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Where education systems stumble, grassroots groups step in to raise success rates

The Hechinger Report

A grassroots coalition of business and civic leaders came together with a resolve to fix these problems by alternately helping and compelling educators to greatly improve their results. Their goal: for 75,000 Mobile residents to earn new degrees by 2030. The economic development people had written the check.

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In one country, women now outnumber men in college by two to one

The Hechinger Report

That includes in almost all of the 36 member nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development , or OECD, and in 39 of 47 countries of the UN Economic Commission for Europe , which extends to central and western Asia. It matters for employment stability and civic engagement. You’re more likely to live longer.