The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

However, as the economy has grown, so has economic inequality, increasing dramatically across the country. This growing economic inequality is also widening educational achievement gaps and causing many young people to have a lack of empathy and understanding for those outside their socioeconomic peer groups.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Over the past 12 months, we have been part of an Opportunity America working group studying the changes needed for community colleges to become the engine for both economic mobility and national competitiveness. Community colleges provide crucial, affordable education at a moment when advancing equity has never been more urgent.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Outdated education fails to dispel this disinformation. and other colonized lands, racism has influenced people’s access to nutritious food, education, economic opportunities, health care, safety, and more. Educators can either perpetuate or dispel misconceptions, depending on how they teach genetics.

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ACRE

JANUARY 9, 2023

The 2022 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences (in Memory of Alfred Nobel) has been awarded to three economists; Ben S. Connections to Arkansas Learning Standards: Economics: EM.3.E.3 Connections to Arkansas Learning Standards: Economics: EM.3.E.3 How do individuals respond to financial crises? Bernanke, Douglas W.

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Ashleigh's Education Journey

DECEMBER 3, 2017

There are SO MANY fun ways to make economics activities engaging and hands-on for students, and it’s a great way to incorporate a little math into instruction. This post shares some of my favorite ways to teach economics to upper elementary students. I begin my economics unit by teaching about goods and services.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2024

In my career as an arts educator and school administrator, I have met countless families whose children are excited to embark on a college education focused on filmmaking or acting. Given the financial realities regularly confronted by the arts and the high cost of postsecondary education, a bit of hesitation may be natural.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 30, 2020

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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

Related: Interested in innovations in the field of higher education? Subscribe to our free biweekly Higher Education newsletter. Across the country, colleges and universities offer scores of programs designed to help students from underrepresented groups succeed in STEM education and prepare for tech careers.

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Civics U

MARCH 24, 2022

Inflation is only one topic and dynamic of economics, along with matters such as deflation, employment and wages, housing availability and prices, subsidies, and tax levels. Nevertheless, a course in economics is not usually a requirement for high school graduation, nor for most college degrees. That it means higher prices is obvious.

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Education Week - Social Studies

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The sources students consult, the kinds of arguments they make, differ from history to economics to geography.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

One of the central promises of education in America is the opportunity to cultivate the knowledge and skills we all need to get good jobs, pursue careers and live productive lives. If we don’t act now, working-class Americans will keep slipping economically. . Related: Out of poverty, into the middle class.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

In 2023, EdSurge sought out bright spots emerging in the early care and education space. 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. We take a close look at how it works and how it’s going so far.

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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

Community colleges, which have historically served as comprehensive institutions offering associate degrees with transfer articulation agreements to four-year colleges, have also served as workforce drivers through their array of educational credit and non-credit courses. Arrington, in 1860 the economic value of enslaved peoples in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

What if higher education isn’t the “great equalizer” after all? According to a new analysis of Federal Reserve data, higher education may not only reflect but also exacerbate racial inequities. Black grads earn less than their white peers at every level of education attainment. The wage gap is significant.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The morning after the news broke, however, Asian American educators across the country largely had to show up for work as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened. Meanwhile, in a department meeting in a Boston-area high school, three Asian American educators “chose to be vulnerable because we needed to share.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

For many rural students, higher education means waking up before the sun four days a week, then driving an hour through cornfields or pine forests to reach the only college for 100 miles. For the more than 33 million people living in education deserts, college-going can be a drastically different experience.

