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PROOF POINTS: Lessons from college dropouts who came back

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Like many dropouts, Floyd always intended to finish his college education. His father was a college-educated aerospace engineer. Instead, the research firm introduced me to Floyd, who was not part of the survey study, but whose story echoes that of many survey respondents.

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Fewer teenage mothers, but they still present a dropout puzzle

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What happens to the education of these young women? “We should maintain a focus on preventing teen births, but we also need to help improve the educational attainment of women once they become teen parents,” said Jennifer Manlove, a sociologist at Child Trends who co-authored the report. Manlove and her co-author Hannah Lantos arrived at these graduation figures by analyzing a survey conducted by the U.S.

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How higher education lost its shine

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He starts telling me, ‘I don’t want to do this,’ ” one adviser, Portia Cook, was recounting to her colleagues from the state program, called Advise TN, about a student at the top of his class who had changed his mind about continuing his education. “ ‘You’re talking about four more years of school?

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OPINION: Now is not the time to put college plans on hold

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Students from families with incomes below $75,000 are about three times as likely to have canceled all educational plans this fall as students from families with incomes above $100,000. More than half have begun saving for their children’s college education.

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Long before coronavirus, student parents struggled with hunger, homelessness

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students who are also parents and who are now navigating education in the coronavirus era. If our survey was taken now, the results would likely be 100 times worse. But she knows that many student parents are overwhelmed and may decide to put off their educations.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

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We have this huge digital divide that’s making it hard for [students] to get their education,” she said. David Silver, the director of education for the mayor’s office, said people talked about the digital divide, but there had never been enough energy to tackle it. OAKLAND, Calif.

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OPINION: Why Black student parents are at the epicenter of the student debt crisis — and what we can do about it

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As the country undergoes a period of historic racial reckoning, with nearly every sector of society examining its role in racial injustice, higher education needs to do the same. Department of Education’s Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) program.

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Will the students who didn’t show up for online class this spring go missing forever?

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And they endeavored to better define how to take attendance and what it means to be absent or present in virtual education. He and other educators worry also about the perception among some families that when school buildings are closed, school is also closed.

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Can peer counseling programs bridge access gaps for youth? Experts say it’s complicated

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There’s no shortage of peer support programs to evaluate, and tools used to deploy them are evolving to become more professional and accessible in an increasingly digital world. The post Can peer counseling programs bridge access gaps for youth?

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Federal relief money boosted community colleges, but now it’s going away

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The pandemic made it harder for them to stay in school; enrollment at community colleges has fallen almost 15 percent since fall 2019, the biggest decline anywhere in higher education. Related: Column – Higher education is the key to the new infrastructure system we need.

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A battle at one university is a case study in why higher education is so slow to change

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Department of Education. It’s a revealing example of how people inside higher education often bristle at adopting strategies from the private sector, and why colleges and universities continue to be slow to change. “I’ve Related: How higher education lost its shine. “It’s

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OPINION: The pandemic exposes just how much support college students need

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The pandemic has clearly upended the college experience for a generation of students and higher education professionals. A 2019 American Council on Education survey found that student mental health had become a higher priority over the previous three years for 80 percent of college presidents.

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What researchers learned about online higher education during the pandemic

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As an assistant professor of economics at City College in New York, Shankar knew that one of the most important requirements of scientific research was often missing from studies of the effectiveness of online higher education: a control group. Related: How higher education lost its shine.

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OPINION: Four ways to support refugee students during the pandemic

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Though many educators don’t distinguish between immigrants and refugees, the International Rescue Committee defines a refugee as someone “who has been forced to flee his or her home because of war, violence or persecution, often without warning.”.

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The ‘forgotten’ part of special education that could lead to better outcomes for students

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This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. Schools are legally obligated to create meaningful post-schooling plans for students with disabilities as part of their Individualized Education Programs, or IEPs. Former special education students on average earn $9.40 for former general education students. Higher Education.

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How the coronavirus has upended college admissions

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Students planning to enroll at community colleges are in many cases just starting their applications, sometimes without access to the internet at home. Goulart’s district is providing Chromebooks to all students and wifi hotspots to those who don’t have access to the internet at home. She relies on the internet at school to stay on top of her academics and her college application process but, she said, “I don’t have good internet access here at home.”

