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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 …
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.
Wasted time and money on undergraduate classes
Sep 4, 2017 · Undergraduate students are taking too many classes. That may sound like a nice problem to have: Why not learn more than you have to? But consider that the average graduate of a four-year college takes the equivalent of a full extra semester of classes, or an additional 12 to 15 credits, paying thousands of dollars of extra tuition, and for many, incurring debt to do it.
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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 Theory or laws permitting the ...
Three reasons why so few eighth graders in the poorest schools …
Nov 18, 2024 · Like learning to read by third grade, taking eighth grade math is a pivotal moment in a child’s education. Students who pass Algebra 1 in eighth grade are more likely to sign up for more advanced math courses, and those who pass more advanced math courses are more likely to graduate from college and earn more money.
Burnout symptoms increasing among college students - The …
Jul 30, 2021 · Their findings aligned with the American Psychological Association’s Stress in America study: Gen Z adults ages 18 to 23 reported significantly higher stress levels than other generations.Of the Gen Z adults who said they are in college, 87% said their education was a significant source of stress, and stress is often linked to burnout.
Should students grade their teachers? - The Hechinger Report
Jan 14, 2013 · “Only recently have many policymakers and practitioners come to recognize that –when asked the right questions, in the right ways — students can be an important source of information on the quality of teaching and the learning environment in individual classrooms,” reads the introduction to the MET brief on student surveys.
Online testing and education led to a rise in cheating, data shows
Aug 7, 2020 · It was a dramatic case, but far from unique. Universal online testing has created a documented increase in cheating, often because universities, colleges and testing companies were unprepared for the scale of the transformation or unable or unwilling to pay for safeguards, according to faculty and testing experts.
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 …
Why many students are choosing trade school programs - The …
Apr 17, 2023 · NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Most of the guys come straight to the shop each afternoon. After long shifts at supermarkets and home improvement stores, they make their way to southwest Nashville just before 4 p.m., sometimes still in uniform, and pull into a massive parking lot shared by the local community college and the Nashville branch of the Tennessee College of Applied Technology, or TCAT.