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OPINION: Colleges have an ethical responsibility to prepare all students for...

In a focus group I conducted with a colleague at a community college last year, I learned once again how little students know about the labor market. The ethnically diverse, young and predominantly...

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Beer making for credit: Liberal arts colleges add career tech

STRATFORD, Conn. — A Yale-educated evolutionary biologist and a member of the faculty at Catholic, liberal arts-focused Sacred Heart University, Geffrey Stopper also oversees one of its newest...

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Troubled by students she’s not reaching — ‘that no one is reaching’

AUSTIN, Texas — Anne Fletcher worries her students won’t succeed. This story also appeared in PBS Newshour It’s been more than a year since the coronavirus shut down most college campuses, and many of...

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Business partnerships with community colleges help funnel workers into better...

When Roma Ouk moved from Southern California to Scottsdale, Arizona, to get a fresh start, he decided to go back to school. The first thing he had to do was scrape together $270 and fill out an...

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OPINION: Liberal arts colleges must be partners in workforce development

We can use the power of the liberal arts to broaden workforce development. Liberal arts skills are really innovation skills, and must not be overlooked in the latest federal and state workforce...

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A silver lining: Rural students thrive in virtual college prep

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education...

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First nationwide look at racial breakdown of career education confirms deep...

In Nevada, just 4 percent of students who took a career-oriented science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) course in the 2019-20 school year — 88 students total — were Black, even though Black...

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Long disparaged, education for the skilled trades is slowly coming into fashion

MEDIA, Pa. — Young men in jackets and ties walk along tidy walkways that connect the redbrick buildings of the 220-acre campus of the Williamson College of the Trades. This story also appeared in The...

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Trying to give students in low-wage majors some extra skills they can cash in on

The University of Texas System is piloting a program to insert workplace skills valued by employers into the four-year curriculum, in an effort to boost earnings for alumni of the majors that...

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After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are...

Andrea Hernandez studied the multiplication table nearly every day during the summer between her third and fourth grade years. Sitting at her family’s kitchen table in Dallas while her mother prepared...

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