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College students predicted to fall by more than 15% after the year 2025

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Nathan Grawe, an economist at Carleton College in Minnesota, predicts that the college-going population will drop by 15 percent between 2025 and 2029 and continue to decline by another percentage point or two thereafter. The post College students predicted to fall by more than 15% after the year 2025 appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Universal prekindergarten is coming to California — bumpy rollout and all

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billion program will be fully implemented by the 2025-26 school year across the nearly 900 districts in the state that include elementary grades. Related: Alabama aims for huge pre-K enrollment boost by 2025, despite pandemic setbacks Some, but not all, of these kinks might be worked out by the time the program is fully implemented in 2025.

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CSU and California Community Colleges Partner on a Tool To Find Transferable Online Courses

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According to a press announcement, more than 118,000 of the CSU system’s 484,000 students took an online course in the fall of 2017. In March, Quottly won the SXSWedu startup Launch competition and in 2017 the company raised $100,000 in seed funding from the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator in New York City. Finish Faster!

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OPINION: The pandemic wiped out decades of progress for preschoolers. It’s time to get them back on track

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Timelines range from California’s ambitious pledge to fully offer universal preschool by 2025 and Michigan’s goal of 2027 to states with indefinite schedules to reach all children. The first state to enact “universal” pre-K was Georgia, where enrollment peaked in 2017-18 at 61 percent and has since declined.

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OPINION: Banning legacy admissions will deliver another blow to the children of Black alumni

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Credit: Image provided by Nick Chiles Vivid memories of that day came flooding back to me in the fall of 2017, when we dropped Mari off for her freshman year at Yale — 11 years after her first encounter. Eleven percent of the class of 2027 are legacies; the numbers were 12 percent for the class of 2026 and 14 percent for the class of 2025.

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Community colleges tackle another challenge: Students recovering from past substance use

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But it’s only in the last dozen or so years that programs began popping up at community colleges; Minneapolis College’s program, opened in 2017, was the first in Minnesota and the fifth in the nation. She’s thriving in her classes and expects to graduate in 2025. Today, more than 170 programs exist across the U.S. and Canada.

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As States Make It Easier to Become a Teacher, Are They Reducing Barriers or Lowering the Bar?

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That was in 2017. “It Illinois eliminated its basic skills test requirement in 2019 and has suspended its performance assessment of teachers, the edTPA, through August 2025 while a newly established task force evaluates the assessment system.) It began to become emotionally draining. I decided I couldn’t keep doing that to myself.”