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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. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. When things start getting complicated, they’re done.”.

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In one country, women now outnumber men in college by two to one

The Hechinger Report

To eliminate what the government calls “extreme gender imbalance,” universities in Scotland are working toward a 2030 target to make sure that no discipline has more than three-quarters of its students of one gender. Incentives to get more men into college continue to be discussed in Iceland, but only informally, said Gestsdóttir.

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Is California saving higher education?

The Hechinger Report

Fewer than 20 percent of her classmates who entered San Jose State in 2014 finished in four years — less than half the national average. It was they who were defying the odds. That didn’t make Deas feel any better. She considered quitting, or transferring to a community college.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Meanwhile, the state has given initial approval for ECOT to become a “dropout school.” ” Getting Smart’s Tom Vander Ark on a new report from Pearson : “ The Future of Skills : Employment in 2030.” ” Via Ars Technica : “Proposed New Mexico science standards edit out basic facts.”