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Early (Childhood) Investment Steven Barnett, founder and senior co-director of the National Institute for Early Education Research, says that the NAEP reading results are not what anyone wanted to see.

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With digital education platforms generating data on how millions of students are learning, they are also sitting on veritable information gold mines for researchers who are trying to improve education. Instead, we're taking the researchers’ questions to that data. A lot of the studies are about freshman college kids, right?

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APRIL 7, 2025

Measuring Up Successful universal preschool initiatives typically share a few common characteristics, says GG Weisenfeld, associate director of technical assistance at the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER), where she works with cities and states to design and implement pre-K systems.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Things Can Go Terribly Wrong Idahos conservative legislature generally favors deregulation and a free-market approach, believing that most industries can govern themselves better than any public entity can. Research shows that higher child-to-staff ratios can threaten childrens health and safety.

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DECEMBER 31, 2024

Some claim that H1B workers work for less but the law and most hiring companies payH1B workers and natives the same salaries.Plus it can be hard to hire H1B workers because of government rules and paperwork. Reducing government funding of higher ed is a direct cause IMHO, for a perceived need for H1B workers.

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JANUARY 9, 2023

It’s that sharing of student photos, especially those with identifying information, that has researchers questioning what the implications may be for student privacy and whether it’s ethical for schools to post pictures at all. One group of researchers analyzed 18 million photos posted by U.S.

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JULY 19, 2024

So he felt frustrated, isolated: “I am stranded on this desert island because that site doesn't work [with my screen reader],” Jacob later told a researcher , also adding, “You can't just re-change your whole teaching plan, especially when you've distributed it.” While not new, the obligations in the rule have become pressing.

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AUGUST 1, 2023

Here are the most-read posts for the month of July: Step-by-Step Guide to Edit a Video 3 Fun Tech Classroom Projects for Summer The Influence of Literature on the Formation of the Personalities of Students How to Become a Citizen Scientist Tech Tip #108: Three-click Rule We Landed on the Moon July 20 1969 27 Online Resources About Civics and Government (..)

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#3: Make Your Own Wallpaper The Supreme Court in America 13 Online Bridge Building Resources Here’s a preview of what’s coming up in July: The Three-click Rule 27 Online Resources About Civics and Government How to Become a Citizen Scientist Tessellations in Excel We Landed on the Moon Free posters The Five-second Backup Use Unconventional (..)

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

In the 1700’s, when the brand new United States of America, newly liberated from the British aristocratic rule that relied on Kings and Queens, wrote its very first Constitution and Bill of Rights, it decided to establish a system of government by the people.

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Google It As a student, part of my schooling involved library classes, computer classes and English classes, during which I received dedicated instructional time using Mozilla Firefox and Google to do research for school projects. We were taught not to plagiarize and to cite our sources.

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JULY 14, 2023

Consider: Charles Darwin: Darwin often relied on the observations of amateur naturalists and enthusiasts during his research Mary Anning: a fossil collector in the early 19th century William Herschel: an astronomer who discovered the planet Uranus E. Also, the two World Wars necessitated rapid research and innovation.

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APRIL 7, 2022

At the same time, the government here has adopted a bilingual policy wherein students are required to gain proficiency in English and their respective ethnic mother tongue, which is Mandarin for the Chinese, Malay for the Malay, and Tamil for the Indians. This outcome is now attributed to methodological flaws.

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MAY 10, 2021

It has a progressive style of government, very low crime rate and lots of work. That said, there are professions that are in demand and the Canadian government is active in trying to get people to come and do these jobs. You can do some research ahead of time to make sure that you are not limiting yourself by overspecialization.

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JULY 11, 2024

Now the federal government is considering changing the rules in ways that would essentially make it harder for colleges to automatically bill students for books as long as they allow students to opt out. The White House signaled support for the possible rule change.

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JUNE 25, 2024

government invests in home visiting programs, and funding is set to expand. Historically, they’d received state and local funds, as well as money from private foundations, says Sarah Crowne, senior research scientist at Child Trends, a nonprofit research center focused on children and families.

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JANUARY 31, 2024

School districts , colleges and government-sponsored programs are dedicating time and resources to diversifying their faculty and staff pipeline , but are we spending enough time focused on policies and programming that aid in retaining quality faculty and staff? Research by Barbara C.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2022

And because research from McKinsey suggests that more than 80 percent of HBCUs are located in “broadband deserts,” it’s a strategy that may work elsewhere in the country, too. Research shows that like education, it has spillover benefits for society.” Just having access doesn’t matter unless you can afford it.”

