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Making the American Dream a Reality for Underserved Students

Edsurge

The subprime lending crisis of 2008, however, was a clear example of people being sold the American Dream without being given the tools to realize it. Collectively, college dropouts owe a staggering $1.35 In just one year (2010), the cost of college dropouts was $4.5 In just one year (2010), the cost of college dropouts was $4.5

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PROOF POINTS: COVID has been bad for college enrollment — but awful for community college students

The Hechinger Report

But the fall data show that white students are now matching these same high dropout rates. After the 2008 recession, many men were laid off from manufacturing jobs and enrolled in college to retrain. The number of Black and white undergraduate students is each down 8 percent between fall of 2019 and fall of 2020.

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OPINION: What health care can teach educators about the difference between ‘equal’ and ‘equitable’

The Hechinger Report

Longitudinal data show that students enrolled in City Connects schools performed better academically and had lower grade retention, chronic absenteeism and dropout rates. He served as Secretary of Education in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 2008 to 2013. Encouragingly, pioneers are making headway in this work.

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For some kids, returning to school post-pandemic means a daunting wall of administrative obstacles 

The Hechinger Report

She studies how burdensome paperwork and processes often prevent poor people from accessing health benefits. Inconsistent cell phone access isn’t uncommon among low-income Americans. I’m really taken aback that a district would set forth a series of policies that make it actually quite difficult to enroll your child.”

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Couch surfing, living in cars: Housing insecurity derails foster kids’ college dreams 

The Hechinger Report

Related: ‘Revolutionary housing’: How colleges aim to support formerly incarcerated students A major move to disrupt the foster-to-homelessness pipeline at the federal level began with legislation in 2008 that helped states extend foster care services from 18 to 21 years of age.

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Minnesota has a persistent higher-ed gap: Are new efforts making a difference?

The Hechinger Report

Though some programs have helped lower dropout rates and improved graduation rates for students of color, the gap in the percentage of students finishing a degree has barely budged across the 30 community colleges in the Minnesota State Colleges and University system. Paul College that shows students’ countries of origin.

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How a Chinatown school is trying to bring more diversity to theater

The Hechinger Report

A study found an 18-percent difference between dropout rates for low-income students with high arts participation (4 percent drop out) and those with less arts involvement (22 percent). Bush-era No Child Left Behind policies and the 2008 recession. Those realities lend extra urgency to the work that iTheatrics and NAAP do.

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