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Canada treats its adjunct professors better than the U.S. does – and it pays off for students 

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Credit: Allen McEachern for The Hechinger Report Now there’s new scrutiny of how adjuncts’ pay and benefits affect not only them but also their students, who often go into debt to cover rising tuition. Some 44 percent of American university and college faculty are part-time , according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

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

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According to a preliminary October 2020 report from National Student Clearinghouse Research Center that tallied fall enrollment figures from just over half of the nation’s colleges and universities, the number of undergraduate students has fallen 4 percent since the fall of 2019. The number of new students is down 23 percent.

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PROOF POINTS: Inside the perplexing study that’s inspired colleges to drop remedial math

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Nationwide, the cost of remedial education exceeded $1 billion annually; many colleges operated separate departments of “developmental education,” higher-education’s euphemistic jargon for non-credit catch-up classes. Department of Education. Nobody could tell me if we were doing it the right way,” Logue said.

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One state offers lessons in how to cope with the college enrollment crisis

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Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report. And the state’s community colleges, which depend on the same dwindling supply of learners, are reporting record numbers of applications for the fall. Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report. “I Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report.

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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. Credit: Amanda Cain for The Hechinger Report.

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The Des Moines Register’s editorial on student retention is lazy and irresponsible

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John Hattie, Professor of Education at the University of Auckland, spent 15 years synthesizing the vast body of peer-reviewed, meta-analytical research pertaining to student achievement. Hattie went on to state: It would be difficult to find another educational practice on which the evidence is so unequivocally negative. (p.

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Urgency of getting people back to work gives new momentum to ?microcredentials?

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Credit: Photo: Ronda Churchill for The Hechinger Report. A lot of people will need more education to get back into the workforce, and they’ll need to get it quickly, at the lowest possible cost and in subjects directly relevant to available jobs. The concept is finding new acceptance among people who need new jobs, fast.

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