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Mandatory kindergarten and home economics: What Mississippi lawmakers have proposed for 2017

The Hechinger Report

Home economics in failing districts: House Bill No. 195 would require all secondary schools located in D- and F-rated school districts to teach home economics to students, based on a curriculum that would be developed by the state Board of Education. Topics would include cooking, child development, sewing and budgeting.

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OPINION: Our schools must tell a better and more complete story about our growing economic inequality

The Hechinger Report

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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Economic Mobility Pathways in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky: Building Networks for Frontline Talent Development

Digital Promise

The collaborative is especially focused on equity, seeking to uncover and eliminate racial and socioeconomic disparities that present barriers to economic mobility. The post Economic Mobility Pathways in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky: Building Networks for Frontline Talent Development appeared first on Digital Promise.

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From private to public school: A college counselor straddles an economic divide

The Hechinger Report

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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Make Simple Cross-Sectional Data with World Bank Data (from {WDI})

Steven V. Miller

If you’re interested in topics of economic development, population growth, corruption, education levels—or almost anything else in the cross-national context—the World Bank’s DataBank has you covered. European Union, OECD states), economic groupings (e.g. NA #> 4 Afghanistan AF AFG 2017 97.7 There’s a better way, I promise.

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Announcing the 2024 Students of History Scholarship Winner

Students of History

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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OPINION: Sadly, our progress is stalled and backsliding 70 years after Brown v. Board

The Hechinger Report

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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