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

JANUARY 12, 2023

Across the country, schools have shifted toward career-focused education in recent years, reviving a long-running debate on whether the purpose of education is to prepare students for jobs or to be well-rounded citizens. One week per month, engineers from local industries visit the classrooms and talk to students about their careers.

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Passion for Social Studies

JANUARY 18, 2024

If parents and teachers do not trust one another, then no necessary steps might be taken for their child’s educational progress. Add to cart Sociology Course $ 200.00 They won’t follow your lead when you make suggestions to help improve their child’s success at school.

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MARCH 29, 2022

Every few months, readers interested in higher education see yet another article on “college majors that lead to the highest incomes.” Relatively few high school graduates have the education — or the inclination — for the years of college math and physics that engineering requires. It wasn’t going to happen.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

“They thought we would be more interested in audio engineering than engineering,” said Kamara, now a junior at Wesleyan University studying English and sociology. Historically, career and technical education (CTE) was seen as a dumping ground for students who weren’t considered college material. That was a hard pill to swallow.”.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

How to Create the Schools We Need , Chris Lehmann and Zac Chase [education]. Our Towns , James Fallows and Deborah Fallows [economic development, sociology]. Building School 2.0: The Shadow of What Was Lost , James Islington [fantasy]. An Echo of Things to Come , James Islington [fantasy].

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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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Leah Cleary

JULY 28, 2024

For example: If economics students are reading about US trade barriers with Russia, a targeted prompt and response may look like this: Kernel Prompt: They prohibited this. .” Ask students to answer questions such as “Where?” ” “When?” ” “Why?” ” and “How?”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2023

In an ideal world, early childhood education advocates wouldn’t need strategies for building respect for the profession. We wouldn’t need to develop arguments for why pre-K educators deserve better pay and working conditions — the country would just accept this as fact and make it happen.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 1, 2024

Curricular innovations include utilizing new textbooks or workbooks, creating a new active learning experience, and utilizing APSA Educate resources to improve face-to-face or online learning environments. She has been a Political Science educator for twenty-four years. in Sociology from Stanford University and a Ph.D.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2020

Using endowments to avert layoffs also could help spur a faster economic recovery. During the 2008 financial crisis, university layoffs contributed to broader public-sector job cuts that undermined federal efforts to stimulate economic recovery. This story about U.S. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

For the last six years, the American Indian College Fund has selected a group of talented students and alumni for leadership training to speak about education issues impacting Native Americans. Their recovery and survival, their health, education and well-being, is the latest test of our commitment to equity and justice.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Rural young people who aspire to a higher education have long had fewer choices than their urban and suburban counterparts, contributing to far lower rates of college-going. Missouri Western State University eliminated majors, minors and concentrations in English, history, philosophy, sociology, political science, art and other subjects.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

Given current circumstances, Richard Vedder, an economics professor emeritus at Ohio University, has decided to teach his fall course, “Economic History of Europe,” for a salary of $1. Richard Vedder, an economics professor emeritus at Ohio University and national expert on higher education finances, began teaching at O.U.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2021

While enrollment in higher education overall fell 2.5 Adrian Huerta, assistant professor of education, University of Southern California. “In It’s a national crisis,” said Luis Ponjuan, an associate professor of higher education administration at Texas A&M University.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The study acknowledged that reliable transportation has not been widely cited as a key to education, but called it “often the single thread holding together a precarious balancing act that allows the student to attend school while juggling multiple other responsibilities.”. Credit: James Bernal for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

Emily House, executive director, Tennessee Higher Education Commission and the Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation. “It It’s a real barrier,” said Zora Mulligan, the state’s commissioner of higher education.) Laura Perna, executive director, Alliance for Higher Education and Democracy at the University of Pennsylvania.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2020

Some 57 percent of Americans are worried about losing their jobs, 46 percent have seen their hours or income reduced and one-third believe that if they do lose their job, they will need additional education to find a comparable one, according to a survey conducted in late March by Strada Education Network.

