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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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The basal regions—the parts responsible for basic survival instincts—still govern fundamental behaviors such as territorialism, reproduction, and fight-or-flight responses. Related Research Sapolsky, R. According to Colombo, this shift rewired human cognition, embedding survival mechanisms deep within the brain's structure.

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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.

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AUGUST 19, 2024

At the end of 2021-22, we optimistically concluded that the worst was behind us and that recovery had begun,” wrote Karyn Lewis, a researcher at NWEA, one of the assessment companies. The average sixth grader knows more today in 2024 than he or she did in first grade in 2019. One report documented that U.S. One is phonics.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

million students calculated that in the spring of 2021 students in each grade scored three to six percentile points lower on a widely used test, the Measures of Academic Progress or MAP, than they did in 2019. Students in grades 3 through 8 slid 6 percentage points in reading on state tests in the spring of 2021 compared to 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

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. The plan also must outlast the current presidential administration. But Miguel said she is not worried.

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JULY 1, 2024

One of the research teams, which includes Harvard University economist Tom Kane and Stanford University sociologist Sean Reardon, likened the gains to six days of learning in math and three days of learning in reading for every $1,000 in federal pandemic aid per student. And the spending was worth the gains,” Lake added. children.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Harvard University paid about $10 million to the city of Boston in 2019 in a payment in lieu of taxes, or PILOT, although this amount fell short of what the city asked for. Harvard gave about $10 million to Boston in 2019, about $3 million less than what the city requested. million to Boston in 2019. Brown gave over $6.2

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2022

Public two-year community colleges achieved a new budgetary milestone in fiscal year 2021 as they reaped 6 percent more money per student from state and local governments than public four-year institutions did for their regular operating expenses: $9,347 versus $8,859 for each student. Community colleges don’t receive these sorts of funds.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

When Iowa Wesleyan University announced in March that it would close, its biggest creditor was a federal government agency that had loaned it $26 million and then — in an attempt to help the university survive —softened the terms and extended the repayment period. It was the Department of Agriculture.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2025

State match to local investments A partnership between local and state governments with revenue from sin taxes like those on gambling is expanding access to child care for those who need the most help. By 2019, the state allocated its first dollars into the fund, and began matching local funds dollar for dollar.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

They’d spent the past decade grappling with declining enrollments and weakening support from state governments. Many factors can cause colleges to struggle financially, according to a review of the data and interviews with 39 college finance researchers, student advocates, state officials, school administrators and faculty members.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Washington state’s free-college program, enacted by law in 2019, is considered one of the nation’s most generous. The average cost of tuition and fees at a four-year, nonprofit, private institution was $36,900 in 2019-2020 for a full-time student. Jay Inslee signed into law in 2019. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Surgeon General to declare a youth mental health crisis , and the federal government has rolled out billions of dollars since then to help schools respond. The rise in mental health needs among students following the start of the COVID-19 pandemic catalyzed the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government. Things … the government does affect us, but we can’t vote,” she said.

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DECEMBER 2, 2021

percent since fall 2019, compared to a 5.3 Research in the years prior to the pandemic demonstrated that the high cost of life’s basic necessities — food, shelter, health care, transportation — can derail a promising college career as swiftly as unpaid tuition bills. percent drop for women. million were mothers, including 1.7

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Without it, kids can’t attend virtual classes or complete homework at home, and families can miss out on critical healthcare or government services. We’ve seen the federal government step up and say, ‘You know what, we need to pay for that.’”. However, 28.2 million U.S. The pandemic really changed the political will.

