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The Pandemic Will Leave More Students Unprepared For College. Developmental Education Must Help.

Edsurge

billion dollars out-of-pocket nationally and $920 million at two-year colleges during the 2013 to 2014 school year to take developmental courses—courses in which just more than one-in-four students prove to be successful. This, understandably, presented a grave concern for business and industry, legislators, educators and ultimately students.

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The Past Decade Forecasts a New Wave of Economic Opportunity in Education

Edsurge

This information abundance amplifies shortfalls in the current system, including limited access to high-quality learning experiences from early childhood to adult learning, the increased need to reskill workers throughout a lifetime and broken models of education that do not deliver equal access to underserved populations.

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Michelle Weise: ‘We Need to Design the Learning Ecosystem of the Future’

Edsurge

As an example, in 2014, LinkedIn’s top ten jobs were jobs that hadn’t existed five years prior: social media intern, iOS/Android developer, cloud manager, big data architect, or UI/UX designer as examples. We can’t extrapolate from where we are today to meet the challenges of the workforce of 2030 or 2040.

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Colleges face a new reality, as the number of high schools graduates will decline

The Hechinger Report

According to the report: The number of Latinos graduating from high school is projected to reach 920,000 students by 2025 – an increase by 50 percent since 2014. The Asian-American and Pacific Islander student body is set to increase by 30 percent from 2013 to the early 2030s, reaching nearly 60,000 graduates.

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How higher education lost its shine

The Hechinger Report

In Alabama, recent high school graduates’ college-going in 2020 fell to 54 percent, down 11 percentage points since 2014; and in Idaho, to 39 percent, down 11 percentage points since 2017. In Arizona, 46 percent of high school graduates in 2020 went to college the following fall, a drop from more than 55 percent in 2017.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

The Internet did become more privatized, more commercialized around that date – 1991 – and thanks to companies like AOL, a version of it became more accessible to more people. In 2014, The Economist asserted that “nearly half of American jobs could be automated in a decade or two.”“Before

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NetSupport’s keyword monitoring now supports multiple languages

eSchool News

In 2014, a record of 63.5 residents (22 percent of which aged between 5-17 years old) spoke a language other than English at home — doubling from 1990, and expected to increase to 40 percent by 2030, according to the Center for Immigration Studies. million U.S.