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Overdue tuition and fees — as little as $41 — derail hundreds of thousands of California community college students

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million students from fall 2019 to fall of 2021, according to state data leaving campuses worried about their future and potential students with fewer of the opportunities offered by higher education. Other times, they’ve paid tuition in full, but owe money for overdue parking, library or housing fees.

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States use direct mail, money, to get more of their residents back to college

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The push to reach these dropouts by Mississippi and other states, including Indiana and Tennessee, reflects a growing recognition that there just aren’t enough students coming out of U.S. Go Back” campaign in Indiana, among the several states trying to get college dropouts to finish their college educations. Higher Education.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

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After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. We have this huge digital divide that’s making it hard for [students] to get their education,” she said. OAKLAND, Calif.

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Facing a white-collar worker shortage, American companies seek a blue-collar solution

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The dean’s list student ended up a college dropout, a gay 20-something cut off from his parents after coming out, and working at a UPS Store in a job he described as “retail drudgery” while running up credit card debt and stringing out his college loans. You don’t have to have a dime in your pocket and you can get your education.”

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Thousands of kids are missing from school. Where did they go?

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She also didn’t allow Kailani to use her headphones while working independently in class, something permitted in her special education plan to help her focus, according to Kailani. Missing” students received crisis-level attention in 2020 after the pandemic closed schools nationwide. In short, they’re missing.

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The Prison to College Pipeline

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This story also appeared in The Nation The walls of the John Irwin House are more window than anything else, like another space at CSUF designed for formerly incarcerated students: the library’s “study and hangout place,” with its sparkling floor-to-ceiling panes, formally known as the Center for Hope and Redemption.

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Largely unseen and unsupported, huge numbers of student fathers are quitting college

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More than two-thirds of those students — about 70 percent — are women , according to Education Department data analyzed by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Among single, Black and Latino fathers, the dropout rate is about 70 percent. That’s where education becomes a second or third or fourth priority to everything else.”

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