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OCTOBER 5, 2020

Education journalist Emily Hanford has argued that the failure to teach phonics in the early elementary years may be the problem. Research evidence certainly backs a phonics approach when first teaching kids how to read words but students need a lot more than word recognition to become good readers. Department of Education tracks.

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APRIL 25, 2018

The United States is lagging behind other wealthy nations when it comes to preparing students for workforce changes wrought by automation, according to a new study by a research group affiliated with The Economist magazine. Related: With a focus on equity, Estonia has quietly joined ranks of the global education elite.

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JUNE 13, 2024

The authors said more research is needed to determine exactly how the recommended process should be designed so that it minimizes the burden on the families it would be trying to help. Related: Interested in innovations in higher education? This research really shows that we should be looking at wealth alongside income.”

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APRIL 30, 2022

Purdue University’s online arm offers a certificate for people who want to become legal secretaries or assistants; new education department data shows that three years after completion, their median salary is $18,495. If you come out of any program in higher education you should be able to make more than the average high school graduate.”.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Food and housing insecurity among college students isn’t new, but it has been exacerbated by the pandemic and accompanying economic calamity. With our country poised for years of high unemployment and stagnation, our system of higher education must address this food and housing crisis without further delay.

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MARCH 30, 2020

These emergency policies need to be developed in direct relationship to the enduring problem in education: inequality. Economic disparities across education systems mean some students have access to laptops, to regular internet access, to printers. Access to content. Unequal risks. Sign up here for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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OCTOBER 22, 2018

The focus of our effort— Inclusive Innovation —is supported by research summarized in the report, Making Innovation Benefit All: Policies for Inclusive Growth from Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The post Inclusive Innovation: Designing for Equity appeared first on Digital Promise.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Meanwhile, some private schools encourage currently enrolled families to secure an ESA to cover the higher tuition rates, according to Beth Lewis, executive director of Save Our School Arizona, a group that advocates for public education. “It It makes complete economic sense,” Lewis said. “If

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APRIL 27, 2023

More than 24,000 of those applicants have enrolled in the program, and 2,000 have completed a degree or a certificate, the state’s Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity says. Those essentials account for about 80 percent of the cost of attending community college, according to researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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AUGUST 5, 2021

But now a convergence of factors — a dwindling pool of traditional-age students, the call for more educated workers and a pandemic that highlighted economic disparities and scrambled habits and jobs — is putting adults in the spotlight. But in the midst of his studies, he stumbled and had to retake an economics course.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

In Virginia, for example, more than 50 percent of all black college students attend just four colleges, according to research by the Urban Institute, a Washington think tank. Leave this field empty if you're human: But another way to think about educational inequality is to analyze how students fare at the same institution.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2019

In December 2013, there were 29 million people with some college education but no degree. That number jumped to 36 million by December of 2018, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. These data alarm the experts, considering all the messaging about the need for postsecondary education.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

Districts across the country have been ramping up career education programs spurred, in part, by federal legislation updated in 2018 that provides funding for career education (commonly referred to as Perkins V ), said Matt Giani, a research associate professor in sociology at the University of Texas at Austin who studies education policy.

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APRIL 16, 2018

For communities like the Bronx, equitable access to college is not just a lofty ideal, it’s an economic necessity. This is what an equity-driven higher education policy could create, not just in the Bronx but throughout the country. Michelle Asha Cooper is president of the Institute for Higher Education Policy.

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DECEMBER 17, 2018

“It’s only a handful,” said Barbara Goodson, a researcher at Abt Associates Inc., a research and consulting firm that was hired to analyze the results of the Investing in Innovation (i3) Fund for the Department of Education. They’re now called Education Innovation and Research grants.).

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OCTOBER 30, 2018

Dozens of states, according to iNACOL research , are in different stages of promoting new so-called “ competency-based education ” models that replace traditional “seat time,” spent in classrooms with “student centered” learning,” aimed at having students prove that they’ve mastered skills before simply moving on from grade to grade.

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JUNE 20, 2021

“They were already struggling to pay the bill, and now that it’s accruing it becomes impossible,” said Sosanya Jones, a Howard University professor who teaches courses on higher education policy. Jones said it’s hard to tell whether these transcript hold and collection policies are effective, but she’s skeptical. “In

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Researchers characterized this subset of students as “non-submitters.” “Non-submitters” It’s one relevant to past research about barriers preventing students from enrolling in college, said Taylor Odle, an assistant professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and co-author of the “non-submitters” study.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The proportion of high-achieving students from families making more than $250,000 a year applying through early decision is nearly twice that of high-achieving students from families that make less than $50,000, research commissioned by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation shows. It’s a triple whammy.”.

