The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Georgetown University’s Edunomics Lab documents the divergence between the growth of school staff and students. 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. See detailed graphs below. The third act was a pandemic-fueled “hiring bonanza.”

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Political Science Now

JULY 23, 2024

The book documents the patriarchal nature of politics and the household in Madhya Pradesh, noting that men have more powerful networks and more ties outside the household. She received a PhD in Government from Harvard University in 2017 and a BA in Political Science and Economics from Texas A&M University.

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ACRE

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Students can also explore biographical information for several individuals whose ideas influenced the nation’s founding documents. These essays outlined the division of government powers, methods for taxation, as well as foundations for the structure of Congress and the Courts. Government: PP.2.USG.2 Government: PP.2.USG.2

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Two graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program submitted essays on how they teach these skills to the Bill of Rights Institute’s 2023 National Civics Teacher of the Year Award , placing among the top ten finalists. They teach self-government as a cooperative activity. Yet both go further.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Notably, the study highlighted the increasing economic significance of pigs during the Neolithic period. They observed variations in animal flocks' sizes and documented different grazing practices, indicating an adaption to environmental conditions and an integration of livestock practices with early agricultural methods. Gassiot, E.,

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Researchers documented a 45,500-year-old ochre depiction of a pig at Leang Tedongnge cave in Sulawesi, Indonesia. A gas project in the area threatens the preservation of the ancient petroglyphs, raising questions about the balance between cultural conservation and economic interests.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Our task force consists of students, faculty, college presidents, business leaders, climate leaders and former government officials working together to build on the important leadership that we have seen emerging in our sector.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In Atlanta, where Tameka lives, parents must present at least eight documents to enroll their children — twice as many as parents in New York City or Los Angeles. One of the documents — a complicated certificate evaluating a child’s dental health, vision, hearing and nutrition — is required by the state. But it was never found.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Victor Lavy , an Israeli economist who helped design the remedial high school program and who conducted the initial evaluation, used government records to track the students through their early 30s. The study is part of a larger body of work in which Lavy has documented positive results from intervening with older students.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In his project funded by the APSA DDRIG, Bo examines such strategic allocation of discretionary power within the Chinese political system, by tracing and measuring the specificities in policy documents issued by Chinese local governments with text-as-data methods to determine the space for discretion by local bureaucrats.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

When Iowa Wesleyan University announced in March that it would close, its biggest creditor was a federal government agency that had loaned it $26 million and then — in an attempt to help the university survive —softened the terms and extended the repayment period. Iowa Wesleyan, for example, had an estimated $55.1 Dordt has an estimated $43.4

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Based on these early successes, education leaders in government and nonprofit organizations sought to bring the power of text messages to hundreds of thousands of students. Source: “Nudging at scale: Experimental evidence from FAFSA completion campaigns,” March 2021 issue of Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.

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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Embargos usually refer to government orders to restrict commerce or block the exchange of goods with another nation. The intent of these punitive measures is to isolate a country and create difficulties for its governing body. Some of those resources can be fostered within.

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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

Fischer, and other German scholars recruited by the Russian government to report on the peoples of the newly explored eastern territories. Ethnography in this sense included the culling of material from documents and interviews with visitors returning from foreign lands and the redaction of this material into learned treatises.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This would allow both the “expert groups” and the “Jigsaw groups” to document and share their learning. Jigsaw Strategy Oct. In this setting, providing the students with a teacher-created digital template or collaboration page would be ideal. Grades K-3) February 26, 2024 The post Jigsaw Strategy first appeared on Studies Weekly.

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Doing Social Studies

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Nathan McAlister is the Humanities Program Manager – History, Government, and Social Studies with the Kansas State Department of Education. One, offer examples of websites to use in your classroom, and two, provide a few rules to guide your excerpting of documents. Still further, if I use excerpts, how much is too much to cut?

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 5, 2024

George Hawkins , a 2019 graduate of TAH’s Master of Arts with a Specialization in Teaching American History and Government (MASTAHG) program , was named South Dakota Teacher of the Year in October. Moreover, any realistic account of history covers economic and financial factors. He did his student teaching in a traditional classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2023

He has an office, access to professional training and government-provided health insurance. The comparatively poor working situation of American adjuncts “is a sad story,” said Jassim, who teaches corporate finance, real estate investment and managerial and engineering economics at McGill University. “It It breaks my heart.”

