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We face another lost generation if we don’t do something about college enrollment
With free community college out, let’s make sure early college is still in Build Back Better, writes Deborah Delisle and Chris Gabrieli.
More students question college, putting counselors in a fresh quandary
The pandemic has made counselors reflect on how to help students evaluate many different paths and opportunities, then figure out what interests them.
Congress is cutting the funds that could have closed the homework gap
Billions of dollars that connected children to the internet during the pandemic is at risk of disappearing.
Students need more computer training for our increasingly digital world
There is a growing need to reframe computing in classrooms as an inherently social and learned set of skills. The end goal is not to just provide access to digital devices — it’s to develop the skills to use these tools for heightened learning, critical thinking and self-expression, writes Jean-Claude Brizard and Kelly Mills.
From Associate to B.A.: More people can finish a four-year degree at community colleges
Nearly half of states allow some community colleges to offer bachelor’s degree programs.
“It’s so hard and so challenging”: An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling
Teachers, parents and administrators from across the country told us what it’s like to be in school this year and how completely not normal it’s already become.
To attract more students to STEM fields in college, advocates urge starting in sixth grade
Early interventions attempt to funnel more students to science, technology, engineering and math.
Women have been marginalized in the building trades. The infrastructure bill could change that
Advocates say the bill – along with workforce funding in Democrats’ domestic spending proposal – present an opportunity to bring down barriers that have long kept women and people of color from construction jobs.
Let’s build from Covid-related innovation instead of going backward
We can — and must — address inequities that have long burdened students, writes Girls Who Code CEO Tarika Barrett.