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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

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. The United States has, historically, done a poor job of helping people who have been displaced by offshoring, automation, recessions and other economic dislocation.

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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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Anthropology News

JANUARY 31, 2024

The economic significance of shipbreaking means that national and international NGOs seeking to ban the industry in Bangladesh remain unpopular. Landless tenants and a low-income Hindu minority, they lack the social connections and economic leverage to have any political voice. The changes took place as late as 2011.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 29, 2024

This piece, written by Komal Preet Kaur , covers the new article by Adam Michael Auerbach, Shikhar Singh and Tariq Thachil, “Who Knows How to Govern? This assumption raises critical questions: Do local authorities genuinely have the knowledge required for decentralized governance? And what are the consequences if they do not?

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MAY 6, 2021

The result is that we are losing the energy, intelligence and creativity young people could and should bring to New York’s economic recovery. We are losing the energy, intelligence and creativity young people could and should bring to New York’s economic recovery. The time is right.

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OCTOBER 24, 2024

The results are particularly important at a time when more colleges are struggling to remain open , says Riley Acton, an assistant professor of economics at Miami University in Ohio and one of the researchers who worked on the new study. “If I said, ‘This is bananas. This is not how it works.’”

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 5, 2022

Right now we see a number of extant challenges to some very basic political precepts that we have taken for granted for far too long (for instance, voting rights, the peaceful transfer of government control, and the ability of Congress to actually get anything done, just to name a few).

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FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Victor Lavy , an Israeli economist who helped design the remedial high school program and who conducted the initial evaluation, used government records to track the students through their early 30s. An earlier version was circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research.).

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

We already have good evidence that school and college rankings can distort normal educational processes , reinforcing social hierarchies that govern who enrolls in a school , how those students are treated and what happens to them thereafter. Even “global authorities” can screw up! The correlation is r = -.68

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JUNE 18, 2024

The throughline across all of them,” Carman notes, “is that families need more economic stability.” Economic Instability Has Increased Many families report that it has become more difficult to meet their basic needs, particularly in the areas of health care and housing. Their responses can be distilled into a few ideas.

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World History Teachers Blog

JULY 30, 2022

But self-rule did not mean economic independence. The French forced the Haitian government to accept a loan out of which they could pay the reparations. Haiti gained independence from the French in 1804, becoming the first independent black republic in the world. How was Haiti able to pay reparations?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Ramsey blamed Americans for their economic struggles amid a pandemic that has decimated the economy and left more than 20 million people unemployed, arguing that “you have a career problem, you have a debt problem, you have a relationship problem, you have a mental health problem, or something else is going on if $600 changes your life.”.

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ACRE

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Women have always worked, and yet their economic contributions are often undervalued. Her economic history research expands 200 years to provide an account of women’s participation in labor markets over time and describe the history of women’s continuing economic liberation. Dr. Claudia Goldin wanted to understand why.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2024

This financial condition perpetuates economic inequality and reflects systemic racism, with early childhood education programs continuing to be subsidized through the long hours that Black, Latina and indigenous women work for unjust wages and limited benefits. times higher than other teachers. Philanthropy also has a big role to play.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

People who are currently in these college leadership positions wield significant economic, social and political power, which they have no interest in relinquishing. Without participation from a range of workers, we can’t maximize talent or economic growth. Related: Dress codes are the new ‘whites only’ signs.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

That is one of the somewhat surprising findings of a new study from the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago, according to one of the study’s authors, Ariel Kalil. What does it mean if you lose a job during a pandemic and your income doesn’t go down? Well basically it’s subsidized time at home,” Kalil said.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Their multifaceted mission s are enduring and essential; these institutions are focused on increasing college attainment for Native Americans, nation-building and counteracting the deleterious and lasting effects government-forced assimilation. billion in economic activity.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2020

Whatever the reason a school has to close, something needs to fill the educational, economic, and social voids created by the closure. In 2013, the federal government estimated that schools nationwide needed a $550 billion investment to bring them up to standard, just for deferred maintenance issues — damage from postponing repairs.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2024

They also called education “the most important function of state and local governments,” the “very foundation of good citizenship” and “a principal instrument in awakening the child to cultural values [and] in preparing him for later professional training.” The link between education and economic opportunity has only increased.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

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). And more to the point, it would replicate a mistake whose consequences are still leaving scars across the landscape of higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2022

Who will care for our nation’s children as we seek to recover economically? Who will care for our nation’s children as we seek to recover economically? First, every level of government should begin investing in social and emotional supports for young children now. Cumulatively, this puts the mental health of all at stake.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

And thanks to an important change in government policy, life got easier after that: She didn’t have to pay. And if it’s a right of the people then it should be free of any economic barrier to entry.”. And if it’s a right of the people then it should be free of any economic barrier to entry.”. The work paid off.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2020

Our economic recovery — as communities, as states and as a nation — depends on them, but U.S. Even applicants with access to all of the necessary information may not fill out the FAFSA so as not to give away sensitive data to the federal government. These are the hardest hit students during the coronavirus pandemic. They need help.

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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. Iowa Wesleyan, for example, had an estimated $55.1 Dordt has an estimated $43.4

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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. As we traveled through Finland, we met with top government officials, education professors, classroom teachers and elementary-school students.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2020

The coronavirus makes this even more urgent because students are more vulnerable economically than ever before. But I also know my economic reality is unstable. My student government is seeking to spend tens of thousands of dollars to support our students. The basic needs of our students must be met. Our biggest fear?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2021

Yet the role schools can play — both in economic recovery and in addressing climate change — is often overlooked. More than half of our school districts have multiple failing building systems, according to a recent government report. Yet this current underinvestment in school infrastructure presents an opportunity.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Some teachers get some of that money back: Several states provide at least partial reimbursement for these expenses and the federal government allows a $250 tax deduction, according to Alyssa Evans, a policy researcher at the Education Commission of the States.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Some members of the institution’s own governing board were surprised when they were confronted with these facts. In a system of shared governance, they’re also served by keeping the faculty content. Richard Vedder, emeritus professor of economics, Ohio University. Other spending, too, continued to go up. Cash reserves sank.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2021

It’s well-known that women have been especially impacted by pandemic-related economic upheaval. Research has found that emotional distress from job loss does not necessarily impact a parent’s capacity to be a responsive caregiver, particularly if the government steps in with financial assistance to help make up the gap.

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ED Surge

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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

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. The second act came with seven consecutive years of strong economic growth beginning in 2013. Starting in 2020, the federal government sent schools more than $200 billion in pandemic recovery funds.

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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Tools that work for expanding economic diversity don’t necessarily do the same thing for racial diversity, as research indicates. Expanding economic opportunity is important, but we cannot forget racial diversity. While overlap exists between race and class, the two categories aren’t interchangeable.

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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. Related: What has happened when campuses shut down for other disasters? Mindy Domb, whose district includes Amherst.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 30, 2020

WIOA funding catalyzed regional collaboration and focused data collection efforts, and in turn, spurred deeper discussions about the economic future of the Taos community. Instead, she researched long-term, sustainable solutions that were specific to economic health and development of the entire community.

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