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What if we hired for skills, not degrees?

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This story is a part of our Map to the Middle Class project, in which readers ask questions about educational pathways to financial stability and then we investigate. In surveying broader groups of occupations, Burning Glass found a credentials gap of 26 percent for management jobs, 21 percent for computer and math jobs and 13 percent for sales jobs. 63 percent — Percent of business and HR leaders in a recent survey who had trouble filling middle-skills jobs.

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How do you manage college online — quarantined with eight people?

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Some students don’t have internet access or the computers they now need to do their coursework. Related: Online higher education isn’t winning over students forced off campus by the coronavirus.

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More high school grads than ever are going to college, but 1 in 5 will quit

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Texas A&M University at Texarkana has one of the lowest retention rates of public higher-education institutions; 55 percent who started in 2012 were gone by 2016. Department of Education data analyzed by The Hechinger Report. Three years after enrolling, one-third had quit, compared to about a quarter of students whose parents have a university degree, the Education Department reports. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education.

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College students to administrators: Let’s talk about mental health

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A wrestler and physical education major, he suffered a concussion and a sprained ACL. More broadly, nearly 73 percent in the Fall 2021 American College Health Association National College Health Assessment survey reported moderate or serious psychological distress. MEQUON, Wis.

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Students have their own demands for school reopening

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Those efforts are driven not only by individual students but also by a movement of youth-led organizations advocating for a greater student voice in educational decision-making. Other student groups have also conducted surveys to capture students’ experiences.

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Rankings exodus raises the question: How should consumers pick a college?

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This story also appeared in USA Today “Rankings cannot meaningfully reflect the high aspirations for educational excellence, graduate preparedness, and compassionate and equitable patient care that we strive to foster,” Dean George Daley wrote. Undergraduate education: The U.S.

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Some colleges seek radical solutions to survive

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Photo: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. Thorsett is the president of Willamette University at a time the higher education sector is grappling with a historic enrollment decline and financial challenges that cry out not for incremental change, but for radical solutions. He and others in higher education have been actively searching for concrete ways to rebuild enrollment and produce much-needed revenue. Sign up for our higher education newsletter.

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Homework in a McDonald’s parking lot: Inside one mother’s fight to help her kids get an education during coronavirus

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Her cellphone’s data plan — the only way she could access the internet at home — wasn’t up to the task. Widespread lack of broadband access complicates learning. Meanwhile, education is just one role schools fill. Terri Johnson willed her body not to show signs of impatience.

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Colleges face reckoning as plummeting birthrate worsens enrollment declines

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Credit: Jumping Rocks/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. Universities doing this say they’re “creating greater access and opportunity,” as Fairleigh Dickinson put it, or moving to “strengthen educational value,” according to Rider. WORCESTER, Mass.

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Momentum builds for helping students adapt to college by nixing freshman grades

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Called “un-grading,” the idea is meant to ease the transition to higher education — especially for freshmen who are the first in their families to go to college or who weren’t well prepared for college-level work in high school and need more time to master it. SANTA CRUZ, Calif. —

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Why placing students in difficult high school classes may increase college enrollment

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One by one, the principals looked at each student’s profile, which included the student’s answers to district-wide survey questions about what worries them about AP classes, what subjects interest them and what adults they trust in the building. Spokane’s educators have latched onto an idea that at first might seem counterintuitive: They believe they can get more students to go to college and stay there by making high school harder.

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Most college students don’t graduate in four years, so college and the government count six years as “success”

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But now, as graduation rates stagnate, the Covid-19 pandemic threatens to make them even worse and the Biden administration proposes spending $62 billion to improve completion at higher education institutions with large proportions of low-income students, it’s attracting unaccustomed scrutiny.

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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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Largely low-income, Hispanic and with parents whose own educations didn’t get past high school, the young people in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas started over the last decade doing something few of their predecessors had done: going to college. Sign up for our higher education newsletter.

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PROOF POINTS: COVID has been bad for college enrollment — but awful for community college students

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When the coronavirus hit in the spring of 2020, student surveys indicated that four-year colleges would be hit the hardest this fall, with many students turning to cheaper two-year community colleges until the pandemic ended. Those surveys didn’t get it exactly right.

