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

The Hechinger Report

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. The overall acceptance rate for the class of 2027 was 4.35 percent , the lowest in recent history. Yale had 602 Black undergraduates on campus last fall, making up 8.8

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

The Hechinger Report

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. In California, Illinois, Michigan and New Jersey, governors put forward the new initiatives.

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Chinese New Year- What Animal Am I?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013, 2025), you are likely to have these traits: thoughtfulness and a profound sense of decision making, you mean what you say, a smart communicator, "you always have the facts to defend your what you think—and rarely back down." If you were born in the Dragon year (e.g.,1928,

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The number of public school students could fall by more than 8% in a decade

The Hechinger Report

Related: College students predicted to fall by more than 15% after the year 2025. Its most recent projections, released May 2018 , show that student enrollment should increase 3 percent between 2015 and 2027. It’s important to point out that the National Center for Education Statistics, the statistics arm of the U.S.

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

The Hechinger Report

After a few years of some growth, the report projects that from 2027 to 2032 the annual graduation totals will each be smaller by 150,000 to 220,000 people than the ones the nation had in 2013. Though the country’s number of high school graduates grew by 30 percent between 1995 and 2013, to 3.47

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Like it or not, Trump is the next president — Now, here’s how he can improve higher ed

The Hechinger Report

This means that kindergartners in Colorado will have no affordable public college or university options as early as 2025. States that will soon follow in abandoning all their public higher education funding include my own state of Louisiana in 2027, Massachusetts and Rhode Island in 2029, Arizona in 2030, and the list goes on.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

Hack Education

Assuming Pew’s trends continue at the current rate, by the year 2027, nearly 1 in 3 American adults will transition to online platforms to support themselves with on-demand gig work. This is only bad news if we do nothing to change the outdated laws and structures in place to support working people.