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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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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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MAY 12, 2024

The link between education and economic opportunity has only increased. And our democracy is desperately in need of shared knowledge and understanding across cultural, racial, economic and geographic lines. Department of Education from 2015 to 2017 This story about Brown v. Seven decades later, those words ring truer than ever.

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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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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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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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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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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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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Indeed, a recent study in the 2017 Mississippi Economic Review found that districts with the worst teacher shortages have a weak local property tax base, a high percentage of black students and are disproportionately located in the Delta. In 2017, more than $20 million was allotted for pay raises to these schools.

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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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This prestigious scholarship, which has been awarded each year since 2017, recognizes a college-bound senior who has excelled in history education. Kimi Falatko, who taught Toyosi in Public Policy, shared her first impression of Toyosi during a field trip to Baltimore County’s Office of Economic Development. ” Ms.

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APRIL 22, 2020

So, as Congress considers how to respond to this deepening public health and economic disaster, it must take into account the pain that’s being acutely felt by black Americans. Related: OPINION: Can debt relief and investment in HBCUs level the playing field for black students? And that was before the coronavirus crisis.

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MARCH 2, 2020

In February 2020, Jackson presented these early findings at conference of the National Center for the Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) and the paper was circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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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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AUGUST 4, 2020

This staffing figure is through 2017, the most recent year available, and includes a 16 percent jump in the number of administrators and support personnel — a perennial target of critics — but also a 7 percent increase in the number of full-time faculty. percent from 2009 to 2017, a period during which the S&P 500 index gained 11.2

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JANUARY 4, 2021

To prove his point, Jackson studied more than 150,000 ninth graders in Chicago public high schools from 2011 to 2017. The study is still a draft, working paper, which means it hasn’t yet been peer-reviewed, but it was circulated by the National Bureau of Economics Research in December 2020.

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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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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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SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

The researchers at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab ( J-PAL ), an organization inside the economics department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, scoured academic journals, the internet and evaluation databases and found only 113 studies on using technology in schools that were scientifically rigorous. Some were positive.

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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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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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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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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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APRIL 10, 2018

We know Head Start in rural communities is really important for promoting both healthy child development and family economic security.” . A 2017 study found the children of people who attended preschool are better off than their peers whose parents did not attend preschool.

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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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APRIL 1, 2019

In 2017, while speaking at the National Association for College Admissions Counseling conference, University of Southern California’s Director of the Race and Equity Center Shaun Harper pointed out , “Your profession is 80 percent white. Does this include calling out flagrant abuse and discriminatory practices?

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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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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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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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MAY 21, 2018

It really matters where you live,” said Allison Friedman-Krauss, lead author of the 2017 Preschool Yearbook, which included a special report on children who don’t speak English at home. “I But most state preschool programs provide few or no proven supports to help bilingual children flourish, according to NIEER’s recent report. “It

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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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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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OCTOBER 23, 2018

The vast majority of the school’s students — and in 2017, all of them — are accepted into at least one college. This community in rural Lewis County made headlines in 2017 when all 43 of its graduating seniors were accepted into two- or four-year colleges. 43 — The number of students in Onalaska High School’s 2017 graduating class.

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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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AUGUST 23, 2019

Between 2000 and 2017, room and board costs for students living off campus rose 24 percent at public four-year universities after inflation, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics analyzed by The Hechinger Report. 59 percent of households headed by an undergraduate or graduate student were “rent burdened” in 2017.

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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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JUNE 3, 2020

Among full-time, first-time students at Kent State University Salem, which is 4 percent black, two black students received an associate degree and one received a bachelor’s degree in 2017. At the Tuscarawas campus, also 4 percent black, one black student received an associate degree and zero received a bachelor’s in 2017.

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