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PROOF POINTS: Plenty of Black college students want to be teachers, but something keeps derailing them late in the process

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The small slice of Black teachers has actually shrunk slightly over the past decade from 7 percent in 2011–12 to 6 percent in 2020–21, while Black students make up a much larger 15 percent share of the public school student population. Teacher diversity statistics in 2020-21. Eighty percent of the nation’s 3.8

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PROOF POINTS: Lessons from college dropouts who came back

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In 2020, there were 39 million or one out of every five American adults under 65 who had dropped out of college and never finished their degrees, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Like many dropouts, Floyd always intended to finish his college education. Credit: NICOLAS TUCAT/AFP via Getty Images.

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Alabama community college overhaul improves the odds for unprepared students

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percent in 2019-2020 according to ACCS data. percent in 2019-2020, according to ACCS data. Karolewics cites the contrast between the sections offered in 2010 at Wallace State and last fall to illustrate the impact of the change. In 2010, there were 17 sections of developmental English courses. percent in 2017-2018 to 73.66

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A regional public university’s identity crisis

The Hechinger Report

That is $3,792 in 2020 dollars. A June 2020 study by the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program shows enrollments at regional public universities across six states — Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin — have fallen by over 10 percent since 2011. From 2005 to 2020, Vedder said, O.U.

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How success coaches anticipate and tackle college students’ challenges

The Hechinger Report

In 2020, as COVID-19 spread across the country, the number of students at Texas community colleges fell by 5.7 Nationally, the number has dropped by 37 percent since 2010 — nearly 2.6 Overall, enrollment in community colleges has plummeted in recent years. percent, or by more than 1.5 million students.

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What happened when a South Carolina city embraced career education for all its students

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Whittenberg has been around since 2010, when Greenville County Schools opened it as a magnet school in an area that is historically low-income and majority Black. But you want them to have a kind of better, more full understanding of careers.”.

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How higher education lost its shine

The Hechinger Report

There has been a significant and steady drop nationwide in the proportion of high school graduates enrolling in college in the fall after they finish high school — from a high of 70 percent in 2016 to 63 percent in 2020, the most recent year for which the figure is available, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

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