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PROOF POINTS: It’s easier and easier to get an A in math

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Source: ACT Research Report 2023 : Sanchez speculates that test optional admissions have elevated the importance of high school grades. Department of Education documented rising grades on high school transcripts between 2009 and 2019, while 12th grade math scores fell on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

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Empty Desks: Getting Chronically Absent Students Back to Class Is No Easy Feat

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Yadira Mederos De Cardenas, a teacher at the early learning center All Five, in the Belle Haven neighborhood of Menlo Park, May 26, 2023. Ethnic minorities tend to access mental health services at a much lower rate than their white peers, according to 2009 research. Photo by Lizzy Myers for The Almanac. In 2020, at 16.2

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PROOF POINTS: New higher ed data by race and ethnicity

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Students’ race and ethnicity affect their chances of earning a college degree, according to several new reports on higher education released in January and February 2023. Credit: National Student Clearinghouse DEI Data Lab 2023 In 2011, as the pie chart on the left shows, more than 60 percent of the nation’s 20.6

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Couch surfing, living in cars: Housing insecurity derails foster kids’ college dreams 

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Kyshawna Johnson, photographed during her shift at a Jovenes home in Los Angeles, on September 12th, 2023. Kyshawna Johnson, photographed during her shift at a Jovenes home in Los Angeles, CA, on September 12th, 2023. In 2009, for example, the state passed legislation requiring many schools to give them priority for on-campus housing.

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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. million in fall 2009, a gain of 43 percent.” In the book’s first half McGee does a great job of exploring transformative forces in economics, demographics, and culture.

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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. million in fall 2009, a gain of 43 percent.” In the book’s first half McGee does a great job of exploring transformative forces in economics, demographics, and culture.

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Momentum builds behind a way to lower the cost of college: A degree in three years

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Wentworth, for example, will add combined four-year bachelor’s and master’s degrees in data science and cybersecurity analytics starting in the fall of 2023, the university says. That unbinds them in lots of ways,” said Zemsky. This is a place that doesn’t have to worry about a lot of precedent and baggage,” she said.

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