The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Students on the Fort Lewis College campus in April 2021. When Cante donned her purple ribbon skirt, a traditional garment worn by some Native women, to commemorate Indigenous Peoples Day in October, another student approached her. angu Lakota, San Carlos Apache and Quechan, holds a traditional Great Lakes lacrosse stick.

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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. Like hundreds of similar programs, it receives millions in tuition dollars, not from traditional student aid, but from the Departments of Labor and Defense.

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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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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

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The proportion of high school graduates going directly to college has fallen from a high of 70 percent in 2016 to 62 percent in 2021. Building a common voice that could reverse the negative trend of confidence in higher education is critical not only for the well-being of the institutions, but also the well-being of the nation economically.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2024

Students in the study who were taught math through an applied approach performed significantly better on two of three standardized tests than those taught math in a more traditional way. She struggled in the traditional algebra class and had to withdraw, and the same happened in a statistics course. Applied algebra is her last chance.

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ED Surge

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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AUGUST 21, 2024

In 2021, these megafires earned Bolivia third position among countries suffering intense forest losses from fire. Jesús belongs to Bolivia’s Criollo middle-class, and the land he bought up for Paradise Farm is located upon the traditional homelands of several Indigenous Guaraní, Ayoreo, and Chiquitanos communities.

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ED Surge

JULY 28, 2023

As a Black woman who started my career working closely with engineers and then moved on to lead diversity and inclusion efforts at a major telecommunications corporation, I’ve personally experienced feeling out of place because my background differed from that of my colleagues and didn’t fit into a traditional box. population as of 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

In 2021, the proportion of high school graduates going directly to college fell to 62 percent from a high of 70 percent in 2016, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. “If we don’t have those conversations, parents will say this [college] isn’t worth it, and they will look for other opportunities and options.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

It was the fall of 2021. But traditional internships are not universally accessible. “At Not everybody is a traditional 18- to 22-year-old student,” Churches said. When Kim Churches took on the job as head of The Washington Center, a nonprofit organization that provides college students with internships, she was on a mission.

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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. For almost two years, we told families that school can look different and that schoolwork could be accomplished in times outside of the traditional 8-to-3 day.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

That idea of building a new university had fizzled, though, after Thiel concluded that colleges were too regulated to make the kind of changes he wanted within the traditional systems. go to college each year — more than 4 million graduated in 2021 alone. So he had decided to try his subversive fellowship instead.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

This shift detached investors from the personal aspect of a debt relationship, allowing them to earn 20 to 30 percent annual interest—significantly higher than the 3 to 5 percent offered by traditional banks. By 2021, the state officially ended all remaining P2P lending platforms to curb risks from spreading to other financial sectors.

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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. When many U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2022

After the disruption of the pandemic, people in the field of education are more open to rethinking traditional ways of doing business in order to better serve students. If we’re going to help our young people get to economic mobility, a great job in a career pathway has got to be a part of that,” Swinburn said. Subscribe today!

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AUGUST 24, 2023

I remember being asked this question by a very concerned and anxious parent at the start of the 2021–22 school year. We know our families are coming from different backgrounds and economic statuses, and they are in different places in healing their own traumas.

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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

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. Black and Latino parents were most hesitant about the return to in-person schooling in fall 2021. million students across the country.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2022

Any shift in the workforce to the advantage of workers without degrees carries obvious implications for economic mobility and equity. Even if more young people recognize the short-term gains they can make by plunging into the workforce without a college degree, that degree has retained its potency as a symbol of economic advancement. “I

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Many remain at least partially online this fall and possibly into 2021. For years, more and more first-generation, low-income, working adults and other students from historically underrepresented backgrounds have been enrolling in higher education, challenging outdated notions of the “traditional student.”.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Thirteen US residents—Black, white, and brown—mixed among about 30 community members sipping tinto , a traditional sweet Colombian coffee, and listening to testimonies of those who had been threatened or lost loved ones due to illegal armed groups or mining projects.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Those programs will change based on demand, said program director Katie Porter; the more popular offerings are likely to get rolled out to the district’s traditional career centers. Each high school has specialties as well: Fountain Inn High School, which opened in 2021, was built with manufacturing and STEM in mind. Whittenberg.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

They have teamed up with local educational organizations to advocate for the school district, and by extension, for racially and economically diverse schools. In Pasadena, Dufford said, it has been tradition for established families not to send their children to public schools. “So The consequences have endured for decades.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

There, a majority of students are Hispanic, and over half are classified as economically disadvantaged, according to EdData and the California Department of Education. “They’ve got a general idea of what the book is, and it helps just make it a little bit more accessible.”. Credit: John Walker/The Fresno Bee. Guided reading shows big promise.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2021

Curley, who attended the high school where she now teaches, said that number dropped significantly for both fall 2020 and fall 2021, as students struggled not only to get online but, in some cases, watched as their relatives lost jobs or became sick or even died from the coronavirus.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

The nonprofit employed 488 students on four campuses last year and has plans to expand to 1,521 by 2021. But that also depends on how they use the rest of their time, said Judith Scott-Clayton, a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research. These firms are not philanthropists.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Cory Koedel, an associate professor of economics and public policy at the University of Missouri. At the end of the day, it’s just this big item that needs to be paid,” said Cory Koedel, an associate professor of economics and public policy at the University of Missouri who studies public pensions. “If

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

In this poster, the association highlights the fact that traditional methods of finding gifted children often miss children who are low-income, nonwhite or do not speak English at home. Presenters included Peters and Wells herself, who talked about moving people from “courageous conversations” to “courageous actions.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

People of traditional college age, between 18 and 25, are also in the age group that is more likely than any other to experience mental illness , and most mental health conditions develop by the age of 24.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Some 2,400 districts — from regions synonymous with economic hardship to big cities and prosperous suburbs — did not report having even one homeless student despite levels of financial need that make those figures improbable. And many more districts are likely undercounting the number of homeless students they do identify.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Lincoln County is rural and rugged, forged by industry and ecology and steeped in a complicated history of extraction, exploitation and economic struggle. As of 2021, 694 Libby residents had died of asbestos related diseases. Economic uncertainty in the 1990s and 2000s forced fluctuations in demand. The mine’s owner, the W.R.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

It’s a trend that experts say is likely to diminish people’s quality of life and the country’s economic competitiveness. In West Virginia, 46 percent of 2021 high school graduates went on to college the following fall, 10 percentage points below that state’s high of 56 percent in 2010. College skepticism , by the numbers.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

In Michigan, for instance, the proportion of high school graduates enrolling in community college fell more than three times faster from 2018 to 2021 than the proportion going to four-year universities, according to that state’s Center for Educational Performance and Information. The Los Angeles City College stands in Los Angeles on Sept.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Matthew Kraft, an associate professor of education and economics at Brown University, was an early proponent of giving tutors — ordinarily a luxury for the rich — to the masses after the pandemic. Kraft and his research team found that tutoring produced only a small boost to reading test scores, on average, and no improvement in math.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

His book, released in 2021, is currently the basis of a traveling exhibition. These gaps are often blamed on racial and economic segregation. We have a 380-year tradition in which education has been the backbone of the American Dream, the on-ramp to the American middle class.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2023

There’s been a devaluing of anything that sits outside the model of the traditional conception of a faculty member,” said Adrianna Kezar, a professor of higher education at the University of Southern California and director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education at USC’s Rossier School of Education.

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