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Around the country, Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters) are working to address one of education’s pressing challenges – the deep inequity that persists in learning, opportunities, and leadership. You can learn more about this work at the upcoming 2017 Education Innovation Clusters Convening.

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MARCH 30, 2020

Our mass foray into homeschooling shows exactly how valuable school workers and public education are to an economy, and yet how unappreciated. percent less than other workers with comparable education and experience, according to the nonprofit think tank the Economic Policy Institute. Teachers earned 11.1 Teachers earned 11.1

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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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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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language education was published in 2017, with data from less than half of the country’s K-12 schools. While our understanding of language education is incomplete, we know that most K-12 students in American public schools do not have the opportunity to study an additional language to proficiency. Of the small portion of the U.S.

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JULY 21, 2022

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! Many of [my students], being rural, spend a lot of their free time outdoors,” she said.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

Historically, career and technical education (CTE) was seen as a dumping ground for students who weren’t considered college material. A two-tier educational system tracked predominantly low-income students and students of color into career and technical classes, then known as vocational education. Perkins Act.

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JULY 12, 2021

Map: National Center for Education Statistics, Status of Education in Rural America, Exhibit C. 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. According to the U.S.

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JANUARY 24, 2020

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Mississippi Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Monday with trends and top stories about education in Mississippi. Higher Education. A partial explanation: The 2016 report didn’t include districts classified by the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

That was just when the state was in the midst of seven straight years of cutting its budget for higher education during and after the recession, or at best keeping spending level. Whether in response to the students’ arguments or not, the state did, in fact, raise spending for higher education for the coming 2016-2017 year, by 2.5

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

This week marks National Arts in Education Week , a time for us to highlight the transformative power of the arts in education. Arts education for all students is fundamental to a well-rounded education. No matter the path, arts education provides a way to creative careers of the future.

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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 19, 2018

education levels by the second generation — the first generation of children to be born in this country. The key appears to be education because higher educational attainment is associated with economic success, social status, better health, family stability, and life opportunities. years of education.).

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JANUARY 20, 2020

Hotter classroom temperatures and polluted air are affecting children’s brains at school, according to a new body of education research. (AP Education researchers have traditionally focused on the obvious ingredients of teaching and learning, such as instruction, curriculum, student motivation and school funding. Weekly Update.

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JANUARY 21, 2019

National Center for Education Statistics blog, December 2018. According to the government’s report, education spending rose for the third straight year in 2015-16 to $11,841 per student in kindergarten through 12th grades. A small upswing in education spending first began in 2013-14 after cuts of $600 per student.

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As a math educator at the high school and middle school levels, I lived for the moments when students’ furrowed brows ever-so-slightly began to unfold and smiles emerged. Those “aha” moments were often accompanied with a gleeful, “I get it!” The brain makes sense of the world, and mathematics, through culture.

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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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MAY 27, 2020

The course is part of the public university’s African and African Diaspora Studies master’s program, whose previous graduates have gone on to get doctorates or jobs in public policy, diplomacy, law, criminal justice, education, public health and journalism. Ohio has reduced its funding for higher education by $110 million.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Peter Adams, senior vice president of education, News Literacy Project. As conspiracy theories spread across social media and misleading news stories are shared in internet echo chambers, educators across the country – and the world – are trying to battle misinformation by teaching students to be better consumers of news, media and data.

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APRIL 18, 2023

It’s projected to further decline to 880,000 by 2040, according to the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. Formerly part of the Nakajima Aircraft Company, the building houses classrooms and the Institute for Educational Research and Service. million now. million now.

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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. A big debate among education experts is whether to bring more services, from psychotherapy to dental care, to low-income schools. school children with blurry vision.

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MAY 9, 2019

percent of federal child care assistance dollars go to families who were either working and pursuing education or training (7 percent) or solely pursuing education or training (6 percent), according to the report. Research has shown that better educated parents have better educated children. Nationally, just 13.2

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APRIL 2, 2019

This story is a part of our Map to the Middle Class project, where readers ask questions about educational pathways to financial stability and then we investigate. If that employment picture doesn’t change soon, some experts say, it could hamper economic growth. John O’Boyle for The Hechinger Report. and how are they funded?

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APRIL 27, 2023

This story also appeared in The Washington Post It wasn’t the Department of Education that made the loan, or the Treasury or Interior departments, or any of the many government departments that support academic research. The decline of rural higher education is also widening one of America’s biggest equity challenges.

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MAY 29, 2020

Katie Smith, associate professor of higher education, Seton Hall University. “As As college costs have grown over time, we see more and more students and families concerned about how college will pay off,” said Smith, now an associate professor of higher education at Seton Hall University in New Jersey. “We

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DECEMBER 2, 2021

As attention now shifts to understanding men’s declining enrollment, policymakers, legislators and higher education administrators must address three specific challenges that discourage women from applying to college, compel them to leave once they’ve started or prevent them from reaping the full benefits of their degrees.

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JANUARY 30, 2023

This measured dip in performance, according to the stories, can be attributed to the attention-grabbing phenomenon called “learning loss,” a post-pandemic term that has become common parlance in educational circles. A 2021 study showed that the pandemic disproportionately impacted Black students, prompting a heightened distrust of education.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Since Covid-19 scattered people from their offices, this trend appears to be speeding up dramatically, with more young, well-paid and well-educated people relocating permanently from big metropolitan areas such as Seattle, San Francisco, Boston and New York to Burlington, population just under 43,000, and other small cities across the country. “If

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JANUARY 25, 2021

Buckley’s opinion carries special weight because he helped lead the 2016 redesign of the SAT. He was also the commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics in the Department of Education for three years during the Obama Administration. The College Board charges only $16 more for the optional essay portion.

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JULY 16, 2019

If the number of black-owned firms in Birmingham was proportionate to the percentage of college-educated residents who are black, 830 more businesses in the city would be black-owned. Underrepresentation Based on Education. Source: The Census Bureau’s 2016 Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs. Source: IPEDS 2016-17.

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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. Related: HBCUs are leading centers of education — why are they treated as second-class citizens?

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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. Spence’s campaign underscores how glaringly little the higher education industry itself has done to confront the crisis of confidence that is eating away at its business. Air Force. Louis estimates.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Vermont, for instance, has the greatest number of higher education institutions per capita of any state, according to the Vermont Higher Education Council. Higher education in the United States is a $364 billion-a-year industry , according to the U.S. Department of Education, with nearly 4 million employees.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

As the coronavirus pandemic hit the United States in March 2020, many warned that it would increase educational gaps between the haves and the have-nots. Related: How the last recession affected higher education. Now the proof is starting to come in. Will history repeat? Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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JANUARY 15, 2018

A majority of recessionary budget cuts to education have been restored. National Center for Education Statistics, National Spending for Public Schools Increases for Second Consecutive Year in School Year 2014-15. Last week, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), an arm of the U.S. See adjacent graph.).

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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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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. Higher Education.

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