The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

This story is part of our Map to the Middle Class project , where we ask readers what they want us to investigate about educational pathways to economic stability. He asks : What are the projections for the size of the middle class assuming current economic and demographic trends? This question comes from Kieran Hanrahan.

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History Havoc

JULY 10, 2024

Background During the Civil War, the Confederate government of Texas sold US bonds owned by the state. We do not have income tax here, but definitely would if we left the United States. Regardless of our status in the economic world, things would drastically change. Plus it would be ludicrous. The post Can Texas Secede?

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

In 2006, during the United Progressive Alliance Regime under the leadership of Prime Minister, Mr. Manmohan Singh, the Government of India initiated National Tribal Policy. Definition: PVTGs constitute the most vulnerable section among tribals and inhabit isolated, remote and difficult areas in small and scattered hamlets/ habitats.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2020

The devastating economic stress of the coronavirus pandemic, coupled with the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, marks a critical moment of reflection to give definition to and create opportunities for understanding disability justice, not just disability rights.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It’s unfair, it’s discriminatory, and it disadvantages already economically disadvantaged kids,” said Jack Fletcher, co-founder of the Texas Center for Learning Disabilities in Houston and one of the first scientists to question the discrepancy model’s validity. “He The studies came just as the U.S. Guidelines put out by the U.S.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

iii] According to anthropologist George Dalton, “Peasants were legal, political, social, and economic inferiors in medieval Europe. East-West geopolitical competition and spreading anti-colonial struggles also fuelled concern about the peasantry, which was at the time and by almost any definition the majority of humankind.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

At a time when so many employers are struggling to find workers who have university degrees, Tyler Duffield thinks supporting higher education is as obvious an obligation of state government as it is essential. Forty-four percent think government-funded grants and loans have failed to keep up with the price of tuition , the APM survey found.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources. We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

Yet, with few exceptions, families earning $88,000 a year — right in the middle of the middle class — get no government help to cover the cost of educating their 4-year-olds. In contrast, attendance at government-funded preschools is the norm in many countries. The government is subsidizing middle class child care anyway. ”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Jon: But the decline in college opportunity for rural high school graduates is only widening social, economic and political divides between rural America and the rest of the country. They have an economic impact. Rural voters are convinced that their communities get less government spending than they deserve. Jon: Right, Kirk.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

It’s also the only way we are going to reach an actual inclusive economic recovery.”. Said Trejo: “It’s definitely more welcoming among the newer generation.”. Related: The jobs where sexual harassment and discrimination never stopped. percent of work hours on projects be completed by women.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Students study for classes at a government school on the edge of the Thar Desert. About 65 percent of India’s students attend similar government schools, many with dismal outcomes. Just a few miles away from where Ballani teaches, Michael Daube is raising money for the new girls’ school and economic center in Jaisalmer.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Toward the end of filling out the class, there would definitely be a push to look for more men to admit,” said Medley, who was in her role at Brandeis from 2012 to 2014. Brandeis accepted 44 percent of male applicants compared to 36 percent of female applicants in 2012-2013, according to data the university reports to the federal government.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2019

She was “a little hesitant, definitely,” to come back. “I She was “a little hesitant, definitely,” to come back, said Ridgeway. “I Zac Mckinster, 28, a Navy veteran and new father, is double-majoring in finance and quantitative economics at Portland State. I don’t want to waste any more money.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In 2016 Weissbourd was the lead-author on a report calling on colleges to broaden their definition of community service. For students from low-income families, graduating from college is an important way to climb the economic ladder. Related: University of Chicago projected to be the first U.S. university to cost $100,000 a year.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

Your heart breaks that you can’t do more, but there are certain economic realities. The college said the information it had submitted to the federal government was incorrect, but did not respond when asked to provide the correct figures. You have to be well in order to do good, and that’s a harsh reality for a lot of colleges.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

The federal government even charges higher interest rates for graduate than for undergraduate loans : 6.6 The federal government projects that graduate enrollment will rise by about another 3 percent through 2027 — a much more sluggish pace than in the last 10 years. It definitely needs more attention,” Stevens said.

