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Held back, but not helped

The Hechinger Report

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

The Hechinger Report

The stretch of grass overlooking the amphitheater, Reflection Pond and the library “is pretty breathtaking,” she said. 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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