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This New Census Tool Can Recruit Students into the Liberal Arts

Edsurge

Census Bureau’s new Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) initiative. For example, social science graduates at the Indiana college depicted in the following graph enter the “finance and insurance” industry more frequently than any other industry. percent between 2020 to 2030. percent from 2020 to 2030.

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COLUMN: The world is waking up to education’s essential role in climate solutions

The Hechinger Report

While 95 percent of 58,000 primary and secondary teachers in 2021 felt that teaching climate change is important, just 32 percent felt they can explain climate change in their local context. Furthermore, at COP 27, UNESCO, the U.N.’s s educational, scientific and cultural arm, is unveiling something called the Greening Education Partnership.

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

The Hechinger Report

By the time they’re 11, researchers observe, these boys feel little motivation to work hard in school, with few examples in their lives of men who went to college, and little hope they can afford what seem to them to be unaffordable fees. In the U.S., When I was in school, girls were at the top of the class.”.

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Lesson from Hawaii: How CTE can develop a talented workforce to meet future economic priorities

ExcelinEd

When it comes to CTE, this structure has been both a blessing and a curse: a blessing in that funding and directives can seamlessly flow down to all secondary schools, but a curse in that innovation and meaningful readiness have often been stymied by an overly prescriptive approach to CTE. Adopting a New K-12 Framework to Align CTE.

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

The Hechinger Report

The many causes of this begin in primary and secondary grades, where research shows that girls are earlier to apply themselves, while boys are more likely to drop out, impatient to begin earning money and unwilling to spend further years in school.

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10 years later, goal of getting more Americans through college is way behind schedule

The Hechinger Report

Tennessee, for example, which famously made its community colleges free, is on target to have 55 percent of its residents possess certificates or degrees two years ahead of the 2025 deadline, outgoing Gov. Progress toward these objectives varies by region. Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report.

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