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After the Pandemic, Higher Education Can’t Afford to Go Back to ‘Normal’

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To further complicate matters, statisticians have long warned of the pending “ 2025 cliff ,” which represents the abrupt reduction of potential first-time, full-time freshmen projected to arrive in 2025 to 2026 due to the drop in birth rates between the years 2008 and 2011.

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As enrollment falls and colleges close, a surprising number of new ones are opening

The Hechinger Report

The Roux Institute opened last year in borrowed space in this tech company building on the Portland, Maine, waterfront to teach computer science and other subjects. Postsecondary enrollment has been falling since 2011 , with particularly big dips last year and this , according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

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DEBT WITHOUT DEGREE: The human cost of college debt that becomes “purgatory”

The Hechinger Report

By 2025, more than 60 percent of Georgia jobs will require some kind of post-secondary education, and now only 45 percent of the state’s young adults meet that criterion. In 2011, Georgia launched an effort to tackle this issue called Complete College Georgia. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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Where education systems stumble, grassroots groups step in to raise success rates

The Hechinger Report

Among other things, the boosters who pitched international companies to come and do business in this port city promised that its high quality of education would guarantee a steady supply of skilled employees. High school graduation rates in Mobile are way up, from 55 percent before 2011 to 86 percent in 2018. MOBILE, Ala.

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Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost

The Hechinger Report

In meetings with his academic adviser during the second semester of his freshman year, Robinson said he learned that though his GPA was solid, the school’s computer algorithm saw trouble. Companies like Amazon and Netflix have been using data tools like these for years to track our clicks and steer us to buy or watch more of their products.

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Is the hardest job in education convincing parents to send their kids to a San Francisco public school?

The Hechinger Report

Since 2011, families have been able to apply to any of the city’s 72 public elementary schools, submitting a ranked list of choices. The first family told her they live in Mission Bay, a rapidly redeveloping area where a new elementary school isn’t scheduled to open until 2025. The same goes for middle and high school options.

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Meet The Gates Foundation’s New Deputy Director in Higher Education

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She began a long career in education, which included cofounding two social enterprise organizations (one of which helped get 4,000 women off welfare), serving as a Commissioner of San Francisco Unified School District’s Board of Education and starting two edtech companies.

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