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Rural universities, already few and far between, are being stripped of majors

The Hechinger Report

The University of Alaska system has scaled back more than 40 academic programs , including earth sciences, geography and environmental resources, sociology, hospitality administration and theater. Eastern Kentucky University shut down theater, economics and other majors.

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An unnoticed result of the decline of men in college: It’s harder for women to get in

The Hechinger Report

Those could include major, geography or high school. At private four-year universities, those figures are 51 percent and 47 percent, respectively, according to 2014-2018 data from the National Center for Education Statistics. O’Connor said that gender is just one thing among many looked at by admissions officers.

Geography 145
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Test prep to get into vocational education? Yup, it’s a thing

The Hechinger Report

If that employment picture doesn’t change soon, some experts say, it could hamper economic growth. These relationships are carefully nurtured by school staff — and aided by geography. Ted Szczawinski, director of curriculum at Passaic County Technical Institute on the collaboration between staff and business in curriculum development.

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Universities that boost the poorest students to wealth are becoming harder to afford

The Hechinger Report

Stony Brook, located about 60 miles east of Manhattan on Long Island, would like to enroll more low-income students, said Matthew Whelan, the university’s vice president for enrollment strategy and relationship development, but he says it is hampered by geography. Our goal is to be accessible to students from across the economic spectrum.”.

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Steven V. Miller

Economic Threats or Societal Turmoil? Peace Economics, Peace Science and #> Public Policy* 24(1). #> Economic Anxiety or Ethnocentrism? Geography, #> Territory, and Conflict.” Economic Threats or Societal Turmoil? #> #> #> Miller, Steven V. Journal of Peace Research* 50(6): 677–90. #>

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Beyond Screens: The Benefits of Paper-Based Learning for Elementary Students

Studies Weekly

The visual geography of paper has memory-linking effects that help students connect what they have read with where they saw it on a page or how far into a book it was. Economics of Education Review , 68 , 89–103. Our brains give more weight to words on a printed page. Personality and Individual Differences , 115 , 154–158.

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After years of inaction, Delta teacher shortage reaches ‘crisis’ levels

The Hechinger Report

Indeed, a recent study in the 2017 Mississippi Economic Review found that districts with the worst teacher shortages have a weak local property tax base, a high percentage of black students and are disproportionately located in the Delta. Teacher shortage is primarily a function of race and geography,” the authors wrote.