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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. Unfortunately, many college alternatives, especially career and technical education programs, have a complicated history. College isn’t for everyone.

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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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The Prison to College Pipeline

The Hechinger Report

Credit: James Bernal for The Hechinger Report The majority of people sent to prison enter without a high school diploma or a GED certificate, yet almost 70 percent of those who are incarcerated hope to obtain a postsecondary credential. He said of Project Rebound’s John Irwin House, “I think we’re all just grateful.”

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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. Forty-three percent of them will require at least bachelors degrees by 2031, according to the Georgetown center. But many do.

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