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In many cases, making roti wasnt a willful choice but an economic necessityor part of unpaid domestic laborwithin a highly gendered and classed society. Since 2016, the women-led Rolex Initiative has held an annual festival to celebrate the Ugandan Rolex and the street vendors who made it world famous.

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Ward is unusual, too, because she had made the leap from college admissions to private school to public school, and she is trying to bring the individualized approach of private college counseling to large, economically diverse public schools where she can make a bigger difference. Sign up for our higher education newsletter.

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One of the more unexpected consequences of Brexit, the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union following a 2016 referendum, is that it has made EU membership more popular. Back in 2016, Scotland voted to remain in the EU. Georgia (79%) and Ukraine (77%) are also pro-joining and not just for economic reasons.

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MARCH 30, 2020

percent less than other workers with comparable education and experience, according to the nonprofit think tank the Economic Policy Institute. percent less than other workers with comparable education and experience, according to the nonprofit think tank the Economic Policy Institute. According to a 2016 press release from the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

In a 2017 study by the American Council on Education, a higher education association, researchers found that individuals who identified as something other than white held just 17 percent of college and university presidencies in 2016, while representing 42 percent of students enrolled in 2015.

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AUGUST 4, 2020

Back in March, student loan borrowers received a reprieve with the passage of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, which included provisions that suspended loan payments. The effects of the pandemic on economic activity will last well beyond the end of the social distancing, as my Brookings colleagues have pointed out.

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in political science from the University of California, Merced in 2016 and 2018, respectively, and a B.A. in economics from Stanford University in 2013. Prior to joining the University of Arizona, she was an assistant professor in the political science department at the University of Pittsburgh from 2018 to 2024. She received her M.A.

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JANUARY 24, 2020

The 41-point gap between the percentage of students living in poverty in Claiborne and Hinds County isn’t just one of the largest in the state, it’s the fourth widest in the country, according to an update of a 2016 report from the nonprofit EdBuild released this week that highlights economic segregation.

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JULY 12, 2021

Scholars are trying to understand why more rural students don’t pursue studies that could lead to well-paying careers for themselves and a more productive economic future for their communities. Many small towns started as market towns or as small manufacturing towns in the industrial era and are now economically struggling.

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JANUARY 20, 2020

A 2016 Israel study found that high rates of pollution on the day of an exam tamped down high school test scores. Sefi Roth, an economist at the London School of Economics, is an author of both studies. An earlier draft version was circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in 2018.) Environmental Protection Agency.

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OCTOBER 8, 2018

Red states are where the annual issuance of new high school equivalency diplomas has fallen by more than 50 percent between 2012 and 2016. Specifically, the annual number of test takers who completed one of the three exams has fallen more than 45 percent from more than 570,000 in 2012 to roughly 310,000 in 2016. Data source: Thomas J.

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The location students identified had to be strategically located for equitable access, accounting for the needs of community members most limited by transportation and low economic support. During this lesson, students identified a bridge as a barrier in Lawrence that restricted convenient access to healthy and affordable foods.

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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. That, too, is likely to accelerate. “To Related: Online higher education isn’t winning over students forced off campus by the coronavirus.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2021

A 2016 study by the Stanford Graduate School of Education found that significant numbers of middle schoolers, high schoolers and college students could not adequately judge the credibility of online information. Related: Can we teach our way out of political polarization? It touches everything. It touches every subject,” West said.

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OCTOBER 4, 2021

Beginning in 2016, a team of education researchers, vision specialists and philanthropists sought to rectify this problem in Baltimore, one of the poorest U.S. Scheduling eye exams, ordering glasses and dealing with insurance are big impediments for many low-income families. That leaves some 12 to 15 percent of U.S.

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MAY 9, 2019

“If we’re not creating mechanisms where families trying to get ahead can do it, we’re limiting economic growth for ourselves as a country.”. million children living in poverty in 2016, 82 percent lived with parents who held a high school credential or less , according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

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DECEMBER 2, 2021

million college students who were parents of children under the age of 18 in 2016 (the most recent year for which national data is available), 2.7 Third, pay inequity and student loan debt hinder women’s economic mobility. million were mothers, including 1.7 million single mothers, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research reports.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

Taking advantage of the event’s popularity, organizers of the Bayou Classic teamed up with Louisiana-based NexusLA, an economic development organization, to host a pitch competition between teams of tech-savvy college entrepreneurs. workforce in all industries since 2001.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

Buckley’s opinion carries special weight because he helped lead the 2016 redesign of the SAT. In 2016, the free response essay was revamped into a written analysis of a text, akin to a college assignment, and made optional. The College Board charges only $16 more for the optional essay portion.

