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NASA’s latest mission can fuel STEM engagement

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by 2025 –incredible news if not for the fact experts believe at least 2 million of those jobs will go unfilled. The goal is to ultimately return humans to the Moon, including the first woman and the first person of color, by 2025. STEM education is in crisis in the United States. It’s predicted there will be 3.5

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ACT Says Grade Inflation Is a Serious Problem. It’s Probably Not.

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in 2010 to 3.36 The report examined data from more than 4 million high school students from 2010 to 2021 who took the ACT. Pitzer’s pilot is slated to run until about 2025, when it will review its test-free policy. grade points, from 3.17 It’s hard to imagine what research ACT will be presenting by then.

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Beyond 12 Pairs Mentors With Tech ‘Nudges’ to Help Students Succeed

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In 2018, Bernadotte said that Beyond 12 aimed to serve 1 million students annually by 2025. Since Bernadotte started Beyond 12 in 2010, she has been “married to the problem” of how to help students from low-income or disadvantaged backgrounds succeed in college. Adding the GradGuru platform will accelerate those plans, she asserts.

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OPINION: With college enrollment tumbling, new strategies are urgently needed

The Hechinger Report

Demographers predict an “enrollment cliff” beginning in 2025, when the traditional college-age population will start shrinking for the foreseeable future. college enrollments have declined by 3 million students over the past decade. Unless they bring in more students, colleges will struggle financially, and some could shut their doors.

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Chinese New Year- What Animal Am I?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

1926, 1938, 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010, 2022) are associated with these attributes: courage, ambition, enthusiasm, generosity, self-confidence, commitment to help others, altruism, sociability, and audacity. The Ox years are: 1925, 1937, 1949, 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, 2009, 2021 3. If you were born in the Dragon year (e.g.,1928,

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Community colleges tackle another challenge: Students recovering from past substance use

The Hechinger Report

Since 2010, enrollment at two-year institutions has declined by nearly 40 percent, as more people have opted to remain in the workforce or head directly to four-year colleges, among other factors. She’s thriving in her classes and expects to graduate in 2025. The balancing act of family, school and recovery, for now, is stable.

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After a falling, college graduation rates begin to rebound

The Hechinger Report

The proportion of students who started college in the fall of 2010 and graduated within six years rose to 54.8 That means 55,000 more students who began in 2010 have finished than who began in 2009, the center reported—but also that more than 1.3 About 40 percent of Americans today have postsecondary degrees and credentials.

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