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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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The Hechinger Report

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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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In addition, colonial economics created food shortages in Banda and across West Africa. As Logan wrote in a 2016 American Anthropologist article , “chronic food insecurity is a condition that was made rather than a condition that has always been.” Outside forces uprooted that security.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Beyond its economic role, the tualang holds profound cultural and spiritual significance for many indigenous groups. Source: Land Use Policy, 2016. Diverse Values of Nature and the IPBES Conceptual Framework Examines the incorporation of diverse cultural, spiritual, and economic values of nature within the IPBES framework.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Cloud State University in Minnesota is cutting 42 degree programs , for example, including criminal justice, gerontology, history, electrical and environmental engineering, economics and physics. Fifty-five percent enroll right after high school , down from 61 percent in 2016 , according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Not long after Cortez Moss accepted the job as principal of Quitman County Middle School in 2016, he realized that his first months would be devoted nearly entirely to teacher recruitment. A Delta district is 114 times more likely to have a shortage than a non-Delta district, according to recent study in the 2017 Mississippi Economic Review.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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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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A Psychology Teacher Writes

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

This might play out differently dependent on the level of experience and expertise of each individual teacher: More novice teachers may lack awareness because they literally don’t see things in their classrooms that more expert teachers do (Wolff et al, 2016) and/or because they lack the mental models to analyse and interpret what is happening.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

Since the fall of 2016, the communications department at Dominguez Hills has banned smartphones, laptops and other personal technology in every classroom — with grade deductions for violations — except for teacher-guided use and “tech breaks” during longer classes such as Eames’s. My guess is it will go to 5 hours plus.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have linked health inequalities to non-biological factors—the so-called social determinates of health —including health care, education, economic stability, and environmental exposures.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2016

The number of Chinese students on F-1 visas in public K-12 rose from six students in 2006 to 1,008 students in 2016, according to the Student Exchange Visitor Program, a unit of the Department of Homeland Security. The number of Taiwanese students attending public K-12 schools on an F-1 visa rose from just four in 2006 to 29 in 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The combination of the three — the health pandemic, the economic recession and racial unrest — influenced many individual decisions about whether to take summer college courses. The virus itself hit Americans unevenly, as did unemployment when the economy shut down.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The proportion of high school graduates going directly to college has fallen from a high of 70 percent in 2016 to 62 percent in 2021. Building a common voice that could reverse the negative trend of confidence in higher education is critical not only for the well-being of the institutions, but also the well-being of the nation economically.”

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