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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Four-year-old children who attended public pre-K in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2005-06 were far more likely to go to college within a couple years of graduating high school than children who did not attend, according to a 15-year study of 4,000 students. The advent of universal preschool for all children is more recent. It is a path,” said Gormley.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In June, the city of Memphis, Tennessee, lost funding for 1,000 pre-K slots due to an expiring federal grant. 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.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Grades K-3) February 26, 2024 The post Jigsaw Strategy first appeared on Studies Weekly. Jigsaw Strategy Oct. February 26, 2024 Lesson 5: Who Can Run For Office February 26, 2024 Lesson 6: How Do We Choose Leaders? February 26, 2024 Lesson 5: Who Can Run For Office February 26, 2024 Lesson 6: How Do We Choose Leaders?

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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. The K-12 Climate Action commission co-chaired by former Secretary of Education John B.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Shareef’s mother saw a TV commercial for a program that offered 12 weeks of training for technology careers, tuition-free. 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. But what happened next has not.

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JULY 12, 2022

will ultimately shift the country’s power base: Nearly one in three Americans say they are extremely or very concerned that native-born Americans are losing “economic, political and cultural influence” in this country because of the growing population of immigrants. But CRT is not about creating division or about hating white people.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

Those recommendations include improving college and career counseling and evaluating colleges on whether students find good jobs and ascend the economic ladder, instead of their selectivity in admissions and the academic profile of their incoming class. But changes in some areas, like college admissions policies, could happen now.

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JANUARY 12, 2022

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Due to student privacy concerns, a number of states fail to connect their K-12 school and workforce data sets. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Pandemic-era lockdowns put an unmistakable spotlight on digital equity — particularly for K-12 students. New research from the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies puts these challenges in perspective. But nowhere is the digital divide larger than in the Black rural South.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

I was struck by how professors in fields as diverse as theater, economics and architecture were participating in the “living lab” model. According to the nonprofit group Second Nature, only about 12 universities are carbon neutral. “A lot of projects are kind of like simulations,” Madeleine Biles, a graduating senior, told me.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report This year, Harpeth Valley flagged just 12 third graders as needing extra reading support, but the requirements of the expansive Tennessee law could put far more students at risk of retention. Because it is just one assessment.” But the older law left retention decisions up to districts.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2023

And the federal government recently put millions toward expanding SEL programs in the earliest years. In January, Hemmeter was awarded a nearly $12 million grant from the U.S. More than two-thirds of the program’s families face economic hardship and receive financial assistance from the state to pay tuition. The need is real.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

Economic and workforce development have been disrupted, so proposals that link education and the economy are going to be priorities on governors’ agendas,” said Tom Harnisch, vice president for government relations at the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, or SHEEO. The Colorado School of Mines. Eric Holcomb.

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JULY 29, 2018

The real angst of my economically fortunate friends pales in comparison to the financial challenges and difficult choices faced by parents who don’t have much discretionary income but need out-of-home care for a young child. Grover (Russ) Whitehurst is a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2020

Economic disparities across education systems mean some students have access to laptops, to regular internet access, to printers. Research on online learning in both K-12 and higher-education settings points consistently to uneven benefits of online learning by student subgroups. Access to content. Unequal risks.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2019

Government Accountability Office, nearly one in four Foreign Service officers do not meet the language proficiency requirements that they should meet to do their jobs. Part of the problem I see is that so few students in the United States – just 20 percent – study a foreign language at the K-12 level. Yet, according to the U.S

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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. Other spending, too, continued to go up. The university overspent its budget by millions of dollars in each of the last five years.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Indeed, a recent study by the National Bureau of Economic Research showed, yet again, that investment in high-quality preschool, especially when followed by sustained investment in K-12 schools, can help break the cycle of poverty in America. Related: Why six states still spend nothing on preschool. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Automation affects workers around the world — nearly half of the employers surveyed by the World Economic Forum last year expected automation would reduce their workforce by 2022. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. Related: How do schools train for a workplace that doesn’t exist yet?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2016

1 is guaranteed 15 hours a week of free child-care or preschool for 38 weeks a year, or 570 hours total, paid for by the national government. “We Apparently, so do most parents, 94 percent of whom take the government up on its offer of free education starting at age 3, according to government data. think tank. Like the U.S.,

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 13, 2018

The state government is committed to achieving this vision through strategic investments and statewide collaboration. Better inform the public about economic development investments. Rhode Island’s DataHUB houses identifiable data from K-12, higher education, and workforce development, along with other state agencies.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2019

If public and private higher education weren’t heavily subsidized by the public sector because of perceived public benefits — including by federal, state and local governments and their taxpayers — we can imagine the scenario of a private market allocating seats.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Artwork decorates the government-run nursery classroom at Badock’s Wood Primary School in Bristol, England. The study was funded by the National Center on Education and the Economy, a think tank focused on the connection between education and economics. We were established to escape government tyranny. Photo: Lillian Mongeau.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

Say Yes Buffalo is understandably drawing interest from school districts and local governments around the country, anxious to see if its success can be replicated. Usually what causes disunity in the community are the class differences, the race differences, the socio-economic differences. Photo: Amadou Diallo.

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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

MAY 20, 2016

Government Accountability Office (GAO) in its April 2016 Report found that “the percentage of K-12 public schools in the United States with students who are poor and mostly Black or Hispanic is growing and these schools share a number of challenging characteristics.”

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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

APRIL 25, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: “Very few countries are taking the bull by the horns when it comes to adapting education systems for the age of automation,” Saadia Zahidi, head of education, gender and employment for the World Economic Forum, said in the report. Those that are have long had a clear focus on human capital development.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Students study for classes at a government school on the edge of the Thar Desert. About 65 percent of India’s students attend similar government schools, many with dismal outcomes. Just a few miles away from where Ballani teaches, Michael Daube is raising money for the new girls’ school and economic center in Jaisalmer.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2019

According to the government’s report, education spending rose for the third straight year in 2015-16 to $11,841 per student in kindergarten through 12th grades. It’s unclear if the recent increases in school funding during the economic recovery will necessarily lead to gains in student achievement again.

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Digital Promise

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). Check out a short video highlighting some of their work here.).

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

Instead of attending neighborhood schools with students of the same race and economic status, as most children do in Mississippi, Osborn went to school with an even mix of black and white classmates, some from the town’s wealthy subdivisions and others from Clinton’s poorer areas. They’re also extremely successful. I just went right on.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

They created multicolored posters to explain what different departments of local government do, from sanitation to human resources. For this experiment, the researchers spent years developing four separate project-based units on history, geography, economics and civics. Back in the classroom, they discussed their ideas for improvement.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

“I’m not recruiting right now,” proclaimed Densen — founder of Bricolage Academy, a charter school that currently serves kindergarten through third grade, but will eventually be a K-12 school. “I Bricolage is part of a new wave of charter schools looking to bake economic and racial diversity into their very DNA.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

The researchers at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab ( J-PAL ), an organization inside the economics department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, scoured academic journals, the internet and evaluation databases and found only 113 studies on using technology in schools that were scientifically rigorous.

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The Hechinger Report

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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