ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Traditional methods of calculus instruction may be knocking students off the path to these vital occupations, which is why advocates warn that getting diverse students into these careers may require instructional models more responsive to students. That the traditional lecture method of teaching calculus isn’t as effective as active models.

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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

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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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

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. AP Photo/Nick Ut).

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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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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. Celebrate and thank your provider.

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Sapiens

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.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 21, 2024

The fires of 2019 and 2020 were especially devastating, with NASA’s Earth Observatory showing plumes of smoke covering the region. Jesús belongs to Bolivia’s Criollo middle-class, and the land he bought up for Paradise Farm is located upon the traditional homelands of several Indigenous Guaraní, Ayoreo, and Chiquitanos communities.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2024

They are breaking out of traditional silos and disciplines, and ensuring that these courses are encountered by as many students as possible. Each of these diverse institutions has their own unique method and mission. They are all taking the strategy of integrating sustainability content as widely across the curriculum as is feasible.

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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

AUGUST 5, 2021

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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

College attendance among Black students dropped a whopping 8 percent during the summer of 2020, compared with the summer of 2019, according to the first “ Stay Informed ” report published in September 2020 by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Now the proof is starting to come in.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 5, 2024

George Hawkins , a 2019 graduate of TAH’s Master of Arts with a Specialization in Teaching American History and Government (MASTAHG) program , was named South Dakota Teacher of the Year in October. He did his student teaching in a traditional classroom. Moreover, any realistic account of history covers economic and financial factors.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

The strategy of adding career and technical education is being quietly rolled out by several traditional higher education institutions, including a growing number of liberal arts colleges that are responding to student and parent demands for a return on their tuition investment by adding practical training that has proven value to employers.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

Even before Covid, in 2019, enrollment in teacher preparation programs across the nation had dropped by more than a third from a decade earlier. Fortunately, mass teacher resignations and retirements largely haven’t come to pass, even as the pandemic nears the end of its third year. Yet there is a shrinking pool of new and returning teachers.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2021

For China, the move is a departure from its centuries-old tradition of favoring literature and the liberal arts. Wu Yan, head of China’s Higher Education Department, says, “MOOCs are critical to reform China’s traditional cramming teaching model. advances in online pedagogy, such as flipped classrooms and MOOCs.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

At first, some Shuar people were hopeful about the economic opportunities promised to them. Mirador opened in 2019 with great pomp as the first and largest industrial copper-gold mine in the country. Lawyers and engineers followed, along with hopeful promises to local people of never-seen-before development, jobs, and economic growth.

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ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2022

I think one challenge for the teaching profession is that with traditional salary schedules, no matter how great of a teacher you are, compared to the teacher in the next classroom over, you’ll earn the same base amount,” Holston says. “Or, Public Schools have been using their “ IMPACT plus ” model for over a decade. “But

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

Last fall, in the district, nearly half of teacher absences went unfilled, compared with 26 percent in fall 2019. They can earn a higher daily rate than traditional substitutes, or put the extra amount toward health benefits. Administrators, principals, librarians and other staff members regularly covered those classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2022

Any shift in the workforce to the advantage of workers without degrees carries obvious implications for economic mobility and equity. The Burning Glass “degree reset” report, which Fuller co-wrote, found that between 2017 and 2019, the number of positions requiring a B.A. trillion in student loans.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

A 2019 American Council on Education survey found that student mental health had become a higher priority over the previous three years for 80 percent of college presidents. Likewise, student mental health and wellness had become a significant concern on college campuses long before the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

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: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Oliver Parini for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Just 24 percent of 18- to 24-year-old American Indian and Alaska Native students were enrolled in college in 2019, the lowest of any group, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. angu Lakota, San Carlos Apache and Quechan, holds a traditional Great Lakes lacrosse stick. Nina Polk, who is Diné (Navajo), Si?angu

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

An avowed Marxist, deBoer argues unabashedly that he has set out “to demolish the entire meritocratic system and give [underprivileged] kids equal economic circumstances to begin with,” as a Wall Street Journal review of his book summarized. Hirsch, Jr. Refreshing those ideals may offer one path forward. This story about rethinking U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2019

25796 May 2019. Research sometimes shows that charter schools are better at raising student achievement than traditional public schools. A new Boston study suggests a possible path forward: allow only charter schools that can prove they are better than traditional public schools to expand. Walters, NBER Working Paper No.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

But at the end of 2019, an asthma-related hospital visit and the death of several extended family members sent Williams into a depression. Fewer students equal less revenue for community colleges, which could lead to cuts at the very institutions so many depend upon as a first step toward economic mobility. It’s just too much.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Critics respond that replacing traditional A to F grades with new forms of assessments is like a college-level version of participation trophies. Teenagers said that the pressure to get good grades was their biggest cause of stress , a 2019 survey by the Pew Research Center found. “A

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The Hechinger Report

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

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

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. In 2019, Washington became the first state to license outdoor preschools as part of a pilot program. When many U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 29, 2022

From a financial perspective it’s really aligned with state goals for economic growth,” Dammando said. That includes students older than the traditional 18- to 22-year-olds, many of whom are even more likely to prefer fast-paced training to longer-term certificate and degree programs.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2019

The immediate coverage of an important July 2019 study on Latino children in America emphasized how they are increasingly “segregated” from white children at school. The darker the blue, the more Latinos enrolled. Source: Bruce Fuller, University of California, Berkeley Photo: Zaidee Stavely for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2021

After a spirited welcome and a reminder to stay hydrated at this elevation (5,675 feet), she plays a video with peppy music, scenes of happy undergraduates enjoying fun traditions and the inevitable soaring drone footage of majestic campus landmarks. Credit: Sara Hertwig for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

Gifted education teachers at the National Association for Gifted Children’s 2019 conference work on a toothpick-and-gumdrop tower, an exercise sometimes done in “talent development” classes. Albuquerque students’ artwork and a poem about volcanoes, displayed at the 2019 National Association for Gifted Children conference.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

But the outgoing superintendent, Cyndy Taymore, is four years into an effort to fundamentally rethink traditional schooling here. Competency-based education demands a shift away from traditional teaching, testing and grading. At no point in recent memory has Melrose Public Schools been failing.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

Using a four-year degree as a proxy for employability shuts out the most economically vulnerable job seekers. in February 2019. John Barros, chief of economic development for the City of Boston, introduces a panel on redefining hiring on March 28 at Wayfair headquarters in Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Some 2,400 districts — from regions synonymous with economic hardship to big cities and prosperous suburbs — did not report having even one homeless student despite levels of financial need that make those figures improbable. Nationally, Black students were 15 percent of public school enrollment but 27 percent of homeless students in 2019-20.

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