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How to raise rural enrollment in higher education? Go local

The Hechinger Report

Lindsay also faced a huge cultural obstacle — geography. Given the educational and economic divide between rural and nonrural America, this may be the most important college access program you’ve never heard of. She closed, at 1 a.m., forcing a choice: Go to school exhausted or skip classes and learn the material on her own.

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OPINION: Why the national teacher shortage is really a distribution problem

The Hechinger Report

Even before Covid, in 2019, enrollment in teacher preparation programs across the nation had dropped by more than a third from a decade earlier. Regardless of geography, nearly all school districts face chronic challenges finding teachers for math, science, special education, foreign languages and bilingual education.

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An unnoticed result of the decline of men in college: It’s harder for women to get in

The Hechinger Report

At each school, men were at least 2 percentage points more likely than women to be accepted in both 2019 and 2020. Those could include major, geography or high school. These include Boston, Bowdoin and Swarthmore colleges; Brown, Denison, Pepperdine, Pomona, Vanderbilt and Wesleyan universities; and the University of Miami.

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The Politics and Limits of Aspiration

Anthropology News

Their mission is to “transform the educational aspirations and economic realities” of township communities by preparing youth for first-generation higher education and social mobility. Founded in 2004, Launch is a network of eight low-fee private schools serving grades eight through twelve across four of South Africa’s nine provinces.

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Some rural states are cutting higher ed. One state is doing the opposite

The Hechinger Report

Like many rural Americans, the people here are place-bound, their educational choices constrained by geography as much as by cost. Until fairly recently, that decision made economic sense. percent of its population between 2010 and 2019, Hazard grew by 13 percent. Mining jobs were plentiful, and the money was good.

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Vote for Digital Promise in the 2020 SXSW EDU PanelPicker

Digital Promise

Click each link that interests you to vote now through August 23, 2019. “Challenge Collaboratives” are a model of research-practice partnerships that engage educators and researchers across contexts and geographies to create outputs and outcomes that benefit schools nationwide. Challenge Collaboratives: Next Gen R&D.

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Simulated Climate Solutions: Using the EN-ROADS Simulator in Lessons

Dr. Preece

2021) and resources available (Rackley, 2019), we are increasingly seeing climate education in Geography classrooms as a synoptic and decision-making activity at the local scale (Hicks, 2019; Barton & Noyes, 2022). Figure 1 shows an example of what you would see on logging in. Dunlop et al.