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New research offers hope to first-generation college grads

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But data released from the statistics division of the U.S. Consider students who graduated from college with a four-year bachelor’s degree during the 2007-08 academic year. The report’s findings came from an analysis of three different national surveys that followed almost 50,000 students from high school onward.

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Held back, but not helped

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The proportion of overage students — those who have been retained for at least one grade — hovers around 40 percent for New Orleans high school students, according to an analysis of 2014 data by researchers at Education Research Alliance for New Orleans, which is based at Tulane University. percent national average.

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

Nearly 60 percent of students in gifted education are white, according to the most recent federal data , compared to 50 percent of public school enrollment overall. The Hechinger Report’s analysis of U.S. There are gifted dropouts. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights. The district acknowledged the shortcomings.

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Some experts have a new idea to help students afford college: more federal loans

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Related : New data show some colleges are definitively unaffordable for many. The aid offered to a sample of 11,000 students fell short by $12,000, on average, of covering what they’d have to pay, even after accounting for every possible grant and federal loan, according to an analysis by New America.

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Colleges face reckoning as plummeting birthrate worsens enrollment declines

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Even attracting that many required giving every entering freshman a discount from the advertised tuition, federal data reveal. Grim new birthrate data suggests there’s no rebound in sight. New federal data shows that the number of births last year declined by 4 percent, to the lowest point since 1979. Credit: AP Photo/Eric Gay.

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