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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

My bet is that by 2040, our children will look back on this period between 2015 and 2030 in education technology much the same way internet historians look to the period 1995 to 2010 as the birth of the commercial web. Although we were convinced that technology could transform education, simple internet access was patchy at best.

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Like their students, colleges are vastly increasing the amount they borrow

The Hechinger Report

Instead, they continued to decline, from a peak of 8,339 in 2010 to 4,081 last fall, according to government data. Related: Universities and colleges struggle to stem big drops in enrollment. By 2015, the most recent year for which the figure is available, it owed $75.3 But student numbers didn’t rebound. That’s up from $28.7

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Good analysis of higher ed trends and strategy: Jon McGee’s _Breakpoint_

Bryan Alexander

Jon McGee’s Breakpoint (2015, Johns Hopkins) offers a very solid, useful, and accessible analysis of current trends in higher education. That population is increasingly nonwhite: “By 2023, graduates of color will represent nearly half of all high school graduates… up from one-third in 2003.”

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Good analysis of higher ed trends and strategy: Jon McGee’s _Breakpoint_

Bryan Alexander

Jon McGee’s Breakpoint (2015, Johns Hopkins) offers a very solid, useful, and accessible analysis of current trends in higher education. That population is increasingly nonwhite: “By 2023, graduates of color will represent nearly half of all high school graduates… up from one-third in 2003.”

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?This College Program Wants to Overhaul the Education Culture in Alaska

Edsurge

Nearly 40 percent of students starting at 4-year public institutions took at least one developmental (or college-level readiness) course while enrolled from 2003 to 2009. It’s also true that many students in the state don’t have access to enter the program either because their school cannot fund to send students.