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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. Because of this outdated notion, very few colleges even keep data on whether their students are parents. Department of Education’s Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) program. In recent years, as U.S.

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More on the Cost Trap and Inclusive Access

Iterating Toward Openness

My recent post about the cost trap and inclusive access prompted responses by Jim Groom and Stephen Downes. For example, in 2015 I wrote that “My ultimate goal is this: I want to (1) radically improve the quality of education as judged by learners, and (2) radically improve access to education. And I want to do it worldwide.”

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Universities increasingly turn to graduate programs to balance their books

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Meanwhile, data from states that track graduates’ income show that, even after all that debt, people with master’s degrees in some fields, including early childhood education, philosophy and art, make less than others with only bachelor’s or even associate degrees. Many say they got inadequate advising and support. Thomas University.

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At Georgia State, black students find comfort and academic success

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From 2003 to 2015, according to GSU , its graduation rate (finishing a bachelor’s degree within six years of starting) for African-American students rose from 29 to 57 percent. Related: Black students are drastically underrepresented at top public colleges, data show. For Hispanic students, it went from 22 to 54 percent.

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The number of grandparents raising grandchildren is up, thanks in part to the opioid epidemic

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By 2014, the latest year for which data is available, that number had risen to 2.7 In order to serve this hidden population, the Senior Services Department in Clayton County, Georgia — where Eschman has raised her grandchildren — started the Kinship Care Program in 2003. The Census Bureau’s 2005 American Community Survey counted 2.4

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

The Hechinger Report

An elementary schooler in the same district couldn’t access a picture of record-breaking sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner to add to a writing assignment. CIPA, a federal law passed in 2000, requires schools seeking subsidized internet access to keep students from seeing obscene or harmful images online—especially porn. Is that fair?”

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Counseling kids during the coronavirus: A tough job made even tougher

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Just before this crisis began, Arizona was poised to spend millions more on boosting its thin roster of counselors, thanks in part to the advocacy of students like Kumar. National data suggest there’s a rising need for mental health supports for adolescents. Arizona has the highest student-to-counselor ratio in the nation at 905-to-1.

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