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ERIC EJ792538: Tunnel Vision: New England Higher Education Ignores ... |
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This author states that American higher education ignores |
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about 90 percent of the environment in which it operates. |
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Colleges change admissions requirements without even |
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informing high schools in their service areas. Community |
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college graduates are denied access to four-year programs |
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because of policy changes made only after it was too late |
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for the students to adjust their studies accordingly. |
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Most important, the enormous shifts in pre-K-12 education |
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caused by the No Child Left Behind Act are totally |
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unknown to higher education's leaders. There are also |
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several demographic factors that New Englanders have |
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ignored. First and most important, the decreasing birth |
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rate in three New England states means that, unless young |
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families of childbearing age start moving into New |
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England in droves, the region's population will get older |
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and smaller very quickly. A second factor is the "net" of |
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people moving in and out of a state. During the 1990s, |
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four New England states saw more people move out than in. |
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Many of New England's low-income and minority citizens |
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are not participating in the American Dream, and the |
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number of college-goers in the region known around the |
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world as a center of higher education is lower than one |
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would expect, especially in Vermont. |
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Date Published: 2016-05-29 12:04:02 |
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Identifier: ERIC_EJ792538 |
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Item Size: 2046136 |
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Language: english |
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Media Type: texts |
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