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

Bryan Alexander

For example, “There are 1000 more degree-granting colleges and universities today [2015, presumably] than there were in 1996.” For example, McGee shares excellent data about the high school graduating population dropping recently, then flatlining for the next decade (23-24). million in fall 1994 to 17.6 ” (!) .”

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

Bryan Alexander

For example, “There are 1000 more degree-granting colleges and universities today [2015, presumably] than there were in 1996.” For example, McGee shares excellent data about the high school graduating population dropping recently, then flatlining for the next decade (23-24). million in fall 1994 to 17.6 ” (!) .”

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NCLB’s legacy: As the ESSA era begins, have policymakers, educators learned from the past?

The Hechinger Report

To be sure, ongoing ill will over NCLB influenced the bitter, drawn-out negotiations over the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which became ESSA (NCLB was also a reauthorization of the 1965 act). Monday, Sept. Photo: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite.

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Many Hispanic students never have a teacher who looks like them

The Hechinger Report

Piña Mota said she would have felt more comfortable asking for help in navigating how to pay for college, for example. By way of comparison, white non-Hispanics make up just 31.8 Cubero Crispo thinks Hispanic teachers wouldn’t have automatically assumed he wasn’t smart. Hispanics are on track to make up more than a quarter of the U.S.

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Kids struggle to read when schools leave phonics out

The Hechinger Report

“I wouldn’t have been able to use that strategy at the secondary level,” she said. In 2003, in a rather extraordinary move, the state Department of Education mandated that every teacher preparation program in Mississippi require two courses in early literacy to cover what was in the National Reading Panel report.

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