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

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Credit: Leah Fabel for The Hechinger Report Collegiate recovery programs began appearing at four-year institutions in the late 1970s, offering services like sober-living dorms, life skills classes and recovery coaches. Credit: Leah Fabel for The Hechinger Report But the toughest scrambles are often for staff and funding.

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PROOF POINTS: New wave of research shows nudging students by text is not as promising as hoped

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High school seniors were targeted, as were college dropouts who wanted to resume their studies. None of these guidelines are absolute. This story about nudging was written by Jill Barshay and produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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

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Credit: Shae Hammond for The Hechinger Report Hall is now paying off about $190,000 in student loans, the cumulative cost of her undergraduate degree from Linfield College in Oregon, her master’s at the University of Arizona and her doctorate from the University of Oregon. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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Some colleges seek radical solutions to survive

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More than 400 colleges and universities still had seats available for freshmen and transfer students after the traditional May 1 deadline to enroll for this fall, the National Association for College Admission Counseling reports. More are likely to go under; Moody’s projects that the pace of college closings will soon reach 15 per year.

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Empowered Readers: Technology That Can Re-Inspire Students’ Love of Reading

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The district is also known for having one of the largest dropout rates and one of the highest pupil-to-teacher ratios in the country. Teachers Know Best, 2015 Report Ebook platforms can provide scaffolding that English language learners need, such as audio enhancements and highlighting features that help support the reluctant readers.

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The community college “segregation machine”

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Photo: Meredith Kolodner/The Hechinger Report. This story was produced jointly by inewsource San Diego, a data-focused investigative news organization, and The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for our newsletter. The results have been promising.

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Where Are Quality Instructional Materials for English Language Learners?

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In urban districts, which educate the highest concentration of students who are not proficient in English, half of survey respondents did the same, according to a report by the Council of the Great City Schools, a membership organization of urban school districts. Department of Education to release a series of guidelines for their education.