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OPINION: Often overlooked vocational-tech schools provide great solutions to student debt, labor shortages

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A report from the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education found that among employers in the Bay State with knowledge of vocational schools, “there was general agreement that vocational school graduates are more job-ready than general education or college preparatory high school graduates.”. percent , even lower than the overall 1.5

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PROOF POINTS: 861 colleges and 9,499 campuses have closed down since 2004

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Thirty-five colleges and universities shut down in 2021, a 70 percent decrease from 2016, when a peak of 120 colleges shuttered, according to an analysis of federal data by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO). First, the numbers. Many small liberal arts colleges have struggled to attract students altogether.

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PROOF POINTS: Plenty of Black college students want to be teachers, but something keeps derailing them late in the process

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At the start of college, Michigan’s Black students are almost as interested in teaching as white students, the report found. The June 2023 research report, “ Tracking Progress Through Michigan’s Teacher Pipeline ,” analyzed prospective teachers of all races, and found that enrollment in education courses has been declining since 2010.

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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

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Generally, universities are doing very well financially, so they don’t feel from the data that their world is going to collapse. In Ontario, Canada, for instance, the somewhat shocking facts are: 99% of all Ontario elementary and secondary students have access to computers at school. Read more: Will AI replace teachers?

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Overdue tuition and fees — as little as $41 — derail hundreds of thousands of California community college students

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Wilson, 47, started taking courses in 2019, a few months before the pandemic hit and just before he lost his job as an elementary school music teacher. A report published Thursday by the Student Borrower Protection Center , a nonprofit advocacy group focused on student debt, attempts to quantify the scope of this problem.

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OPINION: Why school shutdowns are a disaster for science classes

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While pre-Ks, elementary schools and some schools for children with complex disabilities reopened in December, there is still no plan to reopen middle and high schools. They will also likely depress high school graduation rates, cause a spike in dropout rates, and negatively impact final educational attainment.

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

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Monica Williams remembers the late May day she and first grade teacher Lizette Gutierrez reconnected with the four young siblings from Cable Elementary. No teachers from the San Antonio elementary had heard from the children since schools closed abruptly in March due to the pandemic. Credit: Bonnie Arbittier, San Antonio Report.