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Nov 1, 2024 · The College Welcome Guide is a collection of interactive charts and maps that help you assess campus culture. They list the demographics of faculty and students, services for veterans or students with disabilities and more. The maps outline the state-level laws that might be most relevant to matriculating students, such as restrictions on teaching Critical Race …
Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles student
Jun 6, 2022 · During the 2017-18 school year, more than 69,000 students received corporal punishment almost 97,000 times nationwide.. Corporal punishment has been on the decline in the United States for the last several decades, in part because of growing evidence that it harms students’ wellbeing and academic performance while also failing to improve their behavior long …
Tracking college closures - The Hechinger Report
Oct 21, 2024 · From 2008 to 2011, an average of seven colleges and universities shut down each year in the wake of the financial crisis. That four-year average had doubled to 14 by 2014 before reaching 32 by 2018.
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More tools. The Offer Letter Decoder helps college applicants understand the financial aid offer letter they receive from a college or university.; The Hechinger Report created the College Closure Tracker to document the more than 800 colleges …
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Dec 3, 2024 · The Bridging the Gap program is one of at least a dozen such initiatives launched at colleges and universities since 2020. Donald Trump’s reelection, and divisions on issues such as Israel and Palestine and LGBTQ+ rights, could intensify the need for such campus programs, experts say. So too could the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ban, said Natasha Warikoo, …
A decade of research on education inequality in America
Jun 29, 2020 · That didn’t mean there was a giant 70 percent improvement from $1,500. The Trump administration added together all sources of funds, including federal funding, which amounts to 8 percent of total school spending, while the Obama administration excluded federal funds, counting only state and local dollars, which make up more than 90 percent of education …
Politicians love apprenticeships. Employers have been slow to …
Dec 17, 2024 · “Those employers are really dang hard to find,” said Brittany Williams, chief partnerships officer at Edu-REACH — it stands for Rural Education Achievement for Community Hope — the nonprofit organization that now works to find apprenticeships for students in and around Hamlin, including at the high school Cook attended.
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Nov 18, 2024 · Colleges and universities, on average, are admitting a larger proportion of their applicants than they did 20 years ago, new research by the conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute finds. The median acceptance rate at bachelor’s degree-granting universities and colleges was 7.6 percentage points higher in 2022 than it was in 2012, AEI found.
School choice may get its biggest moment yet
Nov 12, 2024 · Lawmakers who need convincing aren’t holding out just because of union pressure, Conway said. In Texas, for instance, rural lawmakers worried about the effect of vouchers on their schools have repeatedly voted down or torpedoed plans in that state that would allow parents to use public money for private school tuition. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott …
Dual enrollment has exploded. But it's hard to tell if it's helping ...
Oct 28, 2024 · Exactly how much all of this is costing the nation isn’t known. But the state of Texas, which accounts for 10 percent of high schoolers who are taking these college classes, was investing $120 million annually as recently as 2017, according to one estimate. It wouldn’t be far-fetched to extrapolate that over $1 billion a year in public funds is being spent on dual …