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

The Hechinger Report

But it’s only in the last dozen or so years that programs began popping up at community colleges; Minneapolis College’s program, opened in 2017, was the first in Minnesota and the fifth in the nation. Schools investing in recovery programs do so without an abundance of research connecting the programs to improved student outcomes.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via The Student Loan Report : “Halfway Through 2017, Here Are the Best & Worst Student Loan Servicers.” The Flatiron School has released its latest “outcomes report.” “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? trillion in 2017. The Business of Student Loans. ”).

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‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

The Hechinger Report

Collins Elementary School, in southeastern Mississippi, paddled students more times than almost any school in the country in 2017-18, the last year for which there is national data. During the 2017-18 school year, more than 69,000 students received corporal punishment almost 97,000 times nationwide.