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The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 7, 2021
She was relieved when she was accepted into a subsidy program run by a California nonprofit that provided her with financial assistance for her son’s care. Looking back, Merwin sees finding affordable child care as a critical turning point in her life. She was living in foster care and had no family to rely on to help with costs.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 5, 2023
The time has come to face up to a troubling fact: Affirmative action is a policy designed to affect access to higher education, but many colleges have never sufficiently addressed their role in preparing students for a successful transition to life in college or gone beyond a laissez-faire approach to providing supports once they get in.
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The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
And this is what it sounds like: Thundering footfalls from the bedroom above my office, as my third grader jumps over virtual dinner plates, dodges pixels of pumpkin pie and karate-chops cartoon carrots in a Thanksgiving-themed online fitness game that her PE teacher is using as a warmup. This story also appeared in The Washington Post.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 31, 2022
That could prevent both private and public universities from considering a student’s race or ethnicity as one of many factors in admissions, along with grades, test scores and extracurricular activities. . Four years after the Top Ten Percent policy started, the percentage of Black and Hispanic students increased by only 1.6
The Cornerstone for Teachers
MAY 9, 2021
It’s fascinating to consider WHY teachers at two schools in the same community can have wildly different teacher retention and satisfaction rates. This started before COVID in many areas, but the oftentimes chaotic and unpredictable approach to remote and hybrid learning this past year has made the situation more dire.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 22, 2019
Wealthy families have increasingly turned to private college consultants to help their children line up high school classes and extracurriculars, write admissions essays, prepare for the SAT and ACT and choose colleges that provide a good fit. She didn’t know what sort of colleges might be likely to offer her admission. trillion in 2019.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 9, 2016
Elijah Corbin Irving, a senior at Snowden International School in Boston, uses the American Student Assistance’s Boston Public Library College Planning Center as a resource. The Common Application, the online gateway to some 700 American colleges, can seem like an impenetrable wall for many low-income and first-generation students.
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