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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 10, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: In Mississippi, with its disproportionately large rural population, Head Start centers have a deep impact on children and families, according to Nita Norphlet-Thompson, the executive director for the Mississippi Head Start Association. “In

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

As part of a unit on the human digestive system, teams of students had engineered replicas using things like paint rollers, balloons, funnels and tissue boxes, and this was the day they would present their designs. The exception is in the two humanities classes students take every day, one in each language. Walsh, Boston mayor.

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JULY 8, 2022

jobs like registered nurse, human resources assistant, or help desk technician.) Any shift in the workforce to the advantage of workers without degrees carries obvious implications for economic mobility and equity. in, say, the humanities might get workers off to a slow start. Merit America co-CEO Rebecca Taber Staehelin.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

It takes time, and money, and human capital and training,” Coleman told me in a follow-up conversation. 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.

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JULY 15, 2018

CAST Tech, which opened in fall 2017 with 175 freshmen, is the first of three career-themed public high schools currently planned for San Antonio. In San Antonio, the CAST schools are also one prong of a larger effort by a local school district to promote integration in one of the most economically segregated cities in the country.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

Six years later, according to one 2017 study , the retained kids weren’t testing any higher than their promoted peers at the same age. Leave this field empty if you're human: It’s easy to argue about this extensive and muddy body of research. Early Grade Retention and the Human Capital Development of English Learners.”

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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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JULY 5, 2021

Home plate umpire Marvin Hudson called balls and strikes during a Major League Baseball game between the New York Mets and San Francisco Giants in 2017 in San Francisco, California. The good news, according to this study, is that humans can quickly reset their attention spans.

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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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APRIL 8, 2020

They miss their friends, their freedom and learning from a human being instead of a screen, but their chances of graduating are unlikely to change. And even without technology problems, catastrophic job losses are plunging some families into economic peril. Luis Gallardo, student, University of California, Berkeley.

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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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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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JANUARY 25, 2021

The College Board researchers tracked more than 180,000 students who graduated high school in 2017 and entered a four-year college that fall. Each hand-written essay is read by two human graders and given a numerical mark in each of three categories, for a total of six marks per essay.

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MAY 4, 2019

In the fall of 2017, he moved to Boston and enrolled in a community college, planning to transfer to a four-year program. Using a four-year degree as a proxy for employability shuts out the most economically vulnerable job seekers. He received an associate degree, hoping to eventually get a bachelor’s and work as a financial adviser.

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AUGUST 5, 2021

But now a convergence of factors — a dwindling pool of traditional-age students, the call for more educated workers and a pandemic that highlighted economic disparities and scrambled habits and jobs — is putting adults in the spotlight. In late 2017, she was laid off. that pay college tuition for adults. ? His counselors reached out.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The suicide rate for children and young adults, ages 10 to 24, rose by 56 percent from 2007 and 2017 and is now the second leading cause of death among teenagers, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. That’s part of a national trend. Some 3,000 high school students across the U.S. attempt suicide every day. “I

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JUNE 10, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: “We see a lot of spending everywhere on tablets, computers, counting the ratio of computers per student,” said Helen Lee Bouygues, who founded the Reboot Foundation in 2018. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 25, 2024

What mental, social, and economic tolls do patients and their families bear? A nopheles mosquitos that carry malaria-causing parasites spread the disease to humans. In 2017, a Massachusetts woman sat with her Hydroxyurea prescription, a medication that can help manage but not cure sickle cell anemia.

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JULY 2, 2018

Anxiety can hinder people even when they’re solving the most basic math problems, according to a 2017 study on adults with high math anxiety. Leave this field empty if you're human: I talk about this broadly as choking under pressure or having math anxiety or anxiety about a particular subject. Yet, somehow, the answer doesn’t come.

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JUNE 4, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: But after years working seasonal jobs sorting equipment at the local Ford plant and dealing blackjack at nearby casinos, Perez wanted to rise to a management position — and she couldn’t without a bachelor’s degree. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

Providers are going to do everything they can to hang on,” said Julie Kashen, director of women’s economic justice and a senior fellow at The Century Foundation. “We In the years leading up to the pandemic, these programs were already struggling, with 97,000 closing between 2005 and 2017. We’re going to lose more programs,” Sager said.

