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MARCH 6, 2025

” In 2015, Maxis completed a bachelors degree in math through the Bard Prison Initiative, an accredited college-in-prison program. Math literacy often contributes to economic success: A 2021 study of more than 5,500 adults found that participants made $4,062 more per year for each correct answer on an eight-question math test.

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JULY 10, 2015

Speaking with great conviction, he offers numerous reasons for his decision, including finger-wagging dissatisfaction with your bosses’ budget negotiations, past accounting practices, the company’s investments in other areas, the economic crisis in Greece, and avian flu, even as the profit projections for next year roll in at an additional 6%.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

In a 2017 study by the American Council on Education, a higher education association, researchers found that individuals who identified as something other than white held just 17 percent of college and university presidencies in 2016, while representing 42 percent of students enrolled in 2015.

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MAY 12, 2024

The link between education and economic opportunity has only increased. And our democracy is desperately in need of shared knowledge and understanding across cultural, racial, economic and geographic lines. Department of Education from 2015 to 2017 This story about Brown v. Seven decades later, those words ring truer than ever.

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MARCH 30, 2020

percent less than other workers with comparable education and experience, according to the nonprofit think tank the Economic Policy Institute. percent less than other workers with comparable education and experience, according to the nonprofit think tank the Economic Policy Institute. Teachers earned 11.1 Teachers earned 11.1

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JANUARY 15, 2018

After adjusting for inflation by counting everything in constant 2015 dollars, this means that three quarters of the education cuts accrued between 2009 and 2013 were restored by 2015. And state income tax revenues sharply rebounded with the economic recovery. during the 2013-14 school year. California schools received 2.9%

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NOVEMBER 27, 2017

In this 2015 photo, fifth graders collaborated on a Rube Goldberg machine in a Pennsylvania elementary school. For example, the United States ranked 39th in math on the 2015 PISA test. Four regions in mainland China, including Beijing and Shanghai, collectively ranked 6th in math and in 2015. Photo: Chris Berdik. ranked 13th.

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

Moreover, those proficiency levels are closely tied to students’ family economic status and their entering levels of proficiency in English and math. What the USN&WR rankings do, essentially, is identify schools that have been successful in enrolling higher-achieving, more affluent students. Related: Do U.S. The correlation is r = -.68

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DECEMBER 6, 2016

2015 PISA test scores for mathematics. Among the 35 industrialized nations that are members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the U.S. Carr emphasized that the 2015 PISA results showed that students across the board, from bottom to middle to top performers, were doing worse in math.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Economic uncertainty apparently has this side effect.) Fertility rates have continued to decline since, despite the economic recovery, and WICHE predicts the number of first graders will fall by more than 330,000 to 3.6 million in 2019. That’s a 8.5 percent decline from a peak of 3.9 million first graders in 2013.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

But the national economic crisis means that teachers might be out of pocket this year as they attempt remote teaching. million program in 2015 that allows local schools to set their own rules or reimburse teachers who buy their own supplies. In Nevada, for instance, the state created a $4.5

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JULY 10, 2023

The program has significant economic rewards. In 2015, CUNY applied the ASAP model to bachelor’s degree-seeking students through an academic support program known as ACE ( Accelerate, Complete, Engage ) with positive results similar to ASAP’s. Related: Many community college students never earn a degree.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2016

acquired some kind of postsecondary credential by 2015 (page 22) x 64% their credential was a 4-year diploma (approximately; it’s probably a little lower than the 2011 rate; page 22) = 25% of the Colorado High School Class of 2009 has a 4-year degree by 2015. We have to own this as educators. Related Posts.

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JANUARY 23, 2025

September 2015. September 2015. Even with increased interactions through evangelizing, there have been growing anti-Chinese sentiments in Zambia in recent years, often based in economic inequalities between the countries. In this dimension, the interactions are not as straightforward as mere economic or political engagements.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

The American Council on Education’s recent study on race and ethnicity in higher education found about 30 percent of all 2015–16 bachelor’s degree recipients graduated without debt, but only 14 percent of African-American graduates managed this. Related: Tangled up in debt. Consider the following statistics.

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APRIL 10, 2018

In 2015-16, 68 percent of rural families with a child enrolled in Head Start received a family service including job training, parenting education, and substance abuse prevention through the program. . We know Head Start in rural communities is really important for promoting both healthy child development and family economic security.” .

