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Why Schools Should Focus on Social Capital Development — Not Just Skills

ED Surge

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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OPINION: Tribal colleges, lifeline to rural and disenfranchised Native communities, need our help more than ever

The Hechinger Report

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 Power of Microcredentials and America’s Higher Education Dilemma

ED Surge

These short courses offer students the opportunity to study behavioral health, which aligns with jobs in our region related to human services, sociology, counseling, psychology and social work. Arrington, in 1860 the economic value of enslaved peoples in the U.S. America’s Workforce Dilemma During the 2019-2020 academic year, U.S.

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The pandemic is speeding up the mass disappearance of men from college

The Hechinger Report

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. Now he plans to get a degree in sociology.

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For adults returning to college, ‘free’ tuition isn’t enough

The Hechinger Report

By month’s end, there were 665 (including Reilly), which was more than double the college’s June 2019 applications. “We Missouri’s Fast Track Workforce Incentive Grant, created in 2019 to target those 25 and older, has a “clawback” provision so students who don’t fulfill requirements must repay it as a loan with interest.

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‘We’re stronger than we’ve ever been’: A Mississippi district shows that integrated schools pay off

The Hechinger Report

Those figures may seem at odds with the state’s 2019 NAEP scores, in which black students outperformed their national peers on the fourth-grade reading exam. Despite the districts’ strong performance, there seems to be little effort to replicate Clinton and Pearl’s carefully planned racial and economic integration efforts.

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Inside the Reardon-Hanushek clash over 50 years of achievement gaps

The Hechinger Report

Hanushek is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a politically conservative center for research on economic and social issues based at the university. “[W]e are unable to replicate his finding,” they wrote. She’s now an assistant professor at the University of Toronto’s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

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