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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 ...
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 …
What might happen if the Education Department were closed?
Nov 22, 2024 · Republican Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota recently introduced a bill to unwind the Education Department and spread its work across other federal agencies.. The Hechinger Report tried to answer some of the questions raised by the possible dismantling of the department, consulting experts and advocates on student loans, special education, financial aid, school lunch and beyond.
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 …
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 …
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 enrollment across the nation.
PROOF POINTS: New higher ed data by race and ethnicity
Feb 20, 2023 · Students’ race and ethnicity affect their chances of earning a college degree, according to several new reports on higher education released in January and February 2023. College degrees are increasing among all racial and ethnic groups, but white and Asian Americans are far more likely to hold a college degree or …
PROOF POINTS: Seven new studies on the impact of a four-day …
Aug 29, 2022 · The answer matters because hundreds of thousands of students at more than 1,600 schools across 24 states were heading to school only four times a week by the spring of 2019, according to one estimate.The number of four-day schools had exploded by more than 600 percent from 20 years earlier in 1999, when only about 250 schools had four-day weeks.
Colleges are now closing at a pace of one a week. What happens …
Apr 26, 2024 · About one university or college per week so far this year, on average, has announced that it will close or merge. That’s up from a little more than two a month last year, according to the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, or SHEEO.. So many colleges are folding that some students who moved from one to another have now found that their new school will also close, often ...