Digital Promise

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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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. Hilliard, Center for an Urban Future. Map created by Jill Barshay/Hechinger Report.

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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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MARCH 1, 2024

Perizzolo, Jacquez and Hernandez are among the eight math teachers of an increasingly popular data science course offered at most schools in the Oxnard Union High School district, an economically diverse school system northwest of Los Angeles, where 80 percent of students identify as Hispanic. By senior year, the figure is about 25 percent.

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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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JUNE 23, 2022

After the disruption of the pandemic, people in the field of education are more open to rethinking traditional ways of doing business in order to better serve students. If we’re going to help our young people get to economic mobility, a great job in a career pathway has got to be a part of that,” Swinburn said. Subscribe today!

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MARCH 1, 2019

With 20 percent of its 400-plus students diagnosed with a learning disability and about half of its kids coming from families in economic need, McCourt nonetheless outperforms citywide averages on state-mandated Regents exams, graduation rates and postsecondary enrollment. This may be a missed opportunity. The school is thriving.

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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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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Indeed, a recent study in the 2017 Mississippi Economic Review found that districts with the worst teacher shortages have a weak local property tax base, a high percentage of black students and are disproportionately located in the Delta. Between 2015 — the year the charters opened — and 2018, public school enrollment declined by about 2,400.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2017

1 best primary school system in the world, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report 2016-2017. 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? Little to nothing.

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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. 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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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

While I was in Rajasthan, studying Indias traditional mud stove ( chulha in Hindi), women who use it, and those looking to improve it, I started a conversation about my research with a kitchen goods retailer in a small-town market. He nodded cheerfully and assured me, All women are free in India; you can talk with them freely.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

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. A cloud of discord divided the communities affected by or dependent on mining.

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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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Digital Promise

MARCH 19, 2018

In their study, Goodman, Melkers, and Pallais examined data on spring 2014, fall 2014, and spring 2015 applicants to the OMSCS, alongside fall 2013 and fall 2014 applicants to the MSCS. The researchers suspect that the Georgia Tech degree may be particularly attractive to students because it is not labeled “online” — it’s a traditional M.S.

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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 10, 2020

But the outgoing superintendent, Cyndy Taymore, is four years into an effort to fundamentally rethink traditional schooling here. Competency-based education demands a shift away from traditional teaching, testing and grading. By 2015, Taymore decided she needed a system with an organizing principle.

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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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FEBRUARY 17, 2020

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. Students with weaker academic preparation might be more likely to fail classes and drop out of college. Related: Federal data shows 3.9

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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. There is much more to graduation than what happens in high school.

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The Hechinger Report

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.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2016

“We can no longer allocate our limited amount of leadership resources to initiatives with low system-wide impact or high costs,” wrote district Superintendent Larry Nyland in a letter to the alliance in October 2015. “We I think if you strip away the emotion, the district was saying: ‘We just want you to be a traditional school foundation.

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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

When you think about the future economics of the world, it’s not an English world.”. Economically, he sees the vast promise of a bilingual workforce. Citing figures from a New American Economy report, Walsh says Massachusetts businesses posted nearly 15,000 positions seeking bilingual candidates in 2015. Walsh, Boston mayor.

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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. Economics is also driving students to sign up for computer-science majors. Related: How to save the humanities?

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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. 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

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Traditional language learning in the U.S. in the language, but they do want to speak,” said Dr. Several recent surveys show that employers need multilingual workers; a study by New American Economy, a bipartisan immigration policy group, found that the number of job postings seeking bilingual employees doubled from 2010 to 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Jonathan Johnson, a former teacher in New Orleans, thinks there’s a quicker way for more African-American youth to reach high paying jobs in this city of sharp racial and economic divides. NEW ORLEANS – The path from poverty to the middle class doesn’t have to go through college.

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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. Why it works.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

Estonia had the second smallest gap in performance between its poorest and richest students out of all participating countries known as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Estonian schools are often economically integrated, so poor and rich students are frequently in the same classrooms. College is free.

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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. She added: “The challenge to us now is to prove it.”. It’s a challenge that’s becoming urgent.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Of the district’s nearly 91,000 students, 69 percent were considered economically disadvantaged during the 2016-17 school year. John Barry School (grades pre-K to 5) in Meriden, for example, reduced its chronic absenteeism rate from 21 percent in the 2014-15 school year to 9 percent in 2015-16.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2016

To achieve this goal, we began with underlying systemic policy changes, including: Universal access for all children of active duty military and DoD civilians regardless of family socio-economic status. The resource component established a cost sharing model (minimum 50:50 match) and between public investment and families.

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MARCH 16, 2021

In this poster, the association highlights the fact that traditional methods of finding gifted children often miss children who are low-income, nonwhite or do not speak English at home. The district, which is 8 percent white, went from having 38 percent white gifted enrollment in 2015 to 28 percent in 2017 , according to federal data.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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