The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 19, 2020

As part of an introductory economics class, Swiss students had the option to work in study groups with their peers. That’s what a University of Zurich graduate student found in an experiment conducted in 2018 and 2019 involving more than 600 college students and 150 study groups.

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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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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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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

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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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. His best-known writings challenged views in liberal economics about the origins of money, attempting to reconceive the historical relationship between debt and social institutions.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Ramsey blamed Americans for their economic struggles amid a pandemic that has decimated the economy and left more than 20 million people unemployed, arguing that “you have a career problem, you have a debt problem, you have a relationship problem, you have a mental health problem, or something else is going on if $600 changes your life.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2020

Whatever the reason a school has to close, something needs to fill the educational, economic, and social voids created by the closure. Leaders of Black-majority cities must have a plan to address pre-existing vacant properties and help communities heal after this current economic crisis.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2020

The survey by Temple University’s Hope Center for College, Community and Justice included student parents at 171 two-year and 56 four-year institutions, many of whom are poor and people of color and are looking for the promise of economic mobility a college education once provided. Credit: (Photo courtesy of Briana Whitfield).

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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

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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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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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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Child care workers nationwide are worried about their own health, that of their families and their short- and long-term economic survival. Pearsall’s exhaustion is shared by providers across the country worried about their own health, that of their families and their short- and long-term economic survival.

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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

JANUARY 17, 2020

It has almost become de rigueur among chancellors and presidents in selling the value of their universities to the larger community to say that we are engines of economic development, and there’s scant evidence to support that.”. The economic development argument is tenuous at best and probably even less than tenuous,” Levine said.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 31, 2024

The economic significance of shipbreaking means that national and international NGOs seeking to ban the industry in Bangladesh remain unpopular. Landless tenants and a low-income Hindu minority, they lack the social connections and economic leverage to have any political voice.

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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

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

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

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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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

APRIL 22, 2020

So, as Congress considers how to respond to this deepening public health and economic disaster, it must take into account the pain that’s being acutely felt by black Americans. On average, states spent $1,220, or 13 percent, less per student in 2018 than in 2008, after adjusting for inflation.

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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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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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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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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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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

OCTOBER 14, 2020

In Rockville Centre, tracked classes also led to racial and economic segregation in a high school where a fifth of the nearly 1,100 students are Black or Latino and the rest of the student body is nearly entirely white. 77 percent of public school students are economically disadvantaged. 1 predictor of college success.

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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.

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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

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

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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