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JANUARY 15, 2018

National Center for Education Statistics, National Spending for Public Schools Increases for Second Consecutive Year in School Year 2014-15. more on public schools during the 2014-15 school year than in the previous year. During 2014-15, each student was educated on $11,454, on average. increase in 2014-15.)

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MARCH 2, 2020

Education researchers are trying to come up with different ways to measure success. Related: Research scholars to air problems with using ‘grit’ at school. Jackson declined to identify strong or weak schools by name because the research is in early stages. Measuring squishy soft skills is controversial and complicated.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

spending on elementary and high school education declined 3 percent from 2010 to 2014 even as its economy prospered and its student population grew slightly by 1 percent, boiling down to a 4 percent decrease in spending per student. In some countries it rose at a much higher rate. spends less appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Community colleges have 14 percent fewer students in the fall of 2021 than they had two years ago, according to a preliminary enrollment report from the National Student Clearinghouse’s Research Center. Fewer college students today could also mean future economic troubles. Credit: Alison Yin for the Hechinger Report.

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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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JULY 22, 2019

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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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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AUGUST 4, 2020

Now, with the added pressures of the coronavirus pandemic, the fabric of American higher education has become even more strained: The prospect of lower revenues has already forced some schools to slash budgets and could lead to waves of closings, experts and researchers say. Over the last decade, enrollment slipped as the economy grew.

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MARCH 19, 2018

Previous research has shown that most users of online education look fairly similar to the average college graduate — suggesting that digital learning isn’t yet the great educational equalizer it has the potential to be. The researchers were also able to test whether admission to OMSCS provided an otherwise absent path to a graduate degree.

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

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. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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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. I think we’re doing a great job, but I have no data or research.” Louisiana bet big on career education.

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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? “For Mindy Domb, whose district includes Amherst.

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JULY 30, 2024

From their responses, and analysis by PISA researchers, several themes stand out, including disconnection from school and teachers, a lack of motivation and a sense that math does not clearly connect to their real lives. They also were more likely to report that they saw fewer potential benefits from studying math.

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MAY 4, 2019

But now some workforce organizations, researchers and regional civic leaders are pushing back — persuading companies to look beyond academic credentials and to instead hire people based on their skills. If this movement continues to gather steam, researchers say, it could aid not only individual job seekers but also the U.S.

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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. Women now comprise nearly 60 percent of enrollment in universities and colleges and men just over 40 percent, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center reports.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

Academic researchers have been trying to find out how these scattergrams, which have been widely adopted by U.S. The researchers found that applications to these schools plummet after students see the scattergrams. high schools over the past two decades, are influencing students.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

It’s a bit of a perfect storm for these institutions,” said Jason Stein, research director of the Wisconsin Policy Forum. Phillip Levine, professor of economics, Wellesley College, and founder of MyinTuition, a net-price calculator. Jason Stein, research director of the Wisconsin Policy Forum. between 2010 and 2018.

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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. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

That might seem like a reasonable approach but there’s controversy among researchers about whether repeating third grade is ultimately helpful. One 2014 study found that kids who were held back when they were young were less likely to graduate from high school. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Higher Education.

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MARCH 13, 2017

Eboni Walker, executive director of the Hoffman Early Learning Center, is currently recruiting “families who value the research that shows children learn best in these diverse environments.”. We want families who value the research that shows children learn best in these diverse environments.”. This effort does that.

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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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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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JULY 17, 2024

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. My ethnographic research at Launch revealed the complex spatial and affective politics of black youth aspiration in a postapartheid city.

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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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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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JANUARY 21, 2019

percent increase from the previous 2014-15 school year, following an increase of 3.2 “There is more spread across states in state and local funding than ever before,” wrote Marguerite Roza, the director of the Edunomics Lab , a research center at Georgetown University, in an e-mail. That’s a 2.9 percent from 2013-14. spends less.

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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. Research shows parental unemployment can contribute to behavior issues and low academic performance. Casey Foundation , which collects data on children from every state.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2019

That number jumped to 36 million by December of 2018, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. For one, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center has better data now, said Mikyung Ryu, the center’s director of research publications. Economic motivation is a factor,” Ryu said.

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APRIL 30, 2022

But new research from the nonprofit National Student Legal Defense Network and scholars at George Washington University shows that nearly two-thirds of undergraduate certificate programs left their students worse off than the typical high school graduate, making an average of less than $25,000 per year.

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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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JUNE 7, 2021

We’ve seen that clearly when it comes to student success — and, ultimately, social and economic mobility. The good news is, we can break out of this competitive mode; a group of 11 public research universities is already showing how that’s done.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Unlike after previous economic downturns, state spending on higher education has not bounced back as the economy rebounds. Dustin Weeden, senior policy specialist, National Conference of State Legislatures. Pennsylvania’s not the only state where higher ed funding remains stubbornly down since the beginning of the recession.

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AUGUST 11, 2017

Tahiv McGee, who graduated from North Star this spring and will attend Pomona College this fall, explains the research study he worked on at Rutgers-Newark. Tahiv McGee spent Fridays during his senior year of high school at Rutgers University-Newark, where he worked with faculty and a doctoral student on a psychology research study.

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AUGUST 28, 2022

I do think there are lessons to be learned from what’s going on in Maine right now,” said Jerome Lucido, executive director of the Center for Enrollment Research, Policy and Practice at the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education. It could be a researcher who goes to the local high school to give a presentation.

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APRIL 24, 2018

As education researchers, we see two different ways that educators can build alternative mathematics courses. While the idea of active learning has existed for decades, there has been a greater push for widespread adoption in recent years, as more scientific research has emerged.

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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 22, 2018

The distraction researchers at Dominguez Hills — Cheever, and psychologists Larry Rosen and Mark Carrier — are digging deeper into compulsive tech use. Between 2011 and 2017, the percentage of American adults who own a smartphone more than doubled, to 77 percent , according to the Pew Research Center. Divided minds.

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