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OPINION: Why school shutdowns are a disaster for science classes

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Such closures have a disastrous impact on education in STEM subjects: science, technology, engineering and math. Even before the pandemic, STEM achievement gaps in K-12 schools were significant. Unsurprisingly, such foundational STEM disparities extend far beyond secondary school education.

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PBS to Present “Spotlight Education,” A Special Week of Programming Featuring Reports About America’s Students and New Models of Learning, September 12-17

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FRONTLINE, POV, NOVA, TED TALKS, AMERICAN GRADUATE DAY Among the Featured Programs, with Special Reports from PBS NEWSHOUR and PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND; Funded by CPB as Part of American Graduate. In a one-hour special, FRONTLINE presents two films that build on its education reporting. “A Please share this information.

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OPINION: Why we must invest in new, innovative workforce training to fill a skills gap

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has just under 9 million available STEM jobs ; 70 percent of them in IT or computers. The job market analytics company Burning Glass reports that nine out of ten tech jobs sit outside the technology sector and that, in the utility sector alone, 35 percent of job openings in 2019 were in IT. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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What happened when a South Carolina city embraced career education for all its students

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Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report. Whittenberg, a public elementary school in downtown Greenville, South Carolina, that focuses on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in its curriculum. Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report. “We Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report.

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In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

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Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. “My dad said, ‘I’ll just take two jobs.’

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Some kids have returned to in-person learning only to be kicked right back out

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Although national data on discipline for the current school year isn’t expected to be public for several years, The Hechinger Report requested data from a dozen medium and large school districts around the country and found that in some of them, exclusionary discipline is down, even way down. Credit: Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report.

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For some kids, returning to school post-pandemic means a daunting wall of administrative obstacles 

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She studies how burdensome paperwork and processes often prevent poor people from accessing health benefits. Inconsistent cell phone access isn’t uncommon among low-income Americans. An Associated Press reporter has had to visit the family in person to communicate. But it was also about race and class.”