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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. Traditional higher education has reached an inflection point. Related: Interested in innovations in the field of higher education?

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

The Hechinger Report

Statewide data shows students in the program graduate at a higher rate than those enrolled in traditional adult basic education. Students fresh out of high school had an easier time remembering chemistry and math, Purvis said, but she hadn’t studied those subjects for 10 years. “We I loved it. She even joked around with us.”

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

The Hechinger Report

Valles was among the enthusiastic would-be innovators and entrepreneurs I met at least week’s Harvard Kennedy School conference, Emerging School Models: Moving From Alternative to Mainstream. John Bailey, Daniel Buck and Joel Rose talk about AI in education at a Harvard Kennedy School conference.

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