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OPINION: Students need more educational choices after high school

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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. Her career spans more than 25 years in education policy and research in the public and nonprofit sectors.

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

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Statewide data shows students in the program graduate at a higher rate than those enrolled in traditional adult basic education. Davis Jenkins, senior research associate with the Community College Research Center at Teachers College, Columbia University “They couldn’t have picked a better second instructor,” Purvis said of Ronhaar. “I

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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. Still more new research, from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, projects that the pace of college closings could now accelerate. But many do.

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

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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. And most American children — close to 50 million — remain enrolled in traditional public schools. It’s not a movement,” he said.

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