The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Busy teachers use EVERFI’s standards-aligned, research-based digital lessons, recently awarded with the ISTE Seal for high-quality curriculum, to teach students to thrive in an ever-changing world. Listen to the show on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher Stream by clicking here. So many great ideas. Thank you, Debbie, for coming on the show.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

The USDA has been loaning tens of millions of dollars to rural colleges and universities, some of which couldn’t get financing from conventional lenders or whose budgets are so precarious that the Education Department has placed them under additional financial scrutiny. The USDA loaned Iowa Wesleyan $26.4

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife Wendy, who serves as president of the family foundation, last week announced the 100 winners of their Rise Talent Competition, a new kind of youth talent contest that promises to provide a lifetime of financial backing toward winners’ education and business endeavors.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 28, 2023

Busy teachers use EVERFI’s standards-aligned, research-based digital lessons, recently awarded with the ISTE Seal for high-quality curriculum, to teach students to thrive in an ever-changing world. Listen to the show on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher Stream by clicking here. The outcome of it, like the number of days that a child misses?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

President Joe Biden’s proposal to make community colleges tuition-free is officially dead on arrival, news that could not come at a more unfortunate time: Recent enrollment figures show many colleges nationwide are in dire straits, particularly at the community college level. Some are parents. Some are recent immigrants.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2020

The screens before him pulse with worrisome financial news, but Tom Heck exudes Midwestern calm. A lot of endowments are going to suffer big losses from this,” said Charlie Eaton, a sociologist at the University of California, Merced, who studies the financialization of higher education. Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Just 10 months earlier, I had moved to Texas to live with relatives while I pursued an education and career in health care. My mother lived two states away in Kansas and did not have the financial resources to help. My mother couldn’t help me financially, but she had given me her car. The writer at her graduation.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2020

By June, child care centers were either open or in the process of re-opening in most states but under conditions that providers say could put them out of business. You can’t sustain a business on having 10 children in a classroom, especially preschool classrooms.”. Related: Our fragile child care ‘system’ may be about to shatter.

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Brainscape

OCTOBER 25, 2023

And in other news this October 2023. New certified class you should know about: Periodic Table Memorization The periodic table is key to understanding Earth’s 118 natural and man-made elements and the way they behave when, for example, accidentally set on fire in the chemistry lab.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

When Missouri Western State University declared a financial emergency in the spring, it was widely assumed to have been the fault of the coronavirus pandemic. This story also appeared in NBC News. Like many businesses, universities and colleges are struggling with a crisis that was not of their own making. Colleges in Crisis.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2023

Ask any college president, and they will likely tell you the biggest challenge they face — more than the broken business model, the enrollment cliff and even affordability issues — is the mental health crisis. Student mental health is in a fragile and dangerous place on our campuses. Long before the U.S.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 5, 2017

I published this about a year and a half ago, but with April’s focus on financial literacy, it’s time to repost. When kids read that America’s $18 trillion+ debt is accepted by many experts as ‘business as usual’, I wonder how that news will affect their future personal finance decisions. Financial Football.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Yet labor and education leaders warn that the country is almost uniquely ill-equipped to help these people gather new skills and prepare for new careers. That could have lasting effects both for these individuals’ financial security and for the broader economy, by stymieing innovation and growth and deepening economic polarization.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

One area we rarely discuss in the education ecosystem is how to support teachers’ mental, physical health and well-being. I had the chance to chat with Dr. Jared Scherz, the founder of TeacherCoach , and a former elementary school guidance counselor who became a clinical psychologist in New Jersey. How about professional development?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 21, 2015

When kids read that America’s $18 trillion+ debt is accepted by many experts as ‘business as usual’, I wonder how that news will affect their own personal finance decisions. The good news is: Half of the nation’s schools require a financial literacy course. Students receive a class code to join.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2022

At Morgan State, those returning might have earned an associate degree before entering the workforce; taken some classes before hitting a family, health or financial roadblock; or, like Golden, needed to take time away before they could see the value in college and commit to seeing their degree through.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Choosing to vaccinate teachers — and all those who are needed to keep schools running, including bus drivers, cafeteria workers and administrators — will allow facilities to reopen, will be better for student learning and development, good for parents’ sanity and great for business as we try to restart the economy.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2021

This story also appeared in GBH News. More must be done to recover from the damage caused by COVID-19,” Cardona told financial aid administrators at an online conference. ” Cardona’s remarks in his keynote address to a federal financial aid training conference in Washington, D.C., The average debt?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

