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‘Easy to just write us off’: Rural students’ choices shrink as colleges slash majors

The Hechinger Report

Many of the programs affected are in the humanities and languages, making those disciplines less available to rural students than they are to urban and suburban ones. In all, more than 25 programs have now been eliminated there, many of them in the humanities. But students and faculty say it was still important to offer them.

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Just Another Typical Day

A Principal's Reflections

New Milford High School joined thousands of other schools and educators across the country to showcase how digital learning is changing education. The only thing though is that this day was just like any other typical day at my school as digital learning has become an embedded component of our school''s culture.

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Math can be a path to success after prison

The Hechinger Report

When she arrived at Southern Maine Womens Reentry Center in December 2021, she was 51, had left high school when she was 16, and had only attended two weeks of a ninth grade math class. Since 2022 , shes been pursuing an associates degree in human services from prison through a remote program with Washington County Community College.

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How career and technical education shuts out Black and Latino students from high-paying professions

The Hechinger Report

Alphina Kamara wonders what might have happened if she’d been introduced to science and engineering careers at her Wilmington, Delaware, high school. When she asked an administrator at Mount Pleasant High School about this apparent disparity, she said she was told that the audio engineering course was created for “regular students.”.

Education 145
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Next Steps: My Career Moving Forward

Anthropology 365

After graduating high school, I began university in 2003, majoring in biology and psychology. I had taken a couple of courses in anthropology and was excited by the fact that doing anthropology allowed me to engage in all of my interests: biology, conservation, ecology, and how humans fit in the world.

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OPINION: With a skeptical public, higher education must do a better job explaining why college is worth the investment

The Hechinger Report

in particle physics — has the School of Humanities and Sciences. dance, film, theater) to the humanities (e.g., economics, political science, sociology) and the natural and mathematical sciences. dance, film, theater) to the humanities (e.g., for civilians over the age of 25 with only a high school diploma was 3.9

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More students are dropping out of college during Covid — and it could get worse

The Hechinger Report

Izzy, 18, had spent her senior year of high school online. Then she’d gone straight to online summer school at a local community college near Denver. Sara Goldrick-Rab, professor of sociology and medicine, Temple University. Related: Debt without degree — The human cost of college debt that becomes ‘purgatory’.

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