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The shuttering of a rural university reveals a surprising source of its financing

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This support, through a program set up to promote rural economic development and from the federal agency that works the most with rural places, underscores how important local universities and colleges are to those communities — and the vulnerability of a growing number of them. Iowa Wesleyan, for example, had an estimated $55.1

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How Finland’s youngest learners obey the rules — by fooling around in school

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1 best primary school system in the world, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report 2016-2017. Connecting all the pieces, flanked by the high-tech science lab, a fireplace and plush sofas, is a modular, wide-open library of books and magazines for children to enjoy. Little to nothing.

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Every student needs summer school this year to combat coronavirus learning loss

The Hechinger Report

A 2017 review of the literature by my Brookings colleagues found “on average, students’ achievement scores declined over summer vacation by one month’s worth of school-year learning” and that the loss was especially great for math. We must continue to provide access to software, online libraries and educational videos.

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How higher education’s own choices left it vulnerable to the pandemic crisis

The Hechinger Report

This staffing figure is through 2017, the most recent year available, and includes a 16 percent jump in the number of administrators and support personnel — a perennial target of critics — but also a 7 percent increase in the number of full-time faculty. percent from 2009 to 2017, a period during which the S&P 500 index gained 11.2

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Khan Academy plunged into classrooms, then classrooms went online

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The idea for the new program was to organize Khan Academy’s online library of learning videos and problem sets into a game-like software program to help kids practice skills they need to master. Students work in MAP Accelerator inside the library at B. Credit: Daniel Clark/The Nevada Independent. Published with permission.

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How do you manage college online — quarantined with eight people?

The Hechinger Report

Luis Gallardo’s favorite place to study was the library at the University of California, Berkeley. And even without technology problems, catastrophic job losses are plunging some families into economic peril. He preferred to work at night when it was quiet, and the distractions of the day didn’t pull at his mind.

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For adults returning to college, ‘free’ tuition isn’t enough

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“It gets people’s attention anytime you say, ‘Free,’ ” said Jimmy Kidd, the director of admissions, who spoke between in-person student orientation sessions in the library of the school’s downtown Louisville campus in late June. In late 2017, she was laid off. After her pay rose by just $1.60 His counselors reached out.

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