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Marin Moms of Boys Initiative: Gender Books
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Marin Moms of Boys Initiative. Local Moms of Boys mobilize to bring awareness to the gender gap in education today.Join us! Every Kind of Mind (EKOM). Hot Books on the Gender Gap. Order from Book Passages to benefit the Library! Corte Madera, Ca. Saving Our Sons from an Educational. That's Leaving Them Behind. The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of. Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men. The Trouble with Boys:. A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School,. Which condu...
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Postsecondary Education OPPORTUNITY: October 2006
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Tuesday, October 03, 2006. It's Affordability, at Last! The college affordability crisis in U.S. higher education is now so severe that all recent national reports highlight it. In September along these reports were released:. From the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education gave 43 states F grades on college affordability. The previous report in 2004 gave 36 states F grades. The 2002 report gave 13 states F grades. The original 2000 report gave 3 states F grades on college affordability.
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Postsecondary Education OPPORTUNITY: April 2008
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Saturday, April 12, 2008. At an international conference in Toronto in April of 2008, many speakers from Canada and Europe spoke a language- English- that I thought I did too. Besides their accents, these speakers used vocabulary with which I was often only vaguely familiar. And sometimes not at all. So I started taking notes. Here are the words and phrases that "caught my ear:". Wicked problems, issues. Moral blot on society. Work from the same hymn sheet. Lead, or be led. Third level, second level.
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Postsecondary Education OPPORTUNITY: December 2005
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Wednesday, December 28, 2005. Unmet Financial Need for Undergraduate Students. From the 2004 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study we have calculated unmet financial need for undergraduate students for the 2003-04 academic year. Unmet financial need is cost of attendance less expected family contribution less all financial aid received (grants, loans, work-study and other financial aid). For all undergraduates in the U.S. total unmet need was $31.9 billion. Posted by Tom Mortenson @ 6:53 AM. We have j...
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Is Our Aging Population a Threat to Education? - New England Board of Higher Education : New England Board of Higher Education
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Data & Reports. Annual Guide to Colleges & Universities. Policy & Research. Reports & Analysis. Trends & Indicators. NC-SARA & Documents. Colleges & Universities. NE Public Policy Institutes. State & Regional Organizations. Other Sites of Interest. Friday, August 19, 2016. Is Our Aging Population a Threat to Education? September 9, 2014. A Demographer Looks at New England’s Population and the Future of Education. Between the 2000 and 2010 census, the number of children under age 18 in New England decline...
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Postsecondary Education OPPORTUNITY: August 2006
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Monday, August 21, 2006. Ranking colleges and universities. If you do not like the criteria used by US News. In their annual guide to America’s best colleges and universities, you might check out the Washington Monthly. These two alternative approaches illustrate Mies van der Rohe’s dictum: God is in the details. Different criteria produce different rankings. That are stacked heavily toward colleges that enroll mostly rich white students. Take a different approach:. The social mobility component has two ...
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Postsecondary Education OPPORTUNITY: February 2006
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Sunday, February 19, 2006. Public Universities: Refocusing from Low Income to Non-Resident. Public higher education has been treated brutally in state budgeting since about 1980. States have been shifting their fiscal resources toward corrections (prisons, law enforcement, courts) and Medicare (health care for poor people) and away from everything else, especially public higher education. The resulting fiscal pressure on public universities has led directly to higher tuition charges to students. For exam...
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Postsecondary Education OPPORTUNITY: May 2006
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Wednesday, May 24, 2006. Class Segregation of Higher Education. It is no secret that higher education is divided along class lines. We recently calculated median parental income for dependent undergraduate students by institutional sector from the 2004 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study. There results were:. Private 4-year colleges and universities: $67,534. Public 4-year colleges and universities: $63,888. Public 2-year colleges: $53,010. Private less than 4-year: $47,279. Different sectors of hig...
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Postsecondary Education OPPORTUNITY: March 2006
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Wednesday, March 29, 2006. College Continuation Rates for Recent High School Graduates in 2005. The college continuation rate for 2005 high school graduates was 68.6%- the highest on record since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began reporting these data in 1959. This broke the previous record of 67.0% set in 1997. Out of 2,675,000 high school graduates 1,834,000 were enrolled in college by October 2005. White high school graduates were enrolled in college at a record high rate of 69.4%. The gap between w...
