The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In Boston, these payments augment the traditional K-12 education system and help low-income children gain access to the middle class. Investing early in children’s health, education and well-being has tremendous economic payoffs in the future, requiring fewer investments in social safety-net programs and the criminal justice system.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Contrary to traditional beliefs, the team's findings showcased diversified livestock practices beyond transhumance. Notably, the study highlighted the increasing economic significance of pigs during the Neolithic period. A) Above: Image of the southern slope of Sierra de Tucas (Huesca, Spain). 1 Navarrete, V., Viñerta, A.,

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The Hechinger Report

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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Political Science Now

APRIL 12, 2024

But here is the twist: this ongoing race, even supported by the government of the United States, looks like the old days when explorers sought to find new lands and ended up stating them as their own. She highlights how historical colonial ventures generally saw corporations like the British East India Company as economic entities.

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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. Related: The Fafsa fiasco could roll back years of progress it must be fixed immediately Meanwhile, the traditional college decision date looms: May 1.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

Regardless of its conceptual newness, the narrative of AI is often framed within existing tropes of power dynamics, economic motivations, and ownership. These traditional vocabularies continue to obscure the people, places, and acts of creativity on the peripheries of mainstream narratives. Again, is anything ever really new?

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 5, 2024

George Hawkins , a 2019 graduate of TAH’s Master of Arts with a Specialization in Teaching American History and Government (MASTAHG) program , was named South Dakota Teacher of the Year in October. He did his student teaching in a traditional classroom. Moreover, any realistic account of history covers economic and financial factors.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Foreign investors working with the Ecuadorean government started planning to extract minerals in the region on an industrial scale in the early 2000s. At first, some Shuar people were hopeful about the economic opportunities promised to them. Other serious environmental concerns remain unanswered.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

But traditional internships are not universally accessible. “At Not everybody is a traditional 18- to 22-year-old student,” Churches said. At any college now, the first thing the parents ask is, ‘How are the internships?’ ” Anthony Carnevale, director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, said.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

Related: Simpler FAFSA complicates college plans for students and families “As much staff as government has, it’s not enough for students right now,” said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the national advocacy group Complete College America. She wants colleges to do more to directly help applicants still struggling to fill out the forms.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2022

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. Such partnerships are imperative to our efforts to develop new opportunities for social and economic mobility for our students, 64 percent of whom are students of color.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2020

School traditions often connect one generation to the next, providing a sense of community stability and cohesion. Whatever the reason a school has to close, something needs to fill the educational, economic, and social voids created by the closure. Leasing is difficult because the costs of renovation are often cost-prohibitive.

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Civics U

JULY 18, 2022

THE PRICE OF PROGRESS Economic progress has also often involved the exploitation and oppression of certain people and groups as a means of producing wealth for those in social, legal, and economic control. The impacts are not only economic but are also cultural.

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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

DECEMBER 19, 2023

It was only in the ’70s that we started recruiting traditional-aged students onto a campus. We had to negotiate with our traditional faculty who really controlled what we could do and not do — to get a little bit of breathing space to do what we wanted to do. And it was only in 1968 that we got a campus. So it was always in our DNA.

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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. As a student in my 30s with over a decade of professional experience, I am not a “traditional” student. But I also know my economic reality is unstable. The basic needs of our students must be met. Our biggest fear?

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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. Like hundreds of similar programs, it receives millions in tuition dollars, not from traditional student aid, but from the Departments of Labor and Defense. It’s just frustrating.”

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ED Surge

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. For China, the move is a departure from its centuries-old tradition of favoring literature and the liberal arts.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 25, 2024

What mental, social, and economic tolls do patients and their families bear? In both these cultural traditions, children were believed to have been sent from the spirit world to plague their parents. Government and communities have a responsibility to make living with sickle cell bearable—even convenient.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2020

If fewer international students enroll, the economic fallout will be severe. The Kuwaiti government asked all of its citizens at Morgan State to return home and chartered airplanes to pick them up from Dulles and JFK airports, Astatke said. Some are using independent agents, who earn fees for successfully recruiting students.

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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

JANUARY 11, 2021

As we emerge from the current economic crisis, we must fundamentally rethink the American social safety net, which was built in the mid 20th century, when steady employment and employer-provided benefits were the norm. Fortunately, several states and cities are already experimenting with some or all of these proposed policies.

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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. Map created by Jill Barshay/Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2022

Larry Hogan announced in March that the state government would strip bachelor’s degree requirements from thousands of job listings. Jared Polis directed government agencies in his state to embrace hiring workers for skills , not degrees. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. requirements too.

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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. “This study shows that a well-designed project-based curriculum might be more effective than traditional instruction.” Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

It’s going to be a rebalancing of economic prosperity,” Gallup senior economist Jonathan Rothwell said, noting the trend of colleges closing and the resulting effects on their communities could parallel the impact the declining manufacturing sector has had on some areas. Moody’s projects the number of closures will continue to rise.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2021

Even if enrollment eventually rebounds, the interruption caused by the pandemic will be felt for years — coinciding with a hoped-for economic recovery — since that’s how long it usually takes students to complete credentials once they start them. Credit: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

This shift detached investors from the personal aspect of a debt relationship, allowing them to earn 20 to 30 percent annual interest—significantly higher than the 3 to 5 percent offered by traditional banks. However, most platform operators and the state did not aim to scam. Now I am part of a crime in their definition.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2021

Despite recent talk of debt relief and free college, little government help has been forthcoming, especially for working adults. With the government mostly out of the picture, employers set aside tens of billions each year for tuition benefits programs, supposedly with the hope of building the skilled workforce they need.

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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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MPSA

OCTOBER 12, 2021

While many students choose to tackle one of Wikipedia’s equity gaps, others focus on improving more traditional content. Students in a course on Open Democracy added substantially to the article on Participatory democracy , a form of democracy where citizens play a more critical role in governance than representative democracy.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Advocates see government investment as key to getting more kids of color and kids from low-income families into outdoor schools. The school also prioritizes economic equity. Advocates see government investment as key to getting more kids of color and kids from low-income families into outdoor schools. When many U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2018

It is the path to opportunity, social mobility and economic success. Some for-profit universities prey on this confusion, and use expensive marketing strategies to camouflage their lack of credibility with the promise of being a faster, more modern approach to higher education than the traditional university.

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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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

This continued a trend that was underway before Covid, when students from families earning $120,000 a year or more were receiving an average of $9,400 in financial aid from bachelor’s degree-granting colleges in excess of what the government says they needed to afford to pay, according to the College Board. It’s a triple whammy.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

In Myanmar, the government has defined its Muslim minority as non-citizens. Additionally, students of color now make up about 40 percent of our student bodies, and we seek greater geographic and economic diversity as well. Every day it seems that the world becomes more tribalized. The British will soon define themselves out of Europe.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Since 2012, when the government exhorted more écoles maternelles to open their doors to 2-year-olds, the rate of participation in France’s “priority education networks”—networks of schools that serve heavily low-income, immigrant communities that are targeted for extra social support—has steadily risen.

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