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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 ...
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 ...
A strong proponent of school choice, school voucher programs, and charter schools, DeVos was a much-contested choice as her own education and career had little to do with formal experience in the US education system. [94] In a Republican-dominated senate, she received a 50–50 vote - a tie that was broken by Vice President Mike Pence.
Students and educators across the country are heading back to school this month with a fresh set of challenges for the academic year, as well as some lingering from the last one. Educators face ...
The new education secretary Bridget Phillipson faces an in-tray of challenges facing schools, colleges, universities and childcare providers. Leaders in the education sector have called for ...
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.
What do you think are the three most important issues facing education in Gaston County today and how would you address them? The 3 most important issues are: Teacher retention/recognition ...
Each state supports at least one state university and many support several. At one extreme, California has three public higher education systems: the 10-campus University of California, the 23-campus California State University, and the 112-campus California Community Colleges System. In contrast, Wyoming supports a single state university ...