ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

Arrington, in 1860 the economic value of enslaved peoples in the U.S. The country grew from having more than 500 institutions of higher education during the 1869-1870 school year to more than 3,000 by the end of the 1980s, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. And as of 2021 , more than half of the U.S.

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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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FEBRUARY 23, 2022

You’re not enabling economic mobility at $12 an hour. How do they resolve that tension between economic development and individual mobility?” Thinking Strategically About Early Ed How do they resolve that tension between economic development and individual mobility?

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APRIL 18, 2022

In 2021, edtech companies continued to connect students, educators and families all over the world, resulting in another record year of investments, mergers and acquisitions and global expansion like never before.

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2022

Initially, the built-in education to counteract uncontrollable mega-modernity was Home Economics—emphasis on economics. The mission is still the same: to educate each person to meet human physical and mental needs, including the social skills for keeping families and communities intact. It builds national human capital.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 22, 2022

The disparity between what teachers are paid and what their peers in other, comparable professions earn has reached an all-time high, according to findings published this month by the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute (EPI). percent less than their professional peers.

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ED Surge

APRIL 13, 2023

As the group’s new CEO, Stephanie Khurana, put it in an interview with EdSurge this week: “The focus of the mission is to really help postsecondary completion and issues of economic mobility.” To understand the new nonprofit, it’s important to review its complicated origin story.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Of those funds, approximately $14 billion was designated as the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund, or HEERF. Then, in January 2021, the U.S. Department of Education announced an additional tranche of $21.2 billion to higher education. The CARES Act that Congress signed into law in March 2020 earmarked $2.2

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

For example, more than a third of Black students enrolled at community colleges experience poverty, as do 28 percent of Latino students and 18 percent of white students, according to a recent report from the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. Yet, he adds, “something like that is supplemental.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

This cohort is unique for its composition of educators—three of the six began teaching during the pandemic, and all teach in North Tulsa, a region historically challenged by economic and racial inequities. This new cohort connects educators from different schools within Tulsa, as well as the other 75 fellows located across the U.S.

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MAY 6, 2022

Limited access to support: In our research and work with providers , we understand that home-based providers struggle to gain access to loans, relief grants and material support necessary to survive the pandemic and build economic stability. We know that providers are deeply committed to families, but many simply can’t manage financially.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

But even if as a program for 20 of the most self-starting people each year, the Thiel Fellowship beats higher education, does that really prove Peter Thiel’s argument that somehow college is broken? go to college each year — more than 4 million graduated in 2021 alone. Millions of students in the U.S.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

In 2021, as part of this work, EdSurge launched its first-ever educator writing fellowship and we welcomed seven amazing fellows who, over the course of the year, penned deeply personal essays highlighting the myriad issues educators, school leaders, and learners faced in the midst of the pandemic and political unrest in society.

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OCTOBER 7, 2022

A poll of 27 teachers at a keynote event in 2021; courtesy of Stephanie Malia Krauss.A If schools do not get the time and resources needed to recover, they may be unable to endure the next viral variant, culture war or economic disaster. This summer, responses shifted.

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ED Surge

JULY 28, 2023

Research also shows that women of color in STEM report feeling a sense of belonging less frequently than any other demographic group — less than white men, white women and men of color — and that the extent to which this group struggles with belonging can be overlooked when race, gender and economic status are not considered together.

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ED Surge

JULY 13, 2023

In 2021, recognizing the urgency of the situation, Congress stepped in and issued $52 billion in grants , primarily through the American Rescue Plan, to stabilize the industry. Failure to do so would have dire consequences, causing widespread economic impact and exacerbating the existing strain on the child care system.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 11, 2023

Four out of five child care centers across the United States are understaffed, according to a 2021 National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) survey. And there are plenty more who would be interested in pursuing a career in early childhood education if it was a path with more economic stability and respect.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

During the 2021-2022 school year, the latest year for which data is available, the nationwide average was 408-to-1. Lozada, who is majoring in political science and minoring in economics, initially thought she’d be a lawyer, but she is now set on becoming an elected official.

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ED Surge

JULY 27, 2023

They’re also aimed at improving the economic stability of providers like Hodges — who is eager to move into the home that will shelter both her family and her new business. “If These efforts, in turn, are intended to increase the supply of child care slots in critically underserved areas.

