Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Prior to joining the University of Arizona, she was an assistant professor in the political science department at the University of Pittsburgh from 2018 to 2024. in political science from the University of California, Merced in 2016 and 2018, respectively, and a B.A. in economics from Stanford University in 2013.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Think of the revenue shocks these universities are suffering,” said Gregory Price, an economics and finance professor at the University of New Orleans, noting that if students aren’t on campuses for the coming academic year or choose not to attend at all, schools could miss out on even more. million in 2018. That figure declined to 16.6

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2020

Sefi Roth, an economist at the London School of Economics, is an author of both studies. The study, forthcoming in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, calculated that every Fahrenheit degree increase in the outdoor temperature over a school year reduced that year’s learning by 1 percent. (An

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Zinn Education Project

JULY 17, 2024

March for Children in Chicago, 2018. economic and climate policies that have turned so many people into refugees. Source: Flickr/Kurman Communications LLC The airwaves are full of inflammatory rhetoric about immigrants. Politicians are fear-mongering about an “invasion” at the Southern border.

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AUGUST 10, 2020

If you look at data from the National Center for Education Statistics, you can see steady gains made between 2000 and 2018. Higher education is America’s most effective engine of economic and social mobility, and it plays a historically important role in creating a thriving democracy. Now is not the time to lose focus.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 16, 2025

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. Labor, land, and the global dynamics of economic inequality. It shaped who got rich, who stayed poor, and how power was passed on across generations. Crema, E.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2021

The result is that we are losing the energy, intelligence and creativity young people could and should bring to New York’s economic recovery. We are losing the energy, intelligence and creativity young people could and should bring to New York’s economic recovery. The time is right.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

Two studies on elementary schools published in June 2018 point to the importance giving teachers and students plenty of time to form relationships. Harvard University’s Roland Fryer set out to test just that in an experiment , published in the June 2018 issue of the American Economic Review. Students may learn more.

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Digital Promise

MAY 16, 2019

Special thanks to Estella Gonzalez, Assistant Director of Economic Opportunity at BakerRipley , our partner organization in Houston, Texas, for sharing her family’s story. Estella Gonzalez is the Assistant Director of Economic Opportunity at BakerRipley.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2025

When he was released in 2018, Maxis immediately applied for a masters program at Columbia Universitys Mailman School of Public Health. Math literacy often contributes to economic success: A 2021 study of more than 5,500 adults found that participants made $4,062 more per year for each correct answer on an eight-question math test.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

TNTP researchers plunged into a giant pool of data housed at Stanford University that tracked hundreds of millions of students’ scores on state tests at more than half the elementary and middle schools in the nation from 2009 to 2018. TNTP did identify seven of the 1,345 highly effective schools that it selected to study in depth.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The location students identified had to be strategically located for equitable access, accounting for the needs of community members most limited by transportation and low economic support. During this lesson, students identified a bridge as a barrier in Lawrence that restricted convenient access to healthy and affordable foods.

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JANUARY 23, 2025

November 2018. Even with increased interactions through evangelizing, there have been growing anti-Chinese sentiments in Zambia in recent years, often based in economic inequalities between the countries. In this dimension, the interactions are not as straightforward as mere economic or political engagements. Central Zambia.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

This support, through a program set up to promote rural economic development and from the federal agency that works the most with rural places, underscores how important local universities and colleges are to those communities — and the vulnerability of a growing number of them. The USDA loaned Iowa Wesleyan $26.4 Dordt has an estimated $43.4

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2024

By the summer of 2018, it had been more than 30 years since Maronda Mims had started her college journey. Shed earned credits from North Carolina State University and three different community colleges in New York and New Jersey.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

That works out to somewhere between 8,700 and 10,900 new Vermonters, the local economics firm EPR projects. Remote work generally doesn’t pollute or bring the other risks of more conventional economic growth, Bradbury said in a conference room at the coworking hub. . $246,000. Syracuse, N.Y. Chamber of Commerce Foundation.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2020

In another measure of the massive economic toll of the pandemic on higher education, the resulting shutdowns have been singularly devastating to the college towns in which these campuses are situated. Related: What has happened when campuses shut down for other disasters? Mindy Domb, whose district includes Amherst.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2020

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. In the 2017-2018 school year, it had more international students than any other historically black college or university. Many come from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

According to 2018 study by the U.S. Districts certainly haven’t budgeted for full-fledged summer school, and the threat the economic crisis poses to education funding right now will make finding the money to provide programs more daunting. More recent studies show that the summer is a pivotal period for student learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2021

