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MARCH 1, 2019

With 20 percent of its 400-plus students diagnosed with a learning disability and about half of its kids coming from families in economic need, McCourt nonetheless outperforms citywide averages on state-mandated Regents exams, graduation rates and postsecondary enrollment. This may be a missed opportunity. The school is thriving.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

Related: Economics, culture and distance conspire to keep rural nonwhites from higher educations. Students at the Luis Valdez Leadership Academy, a charter school on San Jose’s low-income east side. That’s twice the proportion of students whose parents have bachelor’s degrees. “The scope of this problem is huge.”

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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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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 12, 2016

On September 21-23, 2016, Digital Promise and the U.S. Department of Education hosted the 2016 Education Innovation Clusters Convening (#EdClusters16) in Providence, R.I., Sean Duffy (@dearmrduffy) September 23, 2016. rdaley0001 (@rdaley98) September 22, 2016. Joseph South (@southjoseph) September 22, 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In 2016 Weissbourd was the lead-author on a report calling on colleges to broaden their definition of community service. For students from low-income families, graduating from college is an important way to climb the economic ladder. Five years ago, the buzzwords were “well-rounded” and “leadership.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

Chicago-based Parker Dewey, which launched in 2016, facilitates short-term contract projects, such as blogging, social media or data cleanup, that typically are done remotely, require 10 to 40 hours of work total and pay $20 to $25 per hour. About a quarter of interns receive offers to extend or get hired full time, Holroyd Pearce said.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Of the district’s nearly 91,000 students, 69 percent were considered economically disadvantaged during the 2016-17 school year. In 2016, the Obama administration highlighted it with a report that it called “an unprecedented look at a hidden educational crisis.”. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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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. Other local companies and colleges have invested, too.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2020

Kimberly Dixon, left, director of employer engagement and diversity recruitment at Stony Brook University, speaks with Djamilie Jules and other students in the Diversity Professional Leadership Network on campus. Our goal is to be accessible to students from across the economic spectrum.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2019

In 2016, Rabalais, a well-connected, self-described charter school proponent, had learned that the Gentilly Terrace Elementary School would be closing its doors at the end of the school year — making the campus a blank canvas for a new kind of school. The charter school that was closing was 98 percent black. But there was a big problem.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

Education Department civil rights data, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater professor Scott Peters found that on a state level “equity got worse” in gifted education from 2016 to 2018, with underrepresentation of Hispanic children in a majority of states and of Black students in three-quarters of states, he wrote in an email.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

With people of color expected to make up a quarter of the state’s population by 2035, these gaps represent an economic threat to Minnesota; unless more residents get to and through college, there won’t be enough qualified workers to fill the jobs that require a post-secondary degree or certificate. Will jobs go begging?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

But the neighborhood just to the north, Hancock Park, is 71 percent white, with a median income of $85,000; the student body, meanwhile, is 79 percent Latino, 12 percent African-American, 7 percent Asian, and 64 percent “economically disadvantaged,” drawn from Koreatown, Mid-City, and neighborhoods farther afield. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Much of the advocacy for net-zero buildings has focused on environmental and economic incentives. Supporting these efforts, the Department of Energy published a how-to report on building net-zero K-12 schools in 2016 and created a “Zero-Energy Schools Accelerator” program to give districts technical guidance.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2016

But in short order, a whirlwind of leadership turnover — four superintendents in four years — led the partnership to a very public impasse that pitted the school district against its fundraising partner, the alliance. “We You are prone to the priorities of leadership when you are in service to a district.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

As the Quintillion fiber project was underway in 2016 and 2017, Alaska was already making strides in connecting tens of thousands more students through existing microwave, satellite and fiber networks (though the pre-existing fiber is concentrated in central and southeastern Alaska). Bill Walker pledged to partner with EducationSuperHighway.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Research shows that black teachers are more likely to stay at schools that provide the kind of steady leadership and mentoring that Albert had at Wilson, with Green’s deliberate placements and James’ steady mentoring. At Bricolage, there are more white students than black students, 51 percent to 37 percent, according to 2016-17 demographics.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2019

If that employment picture doesn’t change soon, some experts say, it could hamper economic growth. This close relationship with county leadership gives schools a direct connection with local businesses, allowing them to be nimble and responsive to employers’ needs. percent of electricians are male.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 15, 2024

