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

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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

As higher education leaders in California and Louisiana, we see the impacts of the changing climate across the communities we serve. Climate change will impact the entire system of higher education — its operations, facilities, fiscal model and mission. Our task force will create a road map for higher education’s expanded role.

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ED Surge

JUNE 18, 2024

The throughline across all of them,” Carman notes, “is that families need more economic stability.” Educated, experienced, passionate teachers aren't able to stay in this field because they literally can't afford to,” wrote a center-based teacher in Wyoming. Their responses can be distilled into a few ideas.

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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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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

This large economic and racial divide between two adjacent districts in Michigan shows that school segregation persists in the 21st century. But some district pairs revealed far higher levels of economic segregation, like Frankenmuth and Saginaw, whose poverty rates differ by about 45 percentage points. Its poverty rate is 50 percent.

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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

For most of my career, I’ve worked toward creating access for children who have historically been excluded from high-caliber educational experiences in education and technology. Yet I learned that education and enrichment programs can only do so much. Education and enrichment programs can only do so much.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Related: Interested in innovations in the field of higher education? Subscribe to our free biweekly Higher Education newsletter. Tools that work for expanding economic diversity don’t necessarily do the same thing for racial diversity, as research indicates. Sign up for our higher education newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

It is especially abhorrent that a government program intended to create equitable opportunities for all students instead perpetuates racial and economic gaps in financial stability and mobility. By seizing these benefits, the federal government takes away critical financial lifelines that reduce poverty for millions of families.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Federal government prompted this tough choice when they told program directors that they may redirect funds typically used to serve children toward pay raises for teachers. These new programs did help close some gaps for the lowest-income households, but never fully met the long-term goal of creating equity in early education.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2021

But after 27 years with a company with education benefits — benefits Thomas pitches to other employees — she still hadn’t taken advantage of them herself. “I Despite recent talk of debt relief and free college, little government help has been forthcoming, especially for working adults. She had what it takes to rise.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 19, 2024

These often have consequences in education, from an increase in cheating on assignments enabled by prose-spewing chatbots, to experiments that bring AI into classrooms as teaching assistants or even as students. Through interviews, she’s found that some educators link AI to social media and cellphones. And last year, the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

Those few words also help explain a principal reason many states are boosting their budgets for public higher education more than at any time since 2008 and proposing even higher allocations down the road. The connection between education and the workforce has become more explicit, and the urgency has become much greater,” Harnisch said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2020

While the coronavirus highlights the pernicious crisis of mass incarceration, and mass protests highlight our dangerously outdated and racially biased penal system, we can’t help but notice that one solution isn’t included in the conversations often enough: higher education. Education has benefits that far exceed the tangible.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2021

But overcoming the pandemic-driven economic crisis will require much more than good intentions and billions in new spending. Black, Latino and low-income learners have had a particular disadvantage finding and navigating successful pathways between education and well-paying work. An economic recession is now making this worse.

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Students of History

MAY 24, 2024

This prestigious scholarship, which has been awarded each year since 2017, recognizes a college-bound senior who has excelled in history education. Toyosi will receive a $1,000 scholarship to support her studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she plans to further her education. ” Ms.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Artwork decorates the government-run nursery classroom at Badock’s Wood Primary School in Bristol, England. could learn a lot about early education from our international counterparts. That’s the conclusion of a comprehensive, multi-year study of six early education systems that are beating the U.S. Photo: Lillian Mongeau.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Under pressure to invest in education, Mayor Jim Strickland announced the city would commit $6 million toward pre-K funding, though that amount would not completely offset the lost federal funds. In Boston, these payments augment the traditional K-12 education system and help low-income children gain access to the middle class.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2020

That’s a problem because the data don’t lie: Two-thirds of all jobs and 80 percent of all “good” jobs (paying a median wage of $65,000) demand a postsecondary credential, according to research by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce. The foundation’s results in several small, rural counties are eye-popping.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

higher education system is fair had evaporated. Education as the great equalizer ? The Merit Myth” describes how higher education gives lip service to the promise of social mobility, while remaining ever more segregated by class and race. colleges favor the rich.

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

In 2006, during the United Progressive Alliance Regime under the leadership of Prime Minister, Mr. Manmohan Singh, the Government of India initiated National Tribal Policy. The primary aim of the policy was to correct several mishaps of the earlier policies centering on the Tribal population of the country.

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Living Geography

OCTOBER 4, 2024

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. In particular: We know that many in education feel the geography curriculum at GCSE is overloaded. This evidence will inform later stages of the consultation.

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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. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack. The USDA loaned Iowa Wesleyan $26.4

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ED Surge

MAY 1, 2024

When pueblos in New Mexico looked into running fiber into Jemez Day School, a K-6 school run by the Bureau of Indian Education, they were launching a complicated process. And the pandemic focused attention on inequitable access to broadband services in education. Early on, the U.S. So she wasn’t used to working on broadband, she says.

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Living Geography

OCTOBER 1, 2024

It shares all the news linked to my role as Vice President: Education. 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. An RGS-heavy day today alongside my teaching. Do you agree? What should assessment look like?

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ED Surge

MAY 30, 2024

This issue is not a social issue, it’s an economic issue and frankly, it’s a simple question of math,” Raimondo wrote in an emailed statement to The 19th. “If They’re not in the business of sustaining this beyond their grant from the federal government,” she said. Federal contractors are supposed to ensure that women perform 6.9

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As education leaders continue to engage in conversations on transforming assessment and accountability for our nation, they must prioritize elevating voices excluded from past education change efforts, including voices of young learners, especially those from communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities.

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ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2024

Higher education institutions are facing unprecedented challenges that are forcing strategic changes. McGrath Director of Sales & Strategy, Workday Adaptive Planning, Alight In response to these pressing challenges, higher education institutions are engaging professional services to help them effectively navigate turbulent times.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

and it affects the allocation of more than $800 billion in federal government funding nationwide. Critical programs and services that adult education communities rely on, such as libraries and nonprofit organizations, could be impacted. Census Could Impact Adult Education appeared first on Digital Promise. population.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

But educators across the country know better. public schools required vast support, federal and state government officials appropriated historic levels of help via elementary and secondary school emergency relief funds. Novel educational impacts of the pandemic are still emerging while others persist. educates our youth.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2021

Young people whose education included a work-based learning experience — and with it a sampling of career opportunities they might never have imagined. The result is that we are losing the energy, intelligence and creativity young people could and should bring to New York’s economic recovery. The rare exceptions? The time is right.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2022

Slower economic growth. It is a crisis, and I don’t think it’s widely recognized yet that it is,” said Jason Lane, dean of Miami University’s College of Education, Health and Society. It’s going to be less economically successful. Continued labor shortages. Lower life expectancy. Higher levels of divorce.

Economics 122

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Texas, for example, educates 367,000 more students, a 7 percent increase over the past decade, but the number of employees has surged by more than 107,000, a 16 percent jump. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Yet labor and education leaders warn that the country is almost uniquely ill-equipped to help these people gather new skills and prepare for new careers. That could have lasting effects both for these individuals’ financial security and for the broader economy, by stymieing innovation and growth and deepening economic polarization.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Historically, career and technical education (CTE) was seen as a dumping ground for students who weren’t considered college material. A two-tier educational system tracked predominantly low-income students and students of color into career and technical classes, then known as vocational education. Perkins Act.

Education 145

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Although USN&WR has proclaimed itself “the global authority in education rankings,” a healthy degree of skepticism is appropriate. Moreover, those proficiency levels are closely tied to students’ family economic status and their entering levels of proficiency in English and math. Even “global authorities” can screw up!

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