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JANUARY 14, 2024

Wages for early childhood workers already lag far behind those of their K-8 colleagues who have similar credentials. There is one bright note: State and local governments are offering models of innovation and glimmers of hope in the face of such a dire challenge. times higher than other teachers. Washington, D.C.,

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JUNE 28, 2017

Unfortunately, the perverse economic and political incentives that preserve this system of discrimination are not only entrenched but growing stronger. Don’t become a K-12 teacher appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Alas, what’s good for senior teachers is not necessarily good for all other teachers.

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APRIL 13, 2023

The three countries share more than a common language: For several decades, their governments forcibly removed Indigenous children from their families and relocated them to distant boarding schools. This is the one area left in the federal government, unfortunately, that is very much bipartisan,” she said of Native American issues.

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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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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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JANUARY 2, 2024

Below, you’ll find our 10 most popular early childhood stories from the last 12 months, which can loosely be divided into two camps. 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.

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AUGUST 19, 2024

For instance: Lake’s organization, a national research and policy center that’s associated with Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, released a report this spring that looked at K-12 teachers’ use of virtual learning platforms, adaptive learning systems and chatbots. So how should educators approach AI?

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JUNE 24, 2018

That’s about $1,000 more than the national average per pupil spending in K-12 , as calculated by the National Center for Education Statistics. . Yet, with few exceptions, families earning $88,000 a year — right in the middle of the middle class — get no government help to cover the cost of educating their 4-year-olds.

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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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APRIL 8, 2024

She got up early and stayed open late to accommodate people who worked 12-hour shifts and needed to drop kids off as early as 5 a.m. There was enough space — three units and one house — for four classrooms, and as soon as renovation was completed on the first room, she enrolled 12 more kids. The timeline for renovation grew longer.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2023

This story also appeared in Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting State leaders promised families roughly $7,000 a year to spend on private schools and other nonpublic education options, dangling the opportunity for parents to pull their kids out of what some conservatives called “ failing government schools.”

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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JUNE 27, 2023

The pay scale is getting closer to the K-12 professional pay scale — not that we pay our K-12 teachers enough, we need to do more there. So it really resounded across the partisan divide, the geographic divide, the economic divide. As you know, there's a lot of overhead [to run an early childhood program].

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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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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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APRIL 22, 2019

The reforms have required school districts and other local government agencies to contribute more of their budgets toward paying down the pension debt, while also obligating workers to make financial sacrifices and cutting benefits for current retirees. “At At the end of the day, it’s just this big item that needs to be paid.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2018

– China’s state-controlled news broadcasters have long been considered somewhat robotic in their daily recitation of pro-government propaganda, and a pair of new presenters will do little to dispel that view. Photo: NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP/Getty Images. The event brought more than a hundred people to Seattle, Wash.,

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DECEMBER 10, 2021

Related: Most college students don’t graduate in four years, so college and the government count six years as “success”. Its K-12 and community college students will be able to take unlimited Metro bus and train rides without charge. It eats up a lot of your day.”. Los Angeles is also launching a pilot program this fall.

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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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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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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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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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AUGUST 10, 2020

Through their foundation, the couple is paying some 600 college students to tutor K-6 children who were falling behind. A series of recent studies underscores the negative impact the current public health and economic catastrophe has inflicted — and will continue to inflict — on students. Bill Haslam and his wife.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

While there are many ways to invest in children younger than 5, I chose to focus on preschool since it is the early years program most closely correlated with K-12 education, my primary focus as an education reporter. We do not provide young families with the economic help—in terms of free or subsidized care—that many desperately need.

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APRIL 3, 2019

On a muggy fall morning, pre-K teacher Ruth Shows inspected the work of students in her classroom, stepping over a cluster of little learners sprawled on the carpet. Quitman’s pre-K success should have wide-ranging implications for Mississippi, where early results of the state’s tiny program are promising. ?. QUITMAN, Miss. —

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MAY 3, 2024

Still, some educators and parents alike felt blindsided by the news about auto-grading essays for K-12 students. More than half of students are Latino, according to state data , and 62 percent are considered economically disadvantaged. “As We want to save money’ — that should never be done with high-stakes assessments.”

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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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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

The world’s developed nations are placing a big bet on education investments, wagering that highly educated populaces will be needed to fill tomorrow’s jobs, drive healthy economies and generate enough tax receipts to support government services. local, state and federal governments chose to cut funding for the schoolhouse.

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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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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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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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