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. Rural universities are also often cultural oases, Huisman said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

Between 67 and 100 percent of Indigenous languages in those three countries will disappear within three generations, according to a 2019 analysis of 200 years of global language loss by researcher Gary Simons. The global linguistic crisis is most stark in the predominantly English-speaking countries of the United States, Australia and Canada.

Teaching 144

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Back in 2019 , I took to an EdSurge column to share my opinion — a sounding call for more attention to be paid to the role social capital plays in education and workforce training. Those with social capital may wield it to maintain power and reinforce authority, often at the expense of those with less. But education just isn’t there yet.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2023

Over and over, we read news stories and research studies demonstrating that Black learners face huge barriers in attending and completing college and gaining a strong economic foothold. Some estimates, including one from Citi , find that the racial economic divide has cost our country $16 trillion over the last two decades.

Economics 132

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The conversation that morning in December 2019 followed the lead of the seven or eight most vocal students. 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.

Teaching 141

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2021

In Chicago, only 42 percent of public school graduates enrolled in four-year colleges in 2019. To start with, colleges must consider factors other than the traditional standardized scores when recruiting underserved students from communities with few economic, health and educational resources.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2021

percent since fall 2019, compared to a 5.3 While basic needs insecurities threaten students regardless of gender, a 2019-20 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study of the pandemic’s impact on undergraduates found that females had greater difficulty than males accessing food or paying for food and finding stable and safe child care.

Economics 126

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

My journey as an immigrant from a small town in Africa’s smallest mainland country, The Gambia, to the biggest city in the United States, with its many diverse cultures, has given me a unique perspective. This experience gave me an opportunity to recognize my own cultural myopia. I’m a better teacher because of it. A Muslim lens.

American History 125

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ED Surge

MARCH 12, 2024

By 2019 that had fallen to just 41 percent. Of course there are many factors, but in this same period of time there have been a growing number of messages in popular culture giving highly skeptical views of college. So what is happening here?

Economics 129

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2021

The long journey of the coronavirus pandemic took students through dimensions of online learning, social isolation, economic anguish, personal loss and mass grief. It resulted in psychological distress for many. “We Related: How one community college professor goes beyond the call.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

As this happens, more people will encounter a confluence of water-related challenges , including substantial disease risks, constrained economic opportunities, and political instability. The Jakarta Post reported that Sumba went 249 days without rain in 2019.

Anthropology 135

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2022

Initially, the built-in education to counteract uncontrollable mega-modernity was Home Economics—emphasis on economics. However, since the ’70s, schools dropped Home Economics as they became driven more by employers’ demands, not human needs. It is not difficult to slip up and go from victor to victim in a few hours.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2022

One out of every six white school children in the United States – nearly four million white students – attend schools that are 90 percent or more white , according to the most recent federal data from 2019. Today many districts that seek to desegregate have switched to using socio-economic proxies for race, such as family income.

Elementary School 124

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 31, 2024

It was hard to gain access and insight into the ship industry when I first visited in the winter of 2019–2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. The economic significance of shipbreaking means that national and international NGOs seeking to ban the industry in Bangladesh remain unpopular.

Anthropology 137

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ED Surge

JULY 28, 2023

According to 2019 data from the National Science Foundation, women held one-third of STEM occupations in the United States. jobs in science and engineering in 2019. Young girls need culturally-relevant curricula and programs in their schools and communities that are accessible and affordable. percent of Latina women, 1.8

K-12 98

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2020

At Kent State University at Ashtabula, 55 black students received an associate or bachelor’s degree between fall 2013 and spring 2019. Between fall 2013 and spring 2019, university officials say, 55 black students received an associate or bachelor’s degree from Ashtabula. Very few have succeeded.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

A 2019 American Council on Education survey found that student mental health had become a higher priority over the previous three years for 80 percent of college presidents. They will need to provide professional development to existing staff and break down silos between all student-facing functions, developing an “all-hands-on-deck” culture.

Psychology 125

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ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2022

Teacher performance is judged on a 19-point rubric that includes factors like preparedness, classroom culture and collaboration. There, a rubric looks at factors like student achievement and instructional culture. Student achievement is scored based on test scores and individual improvement. A Model for the Future? “But

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ED Surge

MAY 6, 2022

According to the most recent National Survey of Early Care and Education , administered by the Administration for Children and Families in 2019, there are over 5 million caregivers and providers caring for about 6.8 million children ages 0-5 in a home setting. Here are some ideas to get started: Families. Celebrate and thank your provider.

Economics 102

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

But at the end of 2019, an asthma-related hospital visit and the death of several extended family members sent Williams into a depression. Fewer students equal less revenue for community colleges, which could lead to cuts at the very institutions so many depend upon as a first step toward economic mobility. It’s just too much.”.

