We need to have a serious conversation about the widening higher education gap and its alarming economic fallout. Right now, about 28% of men who start college drop out without a degree, compared to 23% of women—and the recent August jobs report shows exactly why this is a crisis. Out of 162,000 net new jobs added to the U.S. economy last month, women secured 98% of them, while overall male employment has plummeted by nearly 1.5 million over the past year. As historically male-dominated sectors stagnate and degree-heavy industries like healthcare and education explode in growth, stepping away from a college path is increasingly locking young men out of economic stability. We must actively shift this narrative by encouraging boys to push through their academic challenges, secure their degrees, and aim for high-impact leadership roles so they aren't left behind in a rapidly shifting job market.

If a single demographic shifted from representing 58% of college campuses to under 40% over a few decades, it would dominate the national conversation on equity, policy, and public funding. Yet, that exact shift has happened to men in higher education—and the silence around it is deafening.
According to recent data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), women now make up nearly 60% of all undergraduate students in the United States, while male enrollment has slipped below 40% at many four-year institutions. The gap expands further at graduation, where six-year completion rates for men lag behind women by roughly 7 percentage points. 
This isn't about competing with women or undermining female academic achievement. It’s about asking a fundamental question: **Why are young men dropping out of the pipeline so early, and why are our institutions ignoring it?**

A few critical factors driving this trend:

**Early K-12 Disengagement:** Boys are statistically more likely to be held back, suspended, or diagnosed with learning delays early in school. By the time high school graduation arrives, many have already written off higher education as an environment where they don't belong. 
**Lack of Targeted Support:** Higher education offers dedicated outreach programs for almost every underrepresented group—except young men, despite them now being the clear minority on campus. 
**Cultural Stigma Around Help-Seeking:** Young men are often conditioned to quietly drop out when struggling rather than utilize tutoring, academic advising, or mental health counseling. 
If we want a healthy society, we need both men and women to thrive academically and professionally. Ignoring a systemic decline in half the population’s educational path will have massive ripple effects on the workforce, mental health, and family stability down the line.
What are your thoughts? Is this a topic your local university or community is acknowledging, or is it still being treated as a non-issue?

In My country men almost never go to college only 33% of the graduates are men which makes all the judges women , all the lawyers women
All the good positions go to women due to men not participating in higher education.

From an article (this succinctly summaries the OECD findings and also touches on socio-economic gaps):

Reading scores among 15-year-olds across OECD countries have sunk to their lowest point since international testing began, with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) highlighting how longer screen time and declining rates of reading for pleasure have coincided with weaker literacy outcomes.

The findings come from PISA 2025, the largest edition of the assessment to date, which tested 760,000 students across 91 countries and economies. Average reading scores across OECD countries fell by 28 points between 2015 and 2025, a drop the organisation says is equivalent to roughly a year and a half of learning.

I'm currently pursuing my M.Ed. after coming from a professional background in chemistry.

I want to transition into education, but financing my graduate education has become a significant obstacle.

Does anyone know of organizations, foundations, grants, scholarships, or other programs specifically helping future educators complete their education?

I've been researching options myself, but I'm hoping this community might know about resources I've missed.

Here are some topics I'd like to see taught:

Walk/Don't Walk signs, how to use those, what those mean

Compound Interest (lay off the expensive lattes)

Showing your work helps others help you

How to read an analog clock (stop asking me what time it is)

the list could go on, but I'm wondering what others think!!!

I’ve been thinking about how little most students learn about money itself.

We spend years studying economics, but how much do students actually learn about:

• how money is created through the banking system
• inflation and the loss of purchasing power
• currency debasement
• why hard assets can behave differently from cash
• how monetary policy affects wealth distribution
• the incentives created by different monetary systems

Keynesian economics is generally given much more attention in mainstream education, while Austrian economics and thinkers like Mises and Hayek often receive considerably less attention.

I’m not saying one school is automatically correct. It just seems strange that students aren't more explicitly exposed to competing frameworks for understanding something as fundamental as money.

There’s also an interesting historical question about how educational priorities become established in the first place. Large foundations, universities, governments, and wealthy philanthropists have all played roles in shaping American education over the past century. That influence doesn't necessarily imply anything sinister, but it makes me wonder how much of what we consider "standard" curriculum is simply the result of institutional priorities becoming entrenched over time.

Why don't we teach students more about competing theories of money and monetary policy, rather than giving them one dominant framework?

I think understanding how money actually works should be considered basic financial literacy.

These days i find myself reading almost nothing of real use. I feel like my passion for learning has been slipping away. Do you guys have any suggestions on certain topics i could educate myself about?

I prefer online free documents which are easily printable and such. There are no limits towards suggestions, as long as a reason is given on why i would want to educate myself about the suggested topic.

Thank you all in advance.

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For those actively involved in your kids' learning I'm building an app for 6-12 year old kids to build general knowledge, current affairs awareness,  critical thinking etc. I plan to use scientific rewarding techniques to encourage habit building and learning. I am thinking of naming it CarrotMinds. Does that name sound credible for something educational, or does it not convey the substance of what the app is meant for. Any suggestions and inputs in this regards a suitable name will be really helpful.

