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The increase in umpire errors buttresses the idea that humans have only so much attention span that can be depleted after a period of intense effort or concentration. The good news, according to this study, is that humans can quickly reset their attention spans.

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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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APRIL 10, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: In Mississippi, with its disproportionately large rural population, Head Start centers have a deep impact on children and families, according to Nita Norphlet-Thompson, the executive director for the Mississippi Head Start Association. “In

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

In 2016, 75 percent of its ELL students graduated, a rate 14 percentage points higher than the district’s average for this group and higher even than the overall graduation rate for BPS. And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5 But not at the Muñiz Academy.

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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. Choose from our newsletters.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

More than 50 percent are economically disadvantaged. Every child deserves a high-quality education that recognizes and respects his or her dignity and humanity, and that relishes in the stories of school and community. Related: After a hate crime, a town welcomes immigrants into its schools.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

Meanwhile, they were more likely to enroll in courses in hospitality and, in the case of Black students in particular, human services. This year, enrollment in its engineering courses was 44 percent Black and 44 percent white, compared with 31 percent Black and 63 percent white in 2016.

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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 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. I need a break.’ ”.

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APRIL 30, 2017

Black primary-school students who are matched to a same-race teacher performed better on standardized tests and face more favorable teacher perceptions according to recent findings from the German economic research group Institute of Labor Economics. Is it because black teachers are better educators?

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AUGUST 27, 2018

studied civics in the fall of 2016, they began by exploring a nearby park in Pontiac. They created multicolored posters to explain what different departments of local government do, from sanitation to human resources. When a classroom of second graders in Waterford, Mich., The curriculum development was the subject of a 2012 paper.)

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JULY 8, 2022

jobs like registered nurse, human resources assistant, or help desk technician.) Any shift in the workforce to the advantage of workers without degrees carries obvious implications for economic mobility and equity. in, say, the humanities might get workers off to a slow start. The American B.A. In other words, a B.A.

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JULY 15, 2018

In San Antonio, the CAST schools are also one prong of a larger effort by a local school district to promote integration in one of the most economically segregated cities in the country. One year in, that approach to economic integration, dubbed “diversity by design,” is working. million donation from H-E-B in 2016.

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AUGUST 19, 2019

In 2016, 12 percent of black children across the nation received services at school for disabilities ranging from emotional disturbances to physical disabilities to intellectual impairment. Most recently in 2016, the Obama administration revamped these rules to make them more uniform across states. Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Gallot graduated from Grambling in 1987 and leveraged his HBCU degrees (Juris Doctorate from Southern University in 1990) to become a state representative for the area in 2000 and state senator in 2012 before being installed as the tenth president of GSU in 2016. About half the nation’s HBCUs reside in majority-black cities. Weekly Update.

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JUNE 24, 2018

Josiah Taft, 4, played at the water table in his public preschool classroom at P.S. 3 in Brooklyn in 2016. Department of Health and Human Services deems “affordable.” Leave this field empty if you're human: “This whole notion of a targeted program is a really American thing,” Cascio said. Sign up for our newsletter.

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MAY 2, 2018

The other program, the Honors College, has existed for decades; in 2016 it retooled its admissions strategy to attract students with a wider range of academic interests. Saied Beckford, an 18-year-old majoring in economics and computer science, lives on the seventh floor of a residence hall that houses many HLLC students.

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AUGUST 29, 2017

We needed to do a better job getting the word out,” said Van Ton-Quinlivan, the system’s vice chancellor for workforce and economic development. Skilled trades show among the highest potential among job categories, the economic-modeling company Emsi calculates. It’s the relationship that industry has with the community.

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APRIL 18, 2018

In 2016, 47 percent of Americans held a certificate or better, according to the Lumina Foundation, which tracks this. Leave this field empty if you're human: The state also sent posters to local job-training centers and college access groups. But as those deadlines approach, most states are struggling to meet their goals.