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FEBRUARY 13, 2025

He is a behavioral economist who uses economic theory and empirics to study topics in the intersection of economics, psychology, political science, sociology and anthropology. Born in Mexico City, he received a PhD in political economy and government from Harvard in 2015, and a BA in economics and political science from ITAM in 2007.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Sustainable development ties together concern for the carrying capacity of natural systems with the social, political, and economic challenges faced by humanity (Kahle and Gurel-Atay 2014). Promote sustained inclusive and sustainable economic growth. Sensible use of Natural Resources. The SDGs are: 1. Complete eradication of poverty 2.

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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 29, 2017

According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), 36 million adults in this country read at or below a third grade level — a staggering statistic. Enter the Barbara Bush Foundation Adult Literacy XPRIZE , launched in December 2015 to address literacy needs of low-skilled adults with technology.

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APRIL 9, 2018

The average performance of the nation’s fourth- and eighth-graders mostly held steady in math and reading from 2015 to 2017, now marking a decade of stalled educational progress, according to the results of a test released Tuesday. The one exception was eighth-grade reading, with the average score rising by one point between 2015 and 2017.

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JULY 15, 2018

In San Antonio, the CAST schools are also one prong of a larger effort by a local school district to promote integration in one of the most economically segregated cities in the country. One year in, that approach to economic integration, dubbed “diversity by design,” is working. million donation from H-E-B in 2016.

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APRIL 11, 2022

A draft was circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in March 2022. The University of Michigan first began experimenting with free tuition guarantees in 2015, creating a HAIL scholarship for high-achieving low-income high school seniors.

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OCTOBER 18, 2016

Three key facts from our recent report, “ The Condition of College & Career Readiness 2015: Hispanic Students ,” produced with ACT, demonstrate that high school graduation does not mark the end of the educational aspirations of Latino students. Related: More students are graduating but that’s not the whole story.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

We were able to get more families and children access to quality early learning, while supporting families to get back into the workforce, providing that economic benefit and the need that businesses in our community have, Jones said. Mike DeWine, thousands of new children and families have enrolled in licensed child care across the state.

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OCTOBER 17, 2022

For example, one study published in 2021 found that the share of Black, Latino and Native American students increased by only 1 percentage point at about 100 colleges and universities that adopted the policy between 2005-06 and 2015-16.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2024

In a time when technological advancements shape our daily lives and drive economic growth, focusing on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education in K-12 schools is not just a trend but a necessity. Initiatives like the U.S.

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MAY 18, 2015

I hope that you will read the standards yourself and also share some thoughts with CCSSO about whether you feel that they adequately describe an effective school leader for today and tomorrow… — Please list any additional dispositions that you believe educational leaders need that are not listed on page 9 of the ISLLC 2015 standards.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In North Carolina, reading scores barely budged in the five years between 2015 and 2019. Hickory’s scores improved from 52 percent of students reading at grade level in 2015 to 59 percent in 2019, compared with an increase from 56 percent to 57 percent for the state as a whole. READ THE SERIES.

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OCTOBER 8, 2018

High school graduation rates have soared in recent years, hitting a new record of 84 percent for 2015-16 in the most recent federal government count, but there are still millions of Americans who didn’t get a diploma in high school. Economic recovery after the 2008 recession also reduced demand for equivalency degrees.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

It’s going to be a rebalancing of economic prosperity,” Gallup senior economist Jonathan Rothwell said, noting the trend of colleges closing and the resulting effects on their communities could parallel the impact the declining manufacturing sector has had on some areas. Moody’s projects the number of closures will continue to rise.

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AUGUST 4, 2020

More than 50 public and nonprofit institutions have closed or merged since 2015, and experts expect to see more closures in the coming academic year. They’re a really great starting point,” said Doug Webber, an associate economics professor at Temple University. Doug Webber, an associate economics professor at Temple University.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

By 2015, Pennsylvania had cut funding to its public universities by $3,758 per full-time student, giving its students only about two-thirds the national average of what states contribute to higher ed. Unlike after previous economic downturns, state spending on higher education has not bounced back as the economy rebounds.

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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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DECEMBER 6, 2016

2015 PISA test scores for mathematics. Source: OECD, PISA 2015 Results (Volume I), page 177. Results from Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a test in reading, mathematics, and science administered every three years in about 70 countries by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

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MAY 21, 2018

Harvard University’s Roland Fryer set out to test just that in an experiment , published in the June 2018 issue of the American Economic Review. Fryer convinced the Houston school district to randomly assign 23 elementary schools to adopt specialized teaching for two years, from the fall of 2013 to the spring of 2015.

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JULY 30, 2024

Students in an economics class filled the entryway of a library with posters on topics such as the lack of public walking paths and bike lanes in the surrounding county and inadequate waste disposal in New York State. “It’s an invisible problem that not everyone is thinking about,” he said. You can notice a water bottle floating in a river.

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