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FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Ramsey blamed Americans for their economic struggles amid a pandemic that has decimated the economy and left more than 20 million people unemployed, arguing that “you have a career problem, you have a debt problem, you have a relationship problem, you have a mental health problem, or something else is going on if $600 changes your life.”.

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

We already have good evidence that school and college rankings can distort normal educational processes , reinforcing social hierarchies that govern who enrolls in a school , how those students are treated and what happens to them thereafter. Even “global authorities” can screw up! Related: Do U.S. colleges reinforce or reduce inequality?

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MAY 12, 2024

They also called education “the most important function of state and local governments,” the “very foundation of good citizenship” and “a principal instrument in awakening the child to cultural values [and] in preparing him for later professional training.” The link between education and economic opportunity has only increased.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Some teachers get some of that money back: Several states provide at least partial reimbursement for these expenses and the federal government allows a $250 tax deduction, according to Alyssa Evans, a policy researcher at the Education Commission of the States. In Nevada, for instance, the state created a $4.5

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The Hechinger Report

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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Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 5, 2015

Imagine that you are a policymaker who is generally anti-government, anti-union, and pro-privatization. reduce existing revenue streams in order to bolster claims of fiscal hardship (bonus: less government!). That bonus you didn’t get at work (aka Iowa education reform in 2015). So you’ve got a challenge. Related Posts.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2023

When she needed money to start college, she was advised to borrow from a private lender instead of the federal government and, because of that, she’s stuck with $81,000 debt. I’m frustrated, because, what can I do? I’d be in the same position as these other people had my loans been federal, period,” said Luciano, who is now 37.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

As this happens, more people will encounter a confluence of water-related challenges , including substantial disease risks, constrained economic opportunities, and political instability. For government authorities, we created policy briefs, translated into Bahasa Indonesian and Spanish.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 30, 2020

Propelled in part by the 2014 passage of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), UNM-Taos initiated a program overhaul in 2015 with the goal of aligning educational programs to in-demand career pathways. That is how everyone learns to leverage their strengths.”. Leveraging Existing Resources.

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The Hechinger Report

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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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Foreign investors working with the Ecuadorean government started planning to extract minerals in the region on an industrial scale in the early 2000s. At first, some Shuar people were hopeful about the economic opportunities promised to them. Other serious environmental concerns remain unanswered.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2019

Source: Adam Looney and Constantine Yannelis in the August 2019 issue of Economics of Education Review. Looney’s and Yannelis’s calculations were published in the current August 2019 issue of the journal, Economics of Education Review, in their paper, “ How useful are default rates? trillion in student debt.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

Fourth-grade students who reported using tablets in “all or almost all” classes scored 14 points lower on the reading portion of a test administered by the federal government than students who reported “never” using classroom tablets. That’s the equivalent of a year of education or an entire grade level.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

It was worth it, John Fulgencio said, to see his daughter become vice president of student government, graduate magna cum laude with a 3.7 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.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2020

billion a year from the federal government and other sources that the National Science Foundation calculates is spent by academia on research is not intended to immediately result in commercial applications. The economic development argument is tenuous at best and probably even less than tenuous,” Levine said. Most of the $75.3

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

The education provisions of the law’s definition of homeless — “individuals who lack a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence” — encompasses unaccompanied and unsheltered youth, students in homeless shelters, kids living at a hotel or motel and children staying with friends or family due to economic hardship.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

million going toward the construction, they should demand that the New Orleans residents who need jobs and education the most benefit from the 10,000 potential private and government jobs developers and politicians are working to create in Federal City. million in DBE contracts had been awarded as of March 2015. In 2010, $1.8

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The Hechinger Report

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. They have an economic impact. West Virginia’s enrollment is down by 10 percent since 2015. Kirk: So how can we close these gaps? Philosophy.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 25, 2016

The government calculates the graduation rate by counting the number of students who entered college and completed their degrees within six years. According to the federal data, between 1995 and 2015 the percentage of white 25-29-year-olds attaining bachelor’s degrees has risen from 29 to 43 percent, a gain of 14 percentage points.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Indeed, a recent study by the National Bureau of Economic Research showed, yet again, that investment in high-quality preschool, especially when followed by sustained investment in K-12 schools, can help break the cycle of poverty in America. Related: Why six states still spend nothing on preschool.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The best deal he could get was from a private engineering college that offered Konate little to no financial aid, despite his high school record and economic situation; he would still owe more than $30,000 a year, even after subtracting his González scholarship. The figures are for 2015-16, the most recent year for which they are available.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2022

The analysis used data from 2015, the latest available at the time, though more recent government statistics produce a similar conclusion. Anthony Carnevale, director of the Georgetown Center for Education and the Workforce, said he doesn’t think the government should remove funding from low-payoff certificates.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2016

In spite of a gradual economic recovery and improving revenues, most states are spending dramatically less on public higher education, a new report says. The Topic: Reduced spending by state governments on higher education. Eight states cut per-student spending by 30 percent in that time period, and Arizona by more than 50 percent.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2019

Government Accountability Office, nearly one in four Foreign Service officers do not meet the language proficiency requirements that they should meet to do their jobs. Research also shows immersion programs in general have many educational and cognitive benefits , as well as cultural, economic and social benefits both locally and globally.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

At the start of the 2015 school year, about 800 new students — the majority African-American—from schools in Oktibbeha County prepared for their first year in the newly consolidated Starkville Oktibbeha County Public School District. Jones came to Starkville High in 2015 from East Oktibbeha County High School. Photo: Nicole Lewis.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2019

Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics, described official figures confirming a “full recovery” in education spending in 2015-16, seven years after the recession. The lag time between economic cycles and education spending is long.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

A model created by the COVID-19 Eviction Defense Project , a coalition of economic researchers and legal experts, estimates that roughly 20 percent of the 110 million Americans who live in rented homes risk displacement by September 30 unless policymakers enact aggressive relief measures. It was a very clean place,” Mikaela said.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2019

Hanushek, an economist, believes that the inability to close the achievement gap shows the failure of our education policies to help the poor, especially the $26 billion a year the federal government spends on Title I funding on poor schools and for Head Start preschool programs. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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JUNE 17, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Automation affects workers around the world — nearly half of the employers surveyed by the World Economic Forum last year expected automation would reduce their workforce by 2022. In fact, 80 percent of Mississippians who sought employment assistance in 2015 had less than a two-year degree.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2019

Bob Casey (D-PA) tweeted , “No child should have to imagine the horror of being ripped away from their parents because their family is struggling economically.” The federal government subsidizes breakfast for close to 12.5 Shaking down parents would amount to punishing them for being poor. percent of their white counterparts.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

That has become increasingly crucial at a time when Americans’ faith in higher education is declining , governments are investing less money in it, and employers complain it’s producing too few graduates with skills they need. Economics is also driving students to sign up for computer-science majors.

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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. Furthermore, their research demonstrates that the effect of dialectal distance is not just a proxy for the urban-rural divide or economic factors.

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