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MARCH 29, 2024

Virtual Internships’ survey data shows that supervisors’ perceptions of the interns’ abilities on core career-readiness skills like communication, critical thinking and teamwork increased substantially during the internships. About a quarter of interns receive offers to extend or get hired full time, Holroyd Pearce said.

Government 137

Government Tradition Professional Development Critical Thinking 137

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DECEMBER 5, 2016

View from the Superdome field before the game between Grambling State Tigers and Southern University Jaguars on November 26, 2016, at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, LA. We talk about the lack of diversity in technology and dearth of economic opportunities for black and Hispanic young people as a problem now.

K-12 79

K-12 Economics Critical Thinking Cultures 79

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JUNE 3, 2020

Turner attended Ashtabula’s high school, Lakeside High, where almost every student is economically disadvantaged. For the Lakeside class of 2016, just 37 percent entered college within two years. Diverse college classrooms can help students sharpen their critical-thinking and problem-solving skills.

Tutoring 145

Tutoring Heritage Cultures High School 145

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

percent as of 2016, lags behind Canada, Israel, Japan, South Korea and the United Kingdom on this measure. Tough’s book asks us to consider whether higher education in America is more an engine of, or an obstacle to, economic and social mobility. The United States, at 45.7 Random chance, after all, tends not to motivate most people.

Economics 76

Economics Psychology Critical Thinking High School 76

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Instead, the companies are working with edX and others to provide what they say are the educations that all of their employees require in common, including such abilities as critical thinking and collaboration. Economics is also driving students to sign up for computer-science majors. Related: How to save the humanities?

Humanities 104

Humanities History Critical Thinking Teaching 104

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MARCH 27, 2017

In 2016, the average student came out of college with an average of $37, 172 in debt. Rather than take public support for granted, researchers began to document what theatre, dance, film, music, literature and visual arts contribute to society and how artists produce reward, economically and socially.

Cultures 65

Cultures Economics Social Science Critical Thinking 65

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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.

Elementary School 0

Elementary School Economics Cultures Tradition 0

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APRIL 12, 2018

Like many cities across America, Lowell is struggling to find its economic footing as millions of blue-collar jobs in manufacturing, construction and transportation disappear , subject to offshoring and automation. So we urgently need to equip young people with those skills — critical thinking, problem-solving and communication.”.

High School 105

High School Geography Middle School Critical Thinking 105

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MAY 19, 2022

More than 80 percent of the school’s roughly 500 students are classified as economically disadvantaged. Philadelphia’s rates of gun violence have spiked in recent years: There were 486 fatal shootings in the city in 2021, 23 percent higher than 2020 and a 95 percent rise compared to 2016.). West had tried to adapt.

High School 124

High School Oral History Middle School Charter School 124

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MAY 30, 2024

Instead, they’re working, socializing or partying and, as a result, show limited gains in critical thinking — the hallmark of American higher education. Josipa Roksa: And so the data shows that, you know, many students are not making much progress on the critical-thinking skills over the first two years.

Critical Thinking 87

Critical Thinking Humanities History Cultures 87

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DECEMBER 24, 2020

But now the professional degree that could propel her entire family toward the economic stability they had never known was vanishing from sight. “I I kept thinking: ‘Yes, that’s what I want to do. In 2016, Hernandez decided to go back to school for her associate degree in nursing at BMCC. I want to be a nurse.’ ”.

Economics 120

Economics Junior High Advocacy Critical Thinking 120

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JUNE 26, 2018

And a way to prevent numerical power from converting into political and economic power is to see the majority of its public students as “its,” as workers, not citizens. These kinds of head-scratching, politically ignorant actions lay bare the very reason that people need a quality liberal arts education.

Education 87

Education Government Private School Civics 87

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NOVEMBER 18, 2016

The education sector in which I work is committed to critical thinking and the study of history. Our nation’s founders asserted “that all men are created equal.” We know in their use of the word men , the founders did not mean women, nor people of color.

History 92

History Human Rights Critical Thinking Leadership 92

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JULY 24, 2019

Since Trump won in 2016, there’s been a debate about whether it is useful for different ethnic groups , religions, genders and economic classes to form their own political alliances instead of forming a more collective association. Without question, different groups experience white supremacy and racism in the U.S. differently.

Critical Thinking 76

Critical Thinking History Leadership Economics 76

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AUGUST 23, 2017

Most American children are isolated in school by race starting at 4 years old, Penn State University professor Erica Frankenberg found in her study of pre-K published in fall 2016. (I “It will take more of us thinking and acting differently to change things; to extinguish those evil torches in the night.”

Economics 87

Economics Private School Elementary School Public School 87