ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Her school is located in Houston’s Fifth Ward neighborhood and serves a student body that is nearly 100 percent classified as economically disadvantaged. A former superintendent of nearby Spring Branch Independent School District, he is now a professor of educational leadership and policy studies at the University of Houston.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2020

There’s so much information and so many personal stories about how the coronavirus has negatively affected the global community from health, economic, psychological and social perspectives. However, there are ways we can lean into our shared humanity, and I hope these suggestions can help spark that change for your school.

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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. As machines become more important, we need to get better at being human. Develop human skills.

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Dr. Preece

MARCH 21, 2023

Human activities have unequivocally caused about 1.1 Human caused climate change is affecting extreme weather patterns. Human caused climate change is affecting extreme weather patterns. This includes impacts on food security, water security and human development. What does it say? deg of warming.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

More than 50 percent are economically disadvantaged. Every child deserves a high-quality education that recognizes and respects his or her dignity and humanity, and that relishes in the stories of school and community. ” This other side of the equation — student empowerment — has been just as essential.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2017

We needed to do a better job getting the word out,” said Van Ton-Quinlivan, the system’s vice chancellor for workforce and economic development. Skilled trades show among the highest potential among job categories, the economic-modeling company Emsi calculates. Industry could do a better job communicating.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

Businesspeople need to understand human nature more than ever before. Still, to understand human nature, leaders need to do more than crunch numbers. China and other economic rivals add them. In our world, now defined by digital transformation, the human factor takes on even greater importance. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It’s unfair, it’s discriminatory, and it disadvantages already economically disadvantaged kids,” said Jack Fletcher, co-founder of the Texas Center for Learning Disabilities in Houston and one of the first scientists to question the discrepancy model’s validity. Dyslexia is the most common reading disability.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

It exists in nature and it is a cornerstone of our economy, but there’s a lack of consensus among psychologists as to whether competitiveness is learned or if it’s instinctual and part of human nature. Some argue that competitiveness is a trait, while others believe it’s a mix of genetic and environmental factors.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Parents and their students aren’t defining this demand in terms of the critical-thinking and leadership skills that broadly educated individuals gain. The lifelong economic benefit that a college graduate will realize is a welcome byproduct of earning a degree, but it cannot be a primary motivator in the pursuit of a higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In Dallas, eighth graders must choose one of five “ endorsements ” to focus on in high school — among them, STEM (science, technology, engineering and math); business and industry; and the arts and humanities. In a recent class at The Young Men’s Leadership Academy at Fred F. Try experiencing it under quarantine.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

Using a four-year degree as a proxy for employability shuts out the most economically vulnerable job seekers. Nonetheless, according to Harvard’s survey of 600 business and human resource leaders, 61 percent of respondents reported tossing resumes without four-year degrees, even if the applicant was qualified.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Related: Debt without degree: The human cost of college debt that becomes ‘purgatory’. Although holistic practices are important, the economic realities of black families and the social structures that perpetuate these realities must also be addressed. Sign up here for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2016

We talk about the lack of diversity in technology and dearth of economic opportunities for black and Hispanic young people as a problem now. But in the future, it will be major economic crisis, once people of color become the majority of our workforce. The white seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in October of this year was 4.3

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Nearly half of first-generation students who did continue went to community colleges, which spend less per student than many public primary and secondary schools , and where the odds of ever graduating are also comparatively low. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2021

Daniel, a human resources researcher with Guild, describes the current programs as having “millions upon millions” of unused dollars, which has led Guild to recommend that its clients drop reimbursement and shift to tuition assistance, which relieves working students of most out-of-pocket costs. Credit: MacLaff Inc.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

My mother thought it ruined me, which shows that alarm about the potential for education to change us is not new, but also that it will always be ill-fated, for at least two reasons: because we humans are made to learn, and because education frees us to be who we are in the process of becoming. We are not made from whole cloth in college.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2020

For instance, workers with certificates in construction and other blue-collar trades often make more than liberal arts and humanities majors with bachelor’s degrees , the Georgetown Center found. Tricia Young, a first-grade teacher in North Las Vegas, Nevada, who took short-term courses in subjects such as leadership skills.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2018

Encouraging blacks and Hispanics, both growing populations, to pursue STEM careers is both an equity issue and crucial for the economy, according to Rodney Andrews, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Texas at Dallas. Gilazgi only wishes the Science Leadership Scholarship program could expand. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