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OCTOBER 3, 2017

José Pinales, a 2017 graduate, credits the school’s band program with getting him off the streets and keeping him out of trouble. Ferneidi Pina Baez, a 2017 graduate, counts that as her favorite project of the year. José Pinales, 2017 graduate, Margarita Muñiz Academy. He said he turned himself around during his junior year.

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JUNE 18, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Vermont has one of the oldest populations in the United States and, the Vermont State Data Center reports, is now tied with Connecticut for the lowest birth rate in the nation. In Vermont in 2013 18 percent of economically disadvantaged students dropped out of high school compared to only 3.5

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NOVEMBER 20, 2017

When lower-income students earn degrees from highly selective institutions, they skyrocket economically. This 2017 research shows among graduates of top colleges, more than half of those from families with incomes in the bottom 20 percent ended up earning wages in the top 20 percent by their mid-thirties. Choose as many as you like.

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APRIL 23, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: The Center for American Progress report found that 66 percent of children enrolled in Head Start in Mississippi live in rural areas, where 55 percent of Head Start child care centers are located. Sign up for our Mississippi Learning newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

In addition to its reputation as an international powerhouse in the field of economics and a home to multiple Nobel Laureates, the school has grounds that are designated as an official botanic garden. The University of Chicago moved its economics department into the former home of the Chicago Theological Seminary. Weekly Update.

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AUGUST 7, 2018

Families often need support in this part of the state, an area struggling to keep up with the economic growth of the high-tech Triangle region, the metropolitan home of the state capital, Raleigh, about an hour away. In 2017 , 88 percent of Edgecombe children and 72 percent of Nash children were in the highest-quality setting available.

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JANUARY 23, 2019

But the neighborhood just to the north, Hancock Park, is 71 percent white, with a median income of $85,000; the student body, meanwhile, is 79 percent Latino, 12 percent African-American, 7 percent Asian, and 64 percent “economically disadvantaged,” drawn from Koreatown, Mid-City, and neighborhoods farther afield. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Inexperienced teachers, with three years’ experience or less, are clustered in one-third of New Orleans’ schools — most of which have student bodies that are 90 percent black and 90 percent economically disadvantaged. A majority of those schools serve a student body that is at least 90 percent black and 90 percent economically disadvantaged.

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Strange Maps

JULY 2, 2024

We humans are terrible at quickly analyzing complex datasets. 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. in Massachusetts (light) to 17.1%

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APRIL 30, 2024

In response to widespread social unrest caused by the collapse of digital Ponzi schemes, the Chinese state intensified regulation in 2017, accelerating the market’s decline. As the state endeavors to cultivate fintech companies as catalysts for economic stimulation, there lies a strategic imperative for major platforms.

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APRIL 18, 2022

The Carteret Public School District, in a diverse area of northern New Jersey, cobbled together several strategies at Columbus, which enrolls nearly 700 students, about 75 percent of whom are economically disadvantaged, according to district administrators. Credit: Caralee Adams for The Hechinger Report.

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MAY 29, 2019

Zac Mckinster, 28, a Navy veteran and new father, is double-majoring in finance and quantitative economics at Portland State. Before 2017, increasingly popular free-college programs universally excluded older students. You’d think it could be simpler,” he says. Photo: Ariane Kunze for The Hechinger Report.

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JULY 2, 2018

Mississippi has made gains on economic, education, health and community factors that indicate children’s well-being but the state still places near the bottom in the nation overall, according to a new annual report by the Annie E. Leave this field empty if you're human: Linda H. Casey foundation. Choose as many as you like.

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MAY 30, 2018

“The best teacher is going to be the human teacher. A 2017 study by the RAND Corporation found that 17 percent of teachers in the personalized learning schools surveyed said they devote a least a quarter of class time to tutoring students one-on-one, compared to just 9 percent of teachers surveyed nationwide. Weekly Update.

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