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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. Chart from the website of the National Center for Education Statistics. Condition of Education.

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

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You’re in purgatory,” said Nicole Smith, vice president of Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce. 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.

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One state offers lessons in how to cope with the college enrollment crisis

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The university has done this by luring out-of-staters with in-state tuition prices and by breaking with long-standing attitudes through which higher education sometimes alienates rather than embraces prospective applicants. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Department of Education.

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Some kids have returned to in-person learning only to be kicked right back out

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Miriam Rollin, director of the Education Civil Rights Alliance, a collaborative convened by the National Center for Youth Law, saw the influx in federal dollars for Covid relief as an opportunity to make schools more supportive for students. Before the pandemic, she trained educators working with children who live in violent communities.

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At a growing number of colleges, faculty get a new role: spotting troubled students

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New faculty at Dickinson College attend a training session about how to help students who might be foundering. Riccio fell back on training Dickinson gives faculty, who are expected to contact the college’s “early-alert” team of advisors when they spot a student who appears to be struggling. CARLISLE, Penn. Like a lightning bolt.”.

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Some colleges seek radical solutions to survive

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Photo: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. Thorsett is the president of Willamette University at a time the higher education sector is grappling with a historic enrollment decline and financial challenges that cry out not for incremental change, but for radical solutions. Business was flagging. Middle-class ones.

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

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The institute, which opened last year in borrowed space with sweeping views of Casco Bay in Portland’s fast-developing East End, is offering master’s degrees , certificates and professional training in computer science, data analytics, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, cybersecurity and other subjects. Department of Education reports.

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