The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

However, researchers at Georgetown University project that by 2031, 72 percent of jobs will require some type of education or training after high school. Unfortunately, many college alternatives, especially career and technical education programs, have a complicated history. College isn’t for everyone.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

It’s a threat to the nation’s global economic competitiveness and national security. The economic ramifications of this in the United States are twofold: first, on individuals’ job prospects and earnings potential; and second, on the country’s productivity and competitiveness. That’s much faster than most other kinds of jobs.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2023

Amid declining birth rates, the Education Department estimates that national public school enrollment will drop by 5 percent or more by 2031 — a sharp change after decades of increasing enrollment. Harris, chair of the economics department at Tulane University and director of the National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2025

The impact of this is economic decline, Jeff Strohl, director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, said bluntly. Forty-three percent of them will require at least bachelors degrees by 2031, according to the Georgetown center. Related: Interested in innovations in higher education? But many do.

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