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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. Part-time faculty at McGill earn more, on average, and have more benefits than their counterparts south of the border in the United States.

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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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More than two-thirds of all community college students and 40 percent of undergraduates in four-year colleges had to start with at least one remedial class, according to a statistical report from the U.S. Department of Education. The majority of these students dropped out without degrees.

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

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Significantly higher dropout rates. Retention has found to be a stronger predictor of student dropout than socioeconomic status or parental education. Even the laziest of reporters or legislators can do a quick Google Scholar search and see that decades of peer-reviewed studies are clear that retention hurts kids and will hurt Iowa.

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

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Credit: Amanda Cain for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Amanda Cain for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Amanda Cain for The Hechinger Report. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Credit: Amanda Cain for The Hechinger Report. They are not likely to go and seek help.

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OPINION: How identifying struggling students in middle school can keep struggling students from dropping out of high school

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At a time when little to no work exists for a high school dropout to support a family, the community, as a result, falls deeper into despair. At a time when little to no work exists for a high school dropout to support a family, the community, as a result, falls deeper into despair. Take Noe Castro’s story. So where do we go from here?

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