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. Initiatives like the U.S.

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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 7, 2022

Initially, the built-in education to counteract uncontrollable mega-modernity was Home Economics—emphasis on economics. The mission is still the same: to educate each person to meet human physical and mental needs, including the social skills for keeping families and communities intact. It builds national human capital.

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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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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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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.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Based on these early successes, education leaders in government and nonprofit organizations sought to bring the power of text messages to hundreds of thousands of students. Source: “Nudging at scale: Experimental evidence from FAFSA completion campaigns,” March 2021 issue of Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

According to the 2019 Hanover Research report “2019 Teacher Perspectives on Professional Development,” 92 percent of teachers reported that the most satisfying professional learning experiences were those which external partners provided. From there, you can construct a solid professional learning plan for your team.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

“[The students] move away from that algorithmic knowledge of mathematics, just following steps and just working like a little robot,” says Daniela Zamora Zuniga, a former economics student who was a learning assistant from 2019 through 2022.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Such closures, mergers and other shifts to try to reach sustainability are reflected in National Center for Educational Statistics reports. Since the 2018-2019 school year, the number of institutions eligible to award federal financial aid fell from 6,281 to 6,063, or 3.47 However, Mills has since merged with Northeastern University.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

A mounting body of evidence indicates that technology in schools isn’t boosting student achievement as its proponents had hoped it would. The more students used technology in schools, the lower the nation ranked in educational achievement. Related: The ‘dirty secret’ about educational innovation.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

In 2019, Mendez met a mother at her youngest daughter’s school who needed full-time child care for her 3-year-old daughter and after-school care for her 6-year-old daughter. “I In December 2019, Martinez took on a short-term job caring for a neighbor’s two elementary-aged children over winter break while school was closed.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2023

population speaks only English as of 2019. American students deserve a multilingual education, and the multitude of benefits deriving from studying an additional language — but many students, especially those in public schools, do not have an opportunity until late in their schooling, if at all. According to the U.S.

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ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2022

Teachers who wind up rated “ineffective” are almost always fired, according to a city-commissioned study , which looked at data from 2017-2019. But expert groups, including the Economic Policy Institute, have warned against putting too much weight on test scores when evaluating teachers.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Her school is located in Houston’s Fifth Ward neighborhood and serves a student body that is nearly 100 percent classified as economically disadvantaged. The Texas Education Agency awards letter grades to schools and districts based on test scores and other student performance metrics.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 15, 2023

During the 2019-20 school year, in response to racial unrest and protests around the United States, Black students and alumni across the country shared about their negative experiences in majority-white elite institutions on “Black at” Instagram pages. It felt like I signed up to move mountains and raise valleys. And in a sense, I did.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Joint International Programs As dean of online learning at Stevens more than a decade ago, I ran three hybrid master's degrees at two top Chinese institutions: Beijing Institute of Technology and Central University of Finance and Economics.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2018

A recent White House proposal to merge the education and labor departments into a new Cabinet-level agency, the Department of Education and the Workforce, underscores the popularity of this view in Washington. One year in, that approach to economic integration, dubbed “diversity by design,” is working. Mississippi Learning.

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ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2024

In August 2019, she opened Miss Tiffany’s Early Childhood Education House, a child care center run in her home in Weirton, West Virginia. Particularly for states like West Virginia, a state with one of the highest poverty ratings and lowest economic opportunity rating.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In our virtual learning circles, structured small group discussions where educators could connect, share resources and learn from each other, we discussed a range of issues weighing heavily on the minds of many U.S. Microaggressions and traumatic stress: Theory, research, and clinical treatment. American Psychological Association. ⁷

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

“I like to have kids talk in class, to me and to each other, about how they’re trying to figure out a problem,” Young said in an interview, and that makes for an ambivalent relationship with education technology. Young gets the utility of online lesson plans geared to math standards and targeted to students at any level.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

While attention is often paid to for-profit universities and colleges whose students sometimes end up with worthless degrees or no degrees at all, this other kind of profit-driven business has more quietly inserted itself into higher education. The July call also offered a sign that colleges may be pushing back on sharing so much revenue.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

That experience indicates why leaders of education technology companies and investment firms are starting to see opportunity in expanding their reach into children’s earliest moments of life. Worse, four in five of these maternal deaths —based on a review of those between 2017 and 2019—were preventable.

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ED Surge

JUNE 13, 2023

The pandemic and its many aftershocks — including a hit to labor force participation among women and a severe early childhood staffing shortage — helped many Americans unacquainted with these issues begin to understand the integral role that early care and education play in economic and social stability.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2022

During the pandemic the public teaching workforce appears to have shrunk by nearly 7 percent, according to federal jobs data crunched by the Economic Policy Institute. In place of pricey one-on-one coaching, Gomez offers online courses to help educators refine their resumes and skill sets for other fields. Others want a fresh start.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2022

In 2019, before the pandemic, 31 percent of Tennessee’s low-income students were reading on a “below basic” level. Larger groups are more economical and reach more students. The Tennessee Department of Education said it was seeing much lower attendance rates for tutoring sessions scheduled before and after school.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Educators and college leaders should build on these efforts by considering the following: Create an institution-wide taskforce for identifying short- and long-term community solutions. Find ways to partner with state and local governments leading digital equity efforts to aid in workforce preparedness.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Since then, I have enjoyed serving on various panels like those with the Colorado Business Roundtable discussing the future of higher education and its intersection with economic and workforce needs. For one, agreement around the purpose of higher education is fragmented. Failure is not an option; America is depending on us.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Laying the Groundwork It was early 2019, and Greg VanWoerkom, a Republican, had just been sworn in for his first term in the Michigan House of Representatives. In the event of an economic downturn, many employers worry the program would be among the first to go. Among the issues he was eager to address was child care. “We

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Biden signed an executive order on AI in October 2023, which directed the Education Department to develop within a year resources, policies and guidance on AI and to create an “AI toolkit” for schools. The shortfall is “immoral,” Harris told members of the National Education Association at a 2019 candidates forum.

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