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AUGUST 5, 2015

Somehow you have to create a narrative over time that erodes citizens’ support for public schools and counters their incredible historical legacies of college and career preparation, citizenship development, cultural socialization, economic opportunity creation, and facilitation of intergenerational income mobility. .

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MARCH 1, 2019

A panel commissioned by the mayor recently released a report calling for schools to mirror the demographics of their surrounding neighborhoods and to implement principles of culturally responsive education as a way to combat the city’s persistent achievement gap. These schools are also among the most diverse in the city.

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MARCH 13, 2017

Urban Institute analysis from 2015. 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. According to a 2015 analysis by the Washington D.C. This effort does that.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2019

People who speak another language score higher on tests and think more creatively , have access to a wider variety of jobs , and can more fully enjoy and participate in other cultures or converse with people from diverse backgrounds. Knowledge of foreign languages is also vital to America’s national security and diplomacy. Timing is Crucial.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

For example, if it’s part of the mission of a bachelor’s degree-granting institution to educate diverse students and facilitate economic mobility, then supporting transfer students from community colleges fits the bill, LaViolet says. A few pressures might incentivize four-year colleges to step up their efforts. He went on to earn his Ph.D.,

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The idea behind the Muñiz Academy, named for the longtime principal of Boston’s first dual-language elementary school (the Rafael Hernandez K-8 school), was that many Hispanic students would do better in schools that support their cultural background and, with it, the Spanish language. That’s what made it difficult,” she says.

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JANUARY 7, 2017

1 best primary school system in the world, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report 2016-2017. Some aspects of Finland’s primary schools may be culture-specific and non-transferrable to other nations. Related: What do we invest in the country’s youngest? Little to nothing. ET) on The History Channel.

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AUGUST 23, 2019

percent for the period ending 2017 compared to the period ending 2015, according to Census data. In addition, people not otherwise affiliated with schools can view proximity to a university as a plus, as the campus offers amenities such as green space or venues for cultural events. The increase was just 4.5

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

And yet, they have been re-energized by our climate crisis and by several United Nations initiatives, including the 2000 Millennium Development Goals, the 2010 founding of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, and the 2015 Sustainable Development Goals. The buzzword drudgery serves many agendas.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The impact of the 2015 earthquakes, a focus during my fieldwork, had reduced many of the city’s magnificent temples to rubble; however, in 2022 some of these temples had already been rebuilt and others were undergoing reconstruction.

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APRIL 9, 2024

Until fairly recently, that decision made economic sense. If successful, the new college could bring economic growth to one of the poorest and least educated parts of the country and serve as a model for the thousands of other “educational deserts” scattered across America. Mining jobs were plentiful, and the money was good.

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MARCH 27, 2017

According to a new study they published in March, two in three community college students they surveyed are food insecure — an increase of 50 percent from their 2015 report. Let’s scrutinize the economic and cultural factors that decrease college graduation rates. Colleges should develop support systems to reflect that.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The paradigm of persistent problems Mary Kennedy’s seminal (2015) paper “Parsing the practice of teaching” sets out the idea that every teacher, no matter their experience, expertise or context, faces the same persistent problems of teaching. This becomes, therefore, a much more collective endeavour rather than a solo struggle. Kennedy, M.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

“It’s so fun,” said Ayiana, who comes from the Iñupiaq culture and lives in Kotzebue, a coastal town just north of the Bering Strait. Sam, who is also from the Iñupiaq culture, loves math. Most of the 11 distinct Alaska Native cultures are represented among ANSEP’s students. A member of the Unangax culture, he grew up on St.

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MARCH 17, 2021

During the 2015-16 school year, Black students in the district faced out-of-school suspension at 3.4 Flexible Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act funding meant the college could offer the program tuition-free. This will be part of our Murray culture now,” says Superintendent Jennifer Covington.

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MAY 21, 2016

By spring 2015, 54 percent of Kentucky elementary school students were proficient in the English language arts and 49 percent were proficient in math. From 2012 to 2015, its white and black students saw improvement on reading tests, and the black students in many cases outscored their black peers in the rest of the district.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

Between 2012 and 2015, thousands of P2P platforms emerged, only to crumble within a few years, destroying the life savings of countless middle-class families. Archived webpage (ppdai.com) on March 28, 2015, highlighting the high annual rate, professional services, and safety for investors if using their investment app.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 8, 2024

The study challenges conventional interpretations of radical right support as solely a rural phenomenon or a product of adverse economic conditions. Regions that were historically peripheral, often marked by distinctive dialects and cultural traits, developed a collective self-perception of marginality and lower status.