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OPINION: The low-cost steps the government could take right now to ease hunger and homelessness on college campuses

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Prior to Covid-19, Temple University’s Hope Center for College, Community and Justice, surveying nearly 167,000 students at 227 institutions, found 39 percent of participants had been food insecure in the previous 30 days, and the numbers are now worse.

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Momentum builds behind a way to lower the cost of college: A degree in three years

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A rare brand-new nonprofit university, NewU has a comparatively low $16,500-a-year price that’s locked in for a student’s entire education and majors with interchangeable requirements so students don’t fall behind if they switch. My focus,” he said, “is the education.”.

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Supporting Educational Recovery with Community and Family Engagement

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During the edLeader Panel, “ Bridging Family and Community Partners to Propel Student Achievement ,” the presenters discussed ways to implement and continue improving these types of educationally supportive programs. Providing Education and Support Services.

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Will the coronavirus transform or destroy higher education as we know it?

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higher education system is fair had evaporated. Education as the great equalizer ? The Merit Myth” describes how higher education gives lip service to the promise of social mobility, while remaining ever more segregated by class and race.

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She has ‘the heart of a nurse,’ but can she overcome obstacles to her degree?

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Hernandez, a 33-year-old mother of four and high school dropout, had already overcome an array of obstacles on her nearly five-year journey. “No Yet our reporting has discovered just how difficult it is to educate and train the next generation of nurses.

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Stop condemning high schools for college graduation rates

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The higher education research group Wisconsin Hope Lab defines food insecurity as “the limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods.” According to a new study they published in March, two in three community college students they surveyed are food insecure — an increase of 50 percent from their 2015 report. Related: Isn’t desegregation a measure of educational quality? Read more about education in New Orleans.

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If more students become pregnant post-Roe, are we prepared to support them?

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Fifty years have passed since Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 went into effect. The law guarantees the right to an education for pregnant and parenting students. Partly as a result, educational outcomes for these students are bleak.

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Online learning can open doors for kids in juvenile jails

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Students have access to hundreds of courses while they are in Illinois’ juvenile justice facilities, but they tend to focus on math, language arts, social studies and science. The online coursework is designed by the education company Pearson. Students technically have access to hundreds of courses, but Jones-Redmond said the district focuses on math, language arts, social studies and science. Related: Will thousands of prison inmates lose access to college?

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Is California saving higher education?

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It’s one example of the many ways that California is taking on seemingly intractable problems that are plaguing higher education nationwide. But California, with a higher education budget for 2019-2020 of $18.5 Department of Education says.). Department of Education reports.

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When using data to predict outcomes, consider the ethical dilemmas, new report urges

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The report was released this week at SXSWedu, a national education technology conference in Austin, Texas. We should always try to balance the potential of technology with its risks,” said Manuela Ekowo, an education policy analyst at New America, who co-authored the report with Iris Palmer, a senior policy analyst. “We It is a growing trend in higher education but it’s not ubiquitous. Manuela Ekowo, education policy analyst at New America.

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OPINION: What health care can teach educators about the difference between ‘equal’ and ‘equitable’

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If we did in health care what we do in education, we’d say this to everyone who walks through the hospital door: “We prescribe the same treatment for everyone. Equal treatment will not enable us to reach the nation’s professed objective of educating all children for success. At Harvard’s Education Redesign Lab , we call such a record a “Success Plan.” He served as Secretary of Education in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 2008 to 2013. Getty Images.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. Via Education Week : “Reorganization of U.S. Lots of Republicans , Few Democrats,” says Education Week. There’s another story on DeVos and virtual schools down in the “online education” section below.

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At a growing number of colleges, faculty get a new role: spotting troubled students

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billion a year, collectively, in foregone tuition, according to a review of 1,669 institutions by the Educational Policy Institute. Some still don’t consider it their job, said Patricia Rieman, an associate professor of education at Carthage who is an advocate for, and was on the subcommittee that created, that school’s early-alert system. “I’m A survey by the consulting firm Kognito suggests that faculty don’t always comprehend the problems confronting some of these students.

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