2017, Economics and Professional Development

OPINION: Teachers need our help in tough times like these, so let’s give it to them

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. High-quality professional development in remote teaching practices and technology can help. Frustrated. Overwhelmed.

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An Innovative Journey to Scalable Computer Science Programs

ED Surge

MAY 8, 2024

In a time when technological advancements shape our daily lives and drive economic growth, focusing on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education in K-12 schools is not just a trend but a necessity. Initiatives like the U.S. I was tasked with providing reading intervention services for at-risk K-8 students.

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Study: Boosting soft skills is better than raising test scores

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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What’s Lost When a Teacher Leaves a School

ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

According to a report published in 2017 by the Economic Policy Institute, large urban districts spend approximately $20,000 on every new hire. Teacher induction involves components such as mentoring, professional development and coaching for those entering the field.

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PROOF POINTS: Debunking the myth that teachers stop improving after five years

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2022

It’s not true that teachers stop improving,” said John Papay, an associate professor of education and economics at Brown University. Papay cited his own 2015 study with Matt Kraft , along with a 2017 study of middle school teachers in North Carolina and a 2011 study of elementary and middle school teacher s.

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How higher education’s own choices left it vulnerable to the pandemic crisis

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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At this one-of-a-kind Boston public high school, students learn calculus in Spanish

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Claudette Bautista, a 2017 Muñiz graduate who now attends Lesley University, was born in the Dominican Republic but spent her K-8 years in Boston, learning in English. When you think about the future economics of the world, it’s not an English world.”. Economically, he sees the vast promise of a bilingual workforce.

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Weighing the best strategies for reading intervention

The Hechinger Report

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. In 2019, 70 percent were on grade level, said Rotundo.

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How grassroots efforts are trying to solve the teacher shortage crisis

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Then, in May 2017, a friend told her about a new Delta-based nonprofit, Regional Initiatives for Sustainable Education (RISE), which offered tutoring for the Praxis. William Carey University in Hattiesburg joined RISE’s efforts to help teachers become certified in October 2017. Her eyes welled with tears as she recalled the struggle.

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Curricular Innovations in Political Science at Community Colleges: APSA’s Committee on the Status of Community Colleges Virtual Workshop Series

Political Science Now

AUGUST 1, 2024

She has also developed the following readers: Women in Politics, American Public Policy and the current Anthology, Social Justice Movements ©2017, Cognella Academic Publishing and the 2nd edition, Social Justice Movements ©2023. degrees in economics and political science from Cerritos College, and a B.A.

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As small private colleges keep closing, some are fighting back

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

And Nichols College, where Maymon is a junior double-majoring in economics and finance, fit the same profile: small and with a comparatively low endowment and a student body drawn mostly from a few surrounding states. “It Applications fell again in 2017, but have since recovered, and the college exceeded its enrollment goals this year.

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How to do online learning well? A California district has some answers.

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

But the community began to suffer economically after several major employers, including what was once the largest olive processer in the world, shut down in the early 1990s. In response, the district set up opportunities for professional development, programs that continued during the pandemic.

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OPINION: Known for its intense testing pressure, top-performing South Korea dials it back

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

In addition to the economic consequences of a glut of college graduates, many also decry the personal, social and financial costs created by a system that creates intense pressure for students to get into a top college. Parents also pay a high price for top test rankings.

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Making Rhode Island a Home for Innovation

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

They thought education could be an economic driver in the state and started knocking on doors of individuals and organizations to discuss the possibility of making education the center of an innovation cluster. EduvateRI (@eduvateri) February 23, 2017. RI’s Personalized Learning Initiative makes national news.

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Former educators answer call to return to school

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2018

Thompson, 70, is among a small cadre of retired educators who returned to Jackson classrooms for the 2017-18 school year to teach science, math and English, the courses for which the school district has the direst need. “I called and got the information and a few weeks later I was back in the classroom.”.

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Beyond Screens: The Benefits of Paper-Based Learning for Elementary Students

Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

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Progress in the Deep South: Black students combat segregation, poverty and dwindling school funding

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The economic futures of African Americans without a high school diploma are especially bleak. In 2017, he graduated from the Louisiana School for Agricultural Sciences, a charter school with one of the highest graduation rates in the parish. It’s like a legal segregation.”. Liza Jacobs, principal of Marksville High School.

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The Impact of a Teacher

Studies Weekly

MARCH 3, 2025

Additionally, a 2015 study found that focusing on student social and emotional well-being resulted in long-term economic gains due to improvements in health, education, and employment. When surveyed about the characteristics of an impactful teacher in 2017, Terada expressed that people rarely mentioned academics or test scores.

