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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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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 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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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. Any time they see an opportunity to attack particularly the humanities and the social sciences, that’s what they’ll go after.”.

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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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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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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

Over the past decade, a growing number of professors in fields as diverse as business, English and the performing arts have integrated their teaching with efforts to minimize their campuses’ waste and emissions, at a time when human-created climate change is fueling dangerous weather and making life on Earth increasingly unstable.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: It’s easy to argue about this extensive and muddy body of research. ” 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? Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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JUNE 10, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: “We see a lot of spending everywhere on tablets, computers, counting the ratio of computers per student,” said Helen Lee Bouygues, who founded the Reboot Foundation in 2018. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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DECEMBER 18, 2017

Looking at the value of a college education through this lens is fueled in part by a 2015 Georgetown University study, which found that college graduates tend to earn an average of $1 million more than high school graduates over the course of their working lives. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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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. As machines become more important, we need to get better at being human. Develop human skills.

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JULY 22, 2019

Source: Adam Looney and Constantine Yannelis in the August 2019 issue of Economics of Education Review. Leave this field empty if you're human: Experts haven’t typically worried about people with large student loan balances. In 2015, that unemployment rate had grown to 15 percent. It’s a staggering number: $1.5

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AUGUST 23, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: The increase may be one factor leaving a high percentage of college students “rent-burdened,” defined as paying more than 30 percent of household income toward rent. percent for the period ending 2017 compared to the period ending 2015, according to Census data. Choose as many as you like.

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MAY 14, 2018

Researchers from this non-profit found that in 2015, “29 states were still providing less total school funding per student than they were in 2008.”. Leave this field empty if you're human: In addition, more schooling isn’t going to close the racial wealth gap. But it never works. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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As this happens, more people will encounter a confluence of water-related challenges , including substantial disease risks, constrained economic opportunities, and political instability. Scientists predict that by 2050, more than half of the global population will live in areas that suffer from water scarcity for at least a month each year.

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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. Human beings who understand the discipline should be the ones doing that teaching.”. Choose as many as you like.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

As part of a unit on the human digestive system, teams of students had engineered replicas using things like paint rollers, balloons, funnels and tissue boxes, and this was the day they would present their designs. The exception is in the two humanities classes students take every day, one in each language. Walsh, Boston mayor.

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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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MAY 17, 2018

Related: How to save the humanities? Fewer than one in 20 of all degrees now are in humanities disciplines traditionally associated with the liberal arts, according to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Leave this field empty if you're human: Small private liberal arts colleges also continue to close, most recently St.

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Anyone studying the humanities probably has a story of someone raising a skeptical eyebrow and asking: “What do you plan to do with that?” But that perception might be overly simplistic, according to a new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research. Read the original version here.

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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. John Jones asks a question to his students in AP Human Geography on August 18, 2016.

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JUNE 11, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Delgado Community College in New Orleans, Louisiana, began construction on a new campus in the city’s West Bank community of Federal City in May. million in DBE contracts had been awarded as of March 2015. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update.

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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. They have an economic impact. Megan Hickerson: And I knew the humanities, because the humanities are always under attack these days, right?

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FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: But another way to think about educational inequality is to analyze how students fare at the same institution. Black and Latino students also often encounter more financial hardship in college and drop out for economic reasons. million students dropped out of college with debt in 2015 and 2016.

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MAY 27, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: They’re both highly regarded quantitative researchers at Stanford University. Hanushek is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a politically conservative center for research on economic and social issues based at the university. Proof Points. or a telephone answering machine.

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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. The Human Element University outreach made the difference for Del Real Viramontes.

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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. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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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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OCTOBER 14, 2019

percent of students who graduated or dropped out of college during the 2015-16 academic year defaulted before the end of September 2018. Leave this field empty if you're human: The latest figure is a drop of 1.4 million students dropped out of college with debt in 2015 and 2016. Only about 450,000 people or 10.1 Weekly Update.

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JUNE 24, 2018

Department of Health and Human Services deems “affordable.” While existing economic segregation means that a universal preschool wouldn’t serve a perfect mix of lower- and upper-income families, it would be more mixed than the current system, which clusters children living in poverty. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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JUNE 4, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: But after years working seasonal jobs sorting equipment at the local Ford plant and dealing blackjack at nearby casinos, Perez wanted to rise to a management position — and she couldn’t without a bachelor’s degree. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

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. It also shows that we’re human first. Alhakim says she didn’t feel like she was even in France. Change begins at home. Sign up for our newsletter.

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AUGUST 7, 2018

Families often need support in this part of the state, an area struggling to keep up with the economic growth of the high-tech Triangle region, the metropolitan home of the state capital, Raleigh, about an hour away. The meetings are a way for families to meet other families, get connected with resources and prepare children for kindergarten.

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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. The best teacher is going to be the human teacher. In New Orleans, 81 percent of public school students are economically disadvantaged, according to data from the Louisiana Department of Education.

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JANUARY 23, 2019

But the neighborhood just to the north, Hancock Park, is 71 percent white, with a median income of $85,000; the student body, meanwhile, is 79 percent Latino, 12 percent African-American, 7 percent Asian, and 64 percent “economically disadvantaged,” drawn from Koreatown, Mid-City, and neighborhoods farther afield. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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JUNE 17, 2018

The analysis used federal enrollment data for the 2015-16 school year, the most recent year for which that data is available from the U.S. These schools represented one in 10 charters operating during the 2015-16 school year. Leave this field empty if you're human: By June of 2005, Jackson had left the district. Weekly Update.

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