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SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The race of the teacher didn’t affect the academic achievement of Black students in third through fifth grade across eight school years, from 2009-10 to 2017-18. Edmonds doubts that math instructional approaches at HBCUs are dramatically different from those at other teaching programs.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2021

West, an associate professor, and Professor Carl Bergstrom teach “Calling BS: Data Reasoning in a Digital World” (although the actual course listing uses the more colorful language). Launched in 2017, Calling BS became an instant hit at the University of Washington; it fills its 150-student capacity quickly each year.

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MAY 22, 2020

Institutions are now scrambling to rethink how they recruit and teach students from abroad as they prepare for fall 2020. “As 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. Many come from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

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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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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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MARCH 5, 2024

Early education and child care represent the most racially diverse and lowest-paid sector of the teaching workforce. This is in addition to the drop of more than 90,000 (42 percent) licensed family child care homes between 2005 and 2017. And although Black people make up only 13 percent of the total U.S. workforce, 18 percent of U.S.

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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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JUNE 12, 2023

Too many students are held back from advanced math that could provide direct pathways into college level math and STEM jobs, said Ross, a former presidential awardee for her teaching. What irks her most is that decisions about who gets tracked into or out of these higher-level courses are too often based on a student’s race.

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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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SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Previous researchers conducted a similar analysis in 2017 with whole school districts instead of individual schools. schools have some good teaching, but there is a lot of variation from one classroom to the next. In that study, Chicago emerged as the nation’s most effective school district.

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JULY 2, 2021

The nine-day, 36-hour course,taught by Boeing employees, teaches students how to assemble, modify, repair and test the cables and other equipment that create the “central nervous system” of Boeing’s airplanes, helicopters and drones. Patricia Ramos, dean of workforce and economic development, Santa Monica College.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2019

Only 58 percent of middle schools and 25 percent of elementary schools offer a foreign language in 2008, according to a 2017 report by the Commission on Language Learning, which was formed in response to a request by Congress to look deeper into foreign language learning in the United States. Most students in the U.S. Teacher Shortage.

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APRIL 8, 2022

But some careers, like teaching, have long existed outside the realm of the open market, despite their importance to a functioning society. and Dallas have developed systems to measure teacher quality and incentivize highly effective teaching practices. In these districts, the theory goes, the better you teach, the more you’re paid.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2019

In 2017, while speaking at the National Association for College Admissions Counseling conference, University of Southern California’s Director of the Race and Equity Center Shaun Harper pointed out , “Your profession is 80 percent white. She teaches at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C.,

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JUNE 11, 2019

. $700,000 — The amount of tuition assistance received by some 325 Utah students since EAW began operations in the state in 2017. Since EAW began operations in Utah in 2017, about 325 students have received $700,000 in tuition assistance, the organization said; Kalapara said he’s so far netted $2,200 toward his tuition. He makes $9.75

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MAY 24, 2022

That’s why my district is reimagining high schools with a strong focus on helping students become leaders in their own learning and the learning of others — a pathway to future success and economic mobility. I immediately saw my most important job was to address the different way we teach students in these different ZIP codes.

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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. Ensuring safe and supportive teaching and learning environments is also key. We embrace our families and spend the bulk of our time on what matters most: teaching our students.

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MARCH 16, 2021

By 2017-18, the most recent data available , the district was 54 percent Hispanic — and its gifted classes were 48 percent Hispanic. Related: Getting rid of gifted programs: Trying to teach students at all levels together in one class. The district settled without admitting guilt, paying the plaintiffs $2.5

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

In K-12 and college classrooms across the country, some educators are enacting at least partial device bans, some are advocating for teaching style changes (fewer lectures, for example) and still others are seeking help from the technology itself. But true multitasking is a myth. Our brains focus on one thing by shutting out others.

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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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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2023

language education was published in 2017, with data from less than half of the country’s K-12 schools. Without a national standard or requirement, foreign language enrollment and assessment varies widely by state, but Edweek reported in 2017 that one in five K-12 students in the U.S. Of the small portion of the U.S.

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APRIL 9, 2024

But to pursue a teaching degree at a public, comprehensive university, she’ll need to commute four hours roundtrip or leave the town she grew up in and loves. Until fairly recently, that decision made economic sense. In 2017, Perry County had the highest opioid abuse hospitalization rate in the nation.

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MARCH 22, 2023

We want to hear from you After Luciano graduated from high school, she initially enrolled at nearby Joliet Junior College, unsure exactly what she wanted to do but interested in teaching. In 2011, she enrolled at the College of DuPage — a nearby community college — and became certified to teach preschool.

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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. Teachers and students walk through the teaching site during a session at Sol Forest School in New Mexico. The school also prioritizes economic equity.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Creger was showing the students how to read by using phonics, which teaches children the relationships between letters and sounds. Elsewhere in North Carolina, or in any other state in the nation, if you step into an elementary school, you might find three different classrooms teaching students three different ways to read.

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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. He teaches a technology class at J.W. This is how wealth gaps become reproduced,” she said.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters) leverage the power of multi-sector networks to support innovative teaching and learning in regions across the country. We’re excited to continue this conversation with the broader network at the 2017 Education Innovation Clusters convening later this month. So what have we learned so far?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

A 2017 review of the literature by my Brookings colleagues found “on average, students’ achievement scores declined over summer vacation by one month’s worth of school-year learning” and that the loss was especially great for math. But, for all kids, summer learning loss is a setback. Children don’t stop learning because school doors close.

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MAY 8, 2023

The trend is especially acute for Black men, with about 138,000 fewer Black men enrolled in college last year than in 2017. Related: Bachelor’s degree dreams of community college students get stymied by red tape — and it’s getting worse Nationally, about 138,000 fewer Black men were enrolled in college last year compared to 2017.

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

As part of his plan, Pophal is helping to send teachers back to school for master’s degrees at the local Blackhawk Technical College so they can teach more specialized classes that also count for college credit. percent increase nationally, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. That compares with a 1.6

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FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Brentwood Union Free School District gave out 466 long-term suspensions from 2017-18 to 2021-22. The New York State Education Department does not collect data on suspension lengths, but public records requests to 17 of the state’s largest school districts uncovered more than 6,200 suspensions of more than 20 days from 2017-18 to 2021-22.

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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 study, “ The Dynamics Of Inattention In The (Baseball) Field ,” is a draft paper circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in June 2021.

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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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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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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. ” The study , still a draft paper circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in January 2019, is titled, “An Extra Year to Learn English?

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JUNE 10, 2019

” Reboot aims to increase the teaching of critical thinking in schools and by parents at home. There was insufficient student survey data for the United States on the 2015 PISA so the researchers scrutinized another highly regarded test, the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

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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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