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

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That’s significant in an era when college leaders are concerned about attracting and retaining students who may be skeptical about the value of a degree and also worried about the impending “ enrollment cliff ” resulting from fewer Americans of traditional college age coming up in the next few years.

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COLUMN: ‘We want every major to be a climate major’

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They are breaking out of traditional silos and disciplines, and ensuring that these courses are encountered by as many students as possible. Steelman is advocating for fluency for all undergraduates by 2028, she said, but “We’re working through a committee process and we’ll see what sticks.”

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OPINION: Often overlooked vocational-tech schools provide great solutions to student debt, labor shortages

The Hechinger Report

A startling 3 million skilled trades jobs will sit unfilled by 2028. Traditional public schools alone aren’t responsible for the student debt or skilled labor crises — but a longstanding Massachusetts education experiment has shown promise at addressing both. So does the U.S. percent , even lower than the overall 1.5

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Writing a College Essay That Stands Out

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Class of 2028 supplemental essay prompt. The challenge lies in the fact that while the college essay is essentially a personal narrative, this is a genre in which students receive little experience in traditional high school curricula. The prompt asks applicants to, “Tell us about an aspect of your identity (e.g.

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NAEP Scores Show a Long Road to Academic Recovery. Edtech Can Help Shorten It.

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Recent headlines suggest it will take until 2028 for students to recover from these pandemic-related achievement declines. This dismal news further intensifies the pressure on district leaders to address learning gaps exacerbated by the pandemic, all while more than half of schools report teacher and staffing shortages.

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Ten jobs that are safe from robots

The Hechinger Report

Whereas traditional, standardized teaching models work for motivated students, they often leave less motivated or struggling students behind, he says. “A The notion that we can train someone in 2018 for job requirements in 2028 isn’t realistic.”. Fuller, professor of management practice at Harvard Business School.