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Geogramblings

JULY 26, 2024

She studied human geography at the University of Leeds and has since worked in various sustainability-related roles, focusing on mental health, student engagement, and climate education. She is excited about the potential of the scheme to educate and empower individuals to take action against climate change.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 2, 2024

In 2023, EdSurge published a record number of stories on early care and education — the most we’ve run since we began covering the age group nearly five years ago. We spoke with educators and families in West Virginia to understand what that historic funding enabled them to do — and the “impossible choices” they now face.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In the last few years, the American education system has been bludgeoned by changes that have upended decades of progress toward better academic, economic and social outcomes for all. These dangerous culture wars will wreak havoc on education and education policy for years to come. Teaching is inherently activist.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2020

Ward is unusual, too, because she had made the leap from college admissions to private school to public school, and she is trying to bring the individualized approach of private college counseling to large, economically diverse public schools where she can make a bigger difference. Sign up for our higher education newsletter.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Postsecondary institutions are charged with developing people's academic skills, technical skills and positioning them for jobs and additional education through high-quality degree programs. Community colleges in particular have a difficult dual mission to train students for work and additional education.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2017

These new roles could become the “blue-collar” jobs of the future — the positions that can promise middle-class security without necessarily requiring a traditional higher-education degree. But to train this workforce effectively, we’ll need to change the way we approach education. Higher Education. Sign up for our newsletter.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2023

language education was published in 2017, with data from less than half of the country’s K-12 schools. While our understanding of language education is incomplete, we know that most K-12 students in American public schools do not have the opportunity to study an additional language to proficiency. Of the small portion of the U.S.

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ED Surge

APRIL 21, 2023

Families with social and economic capital tend to provide their children with more educational tools and opportunities, including enrichment activities, access to technology and familiarity with the learning process.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

A solid early education serves as a cornerstone for a child's future. However, many young children have limited access to high-quality educational opportunities because of socioeconomic factors and technological barriers. He aspired to make high-quality education financially viable and scalable for a broader system.

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ED Surge

MAY 11, 2023

Educators around the world are shifting into learning and organizing mode in response to the release of ChatGPT and other new AI chatbots that have brought a mix of excitement and panic to education. education ministries including those in Brazil, Germany, Kenya, Malaysia, South Korea and the U.K.;

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Child care workers nationwide are worried about their own health, that of their families and their short- and long-term economic survival. Pearsall’s exhaustion is shared by providers across the country worried about their own health, that of their families and their short- and long-term economic survival.

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

Students are looking for something different from teachers and professors as they prepare to enter political and civic life, and that means educators need to change the way they support students when it comes to political engagement. We don't often see that in higher education. For the full interview, listen here. That's an example.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2022

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! The next step is for people to think about how this blurring can happen at scale, he said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Credit: Manuel Orbegozo for The Hechinger Report California has been a leader in prison education programs, starting with a 2014 rule authorizing state funding for community colleges to set up programs for students who are incarcerated. Offering prison education programs is key to community safety.” I’m trying,” she tells them.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2024

As vital as that funding was, it was insufficient to address the many systemic problems impacting early childhood education and its workforce, including inequitable wages. recently established the Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund , which aims to achieve pay parity between early childhood educators and their K-12 counterparts.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

should prioritize early childhood education , a key component of that agenda is getting more people trained to offer high-quality care and teaching to young kids. And that means encouraging colleges to recruit, prepare and graduate more early childhood educators. You’re not enabling economic mobility at $12 an hour.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Rider oversees career and technical education in Allen Parish, a region of rural Louisiana known for pine forests and the state’s largest casino. About 85 percent of high school graduates in 2019 had taken at least one course in career and technical education, or CTE. Louisiana bet big on career education.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

The pandemic disrupted the “when I grow up” dreams of too many students, leaving fewer prepared for education and training after high school. Pathways are a way of connecting the dots among K-12, higher education and career training in a smooth continuum, rather than treating them as three separate systems.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Gutierrez participated in my high school district’s education pathway, where she took college-level courses and interned as a teacher. These experiences paved the way for Gutierrez to become the first in her family to attend college and pursue a bachelor’s degree in education. Higher Education. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2024

Yet if we broaden our focus, there are myriad more impactful ways to promote educational equity than adjusting the admissions practices of elite colleges. Widespread improvements in educational equity and economic mobility will happen only when minority-serving and broad-access institutions receive our respect and support.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2020

In another measure of the massive economic toll of the pandemic on higher education, the resulting shutdowns have been singularly devastating to the college towns in which these campuses are situated. Roy, who is the House chair of the state legislature’s Joint Committee on Higher Education. Credit: Photo: Getty Images.

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