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

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Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report. It reports enrolling 313 students this semester. Demand for workers in solar is expected to nearly double by 2030, according to an industry census. Department of Education reports.

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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. Related: Report finds a drop in Black enrollment at most top public colleges and universities. Then Covid hit and everyone went into disaster mode. We’re just triaging. That will be much harder now.

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

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Peggy Barmore for The Hechinger Report. 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. Peggy Barmore for The Hechinger Report. We’re not coming to judge you, not coming to address a problem that you’re having, not coming to report you.

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

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The nation’s colleges and universities will soon face a demographic reckoning: A new report projects that the total number of high school graduates will decline in the next two decades, while the percentage of lower-income and nonwhite students will increase. The number of whites is slated to decline by 14 percent between 2013 and 2030.

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

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Girls score 16 percent better than boys in A-Levels, the standardized exams generally required to get into British universities, the British Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission reports. Only about one in 10 senior executives at major British corporations are women, an executive search form here reported.

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How higher education lost its shine

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Credit: Austin Anthony for The Hechinger Report. And statistics belie the claim that recent high school graduates are getting jobs instead of going to college; workforce participation for 16- to 24-year-olds is actually lower than it was before Covid hit , the Bureau of Labor Statistics, or BLS, reports.

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

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Photo: Heiða Helgadóttir for The Hechinger Report. While still under a very low 3 percent, unemployment for men in Iceland is slightly higher than it is for women , the government agency Statistics Iceland reports. Photo: Heiða Helgadóttir for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Heiða Helgadóttir for The Hechinger Report.

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