Hard Times Ahead for Those Who Lack Soft Skills
Soft skills, also known as social, emotional, and behavioral skills, at one time may have been called character. Researchers like psychologist Angela Duckworth have identified...
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Economic Facts Affecting Your Child’s Education | Fact 14
Bottom line: Charter schools are not a panacea. The best charter school networks, like KIPP, are great. But as this article states, the average charter...
Economic Facts Affecting Your Child’s Education | Fact 12
Targeting somewhat older children, the Tennessee Student/Teacher Achievement Ratio, or STAR experiment, investigated the effects of being assigned to a small class size from kindergarten...
Economic Facts Affecting Your Child’s Education | Fact 11
Once state and federal spending are included in the example of Texas school districts above, the gaps are reduced dramatically: Total revenues per student in...
Economic Facts Affecting Your Child’s Education | Fact 10
Some states spend a lot to instruct their public school students; others spend relatively little. Although money isn’t a silver bullet—poor districts that receive cash...
Economic Facts Affecting Your Child’s Education | Fact 9
The pay and prestige disincentives among the best and brightest to teach may pose an especially large problem for high-poverty schools, where work environment challenges...
Economic Facts that Affect Your Child’s Education: Fact 8
However, some states with similar shares of low-income students have very different levels of proficiency. For example, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Jersey all have a...
More Economic Facts Affecting Your Child’s Education: Fact 5
One year of additional schooling lowers the probability of a student later being unemployed by 3.6 percentage points, of being on welfare by 5.5 percentage...
14 Economic Facts Affecting Your Child’s Education: Fact 4
Although there is substantial variation in earnings within majors, those that emphasize quantitative skills—such as engineering, computer science, economics, and finance—tend on average to have...
Fact 2. Economic Facts You Need to Know
The skills premium--the difference in earnings between low and high-skilled workers--is one of the economic facts the Hamilton Project report explores....