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. Four months later, Serena gave birth to her first child.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

It is especially abhorrent that a government program intended to create equitable opportunities for all students instead perpetuates racial and economic gaps in financial stability and mobility. The vast majority of those who default on student loans have faced persistent economic and social vulnerability.

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Political Science Now

JULY 23, 2024

She received a PhD in Government from Harvard University in 2017 and a BA in Political Science and Economics from Texas A&M University. Soledad Artiz Prillaman is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and the Faculty Director of the Inclusive Democracy and Development Lab.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Previous researchers conducted a similar analysis in 2017 with whole school districts instead of individual schools. “Growing at this rate allows most students to catch up to grade level during their time in school,” concluded the report , which was released in September 2024.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2024

This is in addition to the drop of more than 90,000 (42 percent) licensed family child care homes between 2005 and 2017. Black early educators have made tremendous sacrifices to help hold up this country’s economic recovery. Yet, there were 10,000 fewer family child care programs in the United States in 2022 than in 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2024

But the state of Texas, which accounts for 10 percent of high schoolers who are taking these college classes, was investing $120 million annually as recently as 2017, according to one estimate. Exactly how much all of this is costing the nation isn’t known. Are we subsidizing students who were always going to go to college anyway?”

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2023

language education was published in 2017, with data from less than half of the country’s K-12 schools. Without a national standard or requirement, foreign language enrollment and assessment varies widely by state, but Edweek reported in 2017 that one in five K-12 students in the U.S. Of the small portion of the U.S.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

The initiative hinges on the idea that guaranteed income will improve caregivers’ economic stability and, in turn, allow them and the families they serve to thrive. That’s the question driving the Thriving Providers Project, a pilot launched in Colorado and expanding to cities across the U.S.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2024

In a time when technological advancements shape our daily lives and drive economic growth, focusing on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education in K-12 schools is not just a trend but a necessity. Initiatives like the U.S. I was tasked with providing reading intervention services for at-risk K-8 students.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2022

A 2017 study by Harvard economist Raj Chetty found that many elite colleges, including the majority of the Ivy League, enroll more students from the top 1 percent than the bottom 60 percent. A draft was circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in March 2022.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 2, 2024

How a Small Town in a Red State Rallied Around Universal Preschool By Emily Tate Sullivan In 2017, kindergarten readiness rates in American Falls, a one-stoplight farming community in conservative Idaho, hit “rock bottom.” And if 10 isn’t enough, you can read all of our early childhood coverage here.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2022

United Nations Secretary General António Guterres has called investments in new fossil fuel infrastructure “moral and economic madness.”. The GAO reports that a whopping two-thirds of all students attend schools in areas that experienced a presidentially declared natural disaster between 2017 and 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

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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Strange Maps

JULY 2, 2024

A famous early example of Chernoff-faced cartography, establishing correspondences between race and three socio-economic factors in early-1970s Los Angeles. Here’s a more recent example, from 2017, dubbed The Emoji States of America. The recognizable contour of the map of the U.S. in Massachusetts (light) to 17.1% in Texas (dark).

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

Given current circumstances, Richard Vedder, an economics professor emeritus at Ohio University, has decided to teach his fall course, “Economic History of Europe,” for a salary of $1. Richard Vedder, an economics professor emeritus at Ohio University and national expert on higher education finances, began teaching at O.U.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2022

That’s why my district is reimagining high schools with a strong focus on helping students become leaders in their own learning and the learning of others — a pathway to future success and economic mobility. In Rich Township, our students are striving for continuous improvement and for ways to rebound from perceived failures.

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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. Iowa Wesleyan, for example, had an estimated $55.1

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2024

Until fairly recently, that decision made economic sense. If successful, the new college could bring economic growth to one of the poorest and least educated parts of the country and serve as a model for the thousands of other “educational deserts” scattered across America. Mining jobs were plentiful, and the money was good.

