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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 we know from an analysis of federal data that nationally, one in five college students is parenting, more than a third of Black college students are parents, and nearly half of all Black female undergraduates are mothers.

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Interactive: Explore who gains most from canceling student debt

The Hechinger Report

A Hechinger analysis of federal data provides additional dimensions to the picture of student debt. There are some folks who have what is considered a high income who have no wealth to show for it,” said Ashley Harrington, federal advocacy director for the Center for Responsible Lending, which supports a $50,000 student loan forgiveness plan.

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Positive Behavior Supports Creating Meaningful Life Options for People with ASD

Digital Promise

In sum, a systems analysis represents a strategy for ensuring that well-conceived and well-meaning plans are embedded in a context that is likely to support and enhance intervention effectiveness. These perspectives greatly increase the likelihood of intervention success in the real-world settings of home, school, community and workplace.

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REINVENTING.SCHOOL Today with Howard Blumenthal - "Paying for School" with Andreas Schleicher #reinventingschool #learningrevolution

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

As a key member of the OECD Senior Management team, Mr. Schleicher supports the Secretary-General’s strategy to produce analysis and policy advice that advances economic growth and social progress. Before joining the OECD, Mr. Schleicher was Director for Analysis at the International Association for Educational Achievement (IEA).

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A ‘shockingly broken system’: More than a dozen states are failing to meet child care safety regulations

The Hechinger Report

Ten years after those rules around health and safety were put in place, over a dozen states are failing to fulfill all the reporting requirements, an in-depth analysis from The 19th found. They found 1,362 fatalities in child care from 1985 through 2003, 75 percent of them in home-based care, both licensed and unlicensed.

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Segregated schools are still the norm. Howard Fuller is fine with that

The Hechinger Report

It’s the first week of school at Milwaukee Collegiate Academy, a charter high school Fuller founded in 2003 that’s housed in a low-slung concrete warehouse just a five-minute drive from the North Division campus. Black schools for black children. The trade-off.

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‘You can’t help but to wonder’: Crumbling schools, less money, and dismal outcomes in the county that was supposed to change everything for black children in the South

The Hechinger Report

White students account for less than 5 percent of enrollment in these districts, according to a Hechinger Report analysis of state data. Since 2003, public schools in the state have only been fully funded twice. Since the MAEP went into full effect, the state education budget met the minimum required in only two years, 2003 and 2007.

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