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“Our wealthiest colleges and universities have amassed billions of dollars, virtually tax-free, all while indoctrinating our youth with un-American ideas,” Cotton said in a statement, adding that the revenue would “create high paying, working-class jobs.”
Cotton estimates the bill would generate $2 billion per year in revenue for registered apprenticeship programs. And while funding for apprenticeships is necessary, said Sandy Baum, a nonresident senior fellow at the Urban Institute’s Center on Education Data and Policy, taxing endowments of private institutions to generate revenue may not be the way to go.
Private college endowments are funded by private charitable donations, and the money is often used for student financial aid, research and campus improvements, among other expenses.
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As the United States and its schools enter the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, policymakers, educators, and families are struggling to address everything from learning loss among K-12 students to new pressures befalling the country’s nearly 7 million adult learners. Increasingly, they are narrowing in on an old, but potentially now groundbreaking, intervention: tutoring.
There is a bipartisan push for expanding tutoring in schools, whether through a new national “tutoring corps,” a constellation of innovative initiatives such as the free global platform schoolhouse.world, or some combination of both.
Tutoring can, advocates say, do far more than improve an individual’s test scores. It can create connections across age and place. It can build a global community and bridge socioeconomic divisions. Supporters say tutoring could not only aid pandemic recovery, but also fundamentally change the way we envision, and deliver, education. Everyone, regardless of age and bac
As the United States and its schools enter the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, policymakers, educators, and families are struggling to address everything from learning loss among K-12 students to new pressures befalling the country’s nearly 7 million adult learners. Increasingly, they are narrowing in on an old, but potentially now groundbreaking, intervention: tutoring.
There is a bipartisan push for expanding tutoring in schools, whether through a new national “tutoring corps,” a constellation of innovative initiatives such as the free global platform schoolhouse.world, or some combination of both.
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If tutoring is adopted broadly, some envision a world where school buildings will matter less in the future and everyone, young and old, can be both a teacher and a learner.
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