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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

MAY 8, 2023

The trend is especially acute for Black men, with about 138,000 fewer Black men enrolled in college last year than in 2017. Related: Bachelor’s degree dreams of community college students get stymied by red tape — and it’s getting worse Nationally, about 138,000 fewer Black men were enrolled in college last year compared to 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2022

The country’s next generation of leaders is pushing for racial equity, economic equality, disability justice and gender and sexual liberation; to succeed they will need the observational and analytical skills that can be developed by studying ideas, historical events, aesthetic works and cultural practices.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

It not only scuttled our trip, but both the pandemic and the economic fallout hit our majority minority students hard. Last April, as the coronavirus swept through the city, our students and their relatives, many of whom work front-line jobs, were especially vulnerable to the health and economic devastation befalling New York.

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Steven V. Miller

JANUARY 12, 2022

Economic Threats or Societal Turmoil? Peace Economics, Peace Science and #> Public Policy* 24(1). #> Economic Anxiety or Ethnocentrism? From 1992 to 2017.” *The For example, let’s assume I have a week where I’m just going to assign everything of mine that was published in 2017. #> #> Miller, Steven V.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

Educator who replied to Hechinger’s survey “We need to make sure kids understand that their decision to take or not take certain math classes will largely determine the economic opportunities that will be available to them,” she said. Ross never allowed her to give up and pushed her to apply for scholarships and attend college.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 1, 2024

She has also developed the following readers: Women in Politics, American Public Policy and the current Anthology, Social Justice Movements ©2017, Cognella Academic Publishing and the 2nd edition, Social Justice Movements ©2023. degrees in economics and political science from Cerritos College, and a B.A. in public policy and M.A.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2020

With $600 billion in assets as of 2017, the combined value of U.S. Using endowments to avert layoffs also could help spur a faster economic recovery. During the 2008 financial crisis, university layoffs contributed to broader public-sector job cuts that undermined federal efforts to stimulate economic recovery.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2020

If fewer international students enroll, the economic fallout will be severe. In the 2017-2018 school year, 34 percent of international students were from China. In the 2017-2018 school year, it had more international students than any other historically black college or university. Many come from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The race of the teacher didn’t affect the academic achievement of Black students in third through fifth grade across eight school years, from 2009-10 to 2017-18. But a large study of a million elementary school students and nearly 35,000 teachers in North Carolina found that Black teachers aren’t always better for Black students.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

But not enough people have taken advantage, despite the economic downturn and spike in unemployment. Emma García, Economic Policy Institute. Emma García, who specializes in education policy for the Economic Policy Institute, said her research indicates a need for more education and training for substitutes, not less. “I

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

Between 2011 and 2017, the percentage of American adults who own a smartphone more than doubled, to 77 percent , according to the Pew Research Center. In data collected by Cal State Dominguez Hills’ psychologist Larry Rosen, his students’ average daily phone use jumped from 3 hours and 40 minutes in 2016 to 4 hours and 22 minutes in 2017.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

We felt the pulse, the affective reality of what US funds support, teach, and hope for: communal destruction for economic profit. For example, in 2017 in Buenaventura, Colombia, activists and everyday residents held a three-week civic strike to call attention to and demand public investment in civilian lives.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 23, 2024

She holds a PhD and MA in political science from Ohio State University, and a BA in Political & Economic studies of Europe from Duke University. In 2009 Salter returned to academia, and took postgraduate degrees in economics and public policy, followed by a PhD in political science.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Fourth-graders didn’t improve in 2017 in either subject. 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. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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Steven V. Miller

MAY 23, 2024

However, the abbreviated, somewhat hurried nature of the curriculum and the economic situation brought on by our landlords mean we don’t have as much real estate as I’d like to teach students important things I want them to know. 3) What are you going to argue? 4) What is the structure of the paper? All introductions have this basic flow.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Brentwood Union Free School District gave out 466 long-term suspensions from 2017-18 to 2021-22. The New York State Education Department does not collect data on suspension lengths, but public records requests to 17 of the state’s largest school districts uncovered more than 6,200 suspensions of more than 20 days from 2017-18 to 2021-22.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Those are four of the top five emotions K-12 teachers reported feeling back in 2017 — well before the pandemic and 18 months of unfinished learning, trauma and economic instability. Frustrated. Overwhelmed.

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