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Access to higher education has characterized by some as a rite of passage and the key to the American Dream. Higher education presents a wide range of issues for government officials, educational staff, and students. Financial difficulties in continuing and expanding access as well as affirmative action programs have been the subject of growing ...
Unequal access to education in the United States results in unequal outcomes for students. Disparities in academic access among students in the United States are the result of multiple factors including government policies, school choice, family wealth, parenting style, implicit bias towards students' race or ethnicity, and the resources available to students and their schools.
One explanation posits that tuition increases simply reflect the increasing costs of producing higher education due to its high dependence upon skilled labor.According to the theory of the Baumol effect, a general economic trend is that productivity in service industries has lagged that in goods-producing industries, and the increase in higher education costs is simply a reflection of this ...
The education sector is shedding jobs, and analysts worry that that they may never come back. America's education sector is facing job losses 'you do not want to see' [Video] Skip to main content
Educational equity, also known as equity in education, is a measure of equity in education. [1] Educational equity depends on two main factors. The first is distributive justice, which implies that factors specific to one's personal conditions should not interfere with the potential of academic success.
School closures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have shed a light on numerous issues affecting access to education, as well as broader socio-economic issues. [27] As of 12 March, more than 370 million children and youth are not attending school because of temporary or indefinite country wide school closures mandated by governments in an ...
This has presented several challenges for both educators, students, and their families due to unequal access to education and inadequate home learning environments. Several online surveys conducted in March during the beginning of the pandemic showed that teachers had several students not logging in to complete assignments. [ 11 ]
Three McKinsey chief diversity and inclusion officers argue that the biggest issue facing women at work is the ‘broken rung’ Joey Abrams, Nina Ajemian March 6, 2025 at 9:01 AM