High School 145

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Lindsay also faced a huge cultural obstacle — geography. Given the educational and economic divide between rural and nonrural America, this may be the most important college access program you’ve never heard of. She closed, at 1 a.m., forcing a choice: Go to school exhausted or skip classes and learn the material on her own.

Education 143

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2024

Adirondack Cultural Ecology. Related: Changing education can change the climate Dickinson, a liberal arts college of just over 2,000 students in Pennsylvania coal country, mandated in 2019 that every student take at least one sustainability course as a requirement for graduation. Environment and Sustainability in Enlightenment France.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2024

Until fairly recently, that decision made economic sense. If successful, the new college could bring economic growth to one of the poorest and least educated parts of the country and serve as a model for the thousands of other “educational deserts” scattered across America. Mining jobs were plentiful, and the money was good.

High School 142

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

million just since 2019, according to the clearinghouse. Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report The obstacles are not only financial and academic, but also cultural. If I can’t read or write at college level, I can’t show that.” Colleges and universities have had a difficult time attracting students of any gender recently.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 24, 2021

At a time when many of the nation’s public-facing institutions are grappling with what it means to become anti-racist, an increasing number of colleges and universities are finally acknowledging that white supremacy has been encoded into their land, built into their environment, and culture.

Leadership 117

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

In a political and economic moment when cross-border partnerships and collaboration face new headwinds, here are three reasons why a cross-border educational experience is critical to our collective future. Borders, cultures and perspectives converge here in a manner that makes it impossible to ignore the interdependence of our two nations.

Economics 74

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2023

population speaks only English as of 2019. Monolingual English speakers miss out on a wealth of economic and cultural opportunities, such as developing a deeper understanding of intercultural communication, opportunities to work or study abroad or to gain employment at international companies. According to the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Just 24 percent of 18- to 24-year-old American Indian and Alaska Native students were enrolled in college in 2019, the lowest of any group, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. It was a huge culture shock coming from … a close, tight-knit community, to a place where people aren’t as accepting,” she said.

Tradition 136

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ED Surge

AUGUST 15, 2023

When I came to Achievement First Brooklyn High School eight years ago as the ninth grade literature teacher, it was my fourth year of teaching and my first time in a school that was unapologetically rooted in the “no excuses” model , which centers a results-driven culture that prioritizes strict behavioral procedures and academic policies.

Leadership 98

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Increase in migration, spring 2020 vs. spring 2019. That works out to somewhere between 8,700 and 10,900 new Vermonters, the local economics firm EPR projects. What recommends small cities, he and others said, is that they have a more relaxed vibe without sacrificing vibrant culture, decent restaurants and other conveniences.

Economics 137

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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. in February 2019. John Barros, chief of economic development for the City of Boston, introduces a panel on redefining hiring on March 28 at Wayfair headquarters in Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood.

Economics 112

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2019

The immediate coverage of an important July 2019 study on Latino children in America emphasized how they are increasingly “segregated” from white children at school. The darker the blue, the more Latinos enrolled. Source: Bruce Fuller, University of California, Berkeley Photo: Zaidee Stavely for The Hechinger Report.

Economics 93

Economics Elementary School Research Tradition 93

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

Even before Covid, in 2019, enrollment in teacher preparation programs across the nation had dropped by more than a third from a decade earlier. Fortunately, mass teacher resignations and retirements largely haven’t come to pass, even as the pandemic nears the end of its third year. Yet there is a shrinking pool of new and returning teachers.

K-12 108

K-12 Geography High School Economics 108

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

To address diversity issues, Anderson is pursuing partnerships with local preschool programs that are more representative of the cultural identity of the Albuquerque metro area, which has sizable Hispanic, Latino and American Indian populations. The school also prioritizes economic equity.

Public School 122

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

Gifted education teachers at the National Association for Gifted Children’s 2019 conference work on a toothpick-and-gumdrop tower, an exercise sometimes done in “talent development” classes. Albuquerque students’ artwork and a poem about volcanoes, displayed at the 2019 National Association for Gifted Children conference.

Middle School 127

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Striving to preserve material cultural heritage, experts disapprove of treasure hunting, which they view as a financially motivated and rather vulgar search for material riches. The absence of a financial reward does not seem to hinder treasure hunting. What else may motivate one to search for treasures, then?

Artifacts 95

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

“It’s so fun,” said Ayiana, who comes from the Iñupiaq culture and lives in Kotzebue, a coastal town just north of the Bering Strait. Sam, who is also from the Iñupiaq culture, loves math. Most of the 11 distinct Alaska Native cultures are represented among ANSEP’s students. It’s not up to interpretation,” he said.

Middle School 111

Middle School Cultures High School Economics 111