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At first, some Shuar people were hopeful about the economic opportunities promised to them. Since then, most of the promises that investors and government leaders made have soured; very little economic growth is visible among Shuar communities. But only we can make history when we fulfill our visionary dreams.”

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

It not only scuttled our trip, but both the pandemic and the economic fallout hit our majority minority students hard. Last April, as the coronavirus swept through the city, our students and their relatives, many of whom work front-line jobs, were especially vulnerable to the health and economic devastation befalling New York.

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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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Since 2015, our research team has been part of a collaborative project that’s trying to better understand the significance and challenges of wood-hauling practices for Indigenous communities. However, none have yet succeeded due to a combination of cultural, economic, and institutional barriers.

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MAY 27, 2020

Everybody’s already talking about program reviews,” said Rudy Fichtenbaum, a professor of economics at Wright State University in Ohio and president of the American Association of University Professors. Will history repeat? Falling enrollment has already imperiled programs such as FIU’s African and African Diaspora Studies.

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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 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. My mom was shocked,” Toney said, laughing.

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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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AUGUST 9, 2017

Bowie, 24, dropped out of Georgia State after financial problems derailed him from his dream of becoming a history teacher. In doing so, he joined more than 108,000 other students who withdrew from Georgia’s public colleges and universities between 2013 and 2015 with thousands of dollars in federal student debt but no degree.

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DECEMBER 3, 2018

But that perception might be overly simplistic, according to a new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research. People who major in subjects like history or political science don’t get first jobs that are as lucrative, but they catch up a lot,” says Deming.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

“The United States is in the midst of the second largest immigration wave in its history.” ” 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? .

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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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OCTOBER 17, 2018

He was on the student council and debate team, took Advanced Placement classes in history and chemistry, speaks four languages, worked a corporate internship and played three sports: soccer, basketball and track. The figures are for 2015-16, the most recent year for which they are available. grade-point average.

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JANUARY 17, 2020

“It has almost become de rigueur among chancellors and presidents in selling the value of their universities to the larger community to say that we are engines of economic development, and there’s scant evidence to support that.”. Marc Levine, emeritus professor of history, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

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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. ET) on The History Channel. Doyle is also a 2015-2016 Fulbright Scholar and 2017 Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Resident Fellow. Related: What do we invest in the country’s youngest?

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MAY 27, 2019

Hanushek is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a politically conservative center for research on economic and social issues based at the university. In 2015 , students were asked if they had their own cell phone and an internet connection. Reardon is a professor at the Graduate School of Education.

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MAY 17, 2018

After all, enrollment in history, philosophy, literature and other majors considered to come under the umbrella of the liberal arts has been falling for decades. 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.

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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. Academically, Mikaela held her own in middle school.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Her parents have a deep history in Syrian politics. That is why I say I have been here since 2015,” says Alhakim. “It CEOs must also address growing social and economic challenges and injustices to help build a brighter tomorrow. Her home country is Syria. Alhakim says she didn’t feel like she was even in France.

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DECEMBER 18, 2017

But colleges and universities are turning out only about 28,000 computer-science graduates with bachelor’s and master’s degrees per year, based on the most recent figures from 2015, according to the consulting firm Deloitte. Jonathan Rees, professor of history, Colorado State University-Pueblo. Related: How to save the humanities?

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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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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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SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Students participate in morning workshops in advance of national May 1 “Day Without Immigrants” rallies, learning also about the labor rights history of May Day rallies worldwide. But at Muñiz, she was learning subjects like history and math in Spanish. Economically, he sees the vast promise of a bilingual workforce.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

More than 99 percent of students are economically disadvantaged, and approximately one-third of those who enter our school won’t stay through the school year. In 2015, more than 70 percent of our students passed the Standards of Learning exams in math, science and history, and 75 percent passed in English.

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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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JANUARY 23, 2019

Morales started out as an elementary-school teacher, then switched to academic counseling, which she’s done at LA High for the past eleven years; Martinez worked there, too, teaching history and social studies, until six years ago, when he was transferred to another high school in the district. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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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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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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DECEMBER 15, 2016

Both girls, who are being identified by only their first names to protect their privacy, also have a history of finding trouble. Being jailed as a juvenile makes a kid less likely to graduate from high school and more likely to be incarcerated later in life, according to a 2015 study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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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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JUNE 12, 2016

ESSA leaves too much accountability up to the states, they argue, with little history to suggest that it’s warranted. Before NCLB, states were not required to break out test scores by socio-economic status, ethnicity, English language proficiency or whether students received special education services.

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MARCH 10, 2017

But Rogers High, in an imposing building in the city’s poorest neighborhood, may be a tougher test for whether the idea can work with all students in this economically diverse city of roughly 200,000. Rogers has the lowest college-going rate in the district. She casually refers to students she meets as “girlfriend” and “buddy.”

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APRIL 6, 2017

Since 2015, when Florida State University began to counsel incoming freshmen on the wisdom of 15 credits, those who took the advice have actually earned higher G.P.A.’s. Archaeology of Human Origins” may sound interesting, but if you wait too long to focus on your economics major, you may not get in all the requirements you need.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2019

When McWilliams first took the Praxis in March of 2015, she easily passed the reading portion but failed the math and writing sections. Consisting of four to five different tests, Praxis exams measure would-be teachers’ content knowledge in subjects that include math and reading. On her next try, she passed writing, but still failed math.

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

According to a 2015 study commissioned by the U.S. Onalaska, situated roughly halfway between Seattle and Portland, is proud of its history. In a home economics classroom, she runs through how to file taxes, balance a budget and apply for college. Photo: Kaitlin Gillespie for The Hechinger Report.

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MAY 9, 2017

Parker Charter Essential School in Devens, Massachusetts, believe multiage education fosters cooperation and collaboration between students, like these ninth- and 10th-graders working together on a Holocaust-related history project. Photo: Stuart Miller. DEVENS, Mass. — It looks like a typical class in a suburban high school.

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AUGUST 25, 2017

And they have this package for the outgoing chancellor,” Marlene Kim, a professor of economics at the university and president of the union representing faculty and staff, said with evident exasperation. Richard Legon, president, Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges. They’ve cut courses. They’re cutting faculty.

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