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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FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Based on these early successes, education leaders in government and nonprofit organizations sought to bring the power of text messages to hundreds of thousands of students. Source: “Nudging at scale: Experimental evidence from FAFSA completion campaigns,” March 2021 issue of Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.

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JUNE 19, 2019

We do this through free workshops, diversity scholarships, and partnerships with local government and workforce development agencies to offer funding for low-income workers and unemployed residents. What do you find exciting about working at the intersection of adult learning and education technology (e.g., Anyone can do it!

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NOVEMBER 3, 2022

And more to the point, it would replicate a mistake whose consequences are still leaving scars across the landscape of higher education. Over the past decade, online program managers like 2U and Wiley gained the vast majority of economic value created by online education (most, if not all, of which was originally developed by universities).

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ED Surge

AUGUST 19, 2024

It wouldn’t be responsible to lean on AI as the quick fix for all our economic shortages in schooling. She worries that excessive reliance on this technology could create an “underclass of students” who are given artificial stopgaps to big problems like school understaffing and underfunding. So how should educators approach AI?

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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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JANUARY 2, 2024

Federal Government Launches First-of-Its-Kind Center for Early Childhood Workforce By Emily Tate Sullivan Challenges facing the early care and education workforce have reached crisis levels since the pandemic began, and the federal government has taken notice. We take a close look at how it works and how it’s going.

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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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JUNE 10, 2019

Fourth-grade students who reported using tablets in “all or almost all” classes scored 14 points lower on the reading portion of a test administered by the federal government than students who reported “never” using classroom tablets. That’s the equivalent of a year of education or an entire grade level.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2020

Only 14 percent of the lowest-income students earn a bachelor’s degree within eight years of first enrolling, according to the most recent government data. And even without technology problems, catastrophic job losses are plunging some families into economic peril. The coronavirus pandemic is exacerbating those pressures.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2022

Department of Education funding to $88.3 But there is still more that the government can do to help higher education and employers partner to support people who are trying to land better careers. Community colleges are best positioned to meet the needs of the American workforce—but intervention at historic levels is necessary.

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ED Surge

MARCH 28, 2022

Part of the difficulty comes from trying to define what exactly counts as “quality,” says Stephanie Riegg Cellini, a professor of public policy and economics at George Washington University who studies for-profit higher education. Measuring Quality It’s tricky to assess how worthwhile a job-training program is.

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ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2024

Recently, EdSurge spoke with John McGrath , Director of sales and strategy at Alight Solutions , where he specializes in the education and government sectors in the firm’s Workday Adaptive Planning practice. McGrath: One common approach from higher education institutions is tuition discounting.

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ED Surge

MAY 3, 2024

She’s spent much of her career thinking about how education technology and assessments can be improved for bilingual children. More than half of students are Latino, according to state data , and 62 percent are considered economically disadvantaged. “As 20 years ago as a student.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

You’re not enabling economic mobility at $12 an hour. How do they resolve that tension between economic development and individual mobility?” Thinking Strategically About Early Ed How do they resolve that tension between economic development and individual mobility?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

The initiative hinges on the idea that guaranteed income will improve caregivers’ economic stability and, in turn, allow them and the families they serve to thrive. Even the federal government has endorsed the approach. We take a close look at how it works and how it’s going so far.

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ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2024

Child care, Gale explains, was essential to allowing these workers to do their jobs, and during the emergency phase of the pandemic, the federal government seemed to agree, sending between $30 and $34 per day per child of each essential worker directly to the providers who cared for them.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

In West Virginia, community colleges have hired Temporary Assistance for Needy Families coordinators whose job it is to help students who are single women raising children learn how to navigate government resources and balance all their responsibilities with their studies. We need to tell the success stories of these institutions.

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2024

Additionally, social studies encompasses a wide range of disciplines, including history, geography, civics and economics, each with its own set of disciplinary practices. This variation reflects the diverse historical and cultural priorities of different states. The C3 Framework was released in 2013.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Community colleges in particular have a difficult dual mission to train students for work and additional education. They’ve resorted to offering substandard higher education, which marginalizes minorities and does not offer the educational opportunities the public has relied on for advancement.