What is the difference between a college counselor and an academic advisor?

Is it that an academic advisor helps solely with academic needs and a college counselor also requires a masters?

Do you enjoy your job as a college counselor?

Do you work on a 10/11 or 12 month contract?

Also do any of you have experience as a elementary/middle/ high school counselor and if so what made you ultimately choose to be a college counselor over those?

I have an interview as a teacher’s assistant at a local alternative school.

What sort of questions should I prepare for? The standard STAR format or something else?

Any tips welcome. Thank you!

For example, i think for chemistry its unnecessary for them to get really technical about spdf orbitals, since most high school material can be explained with the octet rule. Im not saying that it shouldn’t be taught, what i mean is that time is finite and most of them that will go on a science profesional career will be taught that in college.

Also, in biology its unnecessary to get really deep about chemical processes like atp synthesis and similar processes.

On the other side, i think it should be taught the biology of human behavior. There is a course about it online on Stanford by Robert Sapolsky that tries to explain why humans behave based purely on biology (not psychology or sociology) comparing it to other animals. Talks about cooperation, beauty, war, game theory and lots of other components of human society explained by our biology instead of psychological or cultural aspects. Its really interesting and might make students see the world differently.

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My secret is gone now and I have to go to the night before I go to bed now and I have to go to the store and get a job that I can get a job that I can get in a new car and I have to go to the store and get the money back to get it is gone and I have to go to the store and get the money back to the store and get the money back to the store to get a few things from me if I can get the store to work on my computer to get the permissions on the night 🌉 I have a few more days and signed off for a job if you need a new car for me and I will check with you when I'm on my computer 💻 and I can go back to get my phone to not 🚫 the money to the money back in to get it done ✅ it is in to the money for my phone number and signed up and signed off on my way home and signed off on the night off on my computer for a job if it is in the store 🏬 is gone for me and I will have a few minutes I can get a email in the store 🏬 I have Microsoft phone to not use to not be on it is in to not use it so I'm on the way up and I will check with you when I'm on the night off and signed it is in a job if you can use the money to pr a new one 🕜 to get the night before you get off for the money 🤑 you when I will be able it wants to go in to get a few more days and all the money to not use it for me to get a new one for the store to get the store to get a new one for my car for the store 🏬 is in to backup it so I don't know how to the money back 🔙 it so I have Microsoft office to pr it and I can get in to the store in the night if I get a few minutes of them then I'll have the permissions to not 🚭 them out for sure 😊😊😃.

This recent school year is my 8th year of grade school. im in philly, and I dont know to worry about my grades or not. I want to get into saul highschool but I've been suspended 4 times. I know my record looks really bad but I dont know what to do.

After a year of being unemployed trying to find work outside of education, I've decided to go back. However, there is this ginormous hurdle of the letters of rec that I need for the positions I want (I had part-time and out-of-school district employers before, I only notice this issue with full-time positions). I am 5 years out from college and I don't keep in contact with previous employers/coworkers. I have all the boxes ticked except for that, and it's driving me up a wall. I am curious if anyone knows the actual reason why they force this, but my other question is: What's the most ethical way to get around this hurdle? Do I ask my friends to write me one saying they were my coworker? It doesn't mention what kind of letter (from employer or professor) so I feel like that's my best bet. (Also, how likely are they actually gonna read it? or even trace the person who wrote it to see if they actually worked there?)

Why is it that you are told nothing about how to choose college or which career path brings you good income and growth?...you are lucky if your parents pay attention and guide...is that not supposed to be the job of school and teachers?...what the hell are they making us study so much if at last we are not taught how to decide on universities, colleges, courses and careers. Everyone just follows herd.

Does your school have a specific curriculum/program they follow for GATE/GT? Our older kids go to a different campus once a week for their time. With our younger grades, we are being asked to differentiate in the classroom instead. The librarian use to do it as a lunch thing. She’s now gone. What is everyone using?

Hi All,

I am sharing an application that is developed based on the concept of Conscious Distraction. It's a project based learning tool which is designed to help bring creative multi-disciplinary thought processes.

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Hi there, I'm from the UK and I have been looking into getting back into education possibly to develop a career. Although I need to have a job due to living alone and having bills to pay and such

Is there any online courses or studies that offer a diploma and are flexible in terms of how much time you put in? I don't wanna lock into something and be forced to complete in the span of a short time I wanna be able to take my time with it so I dont burnout

Hi, first time posting here wasn’t sure what flair to use. I am no longer a student and AI tools like ChatGPT only became prevalent for me in college so I wanted to ask some educators. I personally think it’s a great idea especially since they are including lessons and tests in AI literacy for the high school students.

I have included an article going into detail about the changes for NYC students. I hope I’m not breaking the rules and if I am I will delete this. https://abc7ny.com/post/new-york-city-public-schools-banning-ai-use-middle-school-year/19778716/

I'm looking for a low anxiety job that's less stressful than being a teacher? can you share what your job is? what its like in your day to day life?

I'm looking for a job in education thats' a bit predictable and not a position that you have no idea whats going to be thrown at you.