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

The Hechinger Report

At two-year institutions, admission is accessible, tuition is affordable, and flexible coursework fits into schedules complicated not only by jobs and families, but counseling, support groups and doctor visits. “I A new networking group for community college program coordinators held its first call in February.

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While focus is on fall, students? choices about college will have a far longer impact

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Now, just as happened in the last recession, it is likely to take them even longer and cost more, while — after years of hard-won progress — dropout rates rise and graduation rates fall. In-person events like this have proven to reduce dropout rates for first-year students, but some may be canceled this year because of the pandemic.

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

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Credit: Don & Melinda Crawford/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images For decades, a handful of individual states and schools have offered financial assistance to Native students. Documentation depends on the information families can access to prove their lineage.

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Arne Duncan Joins Board of Ed-Tech Company Pluralsight

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Duncan told Fast Company that he sees Pluralsight, which is reportedly worth more than $1 billion and is funded by Silicon Valley interests , as a way to provide more learning opportunities to a broad group of people, including those who traditionally may not have access to such courses.

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

The Hechinger Report

A report published Thursday by the Student Borrower Protection Center , a nonprofit advocacy group focused on student debt, attempts to quantify the scope of this problem. Such a program benefits colleges as well, by helping them boost enrollment and, ultimately, bring in more money from the former dropouts. “It

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

The Hechinger Report

You don’t have a computer, you don’t have internet, you can’t even access distance learning,” Silver said. RELATED: Racial segregation is one reason some families have internet access and others don’t, new research finds. We need to change that.”. “We We can’t afford not to.”. The homework gap isn’t new. The homework gap isn’t new.

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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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Black parents hold more student debt than parents or nonparents of any other racial or ethnic group. Department of Education’s Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) program. Generation Hope’s experience shows how access to funding and supportive relationships can make a difference in college completion.

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