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APRIL 13, 2020

Dozens of elite college prep programs, from Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America to the University of Chicago’s Collegiate Scholars Program , have been established across the United States in the last 20 years, each with heartwarming stories of college success. For example, she did not have access to students’ grades.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

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. But that doesn’t mean all students need to go to a four-year college.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Instead of passively accepting the void in federal leadership, cities such as Memphis are finding innovative ways to bring together the public, private and nonprofit sectors to finance and expand needed services for children, and increasing pressure on local officials to reinvest in child services.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

Education Department civil rights data, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater professor Scott Peters found that on a state level “equity got worse” in gifted education from 2016 to 2018, with underrepresentation of Hispanic children in a majority of states and of Black students in three-quarters of states, he wrote in an email.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

Using a four-year degree as a proxy for employability shuts out the most economically vulnerable job seekers. Rainville had to persuade 10 people from the sales leadership team before she could make the change. The staff at Resilient Coders sees this racial and economic inequality up close. “If I said, ‘That’s got to go.’”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

based Virtual Internships was established in 2018 with the goal of removing barriers to internship participation, especially abroad, co-founder Ed Holroyd Pearce said. The program offers fully remote internships that last one to four months, require a commitment of 10, 20 or 30 hours per week, and have start dates throughout the year.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2020

Kimberly Dixon, left, director of employer engagement and diversity recruitment at Stony Brook University, speaks with Djamilie Jules and other students in the Diversity Professional Leadership Network on campus. Our goal is to be accessible to students from across the economic spectrum.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2021

Apprenticeship and skills-based training often better serve workers looking for economic security and respect. Carnevale agreed that tracking remains a problem, but argued that a few months of training can also be exactly what a jobless worker needs to gain some economic security. Credit: MacLaff Inc.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Much of the advocacy for net-zero buildings has focused on environmental and economic incentives. According to a March 2018 NBI report, there are 89 verified or “emerging” net-zero schools (emerging means under construction or too new to have been verified yet). RELATED: A school district is building a DIY broadband network.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Its leadership must grow/shrink the college to create a better fit among people, programs and facilities. Its supporters must remember that a college is both an educational enterprise and an economic engine for its region, and seek strong public private partnerships to mutual benefit.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

As a prelude to discussing leadership, peer pressure and conflict, a Crew of seventh graders at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, played a game called “Instigator.” The sentiment is echoed by Jason Krause, principal of Denver’s Columbine Elementary School, which joined the EL network in 2018. Chris Berdik/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Kellogg Foundation to help scale up its organization’s work, which has grown from seven fellows in 2014 to more than 40 fellows in 2018. Nathan and Nathaniel Albert walk the halls of Bricolage Academy, the K-8 school in New Orleans where they worked during the 2018-19 school year through an initiative called Brothers Empowered to Teach.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Each elementary school focuses on a specific area — engineering, math and science, the arts, leadership, or foreign languages, among others. Related: Blurring the lines between K-12, higher ed and the workforce. Joel Vargas, Jobs for the Future (JFF). “It’s

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2016

But in short order, a whirlwind of leadership turnover — four superintendents in four years — led the partnership to a very public impasse that pitted the school district against its fundraising partner, the alliance. “We You are prone to the priorities of leadership when you are in service to a district.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2019

New Jersey’s program provides money and support services to 13,449 students from educationally and economically disadvantaged backgrounds in 42 programs from community colleges to Rutgers, the state flagship. In the first week of 2018’s summer program, some students used a vending machine at NJIT without permission.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2019

If that employment picture doesn’t change soon, some experts say, it could hamper economic growth. This close relationship with county leadership gives schools a direct connection with local businesses, allowing them to be nimble and responsive to employers’ needs.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2019

Rabalais dreamed of a diverse campus that would cater to his diverse neighborhood and draw kids from across the racial and economic chasms that have long divided New Orleans. Fortunately for Rabalais, on July 1, 2018, control of the city’s schools was returned to New Orleans’ elected school board. But there was a big problem. “The

