Dangerously Irrelevant

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Books I finished reading (or rereading) in January 2020… You Gotta Have Wa , Robert Whiting [baseball]. Our Towns , James Fallows and Deborah Fallows [economic development, sociology]. The Apocalypse Troll , David Weber [sci fi]. Lucifer’s Hammer , Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle [sci fi]. Building School 2.0:

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ED Surge

APRIL 7, 2025

Of the 15 children enrolled in her program, 10 attend for free, covered in full by Multnomah Countys Preschool for All initiative, which was passed by Portland voters in November 2020 to create universal free preschool for all 3- and 4-year-olds who want it. Multnomahs Preschool for All is funded by an income tax on high-earning residents.)

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 8, 2025

While the exact nature of this relationship remains under investigation, it underscores the social and economic complexities of these ancient communities.​ This association suggests a connection between communal hunting practices and the distribution of obsidian. E., & Leslie, B. Alberta Archaeological Review.

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Strange Maps

JANUARY 2, 2025

Source: Ross and Wolf [link] pic.twitter.com/VzoygGSHCl — John OBrien (@jlpobrien) December 23, 2020 That being said, one dramatic shift is immediately obvious: the decline of the UK. European regional GDP per capita in 1900 and 2010 (relative to the EU average). Strange Maps #1265 Got a strange map?

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The next census in 2020 will require counting a population of around 330 million people in more than 140 million housing units. Adult education remains critical for workers who are looking to advance economically, including those in low-wage earning jobs, opportunity youth, immigrant-origin adults, and parent learners. population.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2025

In 2020, 44 percent of high school youth reported having no source of supportive relationships either adults or peers, a reduction by half from a decade earlier. We continue to treat relationships as secondary a soft issue compared to academic rigor or economic productivity. for adults and children. We have a relational crisis.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2020

These days, she spends her time doing counseling sessions via Zoom and Facebook, editing juniors’ essays in Google Docs and trying to contact all 320 members of the class of 2020. The post From private to public school: A college counselor straddles an economic divide appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2025

In an emailed statement, Trevor Sutton, the vice president of economic development at the Birmingham Business Alliance, said the diploma option was a win for the state of Alabama that would allow students a chance to learn both hard and soft skills like communication and time management.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2025

Online education is another revenue stream from a different market, said Duha Altindag, an associate professor of economics at Auburn University who has studied online programs. Her day job is at the national nonprofit Young Invincibles, which pushes for reforms in higher education, health care and economic security for young Americans.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 9, 2019

It may be August, but we’re already planning ahead for SXSW EDU in March 2020. Against a backdrop of growing interest in learning coding as an economic driver and computational thinking as a new literacy, this panel discussion will lean into the equity challenge of realistically addressing “computing for all” in K-12 education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In the post-war boom of the 1950s, college students were confident of their economic futures and many studied liberal arts subjects such as English, history and philosophy. Fewer than one in 10 college graduates obtained humanities degrees in 2020, down 25 percent since 2012. That’s true for college students too.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 15, 2025

” Reading Inequality in Clay and Stone Archaeologists often lack direct records of economic systems in ancient societies. These capacities also provided the scaffolding upon which economic disparities could rise. Assessing grand narratives of economic inequality across time. But the two are not mutually dependent.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

It is especially abhorrent that a government program intended to create equitable opportunities for all students instead perpetuates racial and economic gaps in financial stability and mobility. The vast majority of those who default on student loans have faced persistent economic and social vulnerability.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 19, 2020

As part of an introductory economics class, Swiss students had the option to work in study groups with their peers. That study is slated to be published in a forthcoming issue of the Review of Economics and Statistics. Behind the scenes, a researcher randomly assigned them to groups with different gender ratios.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2024

According to 2020 data, at least 65 percent of low-income students at these colleges completed their degrees within six years.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 5, 2022

If you want to know why so many American citizens are rightfully angry that their economic, health, and political interests aren’t being addressed by the people whom they elected to represent them, read this book. Books I read in May 2020. Books I read in July 2020. Books I read in December 2020. Related Posts.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Text messages to students at more than 700 high schools across 15 states also failed to improve the number of students who applied or enrolled in college, according to a 2020 study. 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