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FEBRUARY 15, 2023

That’s what researchers at Kansas State University set out to quantify when they began crunching the numbers on teacher vacancies for all 50 states. That's one of the things that I think that we — this includes researchers and policymakers and the public — have to decide,” Nguyen says. “At Source: Kansas State University.

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MAY 19, 2022

As a governance tool, these automated transfers also reduce administrative overhead and record-keeping, which can be challenging for education programs in remote locales. Early research indicates that blockchain adoption skews towards students with technical backgrounds and entrepreneurial mindsets.

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JUNE 2, 2023

But the latest news is that the government is investing significant money to figure out how to ensure that the new tools actually advance national education goals like increasing equity and supporting overworked teachers. At the moment, more research is needed. Ultimately, some of the principles in the report will look familiar.

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MARCH 27, 2024

Even before the federal government closed the spigot on billions in emergency funds for schools, declining student enrollment already had districts fretting over how they would balance their books. Texas’ Arlington Independent School District announced earlier this year that 275 staff positions will be cut.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Since then, researchers have taken closer looks at what role climate anxiety — also called climate doomism or eco-anxiety — plays in the overall mental health pressures that young people are facing. and one that “established a government duty to protect citizens from climate change.” Climate anxiety isn’t a wholly new concept.

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APRIL 20, 2023

For example, teachers serving schools with high levels of student poverty were far more likely to report that their students lacked appropriate remote-learning workspaces free of distractions during the pandemic, according to research from the U.S. Government Accountability Office. And research from the U.S.

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OCTOBER 4, 2016

In about half the world’s nations–such as those ruled by socialism, communism, dictators, and autocracies–law and order are decided by government agencies, often people placed in power by those already in power. Still, every four years, Americans make a critical choice that will shape our nation’s path.

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MARCH 19, 2024

As he visited school computer labs for one research project, he says, “I found that a lot of the kids, they alt-tab off the education program and start watching YouTube for an hour.” They’re selling to the government, to the administration, to the district,” he points out. In an interview after his presentation, Hedman, who has a Ph.D.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Instructors are assigning more content that’s free or at least “not paid for directly” by the student, says Richard Hershman, vice president of government relations at NCAS. Those students didn’t actually save much money—about $24 on average—and are more likely to consider dropping out, according to the researchers behind the report.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Source: mission-us.org Besides history games, Mission US also offers various educational resources to use with students in class including document-based activities, vocabulary builders, writing prompts, review questions, primary source documents, suggestions for further reading and research, and many more. Sortify: U.S.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

Federal Government Launches First-of-Its-Kind Center for Early Childhood Workforce By Emily Tate Sullivan Challenges facing the early care and education workforce have reached crisis levels since the pandemic began, and the federal government has taken notice. And they’re looking to produce real solutions, not just research reports.

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MAY 30, 2024

The grant money comes from the CHIPS and Science Act, which passed in 2022 and includes $50 billion to expand semiconductor manufacturing and research in the United States. They’re not in the business of sustaining this beyond their grant from the federal government,” she said.

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MAY 20, 2024

Mysa’s tuition costs parents who don’t receive aid around $20,000 a year, comparable to what it costs the government to educate a student in a public school. The COVID-19 pandemic drove a big increase in homeschooled students, according to Johns Hopkins University’s Homeschool Hub , a collection of homeschooling research and resources.

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APRIL 13, 2015

Give students a couple of class periods–one to research bridges (using their internet search and research skills) and a few to build the virtual bridge. Working in groups, students research opposite sides of an issue, then debate it in front of class. I get them into iCivics for simulated games on the government process.

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MAY 4, 2022

percent or about 938,000 students, according to prominent estimates , which researchers describe as “frightening.” It’s being marketed to universities, businesses and governments as a way to help connect people to in-demand digital jobs and skills. For university leaders, that means a fight to keep students.

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APRIL 19, 2022

According to the Community College Research Center , federal Pell Grants currently can only be used for programs totaling at least 600 hours over 15 weeks. 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.

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AUGUST 12, 2022

This week, the Aspen Institute announced its 2022 Ascend fellows, a cohort of 22 individuals hailing from a range of disciplines including medicine, research, entrepreneurship, government and policy, and nonprofit leadership and advocacy. The local level is where the rubber meets the road.

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JANUARY 17, 2023

The report entitled “ The Youths Relationships Study ” was conducted by researchers at University of Illinois Chicago and published last fall. Researchers reported that Big Brothers Big Sisters mentees in the study were 54 percent less likely to have been arrested and 41 percent less likely to have engaged in substance use.

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AUGUST 8, 2024

Nevertheless, according to the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) State of Preschool 2023 Yearbook , in 2022-2023, more than 60 percent of pre-K children served were in public school settings, not private programs or home-based child care options.

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