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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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A 5-Step Plan to Improve Professional Learning in Your School

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It could even be something more abstract but equally important, such as steadily increasing student satisfaction with school. Here are the top 10 skills needed for today’s workforce, as identified by the World Economic Forum: 5. Perhaps it’s an increase of three percentage points in academics each year for the next five years.

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