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A Playbook to Help Colleges Bring Students Across the Degree Finish Line
As the pandemic continues to make completing a degree harder for many, the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), a nonprofit research and advocacy organization, published a playbook to help institutions support these millions of people with some credits but no degree.
As Omicron Surges, California Students Demand More From Adults
An ‘onslaught’ of school protest aims to do what California’s government has struggled to achieve: keep students safe.
California schools under intense strain, fighting to stay open during Omicron surge
Educators across California are in triage mode working to keep campuses open and the state’s 6 million children in class as Omicron-fueled coronavirus cases surge.
Millions Have Lost a Step Into the Middle Class, Researchers Say
The new figure points to the challenge for the majority of Americans who do not have a four-year college degree.
Students, seeing lax coronavirus protocols, walk out and call in sick to protest in-person classes
Nearly two years since the coronavirus hit, the adults — parents, teachers, administrators, politicians — have spent a lot of time and energy fighting over what schooling in a pandemic should look like. Now, for the first time in large numbers, students are rising up and demanding that they get a say, too.
California’s undergraduate enrollment dropped by about 250,000 during pandemic years
California’s fall 2021 undergraduate enrollment dropped by nearly a quarter-million students since pre-pandemic fall 2019, according to a survey released Thursday.
Colleges enrolled 1M fewer undergrads in fall 2021 than before the pandemic
Colleges enrolled around 1 million fewer undergraduate students in fall 2021 compared to fall 2019, according to data released by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center that captures the toll the pandemic has taken on the higher education sector.
High calculus failure rates thwart students across CSU
At 21 of the CSU’s 23 campuses, at least 20% of students on average in Calculus 1 received D or F grades or withdrew over the past three years, according to an EdSource analysis of data from the schools.
The right priorities? Reactions to Gov. Newsom's K-12 budget for 2022-23
Read Anne Stanton's response to Governor Newsom's K-12 budget proposal in EdSource.