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Universities and colleges that need to fill seats start offering a helping hand to student-parents

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report Parents with children comprise a huge potential market for colleges and universities looking for ways to make up for the plummeting number of 18- to 24-year-olds and states’ growing need for workers to fill jobs requiring a college education. I just want them to have a better life,” she says.

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College Uncovered, Season 2, Episode 4

The Hechinger Report

I’m Jon Marcus with The Hechinger Report … Kirk: And I’m Kirk Carapezza with GBH. That’s according to an analysis by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, which tracks these things. Kirk: This is College Uncovered from GBH and The Hechinger Report. Jon: This is College Uncovered.

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In an era of inequity, more and more college financial aid is going to the rich

The Hechinger Report

Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Nationally, 33 percent of all students are low-income by this measure, the College Board reports. People who set up college-savings accounts, called 529 plans, get $2 billion a year worth of federal tax deductions — projected by the Treasury Department to double by 2026 to $4 billion a year.

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EDUCAUSE 2015: my sessions and some observations

Bryan Alexander

8:30 – 9:00 The Delphi process (example: the Horizon Report ). 9:30 – 10:15 Trend analysis (example: FTTE ). “ Looking Ahead to 2026: Trends in Technology and Education ” ( slides ) focused on trends other than technology, since the conference covered tech so extensively. 9:00 – 9:30 Environmental scanning.

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

Hack Education

.” For me, still framing my work that way – “top trends” – is a purposeful rhetorical move to shed light, to subvert, to offer a sly commentary of sorts on the shallowness of what passes as journalism, criticism, analysis. I’m not interested in making quickly thrown-together lists and bullet points.

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