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Young Kids in Low-Income Families Get Less Exposure to Math. Can the Right Apps Help?

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For early learners, exposure to math concepts can be at the mercy of their family’s economic status or related factors like whether their parents are college-educated. Researchers sent text reminders to some parents to use the materials they received. The result? Some of it worked really well. So the stakes are high.

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Teacher Pay Penalty Reaches Record High. What’s at Stake?

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The disparity between what teachers are paid and what their peers in other, comparable professions earn has reached an all-time high, according to findings published this month by the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute (EPI). In no state are teachers paid better than or equal to similarly qualified professionals in that same state.

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E-Books and Online Libraries in Modern College Education

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You can find e-books, research papers, articles, and interactive learning materials on their virtual shelves. Besides your textbook, you can use note-taking and research apps, which help streamline studying. Such applications keep researching entertaining by letting you quickly bounce between sources.

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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

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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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The Political Right Is Slamming the Door on College Access

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million in the latest data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center--a big historical change. With the exception of wartime, the United States has never been through a period of declining educational attainment like this ,” says Michael Hicks, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State University.

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Breaking Barriers to a Foundational Early Childhood Education

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Mahajan, who was part of national leadership at the Self-Employed Women's Association , noted that her interest in early childhood education stemmed from the perspective of motherhood, through which she recognized the importance of quality childcare for women's labor force participation and economic empowerment.

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College Health Leaders Are Fighting COVID-19, Student Vaccine Hesitancy and Burnout

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Although some experts originally thought the pandemic would be the great equalizer in health care delivery and outcomes, it quickly became clear that the crisis exacerbated glaring disparities. However, during the pandemic, even institutions of higher learning found themselves challenged to reaffirm people’s trust in data driven by research.