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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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). It’s not just bad business for higher ed, but it also runs counter to colleges’ commitment to free and open discourse.

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ACRE

JANUARY 9, 2023

The 2022 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences (in Memory of Alfred Nobel) has been awarded to three economists; Ben S. Connections to Arkansas Learning Standards: Economics: EM.3.E.3 3 Evaluate intended and unintended consequences of government policies created to improve market outcomes NE.6.E.1 Bernanke, Douglas W.

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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.

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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

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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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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Passion for Social Studies

JANUARY 18, 2024

If something was bothering my student, disciplinary actions, or positive behavior was happening, I would immediately inform the student’s parents. Add to cart AP US Government Course $ 200.00 Add to cart Civics and American Government Course $ 125.00 Add to cart Sociology Course $ 200.00

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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. If we have applied for finanial aid, colleges already have our data — and so they should be able to inform us whether we are likely to be eligible for these programs.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Such data provides insight into what sorts of outreach strategies are needed, as well as information critical to understanding how students from historically underrepresented groups are reacting to the Supreme Court ruling. Expanding economic opportunity is important, but we cannot forget racial diversity.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In addition, colonial economics created food shortages in Banda and across West Africa. UNITING PASTS AND FUTURES Logan emphasizes that understanding the history of food in West Africa should inform how scholars, humanitarian groups, and governments approach contemporary food insecurity.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2021

His father, Peter, an information technology expert, had been a full-time employee with benefits at the time of Keller’s surgery. Believe it or not, we can apply what we know about foundational brain development in children to inform a new system of worker protection, simultaneously aiding children and their parents.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

High school graduation rates have soared in recent years, hitting a new record of 84 percent for 2015-16 in the most recent federal government count, but there are still millions of Americans who didn’t get a diploma in high school. Economic recovery after the 2008 recession also reduced demand for equivalency degrees.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Student achievement at 80 schools in low-income areas that provided parents with information on how to support their children’s education was no better than at schools that didn’t run a parent-engagement program, according to a November 2020 analysis by four U.S. based economists.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2020

The devastating economic stress of the coronavirus pandemic, coupled with the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, marks a critical moment of reflection to give definition to and create opportunities for understanding disability justice, not just disability rights.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Magilke qualified for a government grant to go back to school, she was told, at a place the center suggested: an online company called MedCerts. MedCerts, which offers short-term training in industries like health care and information technology, is a large workforce training provider enrolling thousands of students annually.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

This story is part of our Map to the Middle Class project , where we ask readers what they want us to investigate about educational pathways to economic stability. He asks : What are the projections for the size of the middle class assuming current economic and demographic trends? This question comes from Kieran Hanrahan.

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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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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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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. We implement a forecasting and reporting tool that aggregates data to inform solutions,” says McGrath.

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2022

Initially, the built-in education to counteract uncontrollable mega-modernity was Home Economics—emphasis on economics. However, since the ’70s, schools dropped Home Economics as they became driven more by employers’ demands, not human needs. It is not difficult to slip up and go from victor to victim in a few hours.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Our task force consists of students, faculty, college presidents, business leaders, climate leaders and former government officials working together to build on the important leadership that we have seen emerging in our sector.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Cloud State University in Minnesota is cutting 42 degree programs , for example, including criminal justice, gerontology, history, electrical and environmental engineering, economics and physics. Eastern Kentucky University shut down economics and other majors. Henderson State University in Arkansas dropped 25. Do I leave?” “Is

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Barton Hepburn Professor of Economics at Wellesley College, speaks at a panel discussion there. It’s the creation of Phillip Levine, a Wellesley economics professor who was frustrated by trying to forecast the cost of sending his own children to a university. “I in economics; I’m pretty good at this sort of thing.

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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. A strong job-placement rate?

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 6, 2024

Citation from the Award Committee: The research presented by Sarah Rozenblum in “Why Do Governments Ignore Their Own Experts? As the title suggests, the dissertation investigates why governments don’t rely on their experts and associated expertise in times of crisis? White Award for “Why Do Governments Ignore Their Own Experts?

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

and it affects the allocation of more than $800 billion in federal government funding nationwide. Adult education remains critical for workers who are looking to advance economically, including those in low-wage earning jobs, opportunity youth, immigrant-origin adults, and parent learners. How does this affect adult learning providers?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

Anyone who has dealt with the FAFSA knows how needlessly complicated and unreliable it can be: In the midst of back-to-back college application season for my two kids, the site kept kicking us out, then losing the previous information we’d painstakingly provided. A bipartisan law passed in 2020 initiated a complete overhaul of the FAFSA.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

You can’t see that in most places,” said Daniel Kreisman, an economics professor at Georgia State University who helped launch an effort to inform CTE policymakers by compiling data and producing research. The data will inform annual reports, including one on students’ college and career outcomes.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2024

The rocky rollout of the new FAFSA has caused extraordinary delays this year in transmission of essential financial data from the federal government to colleges and universities. Four years ago, hundreds of colleges eased their enrollment-commitment deadlines in response to the coronavirus pandemic and widespread economic and social upheaval.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Black and Latino students were often less likely than their white peers to enroll in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) and information technology classes, according to the analysis, which was based primarily on 2017-18 data. Related: Revamped and rigorous, career and technical education is ready to be taken seriously.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2021

These include health care, cybersecurity, information technology, construction, manufacturing, transportation, law enforcement and utilities. Yet the number of community college students in communications technology and support programs is down by 16 percent and in information technology by 4 percent, according to the Clearinghouse.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2024

But two recent studies have found that this information could discourage students who might have a shot at the most elite schools. Two separate studies indicate that these information displays are discouraging some teens from applying to the most competitive schools, such as Harvard and Stanford.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Watching includes the acts of staying informed and of being a participant observer. The declining economic value of routine cognitive work. Naming includes the willingness to label things as they really are. The example she used was the so-called ‘alt-right.’ Image credit: I’m watching you… , Christine Krizsa. Related Posts.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Instead, many colleges and universities rely on outdated federal government data about employer needs, continue offering majors whose graduates can’t get work, take years to create new courses in subjects for which businesses have immediate openings , or ignore altogether the question of whether their programs are training students for jobs.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics. We could engage in government simulations at GovGames or iCivics or Cyber Nations. government as well.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

Carnevale’s research has long helped inform The Hechinger Report’s journalism on higher education inequality. Will a backdrop of economic ruin prompt higher education to listen to feedback on how to become more accountable, flexible and accessible? Related: Many flagship public campuses leave black and Latino students behind.

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