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Economic Mobility Pathways in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky: Building Networks for Frontline Talent Development

Digital Promise

It wasn’t until a group of local leaders from across education, business, nonprofit, government, and philanthropic communities came together to identify challenges and collectively design solutions that real pathways toward income mobility began to emerge for the area’s adult learners. Collaborating Organizations. Brighton Center, Kentucky.

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OPINION: If we don’t act quickly, the student loan default system could plunge more families into poverty

The Hechinger Report

Like the well-documented effects of traffic fines and court fees, the penalties resulting from federal student loan default plunge too many Americans deeper into financial instability, perpetuating rather than helping to resolve the vicious cycle of poverty.

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Shipbreaking in Bangladesh: The Labor of Living with Toxic Development

Anthropology News

The economic significance of shipbreaking means that national and international NGOs seeking to ban the industry in Bangladesh remain unpopular. Migrant workers often take the riskier jobs and may miss out on both official training and labor documentation entitling them to work-related compensations.

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How Water Insecurity Impacts Women’s Health

Sapiens

As this happens, more people will encounter a confluence of water-related challenges , including substantial disease risks, constrained economic opportunities, and political instability. The connection between poor water quality and serious threats to health, such as gastrointestinal infections and diarrhea, are well-documented.

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Teaching the Constitution in the Context of Human Behavior

Teaching American History

“To be a good member of your community, you really have to understand why people do the things that they do,” says Bryan Little, who teaches both on-level Government and AP Government at McPherson High School in McPherson, Kansas. For Little, government class entails “constitutional study and human behavior study side by side.”

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Responses coming in on the Curriculum and Assessment Review

Living Geography

The Government has launched an open call for evidence to inform its curriculum and assessment review for England, which is being chaired by Professor Becky Francis CBE. New on the RGS website is this call for your thoughts ahead of the Curriculum and Assessment Review for England, which is being chaired by Becky Francis.

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PROOF POINTS: Schools staff up as student enrollment drops

The Hechinger Report

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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