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 25, 2023

Magilke qualified for a government grant to go back to school, she was told, at a place the center suggested: an online company called MedCerts. After finishing the roughly seven-month-long program and passing her certification exam in late 2021, she found that no one would hire her. On paper, she would count as a win for MedCerts.

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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. Once a school identifies a student as homeless, the federal government requires districts to pay to transport the student to their preferred school, regardless of cost or distance.

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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. Starting in 2020, the federal government sent schools more than $200 billion in pandemic recovery funds.

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Strange Maps

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Not by comparing the fiscal, economic, and financial data of each country theyd only end up comparing (rotten) apples to (spoiled) oranges. Instead, to arrive at their Corruption Perceptions Index and Control of Corruption Indicator (respectively), they aggregate the opinions of experts in governance and corruption.

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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

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

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 6, 2023

Don’t give up on the protagonist until the story is told,” said William Gormley, a professor of government and public policy at Georgetown University and co-director of its Center for Research on Children in the United States, which has overseen much of the Tulsa research. The advent of universal preschool for all children is more recent.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2020

If fewer international students enroll, the economic fallout will be severe. About 88 percent of institutions surveyed expect international student enrollment to decline in the 2020-2021 school year, according to the IIE, and 30 percent expect a “substantial” decline. Related: HBCUs open their doors wider to international students.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

Related: Simpler FAFSA complicates college plans for students and families “As much staff as government has, it’s not enough for students right now,” said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the national advocacy group Complete College America. She wants colleges to do more to directly help applicants still struggling to fill out the forms.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2023

After the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in 2021, tens of thousands of girls were banned from attending school beyond sixth grade. I continued my school and course lessons until our economic situation deteriorated and I could not study English anymore. I love her so much because she is so loyal that I still have her.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2024

An earlier study, published in 2021 in the Journal of Labor Economics , also found that Naviance’s scattergrams deterred students from applying to and enrolling in the most selective colleges. But if students are applying to fewer elite schools, they’re likely getting into and matriculating at fewer of them too, Tomkins 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

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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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2022

Initially, the built-in education to counteract uncontrollable mega-modernity was Home Economics—emphasis on economics. However, since the ’70s, schools dropped Home Economics as they became driven more by employers’ demands, not human needs. It is not difficult to slip up and go from victor to victim in a few hours.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2022

Larry Hogan announced in March that the state government would strip bachelor’s degree requirements from thousands of job listings. Jared Polis directed government agencies in his state to embrace hiring workers for skills , not degrees. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. requirements too. yearly median of $36,660.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

In the middle of the country’s current economic and health crisis, there’s a disturbing trend in higher education: Fewer high school seniors are filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, which is typically the first step in receiving federal and state grants, federal loans and institutional aid for college. 1, and as of Oct.

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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. In January, the government made 14 awards totalling more than $13 million.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Across the country, the high school class of 2021 left more than $3.75 million students did not fill out the FAFSA; if they had, NCAN estimates that about 813,000 of them would have been eligible for Pell Grants, the federal financial aid for students with significant economic need. But the real prize? Money for college. More than 1.7

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

It was the fall of 2021. according to Holroyd Pearce, partners with universities, colleges and governments, which typically fund the program or grant academic credit — often to students who face barriers to getting work experience. The company, whose biggest market is now the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

But it was traumatic when, in Fall 2021, they figured out it had happened. Suddenly, she had four young children to care for by herself, with only government cash assistance to live on. According to Tameka, staff visited her in Spring 2021 after receiving calls from the school complaining her children were not attending online classes.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Community college students will spend an average of $1,840 on transportation during the 2021-22 school year — more than their counterparts at public and private four-year colleges — the College Board reports. Related: Most college students don’t graduate in four years, so college and the government count six years as “success”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

You can’t see that in most places,” said Daniel Kreisman, an economics professor at Georgia State University who helped launch an effort to inform CTE policymakers by compiling data and producing research. Do former CTE students find jobs in the industries they studied? Do they earn good wages?

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 14, 2024

A gas project in the area threatens the preservation of the ancient petroglyphs, raising questions about the balance between cultural conservation and economic interests. An Australian government report titled Never Again called for stricter regulations to prevent future destruction of sacred cultural sites. link] 2 Brumm, A.,

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

By 2021, the state officially ended all remaining P2P lending platforms to curb risks from spreading to other financial sectors. I conducted fieldwork among Chinese middle-class investors from 2018 to 2021, precisely during the period marked by the industry’s decline, to capture people’s shifting perception of their financial lives.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 2, 2024

Her research won the Best Paper on Social and Economic Inequality Award from the APSA Class and Inequality Section in 2021, the Paul A. in Government from Harvard University in 2023. Alice earned her Ph.D.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 24, 2023

Then, in 2021, the American Rescue Plan Act was signed into law and $39 billion was sent to states to help stabilize the child care industry. Providers are going to do everything they can to hang on,” said Julie Kashen, director of women’s economic justice and a senior fellow at The Century Foundation. “We Even that wasn’t enough.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The federal government is pushing schools to spend a big chunk of their $122 billion in federal American Rescue Plan funds on tutoring , but bringing in armies of tutors into school buildings is a logistical nightmare. How well does online tutoring work? This is an important question. Statistically, it was a null result.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

The retention policy is part of a state law passed in 2021 that was meant to boost long-lagging reading scores and stem pandemic learning losses. Black, Hispanic and economically disadvantaged students are likely to be affected the most by the most recent version of the law. But the older law left retention decisions up to districts.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

The law requires that by 2021, students graduating from Maine high schools must show they have mastered specific skills to earn a high school diploma. By 2021, schools must offer diplomas based students reaching proficiency in the four core academic subject areas: English, math, science and social studies.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

As colleges continue to close or merge — more than 60 in the last five years, and 14 just since the start of the pandemic — a growing chorus of voices is raising alarms that this is taking more than just an emotional and economic toll on students, alumni, employees and communities.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2022

Although the federal government sent a massive influx of money to help schools troubleshoot , it left districts to grapple with how best to use the funds. The i-Ready Assessment at Columbus shows improvements in on grade-level reading from the fall of 2021 to the winter of 2022, said Cardenas, the school’s principal.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2023

More than a quarter of students missed at least 10 percent of the 2021-22 school year, making them chronically absent, according to the most recent data available. Many students are raised by grandparents who remember the government forcing Native children into boarding schools. All told, an estimated 6.5

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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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Political Science Now

JANUARY 26, 2024

This piece, written by Dirck de Kleer , covers the new article by Jonathan Parry, London School of Economics and Political Science, and Christina Easton, The University of Warwick, “Filling the Ranks”: Moral Risk and the Ethics of Military Recruitment.” In other work, he explores the implications of far-right parties in government.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

The reforms have required school districts and other local government agencies to contribute more of their budgets toward paying down the pension debt, while also obligating workers to make financial sacrifices and cutting benefits for current retirees. “At At the end of the day, it’s just this big item that needs to be paid.

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