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State takeovers of ‘failing’ schools are increasing, but with little evidence they help students

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

Another law passed in 2017 incentivized districts to contract with outside entities, including charter school managers, to assume control of schools that aren’t meeting state standards. That new rule tipped it from a D to an F under an A-F rating system Abbott had signed into law in 2017. The district sued to stop him.

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Helping New Teachers Thrive

Digital Promise

AUGUST 28, 2019

The Economic Policy Institute issued a report highlighting the immediacy of a growing teacher shortage, particularly in STEM and special education concentrations. Research supports some of what these graphs are suggesting, with data around growing attrition and shortages in the profession.

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Substitute teacher crisis forces districts to turn to local businesses and recent grads

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

They have pulled administrators out of offices and into classrooms, canceled professional development sessions and asked teachers to give up planning periods and juggle multiple classes. But not enough people have taken advantage, despite the economic downturn and spike in unemployment. Emma García, Economic Policy Institute.

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OPINION: The pandemic exposes just how much support college students need

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

college students with lifetime diagnoses of mental health conditions in 2017 was 36 percent, compared with 22 percent in 2007. Instead, it is the continuation of a vicious, decades-old cycle that asks educators and student affairs professionals to do more with less. But now, we must take them on with a renewed sense of urgency.

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It all started in a German castle: How wilderness programs shape some urban schools

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

The $60,000 to $75,000 annual fee for the first four years (it then goes down), covering professional development, strategic planning, coaching and resources, can be an obstacle. About 80 percent are African-American, and 45 percent are classified as “economically disadvantaged.”. It was noisy and standing room only.

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California finally ended a ban on bilingual education. Now it can’t find enough teachers for these classes

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

While policymakers didnt catch on right away, well-off and well-educated white parents did, seeing the economic benefits of bilingualism for their children very clearly. The school opened a dual language program in 2017. Last year, 85% of the students enrolled were fluent English speakers, according to program director Nancy Hong.

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Can start-up companies profit off one of the lowest paid professions: home-based child care?

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2019

Bunyard can connect with Wonderschool staff and other providers on Slack, an online chat app, and has access to virtual professional development opportunities. Another new company proposing to help home-based providers run better businesses is WeeCare , which launched in Los Angeles in 2017. Teachers are very secluded.

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In one state, students are ditching classrooms for jobs

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2017

Between September 2016 and June 2017, the number of licensed work-based learning coordinators in Vermont increased from 38 to 53. Next year, the state will ramp up professional development opportunities for work-based learning coordinators, state officials said. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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Teaching About Palestine-Israel and the Unfolding Genocide in Gaza

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Jews for Racial & Economic Justice’s “ Understanding Antisemitism: An Offering to Our Movement.” Six episodes of the podcast based on Khalidi’s book The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 “Black Feminist Writers and Palestine” with Clarissa Brooks, Angela Y.

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Good teachers use the N-word

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 20, 2018

President Donald Trump listens to Omarosa Manigault Newman, then-director of communications for the White House Public Liaison Office, during an event in the Oval Office of the White House October 24, 2017. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images. Related: LeBron is dishing out assists to a local school district in Ohio. They must deconstruct it.

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OPINION: Teachers need our help in tough times like these, so let’s give it to them

An Innovative Journey to Scalable Computer Science Programs

Study: Boosting soft skills is better than raising test scores

What’s Lost When a Teacher Leaves a School

PROOF POINTS: Debunking the myth that teachers stop improving after five years

How higher education’s own choices left it vulnerable to the pandemic crisis

At this one-of-a-kind Boston public high school, students learn calculus in Spanish

Weighing the best strategies for reading intervention

How grassroots efforts are trying to solve the teacher shortage crisis

Curricular Innovations in Political Science at Community Colleges: APSA’s Committee on the Status of Community Colleges Virtual Workshop Series

As small private colleges keep closing, some are fighting back

How to do online learning well? A California district has some answers.

OPINION: Known for its intense testing pressure, top-performing South Korea dials it back

Making Rhode Island a Home for Innovation

Former educators answer call to return to school

Beyond Screens: The Benefits of Paper-Based Learning for Elementary Students

Progress in the Deep South: Black students combat segregation, poverty and dwindling school funding

The Impact of a Teacher

State takeovers of ‘failing’ schools are increasing, but with little evidence they help students

Helping New Teachers Thrive

Substitute teacher crisis forces districts to turn to local businesses and recent grads

OPINION: The pandemic exposes just how much support college students need

It all started in a German castle: How wilderness programs shape some urban schools

California finally ended a ban on bilingual education. Now it can’t find enough teachers for these classes

Can start-up companies profit off one of the lowest paid professions: home-based child care?

In one state, students are ditching classrooms for jobs

Teaching About Palestine-Israel and the Unfolding Genocide in Gaza

Good teachers use the N-word

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