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This New Census Tool Can Recruit Students into the Liberal Arts

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Campus alumni surveys gathered a sample of employment outcomes rather than all graduates’ outcomes. Census Bureau’s new Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) initiative. Beyond showing reasonable salary outcomes, industry placement can be used to recruit students into liberal arts majors. percent between 2020 to 2030.

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How Role Models May Inspire Exploration of Computer Science Pathways

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The Bureau of Labor and Statistics projects that the market for computer science occupations will grow 13 percent between 2020 and 2030. If we want more equitable outcomes for our students and their families, we must prioritize providing the computer science literacy skills that jobs with high earning potential demand.

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To Improve Education, We Need to Look at the Last 50 Years, Not Just the Last 18 Months

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To evolve our education system and improve student outcomes for good, we need to reevaluate our policy-making decisions from the last 50-plus years—not just the last 18 months—while also looking forward to what students need to learn to be successful in the future. Students entering kindergarten today will graduate high school in 2034.

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The Winners and Filmstrips of An (Almost) Decade in Education Technology

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Regarding learning analytics, like the use of data in baseball , the use of data to predict student success outcomes with greater accuracy has been a “game changer” (excuse the pun). This quiet revolution, made possible by the power of digital technology, is continuing to grow and will soon be standard practice.

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Education can be the great equalizer, but it isn’t yet

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In a noble attempt to level the education playing field, in October a Maryland state panel, known as the Kirwan Commission, voted to recommend a new funding formula that calls for spending to increase by $4 billion per year by 2030. Related: Here’s the information you need to help you make the better choice in 2020.

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Educational Leadership for Social Good

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She has aligned her recent work with the Sustainable Development Goals produced by the United Nations in 2015 (as an agenda for moving forward to 2030). Innovation Lab Schools : Learn more about yearlong connections with school programs and refugee camps in Africa and South America (coming in 2020) with Jane Goodall.

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

The Hechinger Report

If boys go to college less often than they otherwise would, you’re lowering not only their economic outcomes but economic outcomes for future generations.”. Even with the lopsided majority of women dental students, it will take until 2020 for the genders in the profession to be even, according to the National Health Service.