Education

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American Community Colleges Become a Labor-Market Pivot

Two-year institutions are reabsorbing functions the four-year system has shed, becoming the most flexible part of an otherwise rigid American education-to-work system.

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Community College Pathways Expand as Four-Year Costs Climb

As four-year college costs press on family budgets, community colleges and alternative credential pathways are drawing a growing share of students seeking more affordable routes.

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Higher Education Becomes a Quiet Instrument of Soft Power

Universities have become a contested arena of international influence, with the flow of students, scholars, and research shaping perceptions and alignments far beyond classrooms.

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Community Colleges Reposition Around Workforce Training Demand

Two-year institutions are increasingly orienting their programs toward employer demand, reshaping their role in the education landscape and their relationship with local labor markets.

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Schools Reopen Across Southern Iraq and Khuzestan as Returnee Classrooms Strain Under Trauma and Shortages

Provincial education ministries in southern Iraq and Iran's Khuzestan province reopened more than 1,800 schools to returning displaced families on Monday, with aid agencies warning that overcrowded rooms, missing teachers and untreated trauma threaten to swamp the rollout.

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'An Entire School Year Lost': Displaced Children from Iran War Strain Host Systems from Amman to Erbil

More than 410,000 school-age children have been pulled out of classrooms across five countries since the Iran war began, UNICEF said Friday, warning that improvised arrangements in host communities were already buckling under the load.

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UNICEF Warns of Lost School Year as Displaced Children Across Iraq, Lebanon and Iran Exceed Three Million

More than three million children across Iraq, Lebanon, Iran and Yemen have not been inside a functioning classroom in over a month, UNICEF said Wednesday, warning that the war's youngest casualties were being measured in interrupted brain development and lost literacy.

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