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JANUARY 21, 2019

Adjusting for inflation, that’s the equivalent of $11,699 per student in 2016 dollars. Leave this field empty if you're human: These national numbers are just averages. It’s unclear if the recent increases in school funding during the economic recovery will necessarily lead to gains in student achievement again.

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

In contrast, Onalaska’s population rose from 731 residents in 2012 to 772 residents in 2016, according to U.S. In a home economics classroom, she runs through how to file taxes, balance a budget and apply for college. He points to an empty field; students will eventually build a human sundial there. Kinsman graduated in 2016.

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JUNE 11, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Delgado Community College in New Orleans, Louisiana, began construction on a new campus in the city’s West Bank community of Federal City in May. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: But another way to think about educational inequality is to analyze how students fare at the same institution. 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.

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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. Just since 2016, the proportion of rural students who enroll in college has dropped even more. They have an economic impact. Jon: Right, Kirk.

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JUNE 4, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: But after years working seasonal jobs sorting equipment at the local Ford plant and dealing blackjack at nearby casinos, Perez wanted to rise to a management position — and she couldn’t without a bachelor’s degree. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. Census Bureau.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Not everyone who enrolls in college will leave with a certificate or degree, but the number of people who drop out or take a break is much higher than experts previously believed. Economic motivation is a factor,” Ryu said. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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APRIL 23, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: The Center for American Progress report found that 66 percent of children enrolled in Head Start in Mississippi live in rural areas, where 55 percent of Head Start child care centers are located. Sign up for our Mississippi Learning newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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JULY 29, 2018

The real angst of my economically fortunate friends pales in comparison to the financial challenges and difficult choices faced by parents who don’t have much discretionary income but need out-of-home care for a young child. Grover (Russ) Whitehurst is a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution. Weekly Update.

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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.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Besides the 26 percent of Alamosa students who are already chronically absent, Burnett’s data show that another 27 percent are considered at risk of becoming so. Of the district’s nearly 91,000 students, 69 percent were considered economically disadvantaged during the 2016-17 school year.

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MARCH 29, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Nearly half of first-generation students who did continue went to community colleges, which spend less per student than many public primary and secondary schools , and where the odds of ever graduating are also comparatively low. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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DECEMBER 18, 2017

Human beings who understand the discipline should be the ones doing that teaching.”. Human beings who understand the discipline should be the ones doing that teaching.” Leave this field empty if you're human: Eastern Washington combines the edX courses with in-person faculty support. Related: How to save the humanities?

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JANUARY 27, 2019

Educators and policymakers started raising alarms about low levels of college-going among people in places like this after frustration from rural Americans over limited opportunities and incomes spilled over into national politics in 2016. Related: Economics, culture and distance conspire to keep rural nonwhites from higher educations.

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John Jones asks a question to his students in AP Human Geography on August 18, 2016. This economic divide was mirrored in the school system. The current desegregation order, issued in March 2016, mandated a Biracial Advisory Committee to oversee implementation of the desegregation plan. Photo: Nicole Lewis.

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JUNE 18, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Vermont has one of the oldest populations in the United States and, the Vermont State Data Center reports, is now tied with Connecticut for the lowest birth rate in the nation. In Vermont in 2013 18 percent of economically disadvantaged students dropped out of high school compared to only 3.5

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AUGUST 9, 2018

The 15 universities and colleges nationwide that responded to the expansion of legalized gambling by rushing to add programs in casino management, for instance, produced all of 34 graduates in 2016, or about two graduates per program, an analysis by the education consulting firm Eduventures found. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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JUNE 17, 2018

In 2016, California had 33 racially identifiable white charters, Texas was home to 19 and Michigan, 14. In 2016, Cobb worked to push Lake Oconee to agree to accept a more equitable manner of determining funding for the charter school.) Leave this field empty if you're human: By June of 2005, Jackson had left the district.

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