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CTE advocates want more funding as demand increases

eSchool News

If the legislature approves his budget proposal at the end of session, the total amount of state funding for CTE programs would be $58 million in fiscal year 2025. Pritzker proposed a $10.3 million increase in funding for CTE programs. Last year, CTE programs received around $48 million in state funding.

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Chinese New Year- What Animal Am I?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

The Ox years are: 1925, 1937, 1949, 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, 2009, 2021 3. Zodiac animal: Ox Ox in Chinese culture has a special place because of the hard work it can accomplish in the field. It is often associated with honesty, hard-work, respect, diligence, and adaptability. If you were born in the Dragon year (e.g.,1928,

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After a falling, college graduation rates begin to rebound

The Hechinger Report

percent, up just under 2 percentage points from the proportion who started in the fall of 2009, but still short of the proportion who started in 2008, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center , which tracks this. About 40 percent of Americans today have postsecondary degrees and credentials.

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Can You Say Unicorn? Duolingo Raises $30 Million at $1.5 Billion Valuation

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billion by 2025. He turned that research into a company which was acquired by Google in 2009. Language learning has long been a popular business, and the adoption of mobile devices has been accompanied by a proliferation of competing upstarts, including Babbel, Busuu and Memrise, along with more established players like Rosetta Stone.

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Implementing Innovation Strategies to Make School Districts More Equitable

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Ray is a past president of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) and author of It’s Not Us Against Them: Creating the Schools We Need , published in 2009 by the International Center. An educator since 1973, Ray has been a teacher, vice principal, principal, and superintendent.

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Minnesota has a persistent higher-ed gap: Are new efforts making a difference?

The Hechinger Report

Recognizing these trends, state policymakers set a goal almost four years ago of increasing the proportion of 25- to 44-year-olds, of all races, with at least a postsecondary certificate to 70 percent by 2025. Related: College students predicted to fall by more than 15 percent after the year 2025 .

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Colleges face a new reality, as the number of high schools graduates will decline

The Hechinger Report

According to one respected tally , just under 55 percent of students who entered college in 2010 had earned degrees after six years – an increase of two percentage points since 2009. According to the report: The number of Latinos graduating from high school is projected to reach 920,000 students by 2025 – an increase by 50 percent since 2014.

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