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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). Very few of any of these closures took place at public colleges or universities.

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K12 Inc. Names Stuart Udell, Former Catapult Learning Official, as CEO

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Major online education provider K12 Inc., That same year K12 rebranded a number of its resources under a separate legal entity called Fuel Education, focusing on “personalized learning” platforms, as well as consulting, teacher professional development, and online courses. Udell as its CEO. an operator of alternative schools.

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All ninth graders study at the local 4-H center in this Maine district

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Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Higher Education. Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. Subscribe today!

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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. Business was flagging. Middle-class ones.

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The mindboggling barriers that colleges create — and that end up hurting their own students

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Nancy Lee Sanchez, in red, executive director of the Kaplan Educational Foundation, with students she advises. I think the majority of higher education is complacent” about their dropouts, he said. Photo: Michael Hunnicutt.

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Why Donald Graham Sold Kaplan University to Purdue for $1

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There are many unanswered questions about the unprecedented sale of Kaplan University, a for-profit institution with several online programs but falling enrollments, to Purdue University, one of the top public universities in the nation. We're out of the for-profit education business here. which remains in Graham Holdings).

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Child care, car seats and other simple ways to keep teen moms in school

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Credit: Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. “My Experts point to a confluence of factors for this, including poverty, culture, trauma and a lack of comprehensive sexual health education. “My Credit: Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. My daughter’s the best thing that’s ever happened to me,” Viviana said later.

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