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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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“There are a lot of potentially great educators who just aren’t making it to the classroom,” said Tara Kilbride, lead author of the analysis conducted by Education Policy Innovation Collaborative (EPIC), a research center at Michigan State University. Many of these Black students are staying in college and earning degrees.

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Some evidence for the importance of teaching black culture to black students

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A Stanford University study finds that dropout rates were lower in Oakland, California, high schools that offered a special class for black students called the Manhood Development Program. Throughout the city, the black male graduation rate jumped from 46 percent in 2010 to 69 percent in 2018. What does this mean for policy makers?

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OPINION: Why Black student parents are at the epicenter of the student debt crisis — and what we can do about it

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According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, Black students who are raising children borrow an average of $18,100 for college, compared with an average of $13,500 among all students. We need to name the racist policies baked into our postsecondary system that contribute to this unequal burden.

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

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It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance. It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance,” said Aponte, who also served as U.S. Department of Education.

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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. But you want them to have a kind of better, more full understanding of careers.”. The Education Department did not respond to a request for comment about Cardona’s tweet.).

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

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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. The schools are pursuing their goals of serving more students, but the additional supports bring higher costs.

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

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population and more than 13 percent of New York City’s population, per the 2010 census. 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). percent of all roles, though Asians are 5.6

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