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OCTOBER 23, 2024

Working in Indonesia and Peru, we also use this research, and our close partnerships with local communities and organizations, to spur action that supports gender equality and the basic human right to water. The Jakarta Post reported that Sumba went 249 days without rain in 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Digital Promise’s Learner Variability Navigator , for example, is a free, research-based tool that provides educators with tailored recommendations for lessons that support the full diversity of learners. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency provides a great model of what a similar partnership could look like in education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Credit: Cavan Images The research on early childhood education can seem as messy as a playground sandbox. Researchers studied the children who attended in 2005-06 and saw an immediate academic bang, followed by disappointments. Earlier research has also found long-term benefits from preschool. college and university.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In Nevada, just 4 percent of students who took a career-oriented science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) course in the 2019-20 school year — 88 students total — were Black, even though Black students make up more than 11 percent of the state’s public school enrollment.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2023

university bachelor’s degree recipients and 23 percent who get master’s degrees manage to stay and work in the United States , according to researchers at the University of California, Davis, and elsewhere. But only 11 percent of foreign-born U.S. International graduates of U.S. International graduates of U.S. from Turkey Under the U.K.’s

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2024

The current level of political polarization is having a chilling effect, making civics education into a third rail, according to Holly Korbey, an education reporter and the author of a 2019 book on civics education, “Building Better Citizens: A New Civics Education for All.” “We “I am a tree girl,” she said. Help them connect.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 26, 2020

During the 2019–2020 school year alone, 13 percent of Golden Plains students experienced chronic absenteeism. Now, Pecina and his team at Golden Plains are leveraging their district’s customized learning plan to establish a governance structure to serve as the basis for their work.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

But each year since 2019, fewer sponsors have signed up to participate, going from 78 in 2019 to 45 in 2023, according to the South Carolina Department of Education. The state’s biggest program is run by the USDA and relies on sponsors, like the Lowcountry Food Bank, to distribute the food.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Related: Reckoning with Mississippi’s ‘segregation academies’ Not surprisingly, in 2022, the Government Accountability Office declared that school segregation continues unabated. GDP from 1990 to 2019 would have been $22.9 And data from the U.S. trillion larger. This would benefit us all.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Her tenure at Collins has overlapped with two developments that have contributed to a drop in paddling incidents: the state legislature’s 2019 partial ban on corporal punishment — of students with disabilities — and a global pandemic that interfered with in-person learning. Still, researchers say they can draw parallels.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2020

That’s a problem because the data don’t lie: Two-thirds of all jobs and 80 percent of all “good” jobs (paying a median wage of $65,000) demand a postsecondary credential, according to research by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce. Government and Politics exam. serving more than 3,000 students.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Integrating nature into early childhood education is beneficial to brain development, improves academic performance, enhances communication, reduces stress, minimizes symptoms of ADHD and provides other mental health benefits, according to a summary of the research by the Natural Start Alliance. Credit: Adria Malcolm for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

And because government policy has tended to focus on the individual worker, and less on influencing the hiring and employment practices of businesses, workers can be left in the lurch even if they successfully complete programs in fields that are billed as high-demand. Collaboration between education and business groups tends to be weak.

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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. Rather than deregulate these systems and create more avenues for predatory actors, the federal government must fully shoulder its responsibility for addressing these inequities.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2024

While evaluation of the Tennessee program continues, researchers and program officers point to three lessons learned so far: The scholarship program hasn’t helped many low-income students financially. Students have started returning again in Tennessee, but community college enrollment is still below what it was in 2019.

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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 5, 2020

Ever since enslaved blacks arrived on the shores of the English colony of Virginia in 1619 , white legislators at various levels of government have designed laws to explicitly control and suppress black people. Research has shown that diverse decision-making bodies are better problem solvers than homogenous ones.

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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.

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APRIL 30, 2022

But new research from the nonprofit National Student Legal Defense Network and scholars at George Washington University shows that nearly two-thirds of undergraduate certificate programs left their students worse off than the typical high school graduate, making an average of less than $25,000 per year.

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ED Surge

MARCH 16, 2023

The typical teacher works a median of 54 hours a week, according to a nationally representative survey from 2022 administered by the EdWeek Research Center. The EdWeek Research Center survey found that teachers want to spend more time on instruction and less time doing administrative tasks or monitoring the hallways.

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