Opinion: Practicing Factfulness based on data.
The Australian government is mandating that university students who score less than 50 percent in their exams will be entitled to a slew of educational life-savers. University-funded tutoring, counselling, examination…
4 million fewer college students enrolled in 2022 than in 2012.
Only example given turns out to be an economist with an $800,000 list price education, who got assistance buying a house after graduation. Hmmmmm.
Oregon, with a fertility rate of 1.39, is seeing a sharp decline in Portland high school enrollment.
The College Board (SAT tests) was caught sending student SAT scores and GPA and web site search terms to Facebook and Tiktok.
Half of all STEM grad degrees in the U.S. go to foreign students, a majority of which will then work in the U.S.
Salt Lake City, Denver-area, Anchorage, San Francisco - already announced closures or discussing which schools to close.
Since 1980, more women than men pursue 4-year college degrees. The background to this is fascinating.
The government says the pay premium for a Master's degree versus cost of the education, may no longer make economic sense.
Many students who take on large education loans end up with a lower (or negative) net worth for years or decades, making them less well off.