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FEBRUARY 4, 2025

They can be a part of society, said Maureen McGuire-Kuletz, co-director of the George Washington University Center for Rehabilitation Counseling Research and Education. For 10 years, the states pre-employment program has languished, with leadership turnover and bureaucratic infighting rendering it largely ineffective.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

In a 2017 study by the American Council on Education, a higher education association, researchers found that individuals who identified as something other than white held just 17 percent of college and university presidencies in 2016, while representing 42 percent of students enrolled in 2015.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 25, 2013

PIRG Panelist Nicole Allen discussed her work as Public Interest Research Group (PIRG)’s Textbook Advocate. The economics are staggering. Thank you, Steve, for your wonderful leadership (and the delicious breakfast)! Our audience was greatly interested in exploring these resources. I hope we can do it again soon!

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2025

Math literacy often contributes to economic success: A 2021 study of more than 5,500 adults found that participants made $4,062 more per year for each correct answer on an eight-question math test. Havens is still involved in the Prison Mathematics Project, but handed leadership of the program over to Jeffers in October 2023.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

Now a doctoral student in education leadership policy at Texas Tech University, Williams often thinks about the student loan debt she is still accruing. Now, he studies the impact of student loan debt on the ability of Black people to advance economically, he said. After she had her degree in hand, it was time to start paying.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The silence from colleagues and school leadership was particularly invalidating. The voices above represent just a handful of the 80 Asian American K-12 educators who gathered with EdSurge Research in the summer of 2022 to connect in small groups and reflect on their experiences working in U.S. schools in recent years.

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TeachThought

MAY 4, 2024

This qualification covers vital areas like health economics, resource management, and health informatics, enabling seamless integration of teams, systems, and technologies for optimized delivery. HOM professionals can work across the globe The healthcare industry, a significant employer worldwide, demands forward-thinking managers.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2024

Education and education access are directly connected to economic growth. This legislation includes federal funding to support education and skills-based training directly connected to career opportunities and economic success. Smart investments in Education can be both the answer to governmental gridlock and spur economic progress.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

His research excavating the largest indigenous language archive in the early 19th century reveals a different history from the present understanding about Hawaii today. Tourism as an economic component of genocide continue to target native Hawaiians for removal today.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2023

The area is economically depressed, with the highest unemployment rate in the state and an economy reliant on tourism. Yet it’s precisely programs like SAP that the House leadership appears all too willing to cut. My questions for the House leadership are these: Which students should we not support?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The measures that researchers have traditionally used to gauge adolescent well-being have become sharply out of step with the reality of adolescent life. “I Researchers have pointed to the introduction of smartphones — the iPhone was introduced in 2007 — and the rise of social media as the culprit. What happened then?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Those are four of the top five emotions K-12 teachers reported feeling back in 2017 — well before the pandemic and 18 months of unfinished learning, trauma and economic instability. Research shows that fostering SEL improves students’ academic achievement by an average of 11 percentile points.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

While every school is unique, research has identified several elements that can almost universally increase the chances for successful teacher development and create a powerful and positive school community. Effective Administrator and Teacher Leadership. Cultivating leadership in staff, parents, and community partners.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

In September 2024, EdNCs early childhood team attended The Hunt Institute's 2024 Early Childhood Leadership Summit , which included teams from all 50 states comprised of senior elected officials, gubernatorial staff, mayors, local elected leaders, and key early childhood system leaders.

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

Research shows that teacher quality is the most important school-related factor influencing student achievement. According to a report published in 2017 by the Economic Policy Institute, large urban districts spend approximately $20,000 on every new hire.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 1, 2024

The American Political Science Association is pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) Awardees for 2023. The APSA DDRIG program provides support to enhance and improve the conduct of doctoral dissertation research in political science.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2020

First, do your research. 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. Here are five ways that we can start combating anti-Asian sentiment in schools: .

