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Study: The U.S. isn’t doing enough to prepare students for the automation age

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Leave this field empty if you're human: “Very few countries are taking the bull by the horns when it comes to adapting education systems for the age of automation,” Saadia Zahidi, head of education, gender and employment for the World Economic Forum, said in the report.

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OPINION: What if everything we believe about education is a lie?

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This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. These myths are harmful, in deBoer’s view, because they lead us to conflate academic ability and human worth. In the author’s telling, the Cult of Smart is “the notion that academic value is the only value, and intelligence the only true measure of human worth.

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Students parents suffer as more campus child care centers close

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That’s largely because of the daunting economic and life stressors, which worsened during the pandemic. The pandemic is incredibly hard for everyone and incredibly hard in particular for student parents,” said Dr. Su Jin Gatlin Jez, executive director of California Competes, a nonprofit focused on higher education policy and outcomes.

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OPINION: The low-cost steps the government could take right now to ease hunger and homelessness on college campuses

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Food and housing insecurity among college students isn’t new, but it has been exacerbated by the pandemic and accompanying economic calamity. With our country poised for years of high unemployment and stagnation, our system of higher education must address this food and housing crisis without further delay.

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More students are leaving college without a degree

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Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: Not everyone who enrolls in college will leave with a certificate or degree, but the number of people who drop out or take a break is much higher than experts previously believed. Economic motivation is a factor,” Ryu said.

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New research finds it hasn’t gotten easier for poor kids to catch up

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The kindergarten-readiness gap between low-income and high-income students has not closed in a generation, even though parents are more involved than ever in their children’s education and state-funded pre-K, nutrition programs, and prenatal care are more accessible now than in the late 1990s. Higher Education. percent in 1998.

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OPINION: To succeed in tomorrow’s workforce, today’s students need equity-driven policy

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For communities like the Bronx, equitable access to college is not just a lofty ideal, it’s an economic necessity. This is what an equity-driven higher education policy could create, not just in the Bronx but throughout the country. Higher Education. billion in tax revenues. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.