organization:national center for education

How an outdated law is leaving millions of low-income college students hungry
▻https://newfoodeconomy.org/gao-report-food-stamps-snap-college-student-hunger

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A 2017 survey of the California public university system, for instance, found that 40 percent of its undergraduate and graduate students faced food insecurity

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The data check out: Since 1975, college attendance among low-income high school graduates has more than doubled from 31.2 to 65.4 percent, according to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). That’s about the rate at which high-income high school graduates were already attending college back in 1975.

So a typical student body in the 1980s is no longer emblematic of college campus demographics today. The trouble is, our perception of college students as middle- and upper-class kids with parental support persists. That’s why some school officials perpetuate the misconception that college students are ineligible for SNAP, and why many believe it.

To make matters worse, food stamps laws are also stuck in the past.

#etats-unis #sous_alimentation #étudiants

The Changing Demographics Of Higher #Education | SafeHaven.com
▻https://safehaven.com/news/Breaking-News/The-Changing-Demographics-Of-Higher-Education.html

Women beat men in all degree categories of higher education, and they have for decades—and worldwide. Men, it seems are slowing enrollment at an alarming rate, and young women are driving the change.

While men once outnumbered women in terms of collection enrollment by as much as 58 percent to 42 percent in the 1970s, the ratio has now almost reversed.

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, women comprised more than 56 percent of students on campuses nationwide last year. That same year, about 2.2 million fewer men than women were enrolled in college.

And it’s a trend that shows no sign of veering off course. The National Center for Education Statistics also estimates that 57 percent of college students will be women by 2026.

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Commentaire de « naked capitalism » :
▻https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/08/links-8-22-18.html

I hate to sound like a nay-sayer, but feminization of professions is highly correlated with lower pay and status. Women were the first software engineers back in the day when hardware was cool, and then that speciality was reconstituted as requiring masculine attributes when software became a rewarding line of work. So I wonder if this development is a sign that more educational attainment is becoming less valuable than in the past.

This Fall, Minorities Will Outnumber White Students in U.S. Schools - The Atlantic
▻http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/08/this-fall-minorities-will-outnumber-white-students-in-us-schools/378772

While 62 percent of the total U.S. population was classified as non-Hispanic white in 2013, when public schools start this fall their racial landscape will reflect a different America.

According to a new report by the National Center for Education (NCES), minorities—Hispanics, Asians, African American, Native Americans, and multiracial individuals—will account for 50.3 percent of public school students. To break this down by grade levels, minorities will make up 51 percent of pre-kindergarteners to 8th graders and 48 percent of 9th to 12th graders.

Public Schools in the United States Projected to Be Majority Minority in 2014

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Note: Whites, blacks, Asian/Pacific Islander and American Indian/Alaska Native include only non-Hispanics. Hispanics are of any race. Prior to 2008, “two or more races” was not an available category. (Pew Research Center)