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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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OPINION: What if corporate America did more to raise the high school graduation rate?

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Some school districts with high rates of poverty — including Tacoma, Washington, Fresno, California, and Cleveland, Ohio — had very high percentages of dropouts more than a decade ago. But when nine out of 10 schools nationwide use credit recovery, there are examples of ushering kids through a system without a rigorous education.

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

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Education is an example of what’s called “recovery capital,” something earned that makes long-term recovery more likely. She’s thriving in her classes and expects to graduate in 2025. Unlike treatment, a necessary but often short-term process, recovery is the long-term work of rebuilding a healthier and typically sober life.

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Minnesota has a persistent higher-ed gap: Are new efforts making a difference?

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Recognizing these trends, state policymakers set a goal almost four years ago of increasing the proportion of 25- to 44-year-olds, of all races, with at least a postsecondary certificate to 70 percent by 2025. Related: College students predicted to fall by more than 15 percent after the year 2025 . High cost of dropping out.

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OPINION: Higher Education needs to get comfortable with trial and error

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Additionally, our members are on track to double their founding goal and graduate 136,000 additional graduates by 2025. With the UIA’s work, for example, we now understand what an idea looks like when applied in 11 different cultures, with 11 different student populations. Along the way, we’ve learned some hard-earned lessons.

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As enrollment falls and colleges close, a surprising number of new ones are opening

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The number of workers needed in the offshore wind energy industry will also nearly double, by 2025 , to 589,000, and increase to 868,000 by 2030, the consulting firm Rystad Energy estimates. Bristol Community College in Massachusetts is converting a former seafood packaging plant into an offshore wind institute scheduled to open next spring.

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Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost

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For an absurd example, if dropouts tended to take classes on Thursdays in their first semester at college, but students who completed their degrees didn’t, then you might worry about current students who are currently taking classes on Thursdays. He could have been another dropout casualty. It wasn’t always this way.

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