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British universities reach out to the new minority: poor white males

The Hechinger Report

And meeting college students like him, Hood said, “definitely opens them up to the possibility” of aiming higher. Girls in primary and secondary school globally read more than boys and spend more time on homework, according to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development , or OECD. Research shows it’s also universal.

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With a teacher like me, ‘Would I have turned out better?’

The Hechinger Report

Fellows receive monthly stipends that start at $450 and rise each year, up to $700, in an attempt to combat steep post-secondary dropout rates — 33 percent of black college students drop out after one year of college, often because of financial shortfalls. That uptick in the hiring of white teachers was counter to national trends.

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