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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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APRIL 7, 2025

While economic aspects of these interactions are well-documented, the social and cultural dimensions remain less understood. The Dahwa cymbals not only enrich our comprehension of Bronze Age music but also illuminate the broader tapestry of human interaction and shared expression.​ S., & Douglas, K.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 16, 2025

For at least 10,000 years, humans have worked the land to feed families, build communities, and form civilizations. 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. Human Nature , 29(3), 203–219.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 11, 2025

Disease and the Human Condition This isn’t just a story of pathogens. It’s a story of how humans adapt, organize, and endure. The people buried in Dahwa’s tombs were part of a larger economic and social landscape—one that spanned oceans and deserts, and that brought not just goods but biological entanglements.

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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 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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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

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. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose from our newsletters. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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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

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

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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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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

A so-called collaborative robot, programmed to work with humans at the Prent Corporation, a packaging company, it looked cute, not intimidating. percent higher in 2017 than in 2010 , the year Governor Scott Walker won office and began pushing legislation to hobble unions and cut funding for schools. JANESVILLE, Wis. —

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

One day in 2017, Lauren Neuwirth sank into a chair in her university’s financial aid office feeling out of options. Related: Debt without degree: The human cost of college debt that becomes ‘purgatory’. In the event of an economic downturn, though, graduates’ earnings — and Kenzie’s returns — could fall. WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. —

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

Department of Health and Human Services deems “affordable.” While existing economic segregation means that a universal preschool wouldn’t serve a perfect mix of lower- and upper-income families, it would be more mixed than the current system, which clusters children living in poverty. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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 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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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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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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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The Hechinger Report

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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