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C3 Teachers

APRIL 10, 2022

I recently zoomed with Nick S tamoulacatos, Supervisor of Social Studies at Syracuse City School District and one of the writers on the article “Countering the Past of Least Resistance” in that latest Social Education. You can address history, economics, sociology, you know all the facets of social studies.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2022

They were just leaving higher education with debt and nothing to show for it.”. Problems with low success rates are widespread in American higher education. Like many other higher education institutions, FAU is increasingly using data to see where students lose their way and how to get them back on track.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

The course is part of the public university’s African and African Diaspora Studies master’s program, whose previous graduates have gone on to get doctorates or jobs in public policy, diplomacy, law, criminal justice, education, public health and journalism. Ohio has reduced its funding for higher education by $110 million.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

But by getting substitutes from its community into classrooms in this unusual year, the district has managed, for now, to find local solutions to a problem that is confounding educators in its state and across the nation. But not enough people have taken advantage, despite the economic downturn and spike in unemployment.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Neither is Natasha Warikoo, a sociology professor at Tufts University and the author of The Diversity Bargain. “I The pandemic has dealt additional economic blows to colleges during a time when they were already worried about declining enrollment and the fiscal health of their institutions. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Folks here have always been willing to step up for education,” said Morgigno who has served as superintendent since 2010. Folks here have always been willing to step up for education.”. Department of Education in the late 1980s. million and house fine arts classrooms and a practice gymnasium. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Department of Education maintains that avid reading lays the groundwork for improved grades and acquisition of skills in school, and points to quantifiably better outcomes in adult life for children who read versus children who do not read, as measured by income, chosen profession, and employment. Economic Growth. 26. (16,17).

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2022

When we see these outcomes, it’s easy to make the mistake of assuming that these students’ families value educational success more than other families do. One report from Harvard claims that Asian American families “prioritize education” (presumably more than other groups) and that this partly explains Asian American success.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

What this whole crisis has done to higher education is just exposed the cracks that have been there for over a decade of financial mismanagement.” American higher education is composed of thousands of colleges and universities, with different track records and results. It’s the previous budgets that weren’t done correctly.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

That’s why the liberal arts and business education must go hand in hand. Indeed, those who look down on the arts in favor of a solely quantitative education risk losing their edge.”. That is precisely why business students need to learn psychology, history, sociology, culture and art. China and other economic rivals add them.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

I taught in Rwanda, at its national university, in the mid-1980s and left the coun­try just as the economic situation began to spiral out of control. Gullible, under-educated citizens, eager for easy answers to complex problems, were led to believe that one ethnic group and all intellectuals were to blame for their problems.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

In addition to the academic demands, she and her friends acknowledged, they’re concerned about the cost of their graduate educations, the debt they may accumulate to pay for it and whether jobs will be available at the other end. Department of Education. Graduate education is being used to subsidize undergraduate education.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Minnesota ranks among the most educated states in the country, with nearly half of adults aged 25 to 64 holding an associate degree or higher. He estimated that nearly one in three new jobs created through 2026 will require education beyond high school. Our future economic vitality depends on this.”. Will jobs go begging?

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

But they seem to miss the most important education of all: how to relate their specialization to others in an increasingly interconnected world. And how can educators and institutions change things? But, since the 1980s, political rhetoric has emphasized the need for less humanities and more STEM education.

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The Hechinger Report

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. Higher Education. Reardon is a professor at the Graduate School of Education. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2019

Attracted by the chance of an education that did not require her to take out loans, Gonzales picked Cornell. “I Yet the federal Department of Education reports that 19 percent of students at Penn have to borrow, 11 percent at Yale and 4 percent at Harvard. So she and her husband never put aside any money for their college educations.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2018

Underneath that veneer of status, though, her extended family battled every cliché you’ve heard about rural life: low education levels, poverty and “an addiction to something.” Brown was accepted at 19 of the 23 schools to which she applied – including most of the marquee names in higher education. Her parents struggled with debt.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2016

These are very talented students who, for a variety of reasons, rarely having to do with their own issues, are going to get bypassed if we don’t draw them into the education system,” Cantor said. So who is deemed deserving and capable of an honors education?” There’s sociological, economic, political issues in it.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Her parents, like many Mexican immigrant families, didn’t believe in taking out loans, even for education. They both believe that having Hispanic teachers might have made a difference in their education. Anna Egalite, education professor at North Carolina State University. Graphic: Davin McHenry.

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