The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Community colleges have 14 percent fewer students in the fall of 2021 than they had two years ago, according to a preliminary enrollment report from the National Student Clearinghouse’s Research Center. percent in the 2021-22 academic year after plunging 3.4 percent in September 2021 compared to a year earlier.

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Michelle Wood

MAY 31, 2021

Looking for something to do after AP Economics testing is over? The post 2021 AP Testing is Done! Now that the AP testing window is done (or almost done – the third testing window is the first two weeks of June), what do we do with our students? I usually ask them what they want to learn about and go from there.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2021

A March 2021 study found that high school students learned two to three times as much math as their peers from a daily dose of tutoring at school. But now a large study, published in March 2021, concludes that high school students can learn two to three times as much math as their peers from a daily dose of tutoring at school.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2021

This summer we face both a challenge and a promise: We are still grappling with overlapping health, social and economic crises; the pandemic has impacted everything from children’s health, education and financial security to their friendships. trillion in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 could cut child poverty in half.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

While 25 percent of white students passed algebra in eighth grade in 2021, only 13 percent of Black students did, according to the most recent data from the U.S. It’s also not economically practical for many low-income middle schools to offer an Algebra 1 course when only a handful of students are advanced enough to take it.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2021

Scholars are trying to understand why more rural students don’t pursue studies that could lead to well-paying careers for themselves and a more productive economic future for their communities. Some of the clues are contained in this June 2021 data analysis conducted by two researchers at Claremont Graduate University and Indiana University.

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ED Surge

JUNE 18, 2024

The throughline across all of them,” Carman notes, “is that families need more economic stability.” Economic Instability Has Increased Many families report that it has become more difficult to meet their basic needs, particularly in the areas of health care and housing. Their responses can be distilled into a few ideas.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2021

After years of discussion, New York City announced in October 2021 that it is overhauling gifted and talented programs, eliminating the testing of thousands of 4-year olds and the city’s separate education system of schools and classrooms for students who score high on this one test. Credit: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images).

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Digital Promise

MARCH 4, 2021

The education system needs to consider a grander vision of success that includes economic stability and positive life outcomes. Digital Promise (@DigitalPromise) March 2, 2021. There are many places in this country where this is happening. However, it is not happening for the masses. Very simply, we can’t afford to do that anymore.

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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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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Beyond its economic role, the tualang holds profound cultural and spiritual significance for many indigenous groups. Diverse Values of Nature and the IPBES Conceptual Framework Examines the incorporation of diverse cultural, spiritual, and economic values of nature within the IPBES framework. Credit: T. Source: Land Use Policy, 2016.

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ACRE

OCTOBER 18, 2022

What is Econ Challenge: The National Economics Challenge (NEC) is the country’s only economics competition of its kind for 9-12th grade students. 2022 2021 It tests micro and macroeconomic principles as well as knowledge of the world economy. Want to see some samples of past student submissions & competition topics?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The results, published in JAMA Ophthalmology , a peer-reviewed journal of the American Medical Association, and presented at the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness in September 2021, showed some educational promise but failed to show consistent and sustained benefits.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2024

In a time when technological advancements shape our daily lives and drive economic growth, focusing on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education in K-12 schools is not just a trend but a necessity. By 2021, 91 percent of schools in New York City offered computer science (up from 76 percent in 2019).

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

A 2021 study showed that the pandemic disproportionately impacted Black students, prompting a heightened distrust of education. In 2021, mid-pandemic, the exact same proportion of students gave this positive response. And there is every reason to expect disruptions in student learning post pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

If a comprehensive student support program can work in Montana the way that it has worked in other places, the state could see more degrees and less debt, spurring economic stability for rural towns and the state as a whole. That means illuminating a winding path through the Rockies toward a postsecondary degree.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The first act followed the Great Recession of 2008, as schools added back staff that they had been forced to cut in the economic downturn. The second act came with seven consecutive years of strong economic growth beginning in 2013. School hiring has taken place in three acts, Roza says.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The district built up community trust and used a cautious, step-by-step reopening strategy to make it through the 2020-2021 school year with zero cases identified in school buildings. contracted COVID-19 between the start of the pandemic and early August 2021.). Precautions continue into fall 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2021

It’s well-known that women have been especially impacted by pandemic-related economic upheaval. That’s actually slightly lower than the percentage of mothers with school-age children who were not working as of January 2021, according to the United States Census Bureau.).

