The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2023

Over and over, we read news stories and research studies demonstrating that Black learners face huge barriers in attending and completing college and gaining a strong economic foothold. Some estimates, including one from Citi , find that the racial economic divide has cost our country $16 trillion over the last two decades.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 17, 2025

400 such shells were identified by two free-style divers within 90 mins at a depth of one to two meters on October 20, 2020. 0321082 The site’s stratigraphy mirrors larger historical arcs, suggesting that purple dye wasn't merely a luxury good but also a node in a larger economic and symbolic system. Photo by Ayelet Gilboa.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2021

The result is that we are losing the energy, intelligence and creativity young people could and should bring to New York’s economic recovery. We are losing the energy, intelligence and creativity young people could and should bring to New York’s economic recovery. The time is right. Can the proposed three-tier initiative work?

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The Bureau of Labor and Statistics projects that the market for computer science occupations will grow 13 percent between 2020 and 2030. Broad access to computer science resources is a critical enabler positively impacting the economic mobility of students.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

My journey as an immigrant from a small town in Africa’s smallest mainland country, The Gambia, to the biggest city in the United States, with its many diverse cultures, has given me a unique perspective. This experience gave me an opportunity to recognize my own cultural myopia. I’m a better teacher because of it. A Muslim lens.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2021

To start with, colleges must consider factors other than the traditional standardized scores when recruiting underserved students from communities with few economic, health and educational resources. Dominican launched the Center for Cultural Liberation in 2020 to provide students of color with a place to gain a sense of belonging.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2021

The long journey of the coronavirus pandemic took students through dimensions of online learning, social isolation, economic anguish, personal loss and mass grief. It resulted in psychological distress for many. “We That distress can take the form of burnout, which appears to be increasing.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2023

It’s projected to further decline to 880,000 by 2040, according to the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The total number of births declined in nine of the 10 years of the 2010s and dropped even more sharply in 2020, before inching up by 1 percent in 2021, according to provisional estimates.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Even with increased interactions through evangelizing, there have been growing anti-Chinese sentiments in Zambia in recent years, often based in economic inequalities between the countries. In this dimension, the interactions are not as straightforward as mere economic or political engagements. This greatly impressed Mr. Cheng.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2022

The number of students expressing interest in fields associated with social justice has seen a monumental increase since the beginning of the pandemic in early 2020. That must change now that the field has been given a tremendous opportunity: training our next generation of social justice leaders.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

A September 2020 study from the Thomas B. Early evidence that social studies might be used as a lever to boost reading achievement arrived in September 2020 with a quantitative analysis from the Thomas B. Credit: Jason Bachman/Flickr.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2022

I speak and consult nationally on public education, youth development and child well-being, and since March 2020, I have integrated real-time polling into my speaking events, asking thousands of teachers, counselors and administrators about the well-being of their students, families and school communities. We are a family. We are Liberty.”

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2022

The company is among OER providers that argue that OER can be a tool in making higher education more equitable, by making sure that economically disadvantaged students have the materials to succeed in courses like statistics that serve as gateways to lucrative professions.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

What is new is that we are calling them badges and microcredentials and using them primarily to certify specific skills, such as cross-cultural competency, welding and conversational Spanish. . So what are they? Microcredentials are certifications of mastery; badges verify the attainment of specific competencies.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The question came up in response to alarming reports about men’s plummeting college enrollment rates during the pandemic, including a viral Wall Street Journal a rticle with a stark statistic: 19 percent more women than men were enrolled in college at the end of the academic year 2020-21. percent since fall 2019, compared to a 5.3

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 1, 2020

A first grade teacher created online learning opportunities to support her economically disadvantaged students and implemented global citizenship education to honor the diversity of her student population. Many changes have occurred during 2020, but not all have been negative. In light of the racial unrest in the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2021

And all come from groups that are marginalized because of race, gender or low socio-economic status. As the events of the 2020 unfolded, the students and staff discussed race and equity, and some modified their research questions.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In 2020, some of California’s public universities allowed applicants to skip Algebra II and substitute data science. With the rise of artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT that rely on data sets, students also need to understand how to use AI in a responsible way, he added.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

A participant at a Black Lives Matter protest in Las Vegas on May 30, 2020. We talked with folks who strongly identify with their heritage ancestry, language and culture and others who navigate the complex nuances of diasporic reality. Photo by RYO Alexandre / Shutterstock. on March 21, 2021.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Previous discoveries in Sulawesi include a 44,000-year-old painting depicting half-human hunters pursuing wild animals with spears and ropes, further emphasizing the region’s ancient cultural richness. Archaeological evidence in Australia dates back at least 60,000 years, highlighting the ancient roots of Aboriginal cultures.

