Tracking college closures - The Hechinger Report
2024年10月21日 · 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.
Dual enrollment has exploded. But it’s hard to tell if it’s helping ...
2024年10月28日 · 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 …
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2024年11月1日 · 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 …
Election 2024 - The Hechinger Report
The Hechinger Report delved into where the presidential candidates stand on early education through higher education and beyond.
Once-low college student voting rates are trending up - The …
2024年9月30日 · UPDATE: Voting by Americans 18 to 29 fell to 42 percent in the 2020 presidential election, according to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, or CIRCLE, at Tufts University.Youth voter turnout averaged 50 percent in the battleground states of Arizona, George, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and …
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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 …
How could Project 2025 change education? - The Hechinger Report
2024年7月23日 · The proposals in the 2025 Presidential Transition Project — known as Project 2025 and designed for Donald Trump — would reshape the American education system, early education through college, from start to finish.. The conservative Heritage Foundation is the primary force behind the sprawling blueprint, which is separate from the much less detailed …
Despite public perception, and for the first time in decades, …
2024年11月18日 · 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.
OPINION: Why I view the ban on legacy admissions at California’s ...
2024年11月18日 · California Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed a law prohibiting the consideration of legacy and donor status in admissions decisions. The impact will be most felt at a small handful of private colleges and universities, including my own, the University of Southern California (USC).
Internships matter more than ever — but not everyone can get one
2024年3月30日 · Nationwide, slightly more than 60 percent of students graduating in 2023 completed an internship during college, according to survey data collected by the National Association of Colleges and Employers. At elite universities, that figure was much higher — almost 90 percent at the University of Pennsylvania, for example, according to the school’s …