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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. Leave this field empty if you're human: It’s easy to argue about this extensive and muddy body of research. . Early Grade Retention and the Human Capital Development of English Learners.”

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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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

The suicide rate for children and young adults, ages 10 to 24, rose by 56 percent from 2007 and 2017 and is now the second leading cause of death among teenagers, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. Some 3,000 high school students across the U.S. attempt suicide every day. “I

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JUNE 18, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Vermont has one of the oldest populations in the United States and, the Vermont State Data Center reports, is now tied with Connecticut for the lowest birth rate in the nation. In Vermont in 2013 18 percent of economically disadvantaged students dropped out of high school compared to only 3.5

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2019

percent increase from the previous 2014-15 school year, following an increase of 3.2 Leave this field empty if you're human: These national numbers are just averages. It’s unclear if the recent increases in school funding during the economic recovery will necessarily lead to gains in student achievement again. That’s a 2.9

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The Hechinger Report

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. “The

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2019

Same with climate change: Some extreme weather events occur regardless of whether humans are pumping extra carbon into the atmosphere. All told, 37 states recognize human-caused climate change in their science standards, says the National Center for Science Education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Not everyone who enrolls in college will leave with a certificate or degree, but the number of people who drop out or take a break is much higher than experts previously believed. Economic motivation is a factor,” Ryu said. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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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. Human beings who understand the discipline should be the ones doing that teaching.”. Human beings who understand the discipline should be the ones doing that teaching.” CompTIA projects that 1.8

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Digital Promise

JUNE 30, 2020

But not everyone has reaped the benefits of Nashville’s economic growth equally, particularly among the approximately 55,000 adults without high school degrees. American Job Center (via Mid Cumberland Human Resource Agency). Collaborating Organizations. Nashville Public Library. Nashville Adult Literacy Council. YWCA of Nashville.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

John Jones asks a question to his students in AP Human Geography on August 18, 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. Photo: Nicole Lewis.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Nationally, 76 percent of white students in special education who exited high school in 2014-15 earned a traditional diploma. where there is just one school district, 77 percent of white students with special needs who exited during the 2014-15 school year left with a diploma, while just 57 percent of their black and Latino peers did.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: A December 2018 report that calculated funding in each state first revealed this national recovery. The lag time between economic cycles and education spending is long. Los Angeles increased funding by 9 percent between 2014-15 and 2015-16. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

In addition to its reputation as an international powerhouse in the field of economics and a home to multiple Nobel Laureates, the school has grounds that are designated as an official botanic garden. The University of Chicago moved its economics department into the former home of the Chicago Theological Seminary. Weekly Update.

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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. In a home economics classroom, she runs through how to file taxes, balance a budget and apply for college. Heather Guenther, Onalaska High School graduate.

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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

But the neighborhood just to the north, Hancock Park, is 71 percent white, with a median income of $85,000; the student body, meanwhile, is 79 percent Latino, 12 percent African-American, 7 percent Asian, and 64 percent “economically disadvantaged,” drawn from Koreatown, Mid-City, and neighborhoods farther afield. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Inexperienced teachers, with three years’ experience or less, are clustered in one-third of New Orleans’ schools — most of which have student bodies that are 90 percent black and 90 percent economically disadvantaged. A majority of those schools serve a student body that is at least 90 percent black and 90 percent economically disadvantaged.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

The P2P industry thrived in 2014, championing financial inclusion ( puhui jinrong ) endorsed by the state. As the state endeavors to cultivate fintech companies as catalysts for economic stimulation, there lies a strategic imperative for major platforms. However, most platform operators and the state did not aim to scam.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

I’ve had about 20 or 30 people reach out to me and say, ‘I just read your paper and now I’ve stopped allowing laptops in the classroom,’ ” said one of the authors, economics professor Richard Patterson. Leave this field empty if you're human: Still, she admitted the allure of the connectivity. I need a break.’ ”. Weekly Update.

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JANUARY 16, 2018

Data collected by The Hechinger Report as part of a year-long project found more than 42 percent of students who arrived at the state’s community colleges in 2014, and more than 17 percent of new students and transfers at Mississippi’s four-year public universities, required at least one remedial course. Higher Education.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Besides the 26 percent of Alamosa students who are already chronically absent, Burnett’s data show that another 27 percent are considered at risk of becoming so. Of the district’s nearly 91,000 students, 69 percent were considered economically disadvantaged during the 2016-17 school year.

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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 The best teacher is going to be the human teacher. Teira Rucker, 11.

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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

JULY 2, 2018

Mississippi has made gains on economic, education, health and community factors that indicate children’s well-being but the state still places near the bottom in the nation overall, according to a new annual report by the Annie E. Leave this field empty if you're human: Linda H. Casey foundation. Choose as many as you like.

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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: JPS has recruited retirees by increasing financial incentives. She taught English for 33 years — 14 of them in Jackson Public Schools — before retiring in 2014 to take care of her disabled son. Sign up for our Mississippi Learning newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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JANUARY 18, 2018

So while the proportion of graduates from predominantly nonwhite urban schools who go to college stayed flat between 2014 and 2015 — the last period for which the figures are available — for graduates of predominantly nonwhite rural high schools, it declined. The factors behind these dire outcomes are also getting worse. Weekly Update.

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OCTOBER 14, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: The latest figure is a drop of 1.4 Students turned to community college during the recession to improve their job prospects but with the economic recovery, more people went straight into the labor force. But they’re still otherwise in the same bad economic circumstances.”

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FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Sitting on the floor of their library, the dozens of students dressed in red and navy blue were an eager audience. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. The results track with international data.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Some 2,400 districts — from regions synonymous with economic hardship to big cities and prosperous suburbs — did not report having even one homeless student despite levels of financial need that make those figures improbable. And many more districts are likely undercounting the number of homeless students they do identify.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Amanda Peters, a 2023 MAHG graduate, teaches AP Government and AP Human Geography at Liberty High School in Frisco, Texas. You have students from economically advantaged and disadvantaged families. Ashbrook Publishing, 2014. Peters agreed. Civic engagement involves more than just showing up to vote. Edited by Gordon Lloyd.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 3, 2016

Non-profit operators also bring in millions of dollars, however; The New York Times reported in 2014 that the superintendent of the KIPP Charter Network in New York earns $235,000 a year, and that Success Academy Charter Schools saw millions of dollars in donations from private businesses. per student in the 2013-2014 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2018

In a 2017 study published by the Institute of Labor Economics, an economics think tank, researchers found that low-income black male elementary school students who were paired with a black teacher in the 3rd, 4th, or 5th grades were 39 percent less likely to drop out of high school. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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AUGUST 4, 2020

Think of the revenue shocks these universities are suffering,” said Gregory Price, an economics and finance professor at the University of New Orleans, noting that if students aren’t on campuses for the coming academic year or choose not to attend at all, schools could miss out on even more. We’re treading water and there’s no raft.

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