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

But the neighborhood just to the north, Hancock Park, is 71 percent white, with a median income of $85,000; the student body, meanwhile, is 79 percent Latino, 12 percent African-American, 7 percent Asian, and 64 percent “economically disadvantaged,” drawn from Koreatown, Mid-City, and neighborhoods farther afield. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

As of October 2018, 83 percent of districts could access the internet at the Federal Communications Commission’s 2014 minimum recommended speed of 100 kilobits per second per student, up from 42 percent in 2015, according to EducationSuperHighway. Bill Walker pledged to partner with EducationSuperHighway.

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ED Surge

JUNE 27, 2023

Polis : When I was first elected in 2018, running on a platform of full-day kindergarten and adding preschool, my very first call as governor-elect was to a Republican representative, Jim Wilson of Salida, Colorado, a former superintendent who had been working on full-day kindergarten for many years.

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The Hechinger Report

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 I’ve wondered for 25 years why it is that we continue to use it.”

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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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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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Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

let’s kill Bill”), their policies protect it, and arguably should, since university students and professors must feel free to consider a wide range of ideas in seeking truth (Whittington, 2018). This was the technically correct response, because unless speech calls for imminent violence directed at a specific person (e.g., Trojahn et al.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The class of 2018 didn’t fare much better. Fourth graders in the state from almost every racial and economic background improved their scores on the exam. When she toured Holmes Central High School’s virtual pilot AP Physics program, in the fall of 2018, she advocated for “freedom and flexibility”— not additional spending.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 22, 2021

The apprenticeship program is also a great example of the kind of workforce development championed in the Biden Administration’s economic agenda, building on the earlier work of the previous two administrations. In 2018, the shipyard was forced to lay off hundreds of workers , and there was widespread concern that the firm would go under.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

Domingo Morel, New York University professor and author of a book on state takeovers By 2018, four of Houston’s 274 schools, all of them in the city’s economically distressed north and east sides, hadn’t met the standards for four years running, putting the district at risk of a takeover. HISD leadership is a disaster….

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

When Karli Hinman enrolled at Stony Brook University in fall 2018, she knew her family couldn’t help her pay to continue her education. I think it’s a great philanthropy initiative that allows a rapid response,” says Justin Nalley, a senior policy analyst at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2020

In 2018, Alma Heights became the Pacific Bay Christian School. acronym to describe the populations least likely to show up in Christian schools: academically disenfranchised, culturally diverse, and/or economically disadvantaged. That has had the effect of barring economically marginalized groups, including many communities of color.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Some iterations of President Joe Biden’s economic plan have included the Reopen and Rebuild America’s Schools Act, which would dole out $130 billion to repair schools over the next decade. Mice, rats and cockroaches infest some buildings, according to a 2018 review conducted by the district.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

Ninety-six percent of children at the Walton Avenue School, a K-5 school in the Bronx he’d founded in 2013, face economic hardship, and about a third are homeless. Russo himself has embodied the sixth: “effective school leadership.” By the 2018-19 school year, the program had expanded to $195 million for 258 schools.).

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

At Duke, he is the founder (and sometimes director) of the Modeling Economic and Political Systems Focus program (MESS) and the Decision Science program. She is the author of Political Realism in Apocalyptic Times (Cambridge University Press, 2018). Pablo Beramendi is Professor of Political Science at Duke University.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2020

She opened her doors in July 2018 with five children enrolled. Only four states pay adequate rates for infant care at child care centers, according to a 2018 report from the National Women’s Law Center. In Texas, a 2018 market rate survey determined the 75th percentile for full-day infant care at a licensed center to be $49 a day.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Since 2018, a group of Duck Hill teens and community leaders have been tackling the climate-related problems that their state and local government neglect or haven’t had the capacity to fix. ASEEDS stands for Achieving Sustainability Through Education and Economic Development Solutions ? She says it was eye-opening.

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