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DECEMBER 7, 2016

She says retaining teachers is as much a problem as attracting them if not more so because the decline of manufacturing jobs in her area has created a downward economic spiral, and teachers want to live where their spouses can find jobs. You’re taught really about cultural competencies. This year there may be as few as 19.

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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. These segregated schools uphold the values, racial hierarchies and cultural norms of the people who created them. That’s horrific enough.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The culture of attendance is huge,” Burnett said. “If Of the district’s nearly 91,000 students, 69 percent were considered economically disadvantaged during the 2016-17 school year. The culture of attendance is huge. If parents weren’t taught that it’s important, then their kids are not going to be taught that.”.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2022

A report in 2015 found that level four apprenticeship. With a few notable exceptions, they do not train skills that students need to gain economic independence. A university is also the best place to acquire social and cultural capital. This gets results at a society scale. And this is indispensable for the poor.

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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.

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MARCH 16, 2021

Last summer’s racial justice protests jarred the district’s leaders, as did the results of a May survey in which one-fifth of responding students said that they had personally experienced discrimination or unequal treatment at school based on their ethnicity or culture. Report it here.”.

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JUNE 4, 2019

Between 2000 and 2015, the number of Latinx college students more than doubled , to 3 million. Between 2000 and 2015, the number of Latinx college students more than doubled , to 3 million. Anel Chavez, a recent graduate of Indiana University Northwest, picks up an application for the school’s business and economics graduate program.

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

Jon: But the decline in college opportunity for rural high school graduates is only widening social, economic and political divides between rural America and the rest of the country. Researchers say that’s because they feel out of step with campus culture. They have an economic impact. Kirk: So how can we close these gaps?

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JUNE 23, 2016

researchers and educators argue it’s misleading and unhelpful to compare the United States to any top performing country because of demographic and cultural differences. million people, the country is significantly smaller — the Baltic nation also has its share of cultural diversity. In fact, many U.S. College is free.

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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. Founded in 2004, Launch is a network of eight low-fee private schools serving grades eight through twelve across four of South Africa’s nine provinces.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Parents and advocates have also called for more teachers who can relate culturally to black New Orleans children and make connections with the communities they serve. And you’ve got to make sure that they understand the culture of the school, but at the same time, you’ve got to make them feel needed.”.

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MAY 17, 2018

High-achieving low-income students, in particular, don’t know what “liberal arts” means, according to a 2015 study by researchers at Stanford and the University of Virginia. China and other economic rivals add them. Related: Ivy League degree: Now what? Related: While liberal arts decline in U.S.,

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MARCH 20, 2018

The monotony of working retail had finally gotten to Amalia Lewis-Miller by 2015, when she decided to go to college. Related: Economics, culture and distance conspire to keep rural nonwhites from higher educations. The program is being eliminated. After five years of clocking in at Home Depot, she was 27 and earning $12 an hour.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The performance of minority students on standardized tests at Ridgeview historically has lagged behind that of white students, according to staff, who note that black and Hispanic students are much more likely to come from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. An independent study conducted in Washington state showed similar results.

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JANUARY 14, 2019

With people of color expected to make up a quarter of the state’s population by 2035, these gaps represent an economic threat to Minnesota; unless more residents get to and through college, there won’t be enough qualified workers to fill the jobs that require a post-secondary degree or certificate. Will jobs go begging?

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MAY 30, 2018

Morial is one of three schools that received a one-time $300,000 grant from the nonprofit New Schools for New Orleans in March 2015. A 2015 RAND study , which looked at 62 schools that had received various Gates Foundation-funded grants for personalized learning, found gains of 11 percentile points in math and 8 in reading. “The

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JANUARY 28, 2019

She rattled off students’ responses as they popped up on the smartboard in a colorful word cloud: “Forced relocation, reduced population, disease, warfare, cultural destruction … wow, that’s a powerful term.”. The volley of interaction seemed designed to grab—and retain—students’ attention. A plan to link Alaska to the world.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

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 Having a mission of “hallways that reflect the city’s streets” doesn’t translate into having a school that is equally divided along racial or socio-economic lines.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

This imbalance has worsened since the economic downturn. UC Santa Cruz shored up its athletics program out of general operating funds even as its total budget was cut by $66 million between 2008 and 2015, according to the university’s annual report. They don’t exist.”. But a permanent solution is needed.

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