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The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 21, 2021
Moreover, those proficiency levels are closely tied to students’ family economic status and their entering levels of proficiency in English and math. Gates Professor of Sociology and Education and chair of the Department of Education Policy and Social Analysis at Teachers College, Columbia University.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 28, 2021
The desperate search for substitute teachers has led some states and school districts to lower qualifications for the people entrusted to educate and supervise America’s schoolchildren at a moment when learning losses are already stacking up. But not enough people have taken advantage, despite the economic downturn and spike in unemployment.
The Hechinger Report
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.
The Hechinger Report
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.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 27, 2019
Hanushek, an economist, believes that the inability to close the achievement gap shows the failure of our education policies to help the poor, especially the $26 billion a year the federal government spends on Title I funding on poor schools and for Head Start preschool programs. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.
The Hechinger Report
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.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 29, 2019
And the University of Pennsylvania “is committed to making its practical, powerful and flexible Ivy League education available to the best and brightest students, regardless of their economic circumstances.”. And the thing is, these students are getting screwed.”.
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