The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2022

An international study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development found that students who had more books at home reported that they enjoyed reading more. It’s noteworthy that the 2018 PISA reading test was a computer-based assessment in the vast majority of countries. Credit: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report.

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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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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Matt finished by showing a tool called SUNO , which is an AI tool that generates a musical track or song in just a few sentences, based on If you're interested in this, also check out some previous work by James Riley of the Perse School which was presented at a Teachmeet in Sheffield in 2018. He explored the representations of place.

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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

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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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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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Archaeologists do not in any noteworthy way direct armies, shape economies, write laws, or imprison or free people from bondage (McGuire, 2018). and of anything that stands in the way of American economic activity and political influence' (Trigger, 1984, p.

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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

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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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

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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TCI

OCTOBER 28, 2024

This broad field draws upon various disciplines, such as anthropology, archeology, economics, geography, history, law, and philosophy. History and Civics scores for eighth-grade students sounded an alarm: scores have dropped by an average of five points since 2018 and nine points since 2014.

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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

NEW YORK — When planning an election-year trip to the Southwest border for our undergraduate political reporting class last spring, we imagined reprising an award-winning reporting journey we took to a rural swing district in Maine during the 2018 midterms. Still, we were taking a risk.

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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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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

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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Political Science Now

APRIL 8, 2024

The study challenges conventional interpretations of radical right support as solely a rural phenomenon or a product of adverse economic conditions. Furthermore, their research demonstrates that the effect of dialectal distance is not just a proxy for the urban-rural divide or economic factors.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

In the dim light of a Monday morning in August 2018, Meng, a 33-year-old woman living near Beijing, began her day with a sense of urgency. I conducted fieldwork among Chinese middle-class investors from 2018 to 2021, precisely during the period marked by the industry’s decline, to capture people’s shifting perception of their financial lives.

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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

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 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

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

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

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In 2018, Congress increased annual funding for CTE, which now exceeds $1.4 You can’t see that in most places,” said Daniel Kreisman, an economics professor at Georgia State University who helped launch an effort to inform CTE policymakers by compiling data and producing research. Do they earn good wages?

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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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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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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 20, 2023

circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in February 2023. circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in February 2023. A 2018 report by The Center for New York City Affairs at The New School pointed out the “ Paradox of Choice.” But that hasn’t been proven.

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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

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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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

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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Political Science Now

APRIL 4, 2024

At this pivotal moment in our nation’s democracy, we must look to social science thought leaders to help us reimagine American world leadership and secure economic opportunity for future generations,” said Marta Tienda, AAPSS president. “It

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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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Political Science Now

AUGUST 23, 2024

She holds a PhD and MA in political science from Ohio State University, and a BA in Political & Economic studies of Europe from Duke University. In 2009 Salter returned to academia, and took postgraduate degrees in economics and public policy, followed by a PhD in political science.

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Becoming a History Teacher

JUNE 12, 2023

For me, the world Mr Bean inhabits is evocative of my teenage years living in a pre-internet, economically depressed 1990s Britain. 2018) Senior Curriculum Leadership 1: The indirect manifestation of knowledge: (A) curriculum as narrative. For my children, this world is both simultaneously strange and strangely familiar.

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