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ED Surge

JUNE 27, 2023

So it really resounded across the partisan divide, the geographic divide, the economic divide. I have heard so many people say that early childhood education is — or can be and should be — a bipartisan issue. I’m curious how your understanding of early childhood education has evolved since then? It obviously didn't.

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

Mahajan, who was part of national leadership at the Self-Employed Women's Association , noted that her interest in early childhood education stemmed from the perspective of motherhood, through which she recognized the importance of quality childcare for women's labor force participation and economic empowerment.

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DECEMBER 10, 2021

Noting that the Chinese government is very conservative, Wang remarked that the ministry is likely fearful that its academic reputation will suffer if it approved online degrees prematurely. With no experience teaching online, neither is the faculty ready.”

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OCTOBER 12, 2016

Rhode Island also emphasized the importance of involving state government in their efforts (the Rhode Island Office of Innovation, led by former Office of Educational Technology Director Richard Culatta, has been a key partner in EduvateRI).

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 19, 2023

We were very much influenced by the book “Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence.” The American Council on Education has agreed to be the kind of neutral referee host of it. AI hallucinations aside, we're losing that race pretty quickly. What kind of output do you think you'll have?

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JUNE 12, 2017

In places like Albemarle County, where school officials estimate up to 20 percent of students lack home broadband, all the latest education-technology tools meant to narrow opportunity and achievement gaps can widen them instead. Josh Walton, principal, Walton Middle School, in sAlbemarle County, Virginia.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In a society that is rooted in instant gratification and where competition is consistently encouraged politically, economically and socially, the consequences of competition between young people feels inevitable. Even without the pomp and circumstance, competition remains and students must manage feelings of shame and judgment.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

“I like to have kids talk in class, to me and to each other, about how they’re trying to figure out a problem,” Young said in an interview, and that makes for an ambivalent relationship with education technology. Young gets the utility of online lesson plans geared to math standards and targeted to students at any level.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Her school is located in Houston’s Fifth Ward neighborhood and serves a student body that is nearly 100 percent classified as economically disadvantaged. The Texas Education Agency awards letter grades to schools and districts based on test scores and other student performance metrics.

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ED Surge

JUNE 7, 2023

The California Master Plan for Early Learning and Care is one of the first major government documents in the state’s history to identify FFNs as a source for child care. In the state of California, where the women I interviewed live, an estimated quarter of parents with children under 3 years old rely on FFNs for child care.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 17, 2023

In the event of an economic downturn, many employers worry the program would be among the first to go. “We are finding that just getting the word out, that it’s available, is a big challenge,” says Bergman. There have been other hangups. Some companies have been reluctant to roll out a benefit that relies on continued state funding.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

While attention is often paid to for-profit universities and colleges whose students sometimes end up with worthless degrees or no degrees at all, this other kind of profit-driven business has more quietly inserted itself into higher education.

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ED Surge

JULY 13, 2023

Failure to do so would have dire consequences, causing widespread economic impact and exacerbating the existing strain on the child care system. With the expiration date of these grants approaching this fall, there is an urgent need for Congress to take action and reauthorize them.

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ED Surge

JULY 27, 2023

They’re also aimed at improving the economic stability of providers like Hodges — who is eager to move into the home that will shelter both her family and her new business. “If Apartment and condo buildings, as well as many townhouses and duplexes, are not eligible because of rules governing outdoor play space and fencing.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 17, 2021

How will institutions work creatively with industry to develop new pathways to employment or find breakthrough means of promoting social and economic mobility? How will institutions find means to deliver student support and instruction on par with student expectations?

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Such awareness has also inspired a surge in federal, state and local governments discussing solutions and infrastructure upgrades. Educators and college leaders should build on these efforts by considering the following: Create an institution-wide taskforce for identifying short- and long-term community solutions.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

“Ten to 15 percent of child care providers after a disaster will close forever, and then you’re talking about kids that don’t have seats, kids that are now without quality care, and it just creates a downward spiral, economically and educationally for these kids,” Mezquita said.

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