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Colleges must stop holding students hostage and release their debt

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One such student is Kassandra Montes, a senior at Lehman College , a four-year college in the Bronx, who has to take out loans to stay in school and struggles to meet basic needs like food and shelter. Native American women and Latinas earn 58 cents and 53 cents, respectively for every dollar earned by a white male.

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How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up

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Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. “It’s not something we’re going to make up in a summer or in a year. It’s a long road of recovery.” Whitney Oakley, Guilford County Schools.

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Most college students don’t graduate in four years, so college and the government count six years as “success”

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They’re pulling a bait and switch on students,” said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the advocacy group Complete College America. By measuring those over six years, “we’re giving institutions an out, and an excuse for not meeting a four-year graduation goal.”. Credit: Harrison Jones for the Hechinger Report.

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Universities try to catch up to their growing Latinx populations

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household incomes by 5 percent by 2060, according to one analysis. She blamed the high dropout rates on the fact that many students have to juggle school with full- and part-time jobs, leaving little time for academics. Related: More Hispanics are going to college. The bad news? They’re still behind. But Debra Santiago, CEO of the D.C.-based

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Schools can’t afford to lose any more Black male educators

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” Eric Duncan, part of education advocacy organization Ed Trust’s policy team, said Thorne’s story is one echoed by Black male educators nationwide who feel perpetually overlooked. It’s a brand-new era of teaching after the pandemic, Joseph said, and so the program has had to be adjusted to meet that. “We

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Is California saving higher education?

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If policymakers are going to close California’s graduation gap, they’ll have to figure out how to meet the needs of students like Mora and Deas. Data analysis is being used to pinpoint bottlenecks, such as those overcrowded courses. Lumina is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report, which co-produced this story.).

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Segregated schools are still the norm. Howard Fuller is fine with that

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A 2016 study of black-led, Afrocentric charter schools by Martell Teasley, dean of the College of Social Work at the University of Utah, found that two-thirds of the schools failed to meet statewide standards, while other research shows that children in racially isolated schools fare poorly. The trade-off.

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