation’s HBCUs reside in majority-black cities.

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The Hechinger Report

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 United States is in the midst of the second largest immigration wave in its history.” Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose as many as you like. .

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Duncan MacLaury, a history teacher in his fourth year at Rindge & Latin, said he often sees students struggling with depression and suicidal ideation. Besides helping students reenter school after mental health-related absences, the program, started in 2014, focuses on what directors call pre-emptive help.

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The Hechinger Report

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. She casually refers to students she meets as “girlfriend” and “buddy.”

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History Havoc

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

” National Bureau of Economic Research, (September 2019). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. The post New Video – Francis Butler Leigh and her time on a Georgia Plantation appeared first on History Havoc. Danbom, David B. Sod Busting: How Families Made Farms on the Nineteenth-Century Plains.

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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 Related: As students flock to credentials other than degrees, quality-control concerns grow.

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Becoming a History Teacher

JUNE 12, 2023

For me, the world Mr Bean inhabits is evocative of my teenage years living in a pre-internet, economically depressed 1990s Britain. Do we assume too much of our pupils when we teach these most modern of modern history topics? For my children, this world is both simultaneously strange and strangely familiar.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

The median household income in Oktibbeha County for black residents is $21,795 annually while the median income for white households is almost double, at $41,501, according to American Community Survey 2014 estimates. This economic divide was mirrored in the school system. The school district had a 27 percent dropout rate in 2014.

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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Yet, according to a 2014 study , first-generation college students drop out and receive lower grades than do students who have at least one parent who has earned a four-year degree. The University of California has a long history of serving as an engine of social mobility and economic growth for the state of California and the world.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Enrollment in the Onalaska School District — which includes the town and outlying areas — rose by about 14 percent between May 2014 and May 2018, to 851 students. Onalaska, situated roughly halfway between Seattle and Portland, is proud of its history. Photo: Kaitlin Gillespie for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

Melanie Tucci calculated that she would have to work about 30 hours a week as well as take out loans to make it through college when she started at Temple in 2014. Nearly 40 percent of them get no credit for any of the courses they have completed and lose 27 credits on average — or about a year of school, according to a 2014 federal study.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

While the pandemic still took its toll, adapting to online learning was smoother in Lindsay due to its preexisting infrastructure and history of adaptation. But the community began to suffer economically after several major employers, including what was once the largest olive processer in the world, shut down in the early 1990s.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Morales started out as an elementary-school teacher, then switched to academic counseling, which she’s done at LA High for the past eleven years; Martinez worked there, too, teaching history and social studies, until six years ago, when he was transferred to another high school in the district. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

million new tech jobs will be created between 2014 and 2024, many of them requiring people with data and computer-science credentials. Jonathan Rees, professor of history, Colorado State University-Pueblo. Economics is also driving students to sign up for computer-science majors. CompTIA projects that 1.8

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Explaining why requires some history. And a number of lease holders fell prey to economic realities —the company that had leased Albemarle County’s spectrum, for example, struggled in the great recession and had to back out of the deal in 2012. Some early leases were for just 10 or 15 years, for instance, and will expire soon.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

“Personalized learning is not something you buy,” emphasized Chris Liang-Vergara, a consultant from the Chicago organization LEAP Innovations who helped charter Firstline Schools pilot its personalized learning programs between 2011 and 2014. “It’s Audrey Watters, author of a forthcoming book on the history of education technology.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2016

Nursery schools, which have a long history in England, have also been tapped to help improve the quality of care offered at all of the settings available to parents under the universal plan. This is even more remarkable when contrasted with the economics of child care in the U.S.: think tank. and the U.K. weren’t that different.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

The state is making a sizable investment in these schools, with an eye toward fueling its economic engines by teaching students how to play a role in high-need, growing fields like advanced manufacturing and health services. Just over 18 percent of the school’s students are economically disadvantaged.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 15, 2024

While the examples are primarily drawn from international relations and comparative politics, the methods we discuss are applicable to all the subfields of political science, to sociology, economics, history, business studies, public policy, and many other fields.

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ED Surge

JUNE 7, 2023

The California Master Plan for Early Learning and Care is one of the first major government documents in the state’s history to identify FFNs as a source for child care. Starting in 2014, when her first grandchild was born, she began caring for him and, through the years, cared for all four of her grandchildren.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Two graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program submitted essays on how they teach these skills to the Bill of Rights Institute’s 2023 National Civics Teacher of the Year Award , placing among the top ten finalists. You have students from economically advantaged and disadvantaged families.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2016

A lot of us can’t really afford to pay those costs in college, so the fact that they were taken care of in high school helped a lot,” said Macias, who is attending community college this fall and hopes for a career as a history teacher. “We

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2018

She taught English for 33 years — 14 of them in Jackson Public Schools — before retiring in 2014 to take care of her disabled son. Many of the students hail from economically disadvantaged households; 78 percent of the students in the school system qualify for free or reduced meals. She was widowed in 2013, and lost her son in 2015.

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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. When she became principal in August 2014, Barber started the tier system. Only by being proud of their history can students reach their highest levels of achievement.”. Photo: Luba Ostashevsky.

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Anthropology News

MAY 28, 2024

I observed various ways of asking for alms in different urban locations for four years (2010–2014) in Guangzhou and talked to people panhandling in the present or the past. I approached beggars as a vulnerable social group, aiming to create situations of trust and free of hierarchies.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2020

David Gross followed in the footsteps of his father, Joseph Gross, taking up the “head of school” position in 2014 after growing up on the campus, attending the school and teaching there for 24 years. In 2014, Pew Research reported that 80 percent of churchgoers attend a congregation that is predominantly one race.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

If this is our chance to reimagine schools , remembering this history and prioritizing the protection of the black teaching force will be essential to create better places for black students to learn. Related: Teachers could retire in droves by the time schools reopen. According to 2015 research by Adam C.

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The Hechinger Report

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. A Google search led him to the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, a state flagship school with prize-winning economists and a history of indigenous activism.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The study was funded by the National Center on Education and the Economy, a think tank focused on the connection between education and economics. PHILOSPHY: Having rebranded itself as “dynamic Korea” in 2014, this future-oriented country sees the education of its youth as the investment that will guarantee its continued economic success.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It is also rooted in history. “I The Common Start proposal shares much in common with portions of President Biden’s Build Back Better economic recovery plan, which was being debated by Congress in October.). Despite years of organizing and lobbying, the campaign ended in 2014.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2016

These aren’t undergraduate economics majors. Their endowment holdings alone add up to nearly half a trillion dollars and they have an annual economic impact of $1 trillion and employ nearly 4 million people, the Progressive Policy Institute reports. Northeastern was called out for paying nothing at all in 2014 toward the $2.4

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2018

As recently as 2014, twice as many moved out than moved in. It’s just the long history of having to defend ourselves against the rest of the country,” said Samantha Denzler, one of Pradon’s colleagues at GSoft, where her title is employee experience specialist. Only thanks to international immigration has the population grown.

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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. million in 2018.

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