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After the Pandemic, Higher Education Can’t Afford to Go Back to ‘Normal’

Edsurge

To further complicate matters, statisticians have long warned of the pending “ 2025 cliff ,” which represents the abrupt reduction of potential first-time, full-time freshmen projected to arrive in 2025 to 2026 due to the drop in birth rates between the years 2008 and 2011. million persons under the age of 18.

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GED and other high school equivalency degrees drop by more than 40% nationwide since 2012

The Hechinger Report

Related: College students predicted to fall by more than 15% after the year 2025. Hilliard spotted a 7 percent increase in GED testing after the 2008 recession, but it had already receded by 2012, the year Hilliard used as his base year for comparison. which administers the TASC, are for-profit companies.

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More colleges are opening branch campuses in high-demand markets

The Hechinger Report

There are hula-dancing and lei-making lessons and outposts of Hawaii’s iconic Honolulu Cookie Company and ABC convenience stores. Las Vegas, by comparison, “is for all practical purposes an education desert. Enrollment in the fall was 719 toward a goal of about 1,000 by 2025, a university spokesman said.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

The very next day, Apple shares hit $97.80, an all-time high for the company. By 2012 – yes, thanks to its hardware business – Apple’s stock had risen to the point that the company was worth a record-breaking $624 billion. The markets, according to the press releases, are always growing. .”

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Racial gaps in college degrees are widening, just when states need them to narrow

The Hechinger Report

You don’t have the companies if you don’t have the workers. So they’re like, ‘I can’t really do this.’ ” By comparison, Torres said, in the diverse middle school she attended in her gentrifying neighborhood, “I went to classes with more white students, and it just seemed like they had it set.”. That’s how it works. It’s that simple.”.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Edsurge profiles the latest from Degreed : “This Company Wants to Help You Hire for Skills, Not Credentials.” ” ( No disclosure that Edsurge shares investors with the company.). And there’s more on how schools and companies violate athletes’ privacy in the data and privacy section below.