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2020

For people who have been involved with the justice system as defendants, prioritizing higher education is a necessary safeguard for social and economic success, both during and after incarceration. Education opens doors to self-confidence and leadership. And that must include people caught up in the U.S. justice system.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

A recent study by the United Negro College Fund found that HBCUs like Grambling State have a combined annual economic impact of nearly $15 billion. These critics fail to recognize that the economic impact of HBCUs is significant. In North Carolina, the economic impact nearly surpasses $2 billion, while creating more than 15,000 jobs.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2017

The research is overwhelming. Black primary-school students who are matched to a same-race teacher performed better on standardized tests and face more favorable teacher perceptions according to recent findings from the German economic research group Institute of Labor Economics.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 14, 2018

AI-powered systems are doing legal research, diagnosing cancer, writing music, serving as network newscasters, and doing surgery. As a researcher and former university educational leadership faculty member, Wayne should know better than this. The declining economic value of routine cognitive work. Image credit: N.Y.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

It’s up to those of us in leadership positions to prevent this. Bring all of these data sources to your leadership team, and begin to explore appropriate goals. Here are the top 10 skills needed for today’s workforce, as identified by the World Economic Forum: 5. The question is, why do we allow it to happen?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

With economic segregation in the United States worsening, there is likely to be a growing number of school districts where poor children, and poor parents, predominate. Yet, economic segregation, which is more pronounced among families with children, also creates public school districts where affluent families predominate.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

We are seeing economically disadvantaged communities starting to lag in their rate of learning as measured by standardized testing. Leaders holding the power of the purse will need to recognize that the new playing field is still unequal, and that economic disparities among communities will continue to yield different learning outcomes.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2019

With 20 percent of its 400-plus students diagnosed with a learning disability and about half of its kids coming from families in economic need, McCourt nonetheless outperforms citywide averages on state-mandated Regents exams, graduation rates and postsecondary enrollment. This may be a missed opportunity. The school is thriving.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The focus of our effort— Inclusive Innovation —is supported by research summarized in the report, Making Innovation Benefit All: Policies for Inclusive Growth from Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The post Inclusive Innovation: Designing for Equity appeared first on Digital Promise.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Students take a weekly sustainability class and participate in monthly field study days that send them into the community to conduct research on topics like land use, pollution and food equity. But over the years, it has expanded its purview to social and economic sustainability, too, said Tenner, the executive director.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

But now some workforce organizations, researchers and regional civic leaders are pushing back — persuading companies to look beyond academic credentials and to instead hire people based on their skills. If this movement continues to gather steam, researchers say, it could aid not only individual job seekers but also the U.S.

Economics 112

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 29, 2017

Around the country, Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters) are working to address one of education’s pressing challenges – the deep inequity that persists in learning, opportunities, and leadership. EdCluster ecosystems gather educators, researchers, entrepreneurs, funders, and others to scale promising learning tools and practices.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Erin Roberts, a teacher leadership specialist. It is a research-based approach that experts say is essential for helping children — especially those who struggle — learn to read. Related: What parents need to know about the research on how kids learn to read. 1 in the nation for growth in reading.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

More institutions should see the cultivation of neighborhoods as a requisite of leadership development. Paul Quinn College is taking that approach through its new African American Leadership Institute. Paul Quinn is literally harvesting the land so leadership naturally grows amongst those who cultivate it.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

But now a convergence of factors — a dwindling pool of traditional-age students, the call for more educated workers and a pandemic that highlighted economic disparities and scrambled habits and jobs — is putting adults in the spotlight. But in the midst of his studies, he stumbled and had to retake an economics course.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

TNTP researchers plunged into a giant pool of data housed at Stanford University that tracked hundreds of millions of students’ scores on state tests at more than half the elementary and middle schools in the nation from 2009 to 2018. In that study, Chicago emerged as the nation’s most effective school district.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2021

We’ve seen that clearly when it comes to student success — and, ultimately, social and economic mobility. The good news is, we can break out of this competitive mode; a group of 11 public research universities is already showing how that’s done. Lastly, leadership transitions are one of the biggest threats to student success.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2017

Research by the state’s 114-campus community college system showed that families and employers alike didn’t know of the existence or value of vocational programs and the certifications they confer, many of which can add tens of thousands of dollars per year to a graduate’s income. Other local companies and colleges have invested, too.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2020

Dozens of elite college prep programs, from Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America to the University of Chicago’s Collegiate Scholars Program , have been established across the United States in the last 20 years, each with heartwarming stories of college success. “Our Separately, the students’ futures diverged starkly.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

You’ve got the campus materials, you’ve got the integration of teaching and research, which we claim to value, and it’s also really good for students in a few ways,” including by helping them take action on climate in ways that can improve mental health. It’s an invisible problem that not everyone is thinking about,” he said.

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