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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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OPINION: Early ed should adopt these 3 ideas from Montessori schools

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According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the percentage of 3- to 5-year-olds enrolled in full-day education programs has risen from 47 percent in 2000 to 54 percent in 2016. This includes activities that emphasize exploration and cooperation as well as developing critical thinking skills.

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Internships matter more than ever — but not everyone can get one

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according to Holroyd Pearce, partners with universities, colleges and governments, which typically fund the program or grant academic credit — often to students who face barriers to getting work experience. The company, whose biggest market is now the U.S., Micro-internships like Nabeel’s are another relatively new option.

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Impatient with universities’ slow pace of change, employers go around them

The Hechinger Report

That has become increasingly crucial at a time when Americans’ faith in higher education is declining , governments are investing less money in it, and employers complain it’s producing too few graduates with skills they need. Eastern Washington in general and Gordon in particular were determined to turn that around.

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OPINION: ‘Small bites’ can’t substitute for a college degree

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In their 2016 Workforce-Skills Preparedness Report, PayScale and the executive development firm Future Workplace found that CEOs and human resources professionals seek recent college graduates who possess writing and public speaking proficiency, critical thinking and leadership skills, interpersonal skills and the ability to work as part of a team.

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Is Head Start a failure?

The Hechinger Report

Five and six year old children are inheritors of poverty’s curse and not its creators,” Johnson told his audience as he explained that the federal government would be, for the first time, funding education and health services for children living in poverty in the form of a public preschool program. All told, Portland spent about $8.9

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What do preschool teachers need to do a better job?

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But so far, he said, the push for universal preschool here has proven to be “a great example of what a municipal government can do when focused on a really ambitious goal.”. What children learn before age 5 — both academic skills like critical thinking and social skills like taking turns — sets the stage for the rest of their lives.

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