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Students, feeling nickel-and-dimed, force new scrutiny of college fees

The Hechinger Report

Now add fees for student activities, fees for athletics, fees for building maintenance , fees for libraries — even fees for graduation, the bills for which often arrive just as students and their families thought they were finally done paying for their higher educations. Dropout rates have also fallen. Think tuition is high?

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Hope in coal country: Parents without diplomas keep their kids in school

The Hechinger Report

High school dropouts are much more likely to be unemployed than those with a diploma, and they earn thousands of dollars less per year. Freshly painted two-floor shingle houses sit next to beat-up trailers that lack regular access to electricity. In Leslie County, few people think that industry or the government will help.

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After a tough but promising freshman year, Dartmouth student tackles change at elite campuses

The Hechinger Report

“We are expected to fail,” said Inoa, discussing widely held perceptions of poor black and Latino young men, while gesturing towards Dartmouth’s iconic symbols of privilege: white brick buildings with black shutters, sweeping lawns and well-stocked libraries. “We We are not supposed to be here.”. Related: Behind the Latino College Degree Gap.

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