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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. Spokane is updating its entire K-12 curriculum to teach those kinds of skills.

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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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APRIL 3, 2019

On a muggy fall morning, pre-K teacher Ruth Shows inspected the work of students in her classroom, stepping over a cluster of little learners sprawled on the carpet. Quitman’s pre-K success should have wide-ranging implications for Mississippi, where early results of the state’s tiny program are promising. ?. QUITMAN, Miss. —

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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 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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AUGUST 3, 2016

Once an English learner becomes proficient at English, her achievement data moves out of the English learner tributary into the “mainstream” designation of all K–12 students. One important reform is the creation of an “ever English learner” category to track outcomes for these students over the course of their entire K–12 education.

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JANUARY 16, 2018

Computer science curriculum: Senate Bill 2096 would direct the state Board of Education to develop a mandatory K-12 computer science curriculum, to include instruction on topics like coding and computer programming. Leave this field empty if you're human: Home Economics Curriculum: House Bill 16, authored by Rep.

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JANUARY 22, 2018

In K-12 and college classrooms across the country, some educators are enacting at least partial device bans, some are advocating for teaching style changes (fewer lectures, for example) and still others are seeking help from the technology itself.

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AUGUST 18, 2016

The teachers in K-12 don’t even always talk to each other,” never mind to the faculties of colleges and universities their students go on to attend, said Lewis. “It Angry and embarrassed by the fact that so many high school students aren’t prepared for college, “A lot of people want to assign blame, that this is the fault of K-12.

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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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AUGUST 11, 2017

This kind of experience may be common at New Jersey’s most selective and wealthiest suburban high schools, but McGee graduated from North Star Academy College Preparatory High School in Newark, where 84 percent of the students are economically disadvantaged and 98 percent are black or Latino.

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MAY 21, 2016

students graduating from the K-12 system are college and career ready, Common Core has ramped up academic expectations that schools everywhere, including those in Kentucky, are still far from meeting. Sonja Brookins Santelises, vice president of K-12 policy at the Education Trust. Scores have been edging up ever since.

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JUNE 17, 2018

Down the road at Greene County’s other public schools, 12 percent of students are white and 68 percent are black; there isn’t a piano lab and there are far fewer AP courses. In 2014, the charter was awarded a coveted National Blue Ribbon from the U.S. At Lake Oconee Academy, 73 percent of students are white. Department of Education.

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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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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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MARCH 13, 2017

Hoffman Early Learning Center , which opened in 2015, currently hosts federally funded Head Start programs that provide free pre-K programs to qualifying low-income families with 3- and 4-year-olds. In addition, 84 percent of students enrolled in public school were deemed economically disadvantaged in 2014.

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AUGUST 23, 2016

This is even more remarkable when contrasted with the economics of child care in the U.S.: Some question whether the government would do any better at universal preschool than it does with universal K-12 education. and those who were not shrunk by two percentage points between 2009-10 and 2014-15. think tank. and the U.K.

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MAY 6, 2016

During the 2014-2015 school year, pre-kindergarten through eighth-grade students all saw statistically significant gains in academic performance. Pre-K through fifth grade students also saw behavioral improvement. Smoothest Ride Possible. “We feel after-school is a solution to the educational crisis in Mississippi.”

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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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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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APRIL 10, 2017

The 2008 economic crisis compounded the situation, as fewer families could afford tuition, said Patrick Haggarty, the superintendent of Seattle’s Catholic schools. Both serve students from pre-K through grade 8, many from low-income households. Since then, more than 1,000 Catholic schools have closed their doors. Therese principal. “It

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JUNE 6, 2016

All but 2 percent of all black preschool teachers are women, according to an analysis 2014 Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) data. According to AASA, The School Superintendents Association only 14 percent of all superintendents are women – a far cry from the 72 percent of all K-12 educators in this country are women.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

in 2014, the most recent federal data available. The researchers began by collecting 127 high-quality studies on class size reduction from 41 countries from kindergarten through grade 12. Pupil-teacher ratios declined from 22.3 in 1970 to 17.9 in 1985 and dropped to a low of 15.3 Related: Putting an ed tech darling in context.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

There, a majority of students are Hispanic, and over half are classified as economically disadvantaged, according to EdData and the California Department of Education. In the 2014-2015 school year, only half of all students were reading at or above proficiency level, according to school data provided by the district. READ THE SERIES.

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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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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

“I’m not recruiting right now,” proclaimed Densen — founder of Bricolage Academy, a charter school that currently serves kindergarten through third grade, but will eventually be a K-12 school. “I Bricolage is part of a new wave of charter schools looking to bake economic and racial diversity into their very DNA.

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JANUARY 21, 2019

percent increase from the previous 2014-15 school year, following an increase of 3.2 It’s unclear if the recent increases in school funding during the economic recovery will necessarily lead to gains in student achievement again. For some states, prekindergarten is included in these spending calculations.) That’s a 2.9

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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. “If

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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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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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JANUARY 28, 2019

As of October 2018, 83 percent of districts could access the internet at the Federal Communications Commission’s 2014 minimum recommended speed of 100 kilobits per second per student, up from 42 percent in 2015, according to EducationSuperHighway. As a result, the district is finally within sight of the FCC’s 2014 target speed, she said.

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AUGUST 11, 2017

percent growth of STEM occupations between 2014 and 2024, amidst concern that there won’t be enough trained workers to fill the jobs, despite the fact that STEM degree holders can expect to earn 29 percent more than non-STEM degree holders. He also reaches out to K-12 schools to try to get more students interested in STEM at an early age.

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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.

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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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JUNE 23, 2016

Many of the same concerns about economic mobility apply to low-income and middle-income white families as they do to underrepresented minority families. About sixty percent of African American households and about 52 percent of Hispanic households in 2014 had incomes below $45,000, while only 40 percent of white households did so.

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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. The school, located in the nearby 7 th Ward, had opened its doors to kids in pre-K through second grade the year before. Sixty-nine percent were economically disadvantaged. It’s there in the hallways.”.

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