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A Fifth of Students at Community College Are Still in High School

ED Surge

Some of them travel to the campus during the school day to take courses in introductory English, history, psychology and sociology. The institution hopes to increase enrollment among high school students by 50 percent more by 2028. “We Brookdale Community College is in a state that has named dual enrollment as a priority.

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"What are we teaching? Powerful knowledge and a capabilities curriculum" - a review

Living Geography

USA 2025-2028 is not a serial I am looking forward to. A reference point for this is Michael Gove's 'infamous' and deluded claim from 2016 that people had 'had enough of experts' though a recent visit to a private dentist for complex root canal treatment confirmed that I'd rather have asked him than a local plumber. As Richard says on p.22,

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OPINION: Why school shutdowns are a disaster for science classes

The Hechinger Report

Local science and natural history museums could also help by arranging free outdoor and physically distanced exhibits, and setting up outdoor kid-friendly laboratories with slides and microscopes. jobs in the STEM sector are forecast to grow by 8 percent by 2028. Related: We must boost elementary science education. In the U.S.,

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Will the Rodriguez family’s college dreams survive the end of affirmative action?

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Liz Willen/The Hechinger Report It also places the Rodriguez sisters on opposite sides of history: Ashley applied to college when schools in many states could still consider race, while Emily can expect no such advantage. We have so much history behind us as people of color,” Emily said. “So That makes her angry. “We

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OPINION: Harvard President Claudine Gay’s resignation and the end of affirmative action signal to Black people that they will never belong

The Hechinger Report

Harvard University President Claudine Gay’s resignation ends the shortest tenure in the university’s history — six months. It’s not a coincidence that the record is set by the school’s first Black woman president. We were headed for this moment since she started in July.

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Meet the New Editorial Team for the American Political Science Review (APSR)

Political Science Now

We will be reminded every day that this is your journal and that the prosperity of the discipline of political science is our overarching goal.” The new editorial team begins their editorship of the APSR on June 1, 2024, and their term runs through May 31, 2028. She also serves as Provost of Earl Warren College.