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The Higher Education Model is Broken. Together We Can Fix It.

Edsurge

Growing student debt, declining college enrollment, faculty layoffs and department closures, to name a few. The world’s complexity has been catapulted to a new level, and higher education is feeling the repercussions like never before. We’re familiar with the higher education headlines. The solution is within reach.

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OPINION: ‘The online courses we’re creating right now are ways to survive in uncertain times, not to thrive in online education’

The Hechinger Report

Most American universities are run by a process of shared governance, or the practice of recognizing faculty, administrators, staff and students as integral stakeholders in a university’s success, and the success of the individual members of that university community. higher education. . higher-education institutions.

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OPINION: The low-cost steps the government could take right now to ease hunger and homelessness on college campuses

The Hechinger Report

We propose that the department create an Office of Basic Needs dedicated to understanding and solving these issues. Intervening to ensure students have adequate food and housing isn’t just compassionate – it is critical to protecting the financial interests of the government overall. There is no time to waste.

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OPINION: Four ways to break the cycle of food and housing insecurity on campus

The Hechinger Report

My father gave me the option of sharing our circumstances with teachers, counselors and administrators. The Hope Center has studied the issue extensively, and its results have been deemed valid by the U.S. Government Accountability Office. . For my last two years of high school, I was homeless. I chose to stay silent.

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Why is it so hard for workers to find new jobs?

The Hechinger Report

It’s also a racial justice issue, since Black and Latino workers are more likely to have lost jobs in the pandemic than white workers. The United States invests less in workforce development as a share of its GDP than many other developed nations, just 0.11 percent , which is half the share it spent in 1985.

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Integrating Media Literacy with Project-Based Learning and a Culturally Relevant Pedagogy

edWeb.net

Ways to engage students in developing media literacy were recently discussed during an edWebinar , sponsored by the News Literacy Project , which featured Shaelynn Farnsworth, National Director of Educator Outreach and Success, and Ebonee Rice, Vice President, Educator Network. This edWeb broadcast was sponsored by News Literacy Project.

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OPINION: Time for colleges to help solve the affordability issue

The Hechinger Report

Employing this method with schools is the way to help higher education’s affordability issue. Instead of waiting for the federal government to address the student debt crisis or better hold schools accountable for tuition rates, let’s turn to the industry itself to tackle these challenges. We can move more expeditiously.

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