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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. In 2020, we launched a first-of-its-kind study about what happens to women’s health and well-being when water sources run dry—starting in Peru and Indonesia.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

Nesbitt African American Cultural Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. But the outcomes aren’t showing that,” said Justin Nalley, senior policy analyst at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a Black think tank. It’s just the way society is.” Patrick Ben III at the Bruce D. We’re going backwards.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

This support, through a program set up to promote rural economic development and from the federal agency that works the most with rural places, underscores how important local universities and colleges are to those communities — and the vulnerability of a growing number of them. Rural universities are also often cultural oases, Huisman said.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

Emily Herring became Fairfield City School’s mental health services coordinator in 2020. The coordinator position started as a state-funded pilot in 102 school districts during the 2020-21 school year. Debbie Brinson became Alabaster City School’s mental health services coordinator in December 2020. Credit: Bob Gathany/AL.com.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2022

Teachers report being more stressed as the pandemic goes on, and much more likely to leave the profession than they were before March 2020. Without a significant change in the economics of education, changing the grammar of schooling is actually the most realistic approach. And for good reason. So let’s imagine.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Interest in outdoor schools like Sol has spiked since Covid-19 hit the United States last year, according to a 2020 snapshot report from the Natural Start Alliance. has more than doubled since 2017 to 585 in 2020, according to the Natural Start Alliance. The school also prioritizes economic equity.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

It’s also the only way we are going to reach an actual inclusive economic recovery.”. Meanwhile, construction was one of just two industries in which the number of women workers increased since February 2020, she said. Then she had a daughter in March 2020 and decided to stay home for a time. “It Credit: Sarah Garland.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Self-determination theory (eg Ryan & Deci, 2020) suggests that the key drivers of intrinsic motivation are competence (feeling capable at something), autonomy (feeling a sense of control in our choices) and relatedness (feeling a sense of belonging and connection to others). Ryan & Deci (2020). Evidence Based Education blog.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Lindsay also faced a huge cultural obstacle — geography. 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. Ashlyn Walker and Cheyenne Mattox, both Class of 2020, sat nearby, masked and socially distanced.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2022

A concerted campuswide campaign that includes interventions like the one that rescued Dickinson has since more than doubled that proportion, to nearly half in 2020, the last year for which the figure is available. It’s about a shift in the culture,” Capp said. At community colleges, nearly half the students quit after their first year.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2021

We’ve seen that clearly when it comes to student success — and, ultimately, social and economic mobility. That’s 73,000 additional graduates (above existing stretch goals) between 2014 and 2020, exceeding our 10-year goal of 68,000 in just six years. Higher education has to get comfortable with trial and error.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

For example, if it’s part of the mission of a bachelor’s degree-granting institution to educate diverse students and facilitate economic mobility, then supporting transfer students from community colleges fits the bill, LaViolet says. He credits that experience with giving him the academic confidence he needed to transfer to a university.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

In 2020, 24 percent of teachers were considering leaving their current state or the profession within five years; a year later, that number had grown to 30 percent, a Brookings Institution report found. Not surprisingly, a concerning number of educators have grown dissatisfied with their jobs and are eyeing exits.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Increase in migration, spring 2020 vs. spring 2019. That works out to somewhere between 8,700 and 10,900 new Vermonters, the local economics firm EPR projects. What recommends small cities, he and others said, is that they have a more relaxed vibe without sacrificing vibrant culture, decent restaurants and other conveniences.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2022

It shows that school closures widened both economic and racial inequality in learning — which was already at unacceptable rates prior to the pandemic. The latest study from Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research is based on testing data from 2.1 million students across the country. Ngounou, Ed.L.D.,

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Protesters calling for Boston schools to keep the admission exam for the city’s elite exam schools rally outside of Boston Latin School in Boston on October 18, 2020. School culture affects whether students apply and decide to attend, and those decisions affect school culture, she found.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2018

Nearly every state has set a goal for boosting the proportion of its population with post-secondary education; most are aiming for 55 to 65 percent by 2020 or 2025. By 2020, 65 percent of job vacancies will require education beyond high school, estimates show. It sent postcards to former students, too.

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