The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
However, researchers at Georgetown University project that by 2031, 72 percent of jobs will require some type of education or training after high school. Students are assuming historic levels of loan debt in pursuit, ironically, of economic mobility (a long-proven benefit of higher education).
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 8, 2025
In a corner of Huffman High School, the sounds of popping nail guns and whirring table saws fill the architecture and construction classroom. Alabama state law previously required students to take at least four years each of English, math, science and social studies to graduate from high school. BIRMINGHAM, Ala.
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The Hechinger Report
MAY 6, 2021
Even before the pandemic shunted them into online learning, many high school students failed to see a connection between their work in the classroom and their real-world futures. The result is that we are losing the energy, intelligence and creativity young people could and should bring to New York’s economic recovery.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 29, 2024
In exchange, residents would qualify for in-district tuition and trigger a long-term plan to build out college facilities in this rural stretch of Texas, which is positioning itself to tap into the economic boom flowing into the smaller communities nestled between Austin and San Antonio. Cormier said. a year on average — a rate of $.1013
The Hechinger Report
JULY 12, 2021
Scholars are trying to understand why more rural students don’t pursue studies that could lead to well-paying careers for themselves and a more productive economic future for their communities. Many small towns started as market towns or as small manufacturing towns in the industrial era and are now economically struggling.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 3, 2024
Those of us who worked with high school students in the wake of the Supreme Court’s historic decision overturning race-conscious admissions can’t profess shock over news showing decreases in enrollment among Black and Latinx students across many college campuses, especially those considered competitive for enrollment.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Share of new college students in the fall of 2015 who were still in high school and taking a dual enrollment class. Map reprinted from The Postsecondary Outcomes of High School Dual Enrollment Students A National and State-by-State Analysis (October 2024) Community College Research Center. Dual enrollment is exploding.
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