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Is Student Absenteeism a Growing Problem at Colleges, Too?

ED Surge

It's good to support learning, it's important for accessibility, it's important to address accommodations for students. If you're not doing well in the classroom, you lose access to the information that would prepare you. I mean, I think they're very aware of the economic reality. So that stuff is really important.

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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

Futurum

However, Dr Emil Temnyalov , an economist at the University of Technology Sydney in Australia, highlights the effects of socio-economic influences on these scores. While these are the areas of economics commonly in the news, the field is so much broader than this. Stock markets, unemployment, inflation and recession?

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What to Know About the Growing Popularity of Employer-Sponsored Child Care

ED Surge

The pandemic and its many aftershocks — including a hit to labor force participation among women and a severe early childhood staffing shortage — helped many Americans unacquainted with these issues begin to understand the integral role that early care and education play in economic and social stability.

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Is a College Degree the Worst Investment You Can Make — or the Best?

ED Surge

And the argument is that if a university degree is a good investment, it ought to be substantially more valuable than the opportunity cost. My argument is that the risk is too high, and the returns too low. With a few notable exceptions, they do not train skills that students need to gain economic independence.

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Is The Human Life Predictable?

STEMe

Additionally, because the researchers could only have access to people who had an income or were engaged in healthcare, the studies weren't randomly selected. This shows that the economic factors of the location can also have an unknown effect.

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Prototyping the STEMM K-12 Teachers of 2042 – Is It Possible?

National Science Foundation

Now, this is usually where I would launch into a well-honed set of arguments explicating the various economic, societal, and moral imperatives which make clear the need for America to tackle issues of equity and inclusion through a systemic transformation approach to cultivate a larger and more inclusive STEMM workforce.

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Defined Learning’s Projects for Black History

Defined Learning

Big Idea: People migrate to find economic opportunities and greater freedom. Beginning around 1910, many Blacks moved to Northern, Central, and Western states to find economic opportunity and to escape oppression. Driving Question: How can we tell powerful stories of people who experienced the Great Migration?