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

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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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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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

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

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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 19, 2020

As part of an introductory economics class, Swiss students had the option to work in study groups with their peers. That’s what a University of Zurich graduate student found in an experiment conducted in 2018 and 2019 involving more than 600 college students and 150 study groups.

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CORE Econ

OCTOBER 23, 2024

CORE inspiration We felt that this situation presented some parallels to economics education, where CORE had successfully established a change agenda. There have been several past attempts to reform accounting education, yet they have not been impactful 2. ’ Accounting Education , 25(5), pp. van der Kolk. Irsyadillah Irsyadillah.

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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

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In the post-war boom of the 1950s, college students were confident of their economic futures and many studied liberal arts subjects such as English, history and philosophy. Current economic anxieties that erupted with the pandemic in 2020 are certainly not helping the humanities now. “It’s That’s true for college students too.

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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

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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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

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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2021

America’s economic recovery from Covid-19 is in jeopardy because our leaders are neglecting the needs of a key sector: child care. We need to solve this problem now by treating child care as a priority of our economic recovery strategy. Rick Snyder served as the 48th governor of Michigan from 2011 to 2019.

Economics 141

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The World Economic Forum's 2023 Future of Jobs Report highlighted creative thinking as a top skill for the future. For students, this means having AI skills can level the playing field with more seasoned professionals. At the same time, creativity and creative thinking are also in high demand.

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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

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

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

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

JANUARY 20, 2020

A 2019 draft, working paper of a study on university students in London also found that exposure to indoor air pollutants was associated with lower exam test scores. Sefi Roth, an economist at the London School of Economics, is an author of both studies. Three of her papers came out in 2019. Environmental Protection Agency.

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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 117

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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

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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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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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. Yet, after decades of work to improve representation in STEM careers, we’re still left with dismal results. percent of Latina women, 1.8 percent of Black women and 0.1

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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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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2024

In a time when technological advancements shape our daily lives and drive economic growth, focusing on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education in K-12 schools is not just a trend but a necessity. By 2021, 91 percent of schools in New York City offered computer science (up from 76 percent in 2019).

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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

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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

Programs designed with these students in mind give them training so that they have a shot to compete for STEM jobs with salaries that can lead to economic and social mobility. Credit: Olivia Sanchez/The Hechinger Report Since the Marcy Lab School opened in 2019, roughly 200 students have completed the program.

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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

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.

Economics 133

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2022

United Nations Secretary General António Guterres has called investments in new fossil fuel infrastructure “moral and economic madness.”. The GAO reports that a whopping two-thirds of all students attend schools in areas that experienced a presidentially declared natural disaster between 2017 and 2019.

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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 4, 2024

These data reveal a substantial increase from the pre-pandemic rate of 16 percent in 2019. Lower high school graduation rates caused by chronic absences can result in an underemployed population , negatively affecting economic productivity and stability. Early data from the 2022-23 school year indicates minor improvement, with 27.85

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