Robert Slavin of Johns Hopkins University found similar results in his earlier 2018 reviews of math and reading interventions, explaining that elementary school students can gain an extra five months of education from the extra one-to-one or very small group help. “It

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

The most recent legislation, passed in 2018, required the state to chip in more money from its general fund. And there’s no relief to come, as the requirements of the 2018 pension bill, approved in the final few minutes of the legislative session last May, start to kick in. “At By 2018, that figure had risen to $1,312.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Phillip Levine, professor of economics, Wellesley College, and founder of MyinTuition, a net-price calculator. Among public universities, 41 schools with available data kept their published tuition from rising more than 5 percent from 2010 and 2018. between 2010 and 2018. Related: Tuition Tracker: Interactive search tool.

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Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 29, 2025

CFP: Ancient Leadership Series for SAGE Business Cases kskordal Wed, 01/29/2025 - 08:32 Image Since 2018, SAGE Business Cases (SBC) has been inviting authors to contribute to its Ancient Leadership series. as well as global antiquity, India, China, Africa, Americas, etc.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2023

That’s taken a dramatic toll on colleges and universities, with severe consequences for society and economic growth — a situation now also being faced by the United States, where the number of 18-year-olds has begun to drop in some states and soon will fall nationwide.

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Strange Maps

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Economics and religion. in 2018, making it the only state that got younger over that period. Maine has the highest median age of any state in the country: 45 years. That’s two years more than retiree magnet Florida and fully 13 years more than Utah, the state with the lowest median age (32 years). Why the big gap?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2021

These jobs, which employed up to 36 percent of all Americans full or part time in 2018, rarely offer access to employer-provided health insurance, paid sick time, paid family leave, minimum wage guarantees or basic labor protections. But too many others, like Peter and his family, have been harmed by the gig economy.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 22, 2022

The disparity between what teachers are paid and what their peers in other, comparable professions earn has reached an all-time high, according to findings published this month by the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute (EPI). Oklahoma, Virginia and Arizona—notably, some of the states whose teachers went on strike in 2018—are not far behind.

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Digital Promise

MAY 14, 2019

For example, British Columbia revised its Foundational Skills Assessments in 2018 to include collaboration and self-reflection. And in Ontario, a 2018 report to the premier recommended replacing the Ontario secondary school literacy test , now a graduation requirement.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2021

Between 2018 and 2019, the United States ranked 33 rd for relative child poverty out of 37 economically advanced countries. Here are some of the main findings of the report: Pre-pandemic data show nationwide, 6.2 Black and Hispanic women are more likely to receive late or no prenatal care compared to white women.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

“Income segregation creates districts of concentrated poverty or affluence, but high-income black families may be less likely than high-income white families to live in the affluent districts created by income segregation,” according to 2018 research published by the American Sociological Association.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

And yet, a recent study from the World Economic Forum suggests that our chattiest students may be well poised for tomorrow’s world of work — because employers are looking for more than simply the latest technical skills. Related: ‘Hamilton,’ cultural relevance and the quest to personalize learning. “A Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Since 2018, just 54 percent of people who attended WIOA-approved programs became employed at all after completing their program. The data that does exist paints a bleak picture: Since 2018, just 54 percent of people who attended WIOA-approved programs became employed at all after completing their program, according to the Department of Labor.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

billion law that oversees career and technical education at the federal level was reauthorized in 2018 with an increased focus on equity. She added that the school received a grant from a nonprofit in 2018 to work on the issue. Perkins Act. It’s hard to see yourself doing something where you do not see anybody who looks like you.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2019

National Center for Education Statistics blog, December 2018. In a December 2018 report , the U.S. In a December 2018 draft paper , “Does school spending matter? Another 2018 study by Jackson found that recessionary budget cuts led to lower test scores. The greater the budget cuts, the more test scores dropped.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

“I thought that this has to be wrong somehow because so many papers have found an effect for a Black-teacher Black-student match,” said Lavar Edmonds, a graduate student in economics and education at Stanford University, who conducted the analysis. HBCUs are clearly enjoying a renaissance.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2022

It was circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in March 2022. For example, the net tuition (tuition and fees minus grants) paid by a student from a family making between $48,000 and $75,000 fell 89 percent from $1,900 in 2008 to about $200 in 2018. Their study, Progressivity of Pricing at U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

Home to the state’s largest school district, with nearly 60 percent of students considered economically disadvantaged, Manchester has consistently performed well below average on state achievement tests. Beginning in 2018, Parker-Varney teachers met weekly with Joseph to construct the new system.

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