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In addition, the troubling nationwide high school dropout rate persists, and college enrollment and retention rates are declining for our most vulnerable populations, further highlighting student disengagement. million by 2030.

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

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Demand for workers in solar is expected to nearly double by 2030, according to an industry census. 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.

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Progress in getting underrepresented people into college and skilled jobs may be stalling because of the pandemic

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Experts say that this means dropout rates, which had been declining for more than a decade, will likely start to rise again. Absenteeism in the spring and fall has been similarly high in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dayton, Hartford, Los Angeles and other cities, according to data compiled by the Brookings Institution. Gregory VanDyke Jr.,

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

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The Asian-American and Pacific Islander student body is set to increase by 30 percent from 2013 to the early 2030s, reaching nearly 60,000 graduates. The number of whites is slated to decline by 14 percent between 2013 and 2030. ” Joe Garcia, president of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education.

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How higher education lost its shine

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Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. People aren’t entirely imagining that college costs are up, of course. So some of them are, ‘I don’t know if I can get in,’ or, ‘It will be too hard.’ ” Cook is more blunt: “My kids have a shorter fuse.

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Is California saving higher education?

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ver the course of a century, California built the country’s top-ranked public research university and its largest and most affordable community college system. The university system has gotten an infusion of money to add more courses and advisors and reduce bottlenecks. I definitely want to be out of here in four years,” Soberano said.

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” Trump has, of course, proposed some $9 billion in funding cuts to the Department of Education, so this is hardly “new money.” Meanwhile, the state has given initial approval for ECOT to become a “dropout school.” Via Open Culture : “ Martin Scorsese to Teach His First Online Course on Filmmaking.”