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ED Surge

MARCH 4, 2024

Department of Education, nearly 14.7 percent of the student population, were chronically absent in the 2021-22 school year. Lower high school graduation rates caused by chronic absences can result in an underemployed population , negatively affecting economic productivity and stability. According to data from the U.S.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The relief, part of the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act, was intended to avoid a worst-case scenario for the early care and education field while the country rebounded from the pandemic. It’s an economic imperative. It is echoed by the experiences of child care providers and parents across the country.” To some degree, it worked.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2022

In Tennessee, 50,000 or roughly 5 percent of the state’s elementary and middle school students were assigned high-dosage tutoring during the 2021-22 school year. That number grew to 33 percent in 2021 and hit 36 percent in 2022. Larger groups are more economical and reach more students.

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MAY 2, 2022

Teaching may now be the most stressful profession period, according to a RAND survey from June 2021, which found, among other things, that teachers were almost three times more likely to report symptoms of depression than other adults. But there are indications that it has only gotten worse since COVID-19 entered the profession.

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JUNE 13, 2023

The pandemic and its many aftershocks — including a hit to labor force participation among women and a severe early childhood staffing shortage — helped many Americans unacquainted with these issues begin to understand the integral role that early care and education play in economic and social stability.

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ED Surge

JULY 20, 2022

How has the pandemic and its aftershocks raised awareness around mental health and well-being, and how are educators and school communities responding? What new challenges have emerged in the teaching profession, what existing ones have become more complex, and how are educators and school leaders navigating them?

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

His book, released in 2021, is currently the basis of a traveling exhibition. These days, race and educational opportunity still seem troublingly linked. These gaps are often blamed on racial and economic segregation.

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ED Surge

JULY 24, 2023

percent of American school teachers, according to a widely cited federal survey of the 2020-2021 school year. We can't recruit and retain educators of color without thinking about the social, political and economic conditions that they find themselves engrossed in and battling. It's a good segue.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Back in March of this year, EdSurge published my article outlining the nearly 400-year history of higher education in America, how that past shapes the way the country views colleges today, and why microcredentials , while critical to the future of the U.S. For one, agreement around the purpose of higher education is fragmented.

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ED Surge

APRIL 25, 2022

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen provided testimony to Congress in 2021, where she explained how the company has failed to stop the spread of misinformation, is aware that apps like Instagram cause harm to teenagers, and has algorithms that are constantly tweaked to deliver engaging but problematic content.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2022

It’s an important idea, and one to which educators and education institutions should pay close attention. At the state and city level, Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan signed an Executive Directive in June 2021 to create the Michigan High-Speed Internet Office. So a new concept has emerged: “digital equity.”

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JUNE 8, 2023

who are undocumented but are able to work thanks to DACA protection, granted before the policy entered legal limbo most recently in 2021. It’s there that he earned his bachelor’s degree in economics from the Wharton School. Aguilar is one of about 15,000 teachers in the U.S.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Launched in early 2021, the bipartisan program began as a three-region pilot to address what had become a glaring issue: the prohibitive cost of child care. Two years later, in March 2021, the pilot launched with an initial $1.1 In the event of an economic downturn, many employers worry the program would be among the first to go.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

We were able to get more families and children access to quality early learning, while supporting families to get back into the workforce, providing that economic benefit and the need that businesses in our community have, Jones said. About 13% of children who qualified for assistance were accessing the program in 2021.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 14, 2022

A starting salary of $60,000 is hardly a rocketship into a new social class, but it would make a noticeable impact on the profession, which had a national average starting salary of $41,770 in the 2020-21 school year, according to the National Education Association , a teachers union that has come out in support of the American Teacher Act.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 19, 2022

But the same cannot be said of the American child care industry, where both longstanding and real-time economic forces continue to conspire against providers and families, depressing enrollment and staffing well below pre-pandemic levels. In 2021, the average pay for child care workers in the U.S. was $13.31 Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Pre-K In 2021, the Biden administration proposed a universal preschool program as part of a multi-trillion-dollar social spending plan called Build Back Better. Walz does not support private-school vouchers, opposing statewide private-school voucher legislation introduced in 2021 by Republicans in Minnesota. —

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