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Home visiting in high school: Trying an intervention for toddlers on teenagers

The Hechinger Report

West Virginia unveiled a campaign this year for 60 percent of adults ages 25 to 64 to have earned a degree or certificate by 2030. And in 2016 just 8 percent of McDowell County residents of working age held an associate degree or higher, compared to 31 percent statewide. That’s well below the statewide rate of 55 percent.

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How higher education lost its shine

The Hechinger Report

Part of a cadre of advisers deployed by the state to prod more Tennessee high school graduates into college, the women in this conference room have suddenly found their jobs to be much harder. Fifty-four percent of 2021 high school grads in Michigan went straight to college, down 11 percentage points from 2016.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The New Republic : “Betsy DeVos is headlining Harvard’s Koch-backed conference on school choice – with no critics of school choice.” Meanwhile, the state has given initial approval for ECOT to become a “dropout school.” ” Immigration and Education. .”