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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. Students at four-year institutions are more likely to be traditional age, between 18 and 24.

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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: Support for charters in 2020 election comes with a price. workforce in all industries since 2001.

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Digital Promise

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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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

While I was in Rajasthan, studying Indias traditional mud stove ( chulha in Hindi), women who use it, and those looking to improve it, I started a conversation about my research with a kitchen goods retailer in a small-town market. He nodded cheerfully and assured me, All women are free in India; you can talk with them freely.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

studied civics in the fall of 2016, they began by exploring a nearby park in Pontiac. “This study shows that a well-designed project-based curriculum might be more effective than traditional instruction.” Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. When a classroom of second graders in Waterford, Mich.,

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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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

It’s where districts and schools decide to spend their money,” Worth, a veteran educator who has also taught in Greene County’s traditional public schools, explained. Many charters hire teachers who don’t belong to a teachers union or haven’t gone through a traditional teacher preparation program, for example.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The already converted policymakers, school leaders and teachers ready to transform traditional schooling came to this annual conference last week from around the world to share a common refrain: Out with the old. Photo: Austin Haeberle. NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Well, there is something of a movement, despite an array of challenges. Getty Images.

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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

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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Cory Koedel, an associate professor of economics and public policy at the University of Missouri. At the end of the day, it’s just this big item that needs to be paid,” said Cory Koedel, an associate professor of economics and public policy at the University of Missouri who studies public pensions. “If spends less.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2022

After the disruption of the pandemic, people in the field of education are more open to rethinking traditional ways of doing business in order to better serve students. If we’re going to help our young people get to economic mobility, a great job in a career pathway has got to be a part of that,” Swinburn said. Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

According to the 2016 World Economic Forum report, “ The Future of Jobs ,” a majority of employers say creativity is one of the most valued qualities they seek in their employees, along with critical-thinking skills and the ability to solve complex problems.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2021

For China, the move is a departure from its centuries-old tradition of favoring literature and the liberal arts. Wu Yan, head of China’s Higher Education Department, says, “MOOCs are critical to reform China’s traditional cramming teaching model. In 2016, MOOCs claimed more than 10 million enrollments in the country.

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The Hechinger Report

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

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

My fear is that students, and particularly low-income, first-generation students, will end up paying more for their educations than they would have if they’d taken out traditional loans,” said Mark Becker, president of Georgia State University. Traditional loans are a scam,” he added. “I Photo: AJ Mast for The Hechinger Report. “My

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

In 2021, the proportion of high school graduates going directly to college fell to 62 percent from a high of 70 percent in 2016, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Even before the FAFSA fiasco, that’s been happening. At the same time, costs have more than doubled in the last 40 years, even when adjusted for inflation.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

But traditional internships are not universally accessible. “At Not everybody is a traditional 18- to 22-year-old student,” Churches said. At any college now, the first thing the parents ask is, ‘How are the internships?’ ” Anthony Carnevale, director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, said.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

But the community began to suffer economically after several major employers, including what was once the largest olive processer in the world, shut down in the early 1990s. to learn how to make the shift from traditional time-based systems … towards one that is truly organized around the learner.”.

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The Hechinger Report

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 Economically, he sees the vast promise of a bilingual workforce.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

That’s the “doomsday scenario” Vermont is trying to avoid through programs like Randolph Union’s, says Joan Goldstein, the state’s commissioner of economic development. In Vermont in 2013 18 percent of economically disadvantaged students dropped out of high school compared to only 3.5 It recognized that learning can occur anywhere.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

It is just one of a slate of waivers approved by lawmakers, including class size, teacher preparation time, hiring and firing rules, and others, allowing traditional public schools to operate with the same educational requirements as their area charter schools. In 2013, 7,758 were enrolled, and in 2016 that number fell to 3,944.

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The Hechinger Report

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

APRIL 18, 2018

Still others are stymied by academic calendars that continue to favor the traditional 18- to 22-year-old, even though such students are no longer the norm. In 2016, 47 percent of Americans held a certificate or better, according to the Lumina Foundation, which tracks this. Then there are the barriers colleges put up.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

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. Students with weaker academic preparation might be more likely to fail classes and drop out of college. Related: Federal data shows 3.9

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The Hechinger Report

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

JULY 17, 2017

Beginning with the class of 2020, all Chicago Public School students who meet traditional academic requirements necessary to graduate must also present a post-graduation plan before they can cross the stage to receive their diploma. The adage, “To whom much is given, much is expected,” can’t just apply to high school graduates.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

So in 2016 she headed back to the 42-acre campus near Gary’s dilapidated downtown to study for a degree in general studies. “I Between 1996 and 2016, their share of overall college enrollment rose from 8 to 19 percent , according to the U.S. I have two little ones and their dads don’t help me,” said Perez, 45. Census Bureau.

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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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2017

For the 2016-17 school year, the waiting list for D.C. More than 4,000 preschoolers were on waiting lists in traditional and charter schools. More than 5,900 in pre-K attend traditional public schools, and about 600 attend pre-K in community-based child care centers, according to city data confirmed by the D.C.

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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

JULY 8, 2022

Any shift in the workforce to the advantage of workers without degrees carries obvious implications for economic mobility and equity. Hamadi had withdrawn from Penn State University in 2016 for financial reasons and taken a minimum wage retail job back home in Montgomery County, Maryland.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

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. Photo: Nicole Lewis.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Partnerships Manager Khavin Debbs has been with the organization since 2016 and immediately noticed the preschool served a homogenous demographic — mostly white boys — even when operating classes in more diverse areas of the city. “I The school also prioritizes economic equity. Credit: Adria Malcolm for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

The NAEP scores showed stellar gains within the traditional public school system. based research organization, is planning to calculate “demographically adjusted” scores for each state later Tuesday, showing how each state would stack up if it educated a similar mix of students with the same racial and economic backgrounds.

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