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A trend colleges might not want applicants to notice: It’s becoming easier to get in

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percentage points higher in 2022 than it was in 2012, AEI found. Those are the most recent available admission figures reported to the federal government, and do not include institutions with open admission, which take 100 percent of applicants. Related: Interested in innovations in higher education?

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GED and other high school equivalency degrees drop by more than 40% nationwide since 2012

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Red states are where the annual issuance of new high school equivalency diplomas has fallen by more than 50 percent between 2012 and 2016. Specifically, the annual number of test takers who completed one of the three exams has fallen more than 45 percent from more than 570,000 in 2012 to roughly 310,000 in 2016. Data source: Thomas J.

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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

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Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. We’re leading these schools.

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How the last recession affected higher education. Will history repeat?

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One of the peculiar things about higher education is that it runs in the opposite direction of the economy. The federal government invested a lot of money in new students,” said Shapiro. Ironically, funding for education plummeted. Related: Federal data shows 3.9 ” Budget cuts forced public institutions to raise tuition.

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As economy rebounds, state funding for higher education isn’t bouncing back

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Chantal Fulgencio had the bad timing to start as a freshman in the fall of 2012 at public East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania. That was just when the state was in the midst of seven straight years of cutting its budget for higher education during and after the recession, or at best keeping spending level.

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Making positive educational moves during the pandemic

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The Hechinger Report is collaborating with The New York Times to produce Bulletin Board, page 2 of the Times ’ s education supplement, Learning. Her goal was to collect enough learning resources, she said, “that students or parents would be able to find learning sites and lessons that would meet their education needs.”.

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Mathematics test scores in some countries have been dropping for years, even as the subject grows in importance

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That includes some of the world’s largest and wealthiest countries, and others acclaimed for their education systems, such as Canada, France, Germany and Finland. Solving math education Sign up for a limited-run newsletter that walks you through some of the most promising solutions for helping students conquer math.