This story also appeared in NBC News. But after chasing national profiles to attract more out-of-state students in a bid for more tuition dollars — and financial survival — there is now “a lot of hand-wringing around ‘What are we supposed to be?’” Related: Analysis: Hundreds of colleges and universities show financial warning signs.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2024

It’s a question more and more families are asking as universities and colleges face financial and enrollment challenges, close or merge. We’ll tell you what schools are doing to stay alive, what happens to students when they shut down and how to check on the financial health of colleges. We’ll tell you how to find out.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 30, 2015

When kids read that America’s $18 trillion+ debt is accepted by many experts as ‘business as usual’, I wonder how that news will affect their future personal finance decisions. The good news is: Half of the nation’s schools require a financial literacy course. Financial Football. Some are narrative; others games.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

The school, a for-profit institution with campuses in Texas and New Mexico, had just told students it was shutting down, catching everyone off guard. This story also appeared in NBC News. The day news of the closing broke, Anamarc officials sent students away with nothing but promises of more information to come.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

A notable new lawsuit against social media industry leaders by the Seattle school district has left legal experts divided on how the case will unfold. That’s what’s on the line: the mental health of the current generation and those that follow.” Or, as others expect, it could fizzle out with little chance of winning in court.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This story also appeared in CBS News Beneath the inscription, a clock marks the time and dates when three swaddled newborns depicted in large photos entered the world: Ashley, now 19, Emily, 17, and Brianna, 11. She now helps Rafael with his trucking business while working as a translator. WILMINGTON, Del. – Of all U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2021

These were things we never would have tried if we were busy with our normal routines. Additionally, the pandemic raised our national health IQ, well beyond the benefits of proper hand-washing and the avoidance of high-touch surfaces. Perhaps the greatest benefit of the pandemic is the increased discussion around mental health.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2022

It can help families decide among institutions and even compare the financial payoff between studying business versus journalism (heaven forbid!). But a new study finds that these salary figures, designed to motivate students to go to college and major in lucrative fields, are off – sometimes significantly so.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

So did high school graduation rates and the proportion of students filling out the federal application for college financial aid. Community and business groups around the country share the same fear. Financial challenges are also mounting. The number who went on to higher education inched up, to 57 percent from 56 percent. “We

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2023

This story also appeared in The Washington Post Which is how the former head of finance at the British Post Office and active co-founder of a startup in the hot field of renewable energy came to be teaching finance, banking and financial management to undergraduates at his hometown alma mater, Sheffield Hallam University.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

But there has been high turnover in the kitchen at the college, which was put on probation by accreditors in the fall because of financial challenges. “It Related : Rural colleges aren’t supplying the workers rural businesses and agriculture need. Other expenditures directly support nearby businesses.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2022

An emergency financial aid program can help students pay for car repairs, rent, or medical needs if they qualify. And although many of the Promise students would qualify for enough financial aid to attend college for free without this program, figuring out how to complete all the requirements can be daunting.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2020

They don’t worry about much, except my health,” he said. Colleges and universities are also easing the financial burden that comes with studying in the U.S. Before the pandemic, Morgan State had started ramping up its offerings for international students, and it will soon see if these new strategies work.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

That meant she kept the in-home day care she runs in Compton, California, operating this spring even as the virus closed businesses and schools across the country. The public health crisis has added new urgency to a push to unionize the industry, which has long struggled with low pay and poor working conditions.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2021

Business has never been better for those companies now seeing record growth. PayPal’s $530 million pledge to support Black and minority-led businesses, including $50 million to investment funds (including one focused on education ) is a step. Teachers prepared with new online lesson plans couldn’t reach webcam-shy students.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

It definitely affected my mental health.”. Thousands of other students around the country are leaving college — some because of mental health issues, others for financial or family reasons – and educators worry that many have left for good. There is a very significant mental health crisis. Students just are not OK.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

For them, she said, transferring and having to learn a new education management system, navigate a new financial aid office and administration, as well as a new campus, makes it challenging when they are juggling their education with other responsibilities, even though it may be necessary for them to earn more money or move up in their field.

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eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2022

Saint Louis University has a long-standing tradition of high-quality online education for undergraduate degree completion for busy adults who are building careers in business, nursing, social work, and information technology. News & World Report. For more information, visit www.slu.edu. About BloomBoard.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2020

And while the pandemic’s financial toll could postpone the expected retirements of huge numbers of aging veterinarians and plumbers , those specialists will eventually step aside, with little letup in demand for the services they offer. It’s a finding that has come up consistently in earlier surveys of people who do hiring. It’s a threat.

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