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Cloud State University in Minnesota is cutting 42 degree programs , for example, including criminal justice, gerontology, history, electrical and environmental engineering, economics and physics. Youngstown State University in Ohio, for instance, axed Italian, religious studies and other majors in 2021 , then six more three years later.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2023

In November 2021, the Pathways Early Learning Center opened in the organization’s shelter in Birmingham, with the goal of providing immediate, stable and free child care to families experiencing homelessness. Shelters are generally ill-equipped to support homeless families with young children, according to a 2021 report by Child Trends.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2023

In November 2021, she was relieved to hear her union was organizing a rally to demand higher wages for teacher’s aides (also known as paraprofessionals) and other support staff, such as secretaries, health techs, campus supervisors and information technology support workers. In 2021, 37 percent of support staff worked two or more jobs.

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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. And as of 2021 , more than half of the U.S. According to historian Benjamin T.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2022

percent from fall 2020 to fall 2021, but the enrollment from the 25 high schools in the Promise program has vaulted 17 percent , said Chancellor Mike Flores. Alamo Promise students can be either full-time or part-time; in fall 2021, 45 percent of these students reported that they have jobs in addition to going to school.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

Pictured in October 2021. During the 2021-22 school year, 114 school districts received a grant and Warfield cobbled together enough money to add a dozen more. Pictured in October 2021. Just eight school districts met the recommended ratio during the 2021-22 school year. Credit: Ruth Serven Smith/AL.com.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

They opened opportunities for economic and social mobility and moved my parents’ generation beyond the experiences of their grandparents and great-grandparents, many of whom, as first- and second-generation immigrants to this country in the nineteenth century, started their working lives as farmers or day laborers.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

That triggered a series of financial setbacks and, by October 2021, she owed more than $10,000 in back rent. At Washington Elementary School, in the Vancouver school district in Washington state, 16 students were identified as homeless in 2021-22. As of October 2021, the district as a whole counted nearly 750 homeless students.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

Almost half the students in the district – 48 percent – were absent for 10 percent or more of the 2021-22 school year. Seven years of academic progress were erased in math: only 19 percent of third through eighth graders met grade-level expectations in the subject in 2021-22, down from 31 percent before the pandemic. A majority of D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2021

While the camp above is ideal, the model is beyond the economic reach of most families and unrealistic for districts to replicate; however, the mission to provide highly effective literacy tutoring embedded in a summer camp model is achievable in public urban programs. This year, it was 47 percent. Katharine Pace Miles, Ph.D.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

After finishing the roughly seven-month-long program and passing her certification exam in late 2021, she found that no one would hire her. In 2021, the most recent year for which information is available, the government spent roughly $547 million on training for more than 220,000 people.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Students on the Fort Lewis College campus in April 2021. In late February, Cante began working on her transfer application to South Dakota State University for fall 2021. in April 2021. That would give her space to think about what she wanted to do in fall 2021, she reasoned. “I And just keeping to myself.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

But enrolling pandemic-impacted students in in-demand programs, ensuring that they complete those programs and ultimately placing them in well-paying jobs to fortify the country’s economic recovery will require more than tuition assistance. An equitable economic recovery depends on it.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

So far, a 2021 study of Boston’s universal pre-K program found that students who attended the city’s preschools between 1997 and 2003 were more likely to go to college immediately after high school. The advent of universal preschool for all children is more recent. The remaining 50 percent decided against attending either.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

That could have lasting effects both for these individuals’ financial security and for the broader economy, by stymieing innovation and growth and deepening economic polarization. The United States has, historically, done a poor job of helping people who have been displaced by offshoring, automation, recessions and other economic dislocation.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Teacher BrieAnne Stout (center) guides students through a closing circle during a forest school session in Tijeras, New Mexico on February 3, 2021. Sally Anderson, the director of Sol Forest School, collects acorns with Aldo Stearnes, 3, in early 2021. The school also prioritizes economic equity.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The share of Americans with a college degree rose from 38 percent in 2009 to nearly 46 percent in 2021 – an increase of eight percentage points. College attainment rates have jumped the fastest among young Hispanic adults under age 35, rising from below 20 percent in 2009 to above 30 percent in 2021. Every race and ethnicity saw gains.

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ED Surge

JULY 26, 2022

The way we accommodate child care, and time for our loved ones, is both the greatest challenge and the greatest economic opportunity of our time,” Nooyi said, adding that it is a core challenge for employers. economic health and competitiveness, noted Reshma Saujani, founder and CEO of Marshall Plan for Moms in an interview.

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