Community Engagement Economics Tradition 
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 31, 2024
“When you’re knocking on people’s doors and saying, ‘Hi, I’m a student from the University of Vermont,’ people would look at you a little perplexed at first,” said Kelly Hamshaw, a research lecturer in the university’s Department of Community Development and Applied Economics, who is working on the disaster resilience project.
ED Surge
MAY 5, 2023
With enrollment in traditional teacher education programs declining nationwide in the past few years, it is drying up at an alarming rate. As the nation grapples with the profound effects these challenges have on school communities, the term “ learning loss ” has made its way into the spotlight.
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The Hechinger Report
MAY 21, 2024
But the moms in the community who support public schools have organized to create a more equitable and diverse educational landscape. They have teamed up with local educational organizations to advocate for the school district, and by extension, for racially and economically diverse schools. I was like, ‘Oh, wait, I’m poor.’”
The Hechinger Report
JULY 16, 2018
Additionally, students of color now make up about 40 percent of our student bodies, and we seek greater geographic and economic diversity as well. Instead of silos focused on global education — diversity initiatives and community engagement each working separately — we will connect these areas so they can work together, as they should.
ED Surge
JANUARY 23, 2024
We dig into these issues on this week’s EdSurge Podcast, where we hear from two experts working to expand educational efforts around AI, to make sure those efforts reach traditionally underserved communities, and to work to expand engagement with ethical issues of the technology.
ED Surge
MAY 25, 2022
And they’re still changing, after two years of a brutal pandemic, untold economic hardship, political polarization and social unrest. No one understands this more intimately than the teachers, school leaders and students who live through it every day.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 11, 2020
Within a single generation, his family has staked a claim to social and economic opportunities often viewed as out of reach in low-income, majority-Black neighborhoods. This stuff doesn’t happen overnight,” said Amy Carroll-Scott, co-lead of policy and community engagement in Drexel University’s Urban Health Collaborative.
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