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Home visiting in high school: Trying an intervention for toddlers on teenagers

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West Virginia unveiled a campaign this year for 60 percent of adults ages 25 to 64 to have earned a degree or certificate by 2030. Home visits for high schoolers are a “very rare occurrence” said Steven Sheldon, an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Education who studies them.

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British universities reach out to the new minority: poor white males

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And a new study warns that, in America, all boys at the bottom of the income ladder are losing hope of ever climbing up it, in what the authors call “economic despair.”. Francesca Ashton at the University of Liverpool, where she studies dentistry, a subject in which women now far outnumber men. In the U.S., In the U.K.,

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How higher education lost its shine

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They stick to a policy of advertising prices few consumers pay but that discourage many from applying. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Instead, statewide, the numbers have declined. Credit: Austin Anthony for The Hechinger Report. The countries ahead of the U.S.

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In one country, women now outnumber men in college by two to one

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Katrín Ólafsdóttir, an economist at the University of Reykjavik who studies gender inequality. So they went to university,” said Katrín Ólafsdóttir, an economist at the University of Reykjavik who studies gender inequality. It’s not fair,” said another, Sandra Björg Ernudóttir, who’s studying ethnology. It’s tricky,” she said.

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Is California saving higher education?

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Jaelyn Deas at her work-study job at San Jose State University. Jaelyn Deas and her four best friends shared everything, including late-night study sessions in the library at San Jose State University and a never-ending preoccupation with how they’d pay for their tuition there. It took a burden off my shoulders,” Deas says.