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New research offers hope to first-generation college grads

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A February 2018 report found that, nationwide, those who earn a bachelor’s degree are likely to earn the same paychecks as their peers who had more educated parents. Department of Education earlier this month points out that a college education can still be a lever of social mobility. Photo: Meredith Kolodner.

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Are our definitions of ‘college readiness’ too high?

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Considering that these data don’t include dropouts, it seems safe to say that no more than one in three American high-school students is capable of hitting the College Board’s benchmark. In these states in 2015, the percentage of students averaging at least 500 on the reading section ranged from 33 percent (in D.C.) via [link].

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The educational value of a black teacher

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If, after a natural disaster decimated a city, I proposed to a governor or a school board that they replace a significant portion of a majority- white teaching corps with black teachers because doing so would potentially confer educational and social benefits, I’d probably be denounced as a racist and publicly excoriated.

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Colleges face reckoning as plummeting birthrate worsens enrollment declines

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Credit: Jumping Rocks/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. Universities doing this say they’re “creating greater access and opportunity,” as Fairleigh Dickinson put it, or moving to “strengthen educational value,” according to Rider. Grim new birthrate data suggests there’s no rebound in sight.

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School counselors keep kids on track. Why are they first to be cut?

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“Since my parents didn’t get much education, it’s hard to talk to them about my schoolwork and applying to college, or how to plan my time and get everything done,” says Mariano Almanza, 18, pictured speaking with his Coronado High School guidance counselor, Colleen McElvogue. Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report.

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OPINION: A New York model helps community college students reach their goals

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As public confidence in the value of higher education wanes, state and national higher education leaders must do more to invest in programs that have demonstrated success at improving college completion rates and helping students find well-paying jobs. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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TEACHER VOICE: College students who lack basic skills can learn to love reading and writing

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percent literacy rate , the seventh-lowest among the 50 states, and one of the highest school dropout rates. Since 2007, with his spouse, Leilani Darling, J.D., This story about teaching community college was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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