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Every Person Counts: How the 2020 U.S. Census Could Impact Adult Education

Digital Promise

The next census in 2020 will require counting a population of around 330 million people in more than 140 million housing units. and it affects the allocation of more than $800 billion in federal government funding nationwide. The post Every Person Counts: How the 2020 U.S. Every 10 years, the U.S. population. Everyone counts!

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Plants and People of Borneo: A Cultural and Ecological Connection

Anthropology.net

A new biocultural database, developed by researchers at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), reveals the profound connections between Borneo’s rich plant life and the survival, traditions, and identity of its people. Marks on this trunk reveal traces of wooden plugs used in traditional honey harvesting.

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OPINION: Why every high school student needs a work-based experience

The Hechinger Report

The internships could be in government, in nonprofit organizations or in the private sector. The civil unrest of spring 2020 laid bare racial inequities and accelerated the job market’s readiness to embrace young and diverse workers. The time is right. Despite the economic upheaval created by the pandemic, many jobs remain unfilled.

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Losing international students because of the pandemic will damage colleges financially

The Hechinger Report

Many colleges and universities anticipate a sharp decrease in international students for fall 2020. Institutions are now scrambling to rethink how they recruit and teach students from abroad as they prepare for fall 2020. “As Shuai “Eddy” Jiang, a rising junior at Boston College, on Acorn Street in Boston.

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COLUMN: The FAFSA fiasco could roll back years of progress. It must be fixed immediately

The Hechinger Report

A bipartisan law passed in 2020 initiated a complete overhaul of the FAFSA. Related: Simpler FAFSA complicates college plans for students and families “As much staff as government has, it’s not enough for students right now,” said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the national advocacy group Complete College America.

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The Still-Evolving Future of University Credentials

ED Surge

Education policy leaders at the federal level and beyond were exploring the growing role of competency-based education and non-traditional providers —and calls were growing for stronger connections between universities and the world of employment. The number of open badges awarded nearly doubled from 24 million in 2018 to 43 million in 2020.

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‘Wasted money’: How career-training companies scoop up federal funds with little oversight

The Hechinger Report

Dora Bray Magilke had been unemployed for over a month when someone from her local career center in Branson, Missouri, reached out in the summer of 2020 with an offer. Magilke qualified for a government grant to go back to school, she was told, at a place the center suggested: an online company called MedCerts.