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.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

percent fewer undergraduate students now than there were in the fall of 2019 before the pandemic. “If Private nonprofit institutions, such as Harvard University, have 4 percent more students enrolled than last year and almost 2 percent more students enrolled since fall of 2019. “I percent in the 2021-22 academic year after plunging 3.4

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Beyond its economic role, the tualang holds profound cultural and spiritual significance for many indigenous groups. Diverse Values of Nature and the IPBES Conceptual Framework Examines the incorporation of diverse cultural, spiritual, and economic values of nature within the IPBES framework. Source: Sustainability Science, 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

It is especially abhorrent that a government program intended to create equitable opportunities for all students instead perpetuates racial and economic gaps in financial stability and mobility. The vast majority of those who default on student loans have faced persistent economic and social vulnerability.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The American Indian College Fund’s 2019-20 Student Ambassador cohort. Credit: Caitlin Alysse/American Indian College Fund 2019. Another survey conducted by the College Fund found that same fall 2019, one in 10 students said they were at risk of leaving college due to financial concerns. billion in economic activity.

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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 most recent scores are from 2019-20.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

A new book by Arthur Levine and Scott Van Pelt asks, How will America’s colleges and universities adapt to remarkable technological, economic and demographic change? Today, they are even more common at two-year schools: In 2019, community colleges granted 852,504 associate degrees and 579,822 certificates.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2020

According to a preliminary October 2020 report from National Student Clearinghouse Research Center that tallied fall enrollment figures from just over half of the nation’s colleges and universities, the number of undergraduate students has fallen 4 percent since the fall of 2019. Will these students resume their college careers?

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2021

Fifteen state flagships had at least a 10-point gap between the percentage of Black public high school graduates in their states in 2019 and the Black share of freshmen they enrolled that fall. About 7 percent of its freshmen in 2019 were Latino, compared with nearly 14 percent of Maryland’s public high school graduates. I want U-Md.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

It is paying off: Over a five-year span ending in 2019, the number of students reading at grade level in the district grew at a rate that outpaced the state as a whole. In North Carolina, reading scores barely budged in the five years between 2015 and 2019. READ THE SERIES. 1 in the nation for growth in reading.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2020

A National Bureau of Economic Research study by researchers from Arizona State University found that first-generation college students are 50 percent more likely to have delayed graduation due to Covid-19 than students who have college-educated parents. But the benefits of a higher education are not simply economic.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the cost of college increased by 180 percent after inflation from 1980 to 2019-20. Students are assuming historic levels of loan debt in pursuit, ironically, of economic mobility (a long-proven benefit of higher education). trillion — up nearly $750 billion in 12 years.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In 2019, Heckman updated his analysis to add significant intergenerational benefits for children of parents who initially participated in high-quality preschool. Unprecedented global collaboration and drastic shifts in our individual, economic and societal activities could help mitigate some of the worst consequences of climate change.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2021

As of 2019, when much of the report’s data were collected, more than half of babies in the country were children of color. Between 2018 and 2019, the United States ranked 33 rd for relative child poverty out of 37 economically advanced countries.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Around 100,000 fewer high school seniors completed financial aid applications to attend college this year than in 2019, according to an analysis by the National College Attainment Network. For many institutions, virtual learning will be the best, safest option for the fall, which presents students with a host of additional challenges.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A 2019 study of texting and providing other information to almost 800,000 low- and middle-income students who scored in the top 50 percent on the PSAT and the SAT found no change in the types of colleges that students enrolled in. But as the texts reached larger numbers of people, they stopped working.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2023

rose from 29th place to 28th place, still in the bottom half of economically advanced nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), an international organization of 38 member countries that oversees the PISA exam. Neither India nor China, which topped the rankings in 2018 , participated in the 2022 PISA.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

At Brewbaker, which in 2020 served more than 700 students in pre-K through second grade, nearly 20 percent of her students are English learners and 71 percent are economically disadvantaged. In 2019, a year before Brown Wright was hired, less than 20 percent of students were proficient on the school’s reading assessments, the principal said.

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ED Surge

MARCH 12, 2024

By 2019 that had fallen to just 41 percent. He recently served as the first civil society fellow in artificial intelligence and machine learning at the World Economic Forum, where he led research on AI, job quality and work augmentation. The value of college is something that people used to pretty much agree on.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2024

Still, these neediest children were projected to be one third of a grade level behind low-income students in 2019, before the pandemic disrupted education. Researchers explained that these students are on track to approach 2019 achievement levels because they didn’t suffer as much learning loss.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 24, 2022

“With the exception of wartime, the United States has never been through a period of declining educational attainment like this ,” says Michael Hicks, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State University. By 2019, a bachelor’s degree generated 77 percent more in a worker’s paycheck than a high school diploma.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2022

While San Antonio is one of the fastest growing economic regions in the U.S., The five community colleges selected 25 city high schools where the majority of students have not gone on to postsecondary education and more than half are economically disadvantaged. Credit: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

Arrington, in 1860 the economic value of enslaved peoples in the U.S. With such industrial, technological, infrastructural, societal and economic growth occurring in the country, higher education became seen as a key pathway to success. America’s Workforce Dilemma During the 2019-2020 academic year, U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2021

Improve compensation to early childhood educators: Poor working conditions, a lack of benefits and low pay have all contributed to economic insecurity and high turnover rates among early educators. Poverty rates for early educators range from about 11 percent in Vermont to more than 34 percent in Washington D.C.,

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

Through regular exchanges of humorous insults with fellow classmates on various topics — such as who was the least intelligent or most economically disadvantaged — I developed a well-curated arsenal of diss material. The tracked classes did, however, improve my social skills and popularity.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2024

Yet, there were 10,000 fewer family child care programs in the United States in 2022 than in 2019. Black early educators have made tremendous sacrifices to help hold up this country’s economic recovery. Millions of young children spend time in home-based child care , also known as family child care (FCC).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

To that end, his company built a new software tool designed for classroom use and piloted it in five school districts — including the massive Clark County School District serving Las Vegas and its suburbs — in the 2019-20 school year. million to NWEA in 2019-20 for students in kindergarten through eighth grade to take the assessments.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2022

On the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress, average eighth grade math scores declined eight points from 2019, hitting a level not seen since the early 2000s. At Northside, the share of eighth graders passing the state math standards test fell by 19 percentage points from 2019 to 2021, to 68 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2021

percent in the fall, or by more than 461,000 students compared to the fall of 2019, the decline among men was more than seven times as steep as the decline among women, according to an analysis of figures from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. And the Covid-19 pandemic has abruptly thrown the ratio even more off balance.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

That could have lasting effects both for these individuals’ financial security and for the broader economy, by stymieing innovation and growth and deepening economic polarization. The United States has, historically, done a poor job of helping people who have been displaced by offshoring, automation, recessions and other economic dislocation.

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ED Surge

JULY 26, 2022

The way we accommodate child care, and time for our loved ones, is both the greatest challenge and the greatest economic opportunity of our time,” Nooyi said, adding that it is a core challenge for employers. economic health and competitiveness, noted Reshma Saujani, founder and CEO of Marshall Plan for Moms in an interview.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

However, a 2019 study by the College Board , the organization that owns and earns revenue from the SAT, detailed how the essay portion increased the ability to predict how well an applicant would do in college English and writing classes. The College Board charges only $16 more for the optional essay portion.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2021

One in four universities were test-optional by the end of 2019, but the obstacles to group test-taking created by the Covid-19 pandemic increased that number substantially; two-thirds of four-year higher education institutions in the U.S. The University of San Francisco also went test-optional before the pandemic, in 2019.

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