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Since 2020, nine U.S. states have adopted laws or policies requiring personal finance education before students graduate from high school, bringing the total number to 30 states, according to the Council for Economic Education. Since 2020, nine U.S. Since 2020, nine U.S. The Washington, D.C.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

When the coronavirus hit in the spring of 2020, student surveys indicated that four-year colleges would be hit the hardest this fall, with many students turning to cheaper two-year community colleges until the pandemic ended. Students are vanishing from community colleges during the pandemic fall of 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

Given current circumstances, Richard Vedder, an economics professor emeritus at Ohio University, has decided to teach his fall course, “Economic History of Europe,” for a salary of $1. Richard Vedder, an economics professor emeritus at Ohio University and national expert on higher education finances, began teaching at O.U.

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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

Arrington, in 1860 the economic value of enslaved peoples in the U.S. With such industrial, technological, infrastructural, societal and economic growth occurring in the country, higher education became seen as a key pathway to success. America’s Workforce Dilemma During the 2019-2020 academic year, U.S. According to the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

Her work is an extension of research started by Education Trust in 2020 with a National Black Student Loan Debt Study survey of 1,300 Black borrowers and the subsequent Jim Crow Debt report , which identified college debt as a racial and economic justice issue. Nearly two-thirds of the $1.7

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2020

When the pandemic struck, districts around the country, especially those in low-income areas, were still recovering from economic losses sustained during the 2008 recession, when nearly 300,000 teachers and other school staff were laid off. This could be a watershed year in the history of American public education.

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ED Surge

JUNE 18, 2024

It also comes nearly four years after the RAPID project’s launch in April 2020. The throughline across all of them,” Carman notes, “is that families need more economic stability.” Economic instability leads to emotional distress among adults, explains Carman, and emotional distress can harm children. The report comes as a U.S.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2020

percent less than other workers with comparable education and experience, according to the nonprofit think tank the Economic Policy Institute. percent less than other workers with comparable education and experience, according to the nonprofit think tank the Economic Policy Institute. Teachers earned 11.1 Teachers earned 11.1

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TeachThought

MAY 4, 2024

This qualification covers vital areas like health economics, resource management, and health informatics, enabling seamless integration of teams, systems, and technologies for optimized delivery. HOM professionals can work across the globe The healthcare industry, a significant employer worldwide, demands forward-thinking managers.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2025

Math literacy often contributes to economic success: A 2021 study of more than 5,500 adults found that participants made $4,062 more per year for each correct answer on an eight-question math test. Since 2020, he has published four academic papers: three in math and one in sociology.

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Political Science Now

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Sequential Polarization: The Development of the Rural-Urban Political Divide, 1976–2020 By Trevor E. We seek to explain the sources of this growing cleavage by examining two interrelated processes of change: political-economic transformation that elevated many urban areas and marginalized rural ones, and the nationalization of policy goals.

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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.

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ED Surge

APRIL 4, 2022

Census Bureau salary and industry data to teach prospective students about the programs’ strong economic returns. percent between 2020 to 2030. percent from 2020 to 2030. Colleges and universities should join the Census PSEO initiative to show the economic value of their degrees to potential students.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2020

The study received a lot of attention and generated controversy among statisticians , after Vox wrote about it earlier in January 2020. Sefi Roth, an economist at the London School of Economics, is an author of both studies. An earlier draft version was circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in 2018.)

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

But a funny thing happened on the way to the Ivory Tower: even fewer students showed up than during the worst months of the pandemic in the fall of 2020. percent during the 2020-21 pandemic year, according to preliminary data released by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center on Oct. Already there are signs that the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

But in order to predict high school graduates, WICHE’s statisticians also projected student enrollments for first grade through 2020 to 12th grade through 2030. Economic uncertainty apparently has this side effect.) (Economic uncertainty apparently has this side effect.) million in 2019. That’s a 8.5

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

Todd Young, a Republican from Indiana, and Tim Kaine, a Democrat from Virginia, are both staunch advocates of short-term workforce training programs; they reintroduced the bill in May, after a February 2020 version languished without success. The increase has also been sped up by the pandemic, she said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2023

That’s taken a dramatic toll on colleges and universities, with severe consequences for society and economic growth — a situation now also being faced by the United States, where the number of 18-year-olds has begun to drop in some states and soon will fall nationwide.

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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. economy.

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