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FEBRUARY 21, 2022

However, as the economy has grown, so has economic inequality, increasing dramatically across the country. This growing economic inequality is also widening educational achievement gaps and causing many young people to have a lack of empathy and understanding for those outside their socioeconomic peer groups.

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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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Anthropology.net

APRIL 14, 2025

Drawing on data from over 50,000 ancient homes spread across six continents and 10,000 years of human history, the research team measured the economic disparities of the past through one of its most visible clues: the size of people's houses. Assessing grand narratives of economic inequality across time. Bogaard, A., Feinman, G.

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APRIL 30, 2020

Ward is unusual, too, because she had made the leap from college admissions to private school to public school, and she is trying to bring the individualized approach of private college counseling to large, economically diverse public schools where she can make a bigger difference. Sign up for our higher education newsletter.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 15, 2025

” Reading Inequality in Clay and Stone Archaeologists often lack direct records of economic systems in ancient societies. These capacities also provided the scaffolding upon which economic disparities could rise. Assessing grand narratives of economic inequality across time. But the two are not mutually dependent.”

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 7, 2025

While economic aspects of these interactions are well-documented, the social and cultural dimensions remain less understood. Credit: Antiquity Beyond Trade: Cultural Interactions and Musical Traditions The Arabian Gulf during the Bronze Age was a nexus of trade, with goods such as ceramics, beads, and metals exchanged between regions.

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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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Anthropology.net

APRIL 16, 2025

A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers 1 one of the most detailed archaeological analyses to date of the roots of economic inequality. Labor, land, and the global dynamics of economic inequality. It shaped who got rich, who stayed poor, and how power was passed on across generations. Bogaard, A.,

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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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The Hechinger Report

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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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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Nearly 30 percent of all four-year schools brought in less tuition revenue per student in 2017-18 than in 2009-10. About 700 public campuses received less in state and local appropriations in 2017-18 than in 2009-10, and about 190 private four-year institutions saw the size of their endowments fall relative to their costs.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

We were able to get more families and children access to quality early learning, while supporting families to get back into the workforce, providing that economic benefit and the need that businesses in our community have, Jones said. In 2017, the city made a $750,000 early childhood investment.

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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

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

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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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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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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Students of History

MAY 24, 2024

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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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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

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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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

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

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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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

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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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

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

JULY 2, 2021

These partnerships have become the real-time data source that are creating that skilled pipeline and pathway of workers to make this economic recovery better and faster and more inclusive,” Vilsack said. Patricia Ramos, dean of workforce and economic development, Santa Monica College.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 14, 2018

In December 2017, in response to an Associated Press report that showed charters were more segregated than traditional schools, the National Alliance for Public Charters essentially said , research be damned; that it was not their concern. Brown and the other activists are right to demand the right to have a decent neighborhood school.

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The Hechinger Report

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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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

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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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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