Making Education More Equitable Universal pre-K can give families their economic footing. In the long term, better access to education means increased economic opportunities for families and a more equitable society. 2016, January 6). The benefits of universal quality education reach everyone. References Barnett, W.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2017

On the social side, younger children look for guidance to older students who know the ropes, while the older students in the classroom organically learn about mentoring, leadership and collaboration. Multiage education, say its proponents, puts learners at the center, socially and academically.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

As soon as I, a Jakarta-born ethnographer, experienced my first summer in Munich in 2016, I was surprised by the German habit of “naturally” airing rooms ( lüften ), in which the locals open and close windows or doors regularly, cutting a path for currents of fresh, cool air ( Durchzug ) to make its way from one inlet to an outlet.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2020

In fact, academic institutions accounted for only 6,639 of the 304,126 patents granted in 2016, the last year for which the figure is available, or 2 percent of the total , according to the National Science Board, which described patenting by academic inventors as being “relatively limited.”.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

At first, some Shuar people were hopeful about the economic opportunities promised to them. Since then, most of the promises that investors and government leaders made have soured; very little economic growth is visible among Shuar communities. A cloud of discord divided the communities affected by or dependent on mining.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

For example, more than a third of Black students enrolled at community colleges experience poverty, as do 28 percent of Latino students and 18 percent of white students, according to a recent report from the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. Yet, he adds, “something like that is supplemental.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2018

Encouraging blacks and Hispanics, both growing populations, to pursue STEM careers is both an equity issue and crucial for the economy, according to Rodney Andrews, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Texas at Dallas. Gilazgi only wishes the Science Leadership Scholarship program could expand.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2020

Lambro, a white man who has been at Trinity since 2016, says efforts to diversify, driven by a belief in a global Christian faith, have been earnest. acronym to describe the populations least likely to show up in Christian schools: academically disenfranchised, culturally diverse, and/or economically disadvantaged.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2017

The successes of the recent movies Girls Trip and Hidden Figures and the economic and cultural power of the Essence Music Festival are testaments to the power of black women. The pace of their educational gains, the political leadership and styling of the women behind the Women’s March and Rep.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

Domingo Morel, New York University professor and author of a book on state takeovers By 2018, four of Houston’s 274 schools, all of them in the city’s economically distressed north and east sides, hadn’t met the standards for four years running, putting the district at risk of a takeover. HISD leadership is a disaster….

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Teacher pay continues to lag behind the pay of other college-educated workers, according to a 2016 report published by the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank. It was developed in 2005, by DCTA leadership, in collaboration with the school district. percent lower in 1994.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

They ran into an economic wall that has hit communities of color the hardest, but which has also blocked many residents of this 98 percent white county. Its number of residents has dropped every year since then, decreasing 30 percent by 2016. Under Roark’s leadership, Leslie County High School has made a remarkable turnaround.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

That dramatic transformation took four years of summer learning academies, college-preparation programs, scholarship coaching, and leadership workshops, all provided by area nonprofits, plus a 3.8 grade-point average and enough financial aid to cover all of her tuition for at least her first year.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2017

That dramatic transformation took four years of summer learning academies, college-preparation programs, scholarship coaching, and leadership workshops, all provided by area nonprofits, plus a 3.8 grade-point average and enough financial aid to cover all of her tuition for at least her first year.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Detroit made front page news in 2016 when the teachers walked out to draw attention to the dilapidated condition of some of the schools. Some iterations of President Joe Biden’s economic plan have included the Reopen and Rebuild America’s Schools Act, which would dole out $130 billion to repair schools over the next decade.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2020

We need leadership on this issue — yesterday. I know that Joe Biden committed himself to appointing a former teacher to the education role, but a prime candidate will know just as much about the economics of the districts in which classrooms are situated as what occurs in the classrooms themselves.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

The dominance of white leadership sends a message that only whites can save black and brown people from abysmal traditional public education (which, too, is typically led and operated by whites). Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

Her leadership will matter because she’ll elevate it in conversations. Her leadership will matter because she’ll elevate it in conversations,” Perry said. And yet, the kitchen table economics of the new American reality make less sense than ever. For the working class and those living in poverty, the economics are even tougher.

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