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AUGUST 4, 2020

They’d spent the past decade grappling with declining enrollments and weakening support from state governments. At worst, institutions under financial stress can fold — sometimes overnight, as government and accrediting oversight fails to prevent precipitous closures that throw students’ lives into disarray.

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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. This is the one area left in the federal government, unfortunately, that is very much bipartisan,” she said of Native American issues.

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We were able to get more families and children access to quality early learning, while supporting families to get back into the workforce, providing that economic benefit and the need that businesses in our community have, Jones said. We don't have a lot of state statutes that govern how we do pre-K, Hume said.

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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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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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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

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

MARCH 11, 2020

From our nation’s founding to the present, government-sponsored and supported policies have relegated black Americans to the outskirts of mainstream society. Economic mobility and security across successive generations have been inaccessible to black communities. higher education exacerbate, rather than reduce, these inequities.

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JULY 22, 2019

Source: Adam Looney and Constantine Yannelis in the August 2019 issue of Economics of Education Review. Looney’s and Yannelis’s calculations were published in the current August 2019 issue of the journal, Economics of Education Review, in their paper, “ How useful are default rates?

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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. GROWING A GLOBAL SISTERHOOD It seems our work has seeded change.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2020

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. By 2019, Ayers had helped impoverished Perry County reach an 86 percent college-going rate (57 students), the highest in the state, according to government figures.

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JUNE 21, 2021

Thomas earned her bachelor’s degree in July 2019 though an online program; she is now on her way to an MBA. which owns and operates a group of McDonald’s restaurants in Louisiana, is pictured with her spouse, Larry Thomas, after receiving her bachelor’s degree in July 2019 from Colorado Technical University.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

Alhassan Susso teaches government, economics and personal development at the International Community High School in New York City. He was the recipient of The NEA Foundation’s top honor, the NEA Member Benefits Award for Teaching Excellence, in 2020, and the 2019 New York State Teacher of the Year award.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2022

Larry Hogan announced in March that the state government would strip bachelor’s degree requirements from thousands of job listings. Jared Polis directed government agencies in his state to embrace hiring workers for skills , not degrees. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. requirements too. trillion in student loans.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Don’t give up on the protagonist until the story is told,” said William Gormley, a professor of government and public policy at Georgetown University and co-director of its Center for Research on Children in the United States, which has overseen much of the Tulsa research. The remaining 50 percent decided against attending either.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2020

By the end of 2019, there was $128 billion in private student loans, which was higher than total debt for payday loans and past-due medical debt. By contrast, for student loans held by the federal government, borrowers don’t have to pay until Sept. This lack of government regulation can put vulnerable borrowers at risk.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Advocates see government investment as key to getting more kids of color and kids from low-income families into outdoor schools. The school also prioritizes economic equity. In 2019, Tiny Trees offered tuition assistance to about half of its students, but that was cut to 30 percent in 2020 because of budget challenges.

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JULY 2, 2021

These partnerships have become the real-time data source that are creating that skilled pipeline and pathway of workers to make this economic recovery better and faster and more inclusive,” Vilsack said. Patricia Ramos, dean of workforce and economic development, Santa Monica College.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

The education provisions of the law’s definition of homeless — “individuals who lack a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence” — encompasses unaccompanied and unsheltered youth, students in homeless shelters, kids living at a hotel or motel and children staying with friends or family due to economic hardship.

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APRIL 30, 2022

The analysis used data from 2015, the latest available at the time, though more recent government statistics produce a similar conclusion. Anthony Carnevale, director of the Georgetown Center for Education and the Workforce, said he doesn’t think the government should remove funding from low-payoff certificates. The wage is secondary.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2019

For most of their lives, they’ve been told that a college degree will set them on a path to economic mobility, and they have arrived on their campuses filled with a sense of possibility. When I was a teacher, I promised my students that college was the ticket to economic mobility. This fall, 1.2 post-graduation).

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NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Before we can move forward to create equitable systems, we need our leaders in government to acknowledge and repair past wrongs. Hogan should see that an investment in black institutions and students is an investment in his state’s economic and social wellbeing. Photo: Brian Witte/AP.

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JUNE 30, 2020

But not everyone has reaped the benefits of Nashville’s economic growth equally, particularly among the approximately 55,000 adults without high school degrees. In 2019, they pursued and received multiple funding opportunities from Vanderbilt University, the Joe C.

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DECEMBER 10, 2021

Noting that the Chinese government is very conservative, Wang remarked that the ministry is likely fearful that its academic reputation will suffer if it approved online degrees prematurely. Today, following the global pandemic surge, 24 Chinese MOOC platforms offer an astonishing 52,000 courses, more than double the number in 2019.

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MARCH 5, 2021

Even if enrollment eventually rebounds, the interruption caused by the pandemic will be felt for years — coinciding with a hoped-for economic recovery — since that’s how long it usually takes students to complete credentials once they start them. Credit: Oliver Parini for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2019

Morgan presented his research findings at a conference of the Society for Prevention Research in May 2019.). This birth records study, “ School segregation and racial gaps in special education identification ,” was circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in May 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

A model created by the COVID-19 Eviction Defense Project , a coalition of economic researchers and legal experts, estimates that roughly 20 percent of the 110 million Americans who live in rented homes risk displacement by September 30 unless policymakers enact aggressive relief measures. I haven’t had the ability to relax in years.”.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

The latest study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in October 2023 , tracked the college applications of 70,000 students at 220 public high schools over five application cycles, from 2014-15 to 2019-20. That study looked at only 8,000 students at one unidentified school district in the mid-Atlantic region.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

The latest research comes from the Reboot Foundation, which released a study in June 2019 that shows a negative connection between a nation’s performance on international assessments and 15-year-olds’ self-reported use of technology in school. That’s the equivalent of a year of education or an entire grade level.

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A 2019 investigation by Vice found that at least 21 states use natural language processing to grade students’ written responses on standardized tests. More than half of students are Latino, according to state data , and 62 percent are considered economically disadvantaged. “As Using technology to score essays is nothing new.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Brandeis accepted 44 percent of male applicants compared to 36 percent of female applicants in 2012-2013, according to data the university reports to the federal government. At each school, men were at least 2 percentage points more likely than women to be accepted in both 2019 and 2020.

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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. A number of states have seen the changes ARPA made possible as a positive shift that should be continued, and their governments have poured in historic investment to build better child care infrastructure.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

About 85 percent of high school graduates in 2019 had taken at least one course in career and technical education, or CTE. You can’t see that in most places,” said Daniel Kreisman, an economics professor at Georgia State University who helped launch an effort to inform CTE policymakers by compiling data and producing research.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

For students from low-income families, graduating from college is an important way to climb the economic ladder. So in her junior year in high school, she cut back on her work at the hotel to join student government and volunteer at a hospital and on two community programs. Related: University of Chicago projected to be the first U.S.

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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. We can bring together local governments and corporate leaders to build shared prosperity. This fall, U.S. This story about U.S.

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MARCH 17, 2022

SAN FRANCISCO — On a Friday evening in the fall of 2019, Maria Flores stood waiting with her “crazy heavy” duffel bag and her teenage son outside the office of a man whose home she cleans. In 2019, the two were evicted from the apartment Mateo had lived in since birth. But the idea persisted and turned into a plan and then a place.

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MAY 27, 2019

Hanushek, an economist, believes that the inability to close the achievement gap shows the failure of our education policies to help the poor, especially the $26 billion a year the federal government spends on Title I funding on poor schools and for Head Start preschool programs. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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