ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

These stories offer analysis and insight as well as a glimpse into the experiences of real families and educators whose lives and livelihoods stand to suffer or benefit. In 2024, we plan to continue elevating the programs, projects, people and policies aimed at creating a stronger, more sustainable early childhood system in this country.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The two events prevented many children from accessing high-quality, in-person early care and education opportunities before kindergarten. Plus, Lambert says, some of their families lost work, hurting them economically. It’s too early to collect data for the 2024-25 school year.) Their households were filled with stress.

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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

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 The goal of CARE Nevada is to acquire 40 properties by the end of 2024, effectively doubling the supply of in-home child care slots in the county.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Instead, in April, the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources announced it would extend the enrollment-based subsidy reimbursements through August of 2024. “If It’s an economic imperative. If that had happened all at once,” Colagrosso says, “we would’ve fallen off the cliff and closed the doors.”

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ED Surge

AUGUST 23, 2023

Officials seem to recognize that internet access lifts education, but also has spillover benefits like increased economic activity. Chattanooga Choo Choo’ The proposed funding from the Digital Equity Act, a multibillion-dollar federal investment to close the digital divide, will start to flow to communities in 2024.

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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. There is every reason to believe America’s child care crisis will get worse before it gets better.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Going into the 2024 election, child care is on the minds of parents, particularly mothers. For Republicans, there is not a lot of juice to be gained in really diving into child care in the way they have some success on the education question.” It’s an economic issue.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

If you're an economic fiscal conservative, then there's a case for you to be made in this book. And so I use that just as sort of a framing device in the opening of the book to ask the question around, ‘What else are we getting really boldly and catastrophically wrong?’

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2025

Donald Trumps election for a second term marks a significant shift in American policy direction, even though education efforts were not a key focus of the 2024 election. The education technology industry has already witnessed firsthand how AI helps teachers and engages students in ways that make learning more personalized.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

This is actually an economic issue. She sees child care as both an economic and social issue. “I A June 2024 report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago found that, despite the increasing cost of child care, child care workers earn an average of $14.60 This isn’t a mom issue. This is a family issue,’” Chang said.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Theater, economics and psychology: Climate class is now in session Hechinger Report editor Caroline Preston launched her climate change newsletter (which you can sign up for here ) with a look at how some colleges are embedding climate-related instruction into diverse fields.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Biden signed an executive order on AI in October 2023, which directed the Education Department to develop within a year resources, policies and guidance on AI and to create an “AI toolkit” for schools.

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