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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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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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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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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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DECEMBER 16, 2022

Missouri Western State University eliminated majors, minors and concentrations in English, history, philosophy, sociology, political science, art and other subjects. Eastern Kentucky University shut down theater, economics and other majors. Subjects such as history teach about the past as a lens into the present, she said.

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JUNE 23, 2020

Schools hold the history and culture of a place through yearbooks, trophy cases, and photo archives. Whatever the reason a school has to close, something needs to fill the educational, economic, and social voids created by the closure. We use schools as polling stations and for neighborhood association meetings.

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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. The answer is complicated, as is the history of immigration in the U.S.

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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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JUNE 24, 2024

Their fearful reactions will widen the already concerning inequities between Hispanic and non-Hispanic students; the degree completion gap between Latino and white students increased between 2018 and 2021. Feedback from professors in areas such as history and philosophy strengthened the guidelines, adding valuable perspectives.

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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.”. Marc Levine, emeritus professor of history, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. It’s paying off.

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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. John-Paul Salter first read modern history, before going into the City and working in banking, where much of his time was spent in regulatory policy development and implementation.

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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. Will history repeat? Related: What has happened when campuses shut down for other disasters? Credit: Photo: Getty Images.

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MAY 27, 2020

Everybody’s already talking about program reviews,” said Rudy Fichtenbaum, a professor of economics at Wright State University in Ohio and president of the American Association of University Professors. Will history repeat? These programs started because of political pressures, and the political pressures are no longer there.”

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

During the last pre-pandemic college application cycle, 2018-19, nearly 1.2 Overall, they found that 24 percent of students who started the Common App in 2018-19 did not complete it. Lozada, 21, now assists students preparing for college at her high school alma mater, the Facing History School several blocks away from John Jay.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2021

In a new study, a team of economists scrutinized all the “strikes” and “balls” shouted and signaled by Major League Baseball (MLB) umpires from 2008 to 2018. The study, “ The Dynamics Of Inattention In The (Baseball) Field ,” is a draft paper circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in June 2021.

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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Her parents have a deep history in Syrian politics. About one million of them are in Europe, according to Eurostat and UNHCR and as reported by the Pew Research Center in 2018. In January 2018, the first class graduated. Two more have been admitted for the 2018-19 academic year. Her home country is Syria.

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AUGUST 5, 2021

But now a convergence of factors — a dwindling pool of traditional-age students, the call for more educated workers and a pandemic that highlighted economic disparities and scrambled habits and jobs — is putting adults in the spotlight. But in the midst of his studies, he stumbled and had to retake an economics course.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2018

A man watches an artificial intelligence (AI) news anchor from a state-controlled news broadcaster, on his computer in Beijing on November 9, 2018. The panel I spoke on responded to the work of Andreas Schleicher, education director for the intergovernmental Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

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JULY 16, 2019

Foster’s intelligence and dedication put people into space during one of the most tumultuous times in our nation’s history. million from 1990 to 2018 (a 79 percent increase). He created hundreds of desirable jobs in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) for black Alabamians. Total includes bachelor’s and associate’s degrees.

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

Photos of the class of 2018 are shown on May 15, 2018, on the Onalaska High School front office wall in Onalaska, Washington. Enrollment in the Onalaska School District — which includes the town and outlying areas — rose by about 14 percent between May 2014 and May 2018, to 851 students. Returning families.

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MARCH 11, 2020

Economic mobility and security across successive generations have been inaccessible to black communities. This debt is disproportionately held by black borrowers , who, because of our history of racial inequality, are more likely to borrow for college, to borrow in higher amounts and to take longer to repay the debt. Prosperity Now.

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JUNE 17, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Automation affects workers around the world — nearly half of the employers surveyed by the World Economic Forum last year expected automation would reduce their workforce by 2022. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. A place like Mississippi is heavily exposed.”. “As

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MARCH 19, 2018

In this 2017 photo, students present their history projects at a New York City high school for recent immigrants and refugees. The key appears to be education because higher educational attainment is associated with economic success, social status, better health, family stability, and life opportunities. Photo: Meredith Kolodner.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

At Cambridge Rindge & Latin, an ethnically diverse school that in 2018 sent 82 percent of its graduates to college, the BRYT classroom is tucked at the end of a quiet hallway. Duncan MacLaury, a history teacher in his fourth year at Rindge & Latin, said he often sees students struggling with depression and suicidal ideation.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It’s unfair, it’s discriminatory, and it disadvantages already economically disadvantaged kids,” said Jack Fletcher, co-founder of the Texas Center for Learning Disabilities in Houston and one of the first scientists to question the discrepancy model’s validity. I’ve wondered for 25 years why it is that we continue to use it.”

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DECEMBER 19, 2021

While the pandemic still took its toll, adapting to online learning was smoother in Lindsay due to its preexisting infrastructure and history of adaptation. But the community began to suffer economically after several major employers, including what was once the largest olive processer in the world, shut down in the early 1990s.

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AUGUST 6, 2020

A model created by the COVID-19 Eviction Defense Project , a coalition of economic researchers and legal experts, estimates that roughly 20 percent of the 110 million Americans who live in rented homes risk displacement by September 30 unless policymakers enact aggressive relief measures. Academically, Mikaela held her own in middle school.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2019

After passing the core tests, most educators then take one or more of the Praxis II exams, which are focused on various subject specialties (so a would-be high school history teacher would take a Praxis II history test, for example). In July 2018, the state hired a full-time employee to focus on teacher recruitment and retention.

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JANUARY 23, 2019

Morales started out as an elementary-school teacher, then switched to academic counseling, which she’s done at LA High for the past eleven years; Martinez worked there, too, teaching history and social studies, until six years ago, when he was transferred to another high school in the district. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2023

educators — the lasting social and economic impact of COVID-19 and America’s ongoing racial reckoning; teacher burnout, trauma and mental health; low pay and low morale in the profession; public scapegoating of teachers; and the incessant escalation of demands on their time with shrinking professional resources. Teachers College Press.

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DECEMBER 22, 2018

The sentiment is echoed by Jason Krause, principal of Denver’s Columbine Elementary School, which joined the EL network in 2018. They dug into the history and economics of different energy sources in social studies and read a book in English class about a boy in Malawi, Africa, who electrified his village with do-it-yourself wind power.

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AUGUST 16, 2021

Jonah Rockoff, a professor of finance and economics at Columbia University. Brown, who came home to Charlotte in 2018 after leading a school in Hilton Head, belies the idea that large middle schools must be more impersonal than smaller K-8s. John’s University. “We Neither is perfect. The jury is still out.” Neither is perfect.

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JUNE 4, 2019

Raoul Contreras, a professor who leads the Latino studies program housed in the minority studies department, notes that in the last year, the school cut a Puerto Rican history class he taught. Anel Chavez, a recent graduate of Indiana University Northwest, picks up an application for the school’s business and economics graduate program.

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APRIL 6, 2017

Tucci, who will graduate in 2018. Archaeology of Human Origins” may sound interesting, but if you wait too long to focus on your economics major, you may not get in all the requirements you need. Let’s say you are a Florida State University student looking for a class to fulfill its history/social science requirement.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

The good news: Educators can equip students to recognize the breadth of the climate emergency, grasp how it strikes unequally around the world, examine its social and economic causes, and come to see themselves as activists for a just society and a stable climate. They ignore the long history of U.S. That’s the bad news.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

MINNEAPOLIS — Charles Golding looked for two things when he was researching colleges: a top economics program and a connection to his native culture. A Google search led him to the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, a state flagship school with prize-winning economists and a history of indigenous activism.

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