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OPINION: Students need more educational choices after high school

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Public trust in higher education has reached a historic low. However, researchers at Georgetown University project that by 2031, 72 percent of jobs will require some type of education or training after high school. Education leaders have long called for expanded postsecondary pathways. College isn’t for everyone.

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Community college students get double the support through unusual dual-teacher program

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The 27-year-old is also one of more than 6,000 Washington community and technical college students enrolled in the state’s Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training (I-BEST) program. Statewide data shows students in the program graduate at a higher rate than those enrolled in traditional adult basic education.

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COLUMN: Conservatives are embracing new alternative school models. Will the public?

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public education. The event often felt like a pep rally for options beyond traditional school districts, where enrollment fell in the pandemic and is expected to drop another five percent by 2031. John Bailey, Daniel Buck and Joel Rose talk about AI in education at a Harvard Kennedy School conference. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.

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

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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. Related: Interested in innovations in higher education? Subscribe to our free biweekly higher education newsletter.

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