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PROOF POINTS: Plenty of Black college students want to be teachers, but something keeps derailing them late in the process

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The June 2023 research report, “ Tracking Progress Through Michigan’s Teacher Pipeline ,” analyzed prospective teachers of all races, and found that enrollment in education courses has been declining since 2010. In other words, the decline in prospective Black teachers far exceeded the Black college dropout rate.)

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Making the American Dream a Reality for Underserved Students

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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. Tyler’s story is a classic example of how higher education has become a blind spot in our society. Collectively, college dropouts owe a staggering $1.35 How would she afford it?

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Kids Don’t Fail, Schools Fail Kids: Sir Ken Robinson on the 'Learning Revolution'

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“The problems tends to arise when kids go to school because the deeper they get in, the more they start to lose interest,” Robinson said, pointing to the United States’ large student dropout percentage as evidence that school—as a system—is failing students. One key example: standardized testing. Sir Ken Robinson.

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

The Hechinger Report

Education is an example of what’s called “recovery capital,” something earned that makes long-term recovery more likely. Since 2010, enrollment at two-year institutions has declined by nearly 40 percent, as more people have opted to remain in the workforce or head directly to four-year colleges, among other factors.

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

The Hechinger Report

“It’s essentially a vestige of colonialism,” said Roberto Jiménez Rivera, a rare example of a native Puerto Rican from modest means who went to college on the mainland, where he now is an assistant director of admissions at Tufts University. Department of Education says. Enrique Ferna?ndez, Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report.

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

The Hechinger Report

And since 2010, Native enrollment in higher-ed institutions also has declined by about 37 percent, the largest drop in any student demographic group. If her daughter, for example, a Eugene middle schooler, maintains a 3.0 The University of Maine, for example, has had a tuition waiver option since the 1930s.

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

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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. Fisher Middle School, for example, to continue in an engineering and STEM curriculum, or they can attend League Academy for a middle school more focused on arts.

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