Education
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While the number of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics degrees earned by women increased in recent years, there’s still a gender gap.
Long before graduation, factors including early education, household income gaps, and disciplinary actions affect students’ abilities to access resources and succeed in school. These elements impact racial and ethnic groups differently and contribute to these unequal educational outcomes.
For most schools, athletics constitute a small portion of revenue. But in the Power Five Conferences—ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12, and SEC—football represents a larger portion of institution revenue.
As concerns about the spread of COVID-19 continue, administrators are deciding whether to start instruction for the new school year online, in person or a hybrid of both.
Education
As of 2018, 46% of children aged three to four were not enrolled in any pre-primary program, including preschool and kindergarten.
Forty-two million people, or one in six American adults, currently carry a federal student loan. The nation’s overall student debt reached $1.6 trillion in June 2019. What’s behind this large number?
More and more Americans are going to college as tuition increases. But what’s the actual cost of higher education? Here’s an analysis of how colleges finances work and how tuition factors in.
Teacher salaries have increased in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., but for some states the increases have not kept pace with inflation.
Early childhood education programs are increasingly popular. In 2017, two-thirds of preschool-aged children attended such programs.
