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OPINION: Why Black student parents are at the epicenter of the student debt crisis — and what we can do about it

The Hechinger Report

When I graduated with a bachelor’s degree from William & Mary in 2003, I desperately needed a job. But just 3,300 of the more than 4 million student parents received assistance through the program in the 2016-17 school year. In addition, I had $30,000 in student debt. In recent years, as U.S. student loan debt climbed to $1.6

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One of the poorest cities in America was succeeding in an education turnaround. Is that now in peril?

The Hechinger Report

Decades of chronic underfunding is often at the root of the struggles in districts like Cleveland to serve high proportions of Black and Latino students from low-income backgrounds, said Allison Rose Socol, a vice president at The Education Trust, an education advocacy group.

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Universities increasingly turn to graduate programs to balance their books

The Hechinger Report

That’s in part because the net price, or the amount students actually pay after discounts and financial aid, has increased nearly twice as fast for graduate as for undergraduate programs in the 10 years ending in 2016. Graduate school is way more expensive than undergrad,” Rivero said. Tuition and fees at the law school at St.

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Close the Achievement Gap: 5 Specific Strategies

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In Closing the Achievement Gap: A Vision for Changing Beliefs and Practices (2003), Belinda Williams identified four needs of students. In many middle and high schools, an advisory or advocacy program is often included. Barbara Blackburn was named one of the Top 30 Global Gurus in Education in 2016, 2017, and 2018.

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Do income-based repayment plans drive young borrowers of color deeper into debt?

The Hechinger Report

Half of Black borrowers who first entered college in the 2003 defaulted on their student loans within 12 years; the comparable figure for white students is 21 percent. In 2016, the net worth of young adults with the same debt status was negative $1,900. Although the three-year default rate was still extremely high at 9.7

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Schools Were Just Supposed To Block Porn. Instead They Sabotaged Homework and Censored Suicide Prevention Sites

The Hechinger Report

At the same time, the filter allows Rockwood students to see anti-LGBTQ+ information online from fundamentalist Christian group Focus on the Family and the Alliance Defending Freedom, a legal nonprofit the Southern Poverty Law Center labeled an anti-LGBTQ+ hate group in 2016. Despite the category name, it is not designed to include porn.

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Scrutiny of colleges that get billions in GI Bill money remains mired in bureaucracy

The Hechinger Report

An advocacy group called Veterans Education Success (VES) has collected 113 more from veterans and service members, many of which echo Baca’s criticisms about quality and cost. “I A series of changes in 2011 and 2016 meant to clarify oversight roles has only muddled things, according to the VES report.

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