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State match to local investments A partnership between local and state governments with revenue from sin taxes like those on gambling is expanding access to child care for those who need the most help. In 2017, the city made a $750,000 early childhood investment. Before the state placed any money in the fund, New Orleans got busy.

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But the way those lands were used—how they were divided, worked, and governed—did more than sustain life. The researchers combed through the physical traces left behind by ancient households—47,000 of them, to be precise—spanning over 1,700 sites across the globe. Further Reading and Related Research Kohler, T.

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MARCH 18, 2024

An early warning and intervention system, called BARR, pictured above, was one of the most successful education interventions to come out of the Department of Education’s research and development program that issued $1.4 Under this program, called Investing in Innovation or i3, the federal government gave out $1.4

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Led by Professor Dan Lawrence of Durham University, the research asks a thorny question: Is inequality the price of sustainability? Large settlements were often better resourced and more capable of managing complex challenges—irrigation, trade, defense, and governance among them. Kohler, T. Nature, 551(7682), 619–622.

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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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AUGUST 4, 2020

They’d spent the past decade grappling with declining enrollments and weakening support from state governments. Nearly 30 percent of all four-year schools brought in less tuition revenue per student in 2017-18 than in 2009-10. This story also appeared in NBC News. Over the last decade, enrollment slipped as the economy grew.

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DECEMBER 13, 2021

As part of a $4 billion initiative called Race to the Top, the federal government tried to persuade states to measure the performance of teachers, rank them, pay bonuses to the best teachers and fire the worst ones. Research documented giant student achievement improvements in Washington, D.C., Teaching quality deteriorated in Dallas.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

And researchers have a growing body of evidence showing it’s incredibly effective. The results are, as one researcher puts it, “blockbuster.”. Monica Bhatt, senior research director of the U Chicago Education Lab, said results for kids in ninth and 10th grade during the 2014-15 school year are even more impressive.

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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 22, 2020

As early as late February, institutions really had to pivot the way that they were recruiting international students traditionally,” said Mirka Martel, head of research, evaluation and learning at the Institute of International Education. In the 2017-2018 school year, 34 percent of international students were from China.

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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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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Ever since enslaved blacks arrived on the shores of the English colony of Virginia in 1619 , white legislators at various levels of government have designed laws to explicitly control and suppress black people. Research has shown that diverse decision-making bodies are better problem solvers than homogenous ones.

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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 they’re looking to produce real solutions, not just research reports.

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APRIL 22, 2025

Building faculty capacity outside the classroom includes both understanding governance processes and structures and creating cultures and conversations. In 2017, she was elected to serve on APSA council and was the first community college faculty member to ever be elected to this position. Department of Agriculture and the U.S.

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JUNE 6, 2022

Collins Elementary School, in southeastern Mississippi, paddled students more times than almost any school in the country in 2017-18, the last year for which there is national data. During the 2017-18 school year, more than 69,000 students received corporal punishment almost 97,000 times nationwide.

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APRIL 27, 2020

That marks the fifth straight year of growth in the number of school counselors, bringing the student-to-counselor ratio down to the lowest level since the federal government began counting counselors more than 30 years ago. which decreased its student-to-school-counselor ratio 15 percent from 560-to-1 in 2017–18 to 474-to-1 in 2018–19.

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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. Spending so much time outdoors also promotes physical activity and motor development, the research finds. 585 forest kindergartens and outdoor preschools exist in the U.S.

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MARCH 21, 2024

The American Political Science Association is pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) Awardees for 2023. The APSA DDRIG program provides support to enhance and improve the conduct of doctoral dissertation research in political science.

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MARCH 8, 2021

Developer: Michigan State University Research. Developer: University of Michigan and Michigan State University Research. Developer: Stanford University Research. Developer: University of Washington Research. Government and Politics curriculum. Curriculum. 2nd grade social studies. Curriculum. 6th grade science.

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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 shows that Americans’ attitudes toward language instruction may be holding them back. Yet, according to the U.S New Way of Thinking. Most students in the U.S.

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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 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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JUNE 14, 2022

She suggested I look into corporal punishment as part of my research into exclusionary discipline because she had heard of a district in Tennessee asking families to choose between the paddle and suspension. And my research pulled me to a different community. But McClellan piqued my interest. The fact is, most schools don’t use it.

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APRIL 5, 2019

Stewart Lockett (right, grey shirt) leads a meeting of the student government executive team in late January. His team is the most diverse student government the university has ever had. He dug through the bottom drawer and pulled out a student government flyer from five years earlier. Casey Parks/The Hechinger Report.

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JANUARY 12, 2020

The typical participant is not a super star on the football field or in student government. . Researchers found that students who participated in a 10-week music instruction program, where they drummed for an hour each week , had enhanced communication with peers and adults as well as improved concentration.

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JUNE 26, 2018

In addition, federal and many local governments are advocating for policies that would make educational data — similar to what Zuberi saw on the California School Dashboard — more accessible, transparent and helpful to parents. Researchers tracking state and local district data say Kemp’s situation is not unusual.

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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. It was the Department of Agriculture.

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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. Investors — including wealthy alumni, a hedge fund and the Purdue Research Foundation — would front her $50,000 to cover two years of college. Ooi researched the ISA model and liked what he saw.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Rouse , Arizona State University , Isabella Alcaiz , University of Maryland , College Park , Alejandra Marchevsky , California State University, Los Angeles Research has shown that as the size of government assistance programs grow, and the recipients of such programs are increasingly non-white and/or non-citizen, public support for them declines.

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JUNE 16, 2019

The study called into question the survey methods of a variety of sources, including leading researchers from the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice at Temple University, founded and led by Sara Goldrick-Rab. Government Accountability Office. Rather, researchers are likely stumbling over the tip of a much larger iceberg.

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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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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. Jenna Sablan, assistant research professor at the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. The coronavirus pandemic is exacerbating those pressures. “We

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The Tibetan community in Vancouver includes approximately 700 people, more than 200 of whom migrated from four settlements in Arunachal Pradesh, India, to Canada through a federal refugee resettlement program between 2013 and 2017. In 2017, Tibetan parents in Vancouver decided to organize efforts to care for their heritage language.

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MAY 12, 2024

They also called education “the most important function of state and local governments,” the “very foundation of good citizenship” and “a principal instrument in awakening the child to cultural values [and] in preparing him for later professional training.” Department of Education from 2015 to 2017 This story about Brown v.

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government. Things … the government does affect us, but we can’t vote,” she said.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In a separate pandemic study of second and third graders in 100 school districts, Stanford University researchers found that although teachers had figured out how to teach reading remotely during the 2020-21 school year, students didn’t catch up. Related: What parents need to know about the research on how kids learn to read.

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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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