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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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AUGUST 4, 2020

Some members of the institution’s own governing board were surprised when they were confronted with these facts. percent from 2009 to 2017, a period during which the S&P 500 index gained 11.2 In a system of shared governance, they’re also served by keeping the faculty content. Other spending, too, continued to go up.

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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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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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APRIL 27, 2023

When Iowa Wesleyan University announced in March that it would close, its biggest creditor was a federal government agency that had loaned it $26 million and then — in an attempt to help the university survive —softened the terms and extended the repayment period. Iowa Wesleyan, for example, had an estimated $55.1 Dordt has an estimated $43.4

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FEBRUARY 24, 2019

At a time when so many employers are struggling to find workers who have university degrees, Tyler Duffield thinks supporting higher education is as obvious an obligation of state government as it is essential. Forty-four percent think government-funded grants and loans have failed to keep up with the price of tuition , the APM survey found.

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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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MARCH 22, 2023

When she needed money to start college, she was advised to borrow from a private lender instead of the federal government and, because of that, she’s stuck with $81,000 debt. In 2017, the year the college closed, 75 percent of its students with federal loans were delinquent or in default. I’m frustrated, because, what can I do?

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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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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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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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OCTOBER 8, 2018

Artwork decorates the government-run nursery classroom at Badock’s Wood Primary School in Bristol, England. The study was funded by the National Center on Education and the Economy, a think tank focused on the connection between education and economics. We were established to escape government tyranny. Photo: Lillian Mongeau.

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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. Even the federal government has endorsed the approach. We take a close look at how it works and how it’s going so far.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2022

Larry Hogan announced in March that the state government would strip bachelor’s degree requirements from thousands of job listings. Jared Polis directed government agencies in his state to embrace hiring workers for skills , not degrees. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. requirements too.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2021

today, nearly double the number in 2017. has more than doubled since 2017 to 585 in 2020, according to the Natural Start Alliance. Advocates see government investment as key to getting more kids of color and kids from low-income families into outdoor schools. The school also prioritizes economic equity.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

One day in 2017, Lauren Neuwirth sank into a chair in her university’s financial aid office feeling out of options. Chok Ooi founded Kenzie Academy in 2017 to help close the gap between workers’ skills and the needs of the growing tech industry in Indianapolis and beyond. WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. —

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JUNE 24, 2018

Yet, with few exceptions, families earning $88,000 a year — right in the middle of the middle class — get no government help to cover the cost of educating their 4-year-olds. In contrast, attendance at government-funded preschools is the norm in many countries. The government is subsidizing middle class child care anyway. ”.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2019

Government Accountability Office, nearly one in four Foreign Service officers do not meet the language proficiency requirements that they should meet to do their jobs. Research also shows immersion programs in general have many educational and cognitive benefits , as well as cultural, economic and social benefits both locally and globally.

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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

APRIL 8, 2020

Only 14 percent of the lowest-income students earn a bachelor’s degree within eight years of first enrolling, according to the most recent government data. And even without technology problems, catastrophic job losses are plunging some families into economic peril. The coronavirus pandemic is exacerbating those pressures.

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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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NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Larry Hogan comply with a 2017 court order to resolve damages in an ongoing legal action and agree to terms under which HBCUs could receive millions of dollars to make up for years of underfunding. Before we can move forward to create equitable systems, we need our leaders in government to acknowledge and repair past wrongs.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2019

STEM jobs will grow 13 percent from 2017 to 2027 , as opposed to 9 percent for non-STEM work. Institutions in close proximity to Birmingham, such as Miles College and Stillman College, offer minors in entrepreneurship, while Alabama A&M runs the AAMU Center for Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Development. million to 17.3

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NOVEMBER 3, 2021

worked in retail and restaurants for years before starting a steamfitter apprenticeship in 2017. Lupe Trejo entered a steamfitter apprenticeship in 2017. It’s also the only way we are going to reach an actual inclusive economic recovery.”. Lupe Trejo has spent much of the pandemic counting herself fortunate.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

Black and Latino students were often less likely than their white peers to enroll in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) and information technology classes, according to the analysis, which was based primarily on 2017-18 data. Related: Revamped and rigorous, career and technical education is ready to be taken seriously.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

million students did not fill out the FAFSA; if they had, NCAN estimates that about 813,000 of them would have been eligible for Pell Grants, the federal financial aid for students with significant economic need. More than 1.7 Marlene Garcia, executive director, California Student Aid Commission. billion went unclaimed.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

Fourth-grade students who reported using tablets in “all or almost all” classes scored 14 points lower on the reading portion of a test administered by the federal government than students who reported “never” using classroom tablets. That’s the equivalent of a year of education or an entire grade level.

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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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

It was worth it, John Fulgencio said, to see his daughter become vice president of student government, graduate magna cum laude with a 3.7 Whether in response to the students’ arguments or not, the state did, in fact, raise spending for higher education for the coming 2016-2017 year, by 2.5 It’s improved only slightly since.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

For students from low-income families, graduating from college is an important way to climb the economic ladder. In a 2017 survey of about 240 college admissions leaders, more than half said that when they’re looking at applications, community service experience serves as a tiebreaker in choosing whom to admit. “I

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Colorado’s public pension system is one of the most underfunded in the country, with a shortfall totaling an estimated $29 billion in 2017. Cory Koedel, an associate professor of economics and public policy at the University of Missouri. About half of that comes from school district employee pensions. percent to 20.4.

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APRIL 7, 2020

Government Accountability Office found in the most recent national study of this problem, in 2017 — requiring them to retake courses and increasing the amount of time and money spent to get degrees. Those proportions are expected to rise as a result of the disruptions caused by the coronavirus.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 20, 2024

Mississippi was the site of the most notorious lynching in the early civil rights movement, the killing of Emmett Till in 1955, and had the highest rates of lynching in the country — violence meant to impose social, economic, and political intimidation. The interest of the country is awakened and … the government responds.”

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AUGUST 24, 2023

The federal pandemic stabilization funds provided a rare infusion of operating money, a move reminiscent of when the federal government briefly funded child care to support working parents during World War II. In the years leading up to the pandemic, these programs were already struggling, with 97,000 closing between 2005 and 2017.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Private college counseling cost an average of $200 an hour in 2017, the last year for which the figure is available from the Independent Educational Consultants Association. “These are luxuries that many families in this country do not have, so there absolutely is an advantage there.”. It’s a triple whammy.”.

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APRIL 7, 2023

Black, Hispanic and economically disadvantaged students are likely to be affected the most by the most recent version of the law. From 2017 to 2019 , Mississippi had the highest jump in fourth grade reading scores in the nation. But the older law left retention decisions up to districts.

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