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In Japan, plummeting university enrollment forecasts what’s ahead for the U.S.

The Hechinger Report

That’s taken a dramatic toll on colleges and universities, with severe consequences for society and economic growth — a situation now also being faced by the United States, where the number of 18-year-olds has begun to drop in some states and soon will fall nationwide. million students, from 2010 through this year.

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Mandatory kindergarten and home economics: What Mississippi lawmakers have proposed for 2017

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Home economics in failing districts: House Bill No. 195 would require all secondary schools located in D- and F-rated school districts to teach home economics to students, based on a curriculum that would be developed by the state Board of Education. Topics would include cooking, child development, sewing and budgeting.