The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

This audio story about the American Graduation Initiative ten-years later is based on a story produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up here for Hechinger’s higher-education newsletter. that Obama had pledged to reach by 2019. “We

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2019

That would help return the United States to first in the world in the proportion of its population with the credentials needed to sustain an economy increasingly dependent on highly educated workers. At this rate, the target won’t be met until at least 2041 , the research arm of the nonprofit Educational Testing Service, or ETS, predicts.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2025

Its a looming crisis for the economy, with fewer graduates eventually coming through the pipeline to fill jobs that require college educations, even as international rivals increase the proportions of their populations with degrees. Related: Interested in innovations in higher education? That means they already have 2.7

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2025

The demographics in our country are changing, and higher education has to adapt, said Glena Temple, Dominicans president. Nearly 1 in 3 students in kindergarten through 12th grade is Hispanic, the National Center for Education Statistics reports. Related: Interested in innovations in higher education?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2025

En el pasado, segn Deborah Santiago, directora ejecutiva de la organizacin de defensa de los hispanos Excelencia in Education, las instituciones de enseanza superior “podan alcanzar sus cifras [de matriculacin] sin implicar a esta poblacin.

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