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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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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The Hechinger Report

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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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. Even the federal government has endorsed the approach.

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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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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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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

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

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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ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2024

But a new study shows that these higher education deserts affect some groups of students much differently than others. In other words, for low-income and underrepresented minority groups, living near a community college can be a crucial way to gain access to any higher education.

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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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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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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

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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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

“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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2024

Board of Education, rejecting legal racial segregation of public schools. The decision appeared to pave the way for equal educational opportunities for every child and integrated classrooms where students from all backgrounds could prepare to thrive in their communities, careers and lives. The political landscape is shifting.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

We wanted to see what the United States could learn from an education system that consistently receives top marks from UNICEF , the OECD and the World Economic Forum. states are similar in population size and demographics to Finland, and education is largely run at the state level. Related: We’d be better at math if the U.S.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

That has to change, argues author Dan Wuori in his new book, “ The Daycare Myth: What We Get Wrong About Early Care and Education (and What We Should Do About It). ” Not terribly long ago, even kindergarten wasn't a part of many public education systems. And so it is a beginning, I guess, of our public education system.

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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

The world’s developed nations are placing a big bet on education investments, wagering that highly educated populaces will be needed to fill tomorrow’s jobs, drive healthy economies and generate enough tax receipts to support government services. To boost education budgets, other areas were slashed. Meanwhile, U.S.

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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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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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