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JULY 16, 2019

Source: The Census Bureau’s 2016 Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs. In the 2016-17 academic year, STEM and business-related fields comprised 31 percent of degrees at Alabama’s HBCUs, according to my analysis of data from the national dataset, the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. Source: IPEDS 2016-17.

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MAY 29, 2020

Among college students who graduated between 2010 and 2016, 61 percent visited their institutions’ career services office as students, the highest percentage in any decade since as far back as the 1940s, according to Gallup , a research and analytics company. Related: What if we hired for skills, not degrees?

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JUNE 5, 2020

Since 2016, Digital Promise’s 360° Story Lab has supported people in using emerging and interactive technologies to create media that goes beyond the frame of traditional media and journalism. We drove a mile across Troost Avenue in Kansas City to demonstrate income inequality and the difference a mile can make.”.

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APRIL 18, 2023

That’s taken a dramatic toll on colleges and universities, with severe consequences for society and economic growth — a situation now also being faced by the United States, where the number of 18-year-olds has begun to drop in some states and soon will fall nationwide. And rather than going up, as it has in Japan, the ratio of U.S.

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MARCH 29, 2018

billion as of 2016 through a complicated financial instrument called an interest-rate swap. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum that focuses on economic policy. In fact, interest rates were dragged down by the economic recession, costing Michigan State alone $130.2 Endowment returns were 12.2 You make how much?’”

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JULY 5, 2021

The study, “ The Dynamics Of Inattention In The (Baseball) Field ,” is a draft paper circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in June 2021. “Even short rest periods can replenish attention budgets,” the economists concluded. It has not been published in a peer-reviewed journal and may still be revised.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2020

That works out to somewhere between 8,700 and 10,900 new Vermonters, the local economics firm EPR projects. Remote work generally doesn’t pollute or bring the other risks of more conventional economic growth, Bradbury said in a conference room at the coworking hub. . $246,000. Syracuse, N.Y.

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APRIL 27, 2023

This support, through a program set up to promote rural economic development and from the federal agency that works the most with rural places, underscores how important local universities and colleges are to those communities — and the vulnerability of a growing number of them. The USDA loaned Iowa Wesleyan $26.4 Dordt has an estimated $43.4

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

This screenshot from the Opportunity Explorer shows test score growth for students at each school from 2009 to 2016. There are big gaps in both test scores and rates of learning between white and black students in Atlanta, a city where there is a high level of racial and economic segregation of schools.

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OCTOBER 29, 2019

In addition to its reputation as an international powerhouse in the field of economics and a home to multiple Nobel Laureates, the school has grounds that are designated as an official botanic garden. The University of Chicago moved its economics department into the former home of the Chicago Theological Seminary. Weekly Update.

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JANUARY 30, 2023

Former California superintendent of the year Devin Vodicka has argued , convincingly, that any test score declines were a result of the emotional and economic hardship the pandemic caused students, not the change in learning mode.

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APRIL 10, 2018

We know Head Start in rural communities is really important for promoting both healthy child development and family economic security.” . It’s important that children have access to safe and quality childcare while their parents are working,” Schochet said. “We Related: We know how to provide good childcare, we just don’t insist on it .

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APRIL 12, 2021

The proportion of bachelor’s degrees in science awarded to Black graduates remained flat at about 9 percent from 2001 to 2016 , according to the most recent available figures from the National Science Foundation; in engineering, it declined from 5 percent to 4 percent; and in math, it dropped from 7 percent to 4 percent.

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JANUARY 23, 2025

Even with increased interactions through evangelizing, there have been growing anti-Chinese sentiments in Zambia in recent years, often based in economic inequalities between the countries. September 2016. In this dimension, the interactions are not as straightforward as mere economic or political engagements.

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JANUARY 15, 2018

How this all shakes out, and whether spending inequality is widening or narrowing during the economic recovery, will be known later this year when the NCES releases its annual report on school district finances. And state income tax revenues sharply rebounded with the economic recovery.

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MARCH 2, 2023

In response to rising numbers of homeless youth here, state legislators passed a bill in 2016 that freed up money to enable schools to identify more students as homeless and get them into stable housing — even if they aren’t viewed as homeless by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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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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DECEMBER 27, 2024

Credit: Photo by Donna Schill (2016) Woman chopping wood for cooking fuel, Udaipur district, Rajasthan The dictionary meaning of drudgery, dating back to the 1500s refers to dull, irksome, and fatiguing work; uninspiring or menial labor. Moreover, key questions go unanswered: How, if at all, are particular forms of work valued, and by whom?

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