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Community colleges tackle another challenge: Students recovering from past substance use

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At two-year institutions, admission is accessible, tuition is affordable, and flexible coursework fits into schedules complicated not only by jobs and families, but counseling, support groups and doctor visits. “I I don’t know why we weren’t trying to do this years ago,” Miller said.

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In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

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The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. It impedes access to institutions they might be qualified for, because it’s not being accepted.”. How is it going to be accessible?

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College tuition breaks for Native students spread, but some tribes are left out

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And since 2010, Native enrollment in higher-ed institutions also has declined by about 37 percent, the largest drop in any student demographic group. Documentation depends on the information families can access to prove their lineage. Studies suggest affordability is one of the leading causes of attrition.

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What happened when a South Carolina city embraced career education for all its students

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One week per month, engineers from local industries visit the classrooms and talk to students about their careers. . Whittenberg has been around since 2010, when Greenville County Schools opened it as a magnet school in an area that is historically low-income and majority Black.

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Can ‘work colleges’ in cities become a low-cost, high-value model for the future?

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The Plano region added more than 114,000 jobs between 2010 and 2015, according to the city’s economic development team. For in-person instruction, students will go to classes at designated spaces easily accessible from their jobs and provided by the college’s corporate partners.

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Homework in a McDonald’s parking lot: Inside one mother’s fight to help her kids get an education during coronavirus

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Her cellphone’s data plan — the only way she could access the internet at home — wasn’t up to the task. Greenville schools have some of the highest school dropout rates in the state, and Johnson also viewed staying at home as necessary to defend her children’s chances of living an easier life. This story also appeared in HuffPost.

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Why high school football is making a comeback in New Orleans

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Martin liked KIPP Believe, but when he was looking at high schools, he was apprehensive about enrolling at KIPP Renaissance, which opened in 2010. “At KIPP Renaissance moved into the building in 2010, adding a new grade each year until it fully ousted Douglass in 2014. (The acronym stands for Knowledge is Power Program.).

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