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Foreign investors working with the Ecuadorean government started planning to extract minerals in the region on an industrial scale in the early 2000s. At first, some Shuar people were hopeful about the economic opportunities promised to them. Other serious environmental concerns remain unanswered.

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Anthropology News

MAY 28, 2024

How do beggars gain access to public space in Guangzhou through such performances, navigating local governance and social norms? I saw smaller notes and big declarations arranged with photos, hospital reports, and other official documents. But this time, the officials in their dark-blue uniforms did not intervene.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 15, 2024

For data collection, we consider the typical ways in which process tracing gathers evidence on the observable implications of causal mechanisms, including archival work, document analysis of secondary sources, various field methods (interviews, political ethnography, ethnography), and surveys.

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Civics U

JULY 18, 2022

THE PRICE OF PROGRESS Economic progress has also often involved the exploitation and oppression of certain people and groups as a means of producing wealth for those in social, legal, and economic control. documented the often negative effects of “modernization” and “progress” on indigenous peoples around the world.

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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. Earlier research has also found long-term benefits from preschool.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2021

The advantages of parental leave for children are well documented and range from better language and socioemotional outcomes during toddlerhood to increased breastfeeding in infancy, which itself is associated with enhanced cognitive development.

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Civics U

APRIL 21, 2022

Natural rights are rights that are considered to be universal human rights that are granted by nature or God, not granted by society or government and thus not to be revoked by society or government. They are believed to be “inalienable” because they are not (to be) dependent on laws or customs of a particular culture or government.

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ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2024

Child care, Gale explains, was essential to allowing these workers to do their jobs, and during the emergency phase of the pandemic, the federal government seemed to agree, sending between $30 and $34 per day per child of each essential worker directly to the providers who cared for them. Gale and children working at a raised garden bed.

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Steven V. Miller

JANUARY 12, 2022

Here’s the basic problem from the perspective of someone who uses R Markdown as an interface to pandoc, and ultimately a wrapper for a LaTeX document designed with my syllabus template in {stevetemplates}. One approach is to make some in-text citations that can then be formatted as a bibliography at the end of the document.

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Dr. Preece

MARCH 21, 2023

It’s the document that you give to Presidents and Prime Ministers – and say “this is what you really need to know”. Solutions from around the world are described and explored, but these are significantly variable across sectors, countries, and levels of economic development. The report that has just been released is different.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 25, 2024

What mental, social, and economic tolls do patients and their families bear? MEDICAL STUDY AND TREATMENTS Sickle cell anemia was first documented in medical literature in 1910. Government and communities have a responsibility to make living with sickle cell bearable—even convenient. How do the sickle-shaped cells form?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

High school graduation rates have soared in recent years, hitting a new record of 84 percent for 2015-16 in the most recent federal government count, but there are still millions of Americans who didn’t get a diploma in high school. Economic recovery after the 2008 recession also reduced demand for equivalency degrees.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Related: Documenting Maine’s failure to implement proficiency-based education. Andreas Schleicher, director of the education and skills unit at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, has long been arguing that the U.S. Related: Putting an ed tech darling in context.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Given the educational and economic divide between rural and nonrural America, this may be the most important college access program you’ve never heard of. By 2019, Ayers had helped impoverished Perry County reach an 86 percent college-going rate (57 students), the highest in the state, according to government figures.

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ED Surge

JUNE 7, 2023

The California Master Plan for Early Learning and Care is one of the first major government documents in the state’s history to identify FFNs as a source for child care. In the state of California, where the women I interviewed live, an estimated quarter of parents with children under 3 years old rely on FFNs for child care.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2017

The personal and societal economic impact of a bachelor’s degree is well-documented. And let’s not overlook that an educated workforce will be required for the corporate expansion and economic growth that the current Senate and House tax proposals promise. It is, equally, the key to a brighter future for our country.

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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 Even with that, financial documents show, the company has yet to turn a profit , thanks to the high cost of recruiting new students. Tuition and fees at the law school at St. Thomas are $42,190 a year. percent, compared to 5.05

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2019

Decades of research have documented that students of color, particularly black children, are disproportionately classified by schools as having disabilities. The federal government foots only a small part of the bill, leaving localities and states to pay for the rest. Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images.

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