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College ‘Deserts’ Disproportionately Deter Black and Hispanic Students from Higher Ed

ED Surge

But a new study shows that these higher education deserts affect some groups of students much differently than others. In other words, for low-income and underrepresented minority groups, living near a community college can be a crucial way to gain access to any higher education.

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Voices at the Center: Asian American Educators Rising

ED Surge

The morning after the news broke, however, Asian American educators across the country largely had to show up for work as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened. Meanwhile, in a department meeting in a Boston-area high school, three Asian American educators “chose to be vulnerable because we needed to share.

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New RGS Oceans resources

Living Geography

A cross-posting from my RGS blog: 'At the Home of Geography'. We’re thrilled to launch a brand-new set of education resources for 7–13-year-olds, exploring how we connect to the ocean! Physical geography, including climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, and the water cycle.

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College Uncovered: The Rural Higher Education Blues

The Hechinger Report

Rural young people who aspire to a higher education have long had fewer choices than their urban and suburban counterparts, contributing to far lower rates of college-going. People in rural America already have far less access to higher education than people in cities and suburbs. Kirk: So how can we close these gaps?

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Supporting Non-Specialists in the Geography Department

Dr. Preece

With the teacher recruitment offering worrying times for schools and ITE providers alike , it’s already quite common – and likely to become more important – that HoDs and Departments have a considered approach to supporting non-specialists with teaching in Geography. Geography has a lot of Tier 2/Tier 3 words.

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A ‘summer camp’ for teachers fills a gap in environmental education

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! Many of [my students], being rural, spend a lot of their free time outdoors,” she said.

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How to raise rural enrollment in higher education? Go local

The Hechinger Report

Lindsay also faced a huge cultural obstacle — geography. That’s a problem because the data don’t lie: Two-thirds of all jobs and 80 percent of all “good” jobs (paying a median wage of $65,000) demand a postsecondary credential, according to research by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce. She closed, at 1 a.m.,

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