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Announcing the 2024 Students of History Scholarship Winner

Students of History

This prestigious scholarship, which has been awarded each year since 2017, recognizes a college-bound senior who has excelled in history education. This year marked the first time that applicants were required to submit video essays on their favorite history lessons, as opposed to traditional essays. ” Ms.

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Dual enrollment has exploded. But it’s hard to tell if it’s helping more kids get a college degree

The Hechinger Report

Figures released last week show that dual enrollment grew another 7 percent in the fall of 2024 from a year earlier, even as the number of traditional college freshmen fell. asked Kristen Hengtgen, a policy analyst at EdTrust, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization that lobbies for racial and economic equity in education.

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Assorted Tips for Student Theses (in My Department and Perhaps Yours)

Steven V. Miller

However, the abbreviated, somewhat hurried nature of the curriculum and the economic situation brought on by our landlords mean we don’t have as much real estate as I’d like to teach students important things I want them to know. From a political science standpoint, this tradition is so strange it’s almost offensive.

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Math ends the education careers of thousands of community college students. A few schools are trying something new

The Hechinger Report

Since 2017, 93 percent of students taking it have passed, and 83 percent have achieved all the course’s learning goals, including the ability to use arithmetic, geometry, algebra and trigonometry to solve welding problems, school data show. Even modest gains like that are hard to achieve, said Navarro Chandler, a dean at the college.

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OPINION: Students will move forward post-pandemic if we give them new pathways and opportunities

The Hechinger Report

That’s why my district is reimagining high schools with a strong focus on helping students become leaders in their own learning and the learning of others — a pathway to future success and economic mobility. In Rich Township, our students are striving for continuous improvement and for ways to rebound from perceived failures.

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Losing international students because of the pandemic will damage colleges financially

The Hechinger Report

If fewer international students enroll, the economic fallout will be severe. In the 2017-2018 school year, 34 percent of international students were from China. In the 2017-2018 school year, it had more international students than any other historically black college or university. Many come from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

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The other victims when colleges decline or close: their hometowns

The Hechinger Report

It’s going to be a rebalancing of economic prosperity,” Gallup senior economist Jonathan Rothwell said, noting the trend of colleges closing and the resulting effects on their communities could parallel the impact the declining manufacturing sector has had on some areas. Moody’s projects the number of closures will continue to rise.

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