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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

Putting a finer point on the problem is Nathan Harden , American education commentator, who in 2012 claimed, “In fifty years, if not much sooner, half of the roughly 4,500 colleges and universities now operating in the United States will have ceased to exist. The technology driving this change is already at work, and nothing can stop it. .”

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

The Hechinger Report

With people of color expected to make up a quarter of the state’s population by 2035, these gaps represent an economic threat to Minnesota; unless more residents get to and through college, there won’t be enough qualified workers to fill the jobs that require a post-secondary degree or certificate. “[O]ur They are still behind .

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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. Students who withdraw are also much more likely to default on their loans; dropouts make up two-thirds of defaults nationwide.

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British universities reach out to the new minority: poor white males

The Hechinger Report

LONDON — Taking shelter from the cold and chilly night inside a cavernous gym in a community center in the East London borough of Newham, two dozen teenagers gossip, stretch, and set up hurdles for a track-and-field training session. The idea is to have men in college serve as coaches for these boys, and then as role models and mentors.

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Who will Teach the Children?

EdNews Daily

What can be done to stop the hemorrhaging of these trained and certified educators? Many of those trained to become teachers never enter the classroom. Teachers today are inadequately trained or prepared for the students, parents, and conditions they face. The overriding question is, who will teach the children?

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