After agreeing to take on 10 summer interns from the Prepare Rhode Island program last summer, Cathy Desjarlais, a human resources manager at biotech company Amgen’s Rhode Island site, had reservations about the new interns, apprehensive they would display the behavior issues Butler described. These are also 19th-century skills.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: There are a number of changes that must be made immediately to offset this growing crisis: College governance is weak and ineffective and must be immediately adapted to meet new oversight demands, with the faculty playing a more important role in creating an innovative educational enterprise.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

But the neighborhood just to the north, Hancock Park, is 71 percent white, with a median income of $85,000; the student body, meanwhile, is 79 percent Latino, 12 percent African-American, 7 percent Asian, and 64 percent “economically disadvantaged,” drawn from Koreatown, Mid-City, and neighborhoods farther afield. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Lessons in leadership, management, supervision and delegation have been part of their training. Bill helped to spur post-World War II economic growth, today’s support of education for military students will benefit our nation’s economy and those who have served our country. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2018

Families often need support in this part of the state, an area struggling to keep up with the economic growth of the high-tech Triangle region, the metropolitan home of the state capital, Raleigh, about an hour away. The meetings are a way for families to meet other families, get connected with resources and prepare children for kindergarten.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

Sign Up to Host an Event Leadership These events are coordinated by the Zinn Education Project (coordinated by Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change), Black Lives Matter at School , and the African American Policy Forum. Interested in adding your organization as a co-sponsor?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

“When you look at college mission statements, they’re loaded with grand pronouncements about the skills and habits of mind they’re going to inspire in their students,” said Alexander McCormick, an associate professor of educational leadership and policy studies at Indiana University Bloomington. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2017

Chief executives of public doctoral institutions make $430,283 on average, the human resources organization CUPA-HR reports; of privates, $626,487. These are complex corporations that require real bold leadership. These are complex corporations that require real bold leadership. They’ve cut courses. They’re cutting faculty.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2016

This means that without computer science education, we are not prepared for the economic needs of our future. I have said it before, CSEd is a new human right that should be accessible to all students, regardless of race, gender or socioeconomic status, and universal access inevitably closes the digital divide. “It

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Sitting on the floor of their library, the dozens of students dressed in red and navy blue were an eager audience. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. The results track with international data.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 24, 2015

Since I get to work with you more this year than in the past, I thought I would share a few of my leadership beliefs… Intentionality. Learning and teaching and schooling MUST do a better job of being relevant to our new information, economic, and learning landscapes. Autonomy is a fundamental human need. (I Ethic of care.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 3, 2016

” A National Bureau of Economic Research study released this year from economists at University of California-Berkeley and Northwestern University in Chicago suggests that money does actually affect school performance. That’s just human nature, to respond better when there’s competition. You have no options.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

Over the past decade, a growing number of professors in fields as diverse as business, English and the performing arts have integrated their teaching with efforts to minimize their campuses’ waste and emissions, at a time when human-created climate change is fueling dangerous weather and making life on Earth increasingly unstable.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

That’s driving institutions to beef up career services staffs and budgets, promote career directors to the highest levels of leadership and start offering career advising to students from the time they put down their first-year deposits. “If For most students, the change can’t happen soon enough.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 15, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services defines affordable child care as no more than 10% of a family’s income; however, the Care Index reports that childcare costs account for as high as 19% of a family’s income in some states. Making Education More Equitable Universal pre-K can give families their economic footing.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

Ninety-six percent of children at the Walton Avenue School, a K-5 school in the Bronx he’d founded in 2013, face economic hardship, and about a third are homeless. Russo himself has embodied the sixth: “effective school leadership.” They even dressed as aliens in order to ask why they weren’t being treated as human.

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Dr. Shannon Doak

MAY 28, 2024

For example, a project on climate change could encompass science, geography, economics, and politics, providing students with a holistic understanding of the issue and its implications. This approach breaks down the traditional barriers between subjects, allowing students to see the connections between different fields of study.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: HLLC admissions officers look beyond grades and SAT scores to students’ leadership qualities and their interest in the world around them. Saied Beckford, an 18-year-old majoring in economics and computer science, lives on the seventh floor of a residence hall that houses many HLLC students.

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