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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. But some parents fear that acknowledging their housing struggles could prompt the government to take their kids away.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Less-selective colleges and universities, which were desperate to fill seats as the pandemic began last spring, offered financial aid to students from higher-income families that didn’t meet the federal definition of having financial need. Related: ‘It’s just too much’: Why students are abandoning community colleges in droves.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance. It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance,” said Aponte, who also served as U.S.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 9, 2021

From a macrosociological perspective, political-economic forces and cultural practices make people interact with their environment in ways that may affect health either by exacerbating disease problems or protecting people from disease. Culture is not self-evident and needs careful definition if it is to be used as a scientific explanation.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2018

“We’re ahead of the game in terms of awareness of the problem,” said Daniel Weinstock, director of the Institute for Health and Social Policy at McGill University, which has received a grant of nearly 1 million Canadian dollars ($730,134) from the provincial government to study why people leave and what might make them change their minds.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

Regardless of its conceptual newness, the narrative of AI is often framed within existing tropes of power dynamics, economic motivations, and ownership. Result African companies facing economic difficulties in 2024 are turn into artificial intelligence to reduce marketing and advertising expenses, raising concerns about potential job losses.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2016

This is one of the few things outside school that young people have to do in this neighborhood, which the government ranks among the country’s poorest. One-third more girls than boys in Britain go to college, government statistics show. Campuses here, overall, are 56 percent female. In the U.S., Photo: Dominic Barnfather. “We

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

But there’s no common definition yet for what personalized learning actually is.”. EL’s definition puts two elements at its core: “expeditionary learning” projects and small groups of students called Crews who stick together from grade to grade and meet daily along with a teacher adviser to support and challenge each other.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

A model created by the COVID-19 Eviction Defense Project , a coalition of economic researchers and legal experts, estimates that roughly 20 percent of the 110 million Americans who live in rented homes risk displacement by September 30 unless policymakers enact aggressive relief measures.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

As the state endeavors to cultivate fintech companies as catalysts for economic stimulation, there lies a strategic imperative for major platforms. Meanwhile, others persisted in rejecting the “Ponzi scheme participant” label imposed by the state, asserting, “I am an investor lured by the government for their ‘financial inclusion.’

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

I definitely would have struggled [in algebra] if I didn’t have to go through the process of re-taking.”. There was a sense that we needed to swing for the fences to make the economic transition the state needs to make.”. “In I definitely would have struggled if I didn’t have to go through the process of retaking,” Kylee said. “It

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Since 2012, when the government exhorted more écoles maternelles to open their doors to 2-year-olds, the rate of participation in France’s “priority education networks”—networks of schools that serve heavily low-income, immigrant communities that are targeted for extra social support—has steadily risen.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

said Miriam Jorgensen, research director for the Harvard Project on Indigenous Governance and Development. There’s definitely a colonial imperative in the existence of those lands.” But the reality of the situation is, the chances of having the federal or state governments return it is low.” Yes,” said Stainbrook.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Clarify misconceptions, and provide definitions to new terms. Possible Sentences Vocab Strategy Oct. How: (How to set up the Strategy) Select 8-10 terms from a unit of study. Provide a space for displaying terms and student-constructed sentences. Discuss what students know about the terms.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2016

Scenarios like that, in workplaces all over the country, have resulted in a rush to add this kind of perk by employers ranging from JetBlue to the federal government, covering millions of Americans. One company saved $1.29 in reduced turnover and recruiting costs for every $1 it spent on tuition reimbursement.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

The publication presents an understanding and definition of personalized learning, created and critiqued by 40 key stakeholder organizations and individuals in Rhode Island. The white paper synthesizes the learning of regional practitioners and experts to set Rhode Island’s vision for personalized learning.

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Strange Maps

AUGUST 12, 2023

” The briefest possible definition of that term is “the quantification of prejudice.” A lecturer on sociology at Columbia and a professor of economics at Harvard, he was particularly influential in U.S. In 1933, he was elected president of the American Economics Association. And why are they important?

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Civics U

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Immigration and immigration reform have been issues in past American history, and are still issues in American government and politics. WHAT MAKES A NATION A nation normally has these characteristics: a population; a government with sovereignty in relation to other nations and authorities; and a territory defined by land mass and boundaries.

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Leah Cleary

JULY 28, 2024

For example: If economics students are reading about US trade barriers with Russia, a targeted prompt and response may look like this: Kernel Prompt: They prohibited this. The appositive sentence structure is noun + comma + definition + comma + significance. .” Ask students to answer questions such as “Where?”

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