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Quitting jobs to qualify for child care

The Hechinger Report

Research quick take Access to high-quality pre-K is becoming an increasingly popular policy across the nations largest cities, according to a recently released report by CityHealth. CityHealth is partnering with the National Institute for Early Education Research to track this progress here.

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Study: The U.S. isn’t doing enough to prepare students for the automation age

The Hechinger Report

The United States is lagging behind other wealthy nations when it comes to preparing students for workforce changes wrought by automation, according to a new study by a research group affiliated with The Economist magazine. These trends will require big-picture thinking from governments, educators and businesses.

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Jehovah’s Witness Are Learning Chinese to Evangelize in Zambia

Anthropology News

Like Jehovahs Witness congregations in the rest of the world, Kombela Central Mandarin Congregation is governed by local elders in charge of pastoral work, selecting speakers, and directing public preaching. According to the China Africa Research Initiative at John Hopkins University, Zambia owed Chinese creditors US$ 6.6

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Can Affordable Computing Education Bridge the Global Digital Divide?

ED Surge

Their activities include assisting schools in integrating computer science into the curriculum, promoting non-formal learning through code clubs and online resources and conducting research through a center at the University of Cambridge. Those lessons are already being taught to hundreds of thousands of young people in the U.K.,

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Colleges start looking for ways to house and feed their students who are homeless

The Hechinger Report

Widely reported research has shown surprising levels of hunger and homelessness among American college and university students. The program at UWT was spearheaded by student government leaders who reached out to the housing authority and K?z I’ve been doing awesome ever since,” said Gorder. “I z Development, a private developer.

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Will Virtual Reality Lead More Families to Opt Out of Traditional Public Schools?

ED Surge

Emma Green, a staff writer for the New Yorker, has been spending time visiting these VR classrooms and researching the company for the magazine. He's done some research on VR and education as well. And I think for researchers who are in this world, they're a really interesting potential case study to see what does happen.

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The Lingering Influence of Historical Peripheries on Modern Voting Patterns

Political Science Now

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. Furthermore, their research demonstrates that the effect of dialectal distance is not just a proxy for the urban-rural divide or economic factors.