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OPINION: Students need more educational choices after high school

The Hechinger Report

However, researchers at Georgetown University project that by 2031, 72 percent of jobs will require some type of education or training after high school. Students are assuming historic levels of loan debt in pursuit, ironically, of economic mobility (a long-proven benefit of higher education).

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Why it matters that Americans are comparatively bad at math

The Hechinger Report

BOSTON — Like a lot of high school students, Kevin Tran loves superheroes, though perhaps for different reasons than his classmates. He was speaking during a break in a city program for promising local high school students to study calculus for five hours a day throughout the summer at Northeastern University.

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OPINION: Training programs are welcome, but let’s not overlook the benefits of a bachelor’s degree

The Hechinger Report

economy has undergone a technologically driven transformation, providing larger monetary advantages to workers who have education or training beyond a high school diploma. million higher than for those with no more than a high school diploma. Since the 1980s, the U.S.

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A school closure cliff is coming. Black and Hispanic students are likely to bear the brunt

The Hechinger Report

The plan the school board approved, which weighed which schools had the most empty space and inadequate facilities, closed two of its top-performing and majority Black and Hispanic high schools. Dee, a professor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Education. How they treated us, it’s just so unfair,” Magee said.

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The number of 18-year-olds is about to drop sharply, packing a wallop for colleges — and the economy 

The Hechinger Report

Thats because the current class of high school seniors is the last before a long decline begins in the number of 18-year-olds the traditional age of students when they enter college. The impact of this is economic decline, Jeff Strohl, director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, said bluntly.

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