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OPINION: We can and must do better to help Black students enroll in college and succeed

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These barriers include the cost of higher education, the disproportionate debt Black students and families take on and the discrimination and lack of belonging many Black students experience at college. We are calling for action in four areas: Making higher education truly accessible and affordable for Black learners and their families.

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DEBT WITHOUT DEGREE: The human cost of college debt that becomes “purgatory”

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You’re in purgatory,” said Nicole Smith, vice president of Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce. By 2025, more than 60 percent of Georgia jobs will require some kind of post-secondary education, and now only 45 percent of the state’s young adults meet that criterion.

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College students predicted to fall by more than 15% after the year 2025

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“The number of kids born from 2008 to 2011 fell precipitously. Grawe’s forecasts for the number of students at two-year community colleges and four-year institutions are published in his book, Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education , with updates on his website. “But you can understand.

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Low academic expectations and poor support for special education students is ‘hurting their future’

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This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. Mark Nelson was ready to take a final during his sophomore year at Monrovia High School in Southern California in 2011. Sign up for our newsletter.

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These students are finishing high school, but their degrees don’t help them go to college

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This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem. Who is in Special Education? Higher Education.

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Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff

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Wilkins-Walker teaches career and technical education at West Philadelphia High School, where she has worked for a decade. The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. PHILADELPHIA — At first, Marie Wilkins-Walker was just happy to be back in a classroom.

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Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost

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My parents always stressed how powerful an education is and how it is the key to success,” Keenan said. In meetings with his academic adviser during the second semester of his freshman year, Robinson said he learned that though his GPA was solid, the school’s computer algorithm saw trouble.

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