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JUNE 2, 2019

But over the past several years, the Department of Early Childhood in the Boston Public Schools (BPS) has been working to change the view of play-based learning as being available exclusively to the wealthy by bringing the philosophy of Reggio Emilia to its large, urban school system where over two-thirds of students are economically disadvantaged.

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MAY 27, 2019

Measuring achievement gaps between rich and poor might seem like a straightforward exercise for education experts. But despite this apparent simplicity, two prominent education researchers have arrived at different answers. Reardon is a professor at the Graduate School of Education. It’s important to know.

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JULY 16, 2021

The study focused on Harvard, which was forced by that lawsuit to disclose admissions statistics that are normally kept secret, but coauthor Tyler Ransom, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Oklahoma, said he’d be “shocked if we didn’t see similar figures at all of the Ivies.”.

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MARCH 8, 2017

It’s also important because the perception that college is harder to get into than it actually is discourages some people from even bothering to apply, research shows, or steers them toward lower-quality institutions with poor graduation rates when they could have been accepted to much better schools. Last year alone, it dropped 1.4

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JUNE 13, 2022

As young people, families and educators near the end of yet another hectic pandemic school year, new research studying the early impact of remote learning offers a sobering look at experiences and outcomes, including interrupted and incomplete learning. million students across the country.

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OCTOBER 17, 2018

The best deal he could get was from a private engineering college that offered Konate little to no financial aid, despite his high school record and economic situation; he would still owe more than $30,000 a year, even after subtracting his González scholarship. He couldn’t afford it. “I I lost all hope,” Konate said. “My

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JANUARY 14, 2019

But that impressive statistic masks severe racial disparities in degree completion: The state has the second largest attainment gap between whites and blacks in the nation, according to the Education Trust. He estimated that nearly one in three new jobs created through 2026 will require education beyond high school.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Reasonable people can disagree about solutions,” said Katharine Stevens, research fellow and early education expert at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. I spoke to teachers , advocates, researchers, policymakers and skeptics from Boston to Portland, Oregon. Little to Nothing.

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JULY 21, 2023

Colleges must put economic mobility at the center of their mission,” declared an April report by the Project on Workforce at Harvard. What those full-time academics don’t have, she said, is “current experience with changes in policy, changing demographics, how we work.” Maybe — God, I hope — we’re at a reckoning.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2016

College is less affordable now, when adjusted for inflation, than it was before the economic downturn, student financial aid no longer is enough to fill the gap, and low- and middle-income families already are having trouble making ends meet just to cover living expenses, the report said. “If

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MAY 23, 2016

And he’s concluded that integration has been a powerfully effective tool for raising the educational levels and living standards for at least two generations of black families. The first-generation study began as a working paper of the National Bureau of Economic Research , most recently revised in August 2015 with data through 2013.

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APRIL 9, 2018

based research organization, is planning to calculate “demographically adjusted” scores for each state later Tuesday, showing how each state would stack up if it educated a similar mix of students with the same racial and economic backgrounds. The Urban Institute, a Washington D.C.-based Concerns over computers. “We

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AUGUST 23, 2016

We don’t think of it as socialism at all,” said Oxford University professor Edward Melhuish, who studies child development and was instrumental in conducting the research that largely led to England’s current policies. “We This is even more remarkable when contrasted with the economics of child care in the U.S.: think tank.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Elizabeth Warren released a federal education policy proposal that recognizes a fundamental truth about students: Kids don’t live in schools, they live in communities. Education policy that ignores neighborhood conditions misses the point of why we ultimately go to school — to improve our community.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The commission will oversee research and conduct a listening tour to determine the best next steps to improve the Jackson’s schools , and avoid a state takeover. Not very, according to Kenneth Wong, director of the Urban Education Policy Program at Brown University. Kellogg Foundation.

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MAY 9, 2016

And the word “resegregation” gets bandied about frequently at education conferences and in the press. According to a February 2016 paper published by Stanford’s Center for Education Policy Analysis, income segregation between different school districts increased 15 percent between 1990 and 2010.

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JULY 18, 2016

Here is something worse than the current racial tensions in New Orleans and other cities: The outcomes caused by racial biases in our policing, schooling practices and stark economic inequality between black and white families. But public schools don’t look like the public.

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AUGUST 10, 2017

Without a degree, those who leave college often can’t get decent-paying jobs to make a dent in their loans, hurting their economic futures and that of the state as a whole. . The research is being paid for with a $378,000 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. I don’t think anybody’s against it,” Millar said.

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