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The Prison to College Pipeline

The Hechinger Report

On an unremarkable November morning, Jimmie Conner is hunched over his laptop at a dining table in an open-concept kitchen flooded with light. Ultimately, less than 4 percent of them graduate from college, compared with the nation’s overall rate of 29 percent, according to a 2018 report. FULLERTON, Calif. —

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Some colleges extend scholarships and other help to rural high school grads

The Hechinger Report

One of the two students sharing a laptop in the echoing brick atrium of the chemistry building at the University of Michigan is white, a freshman from a rice-growing parish in Louisiana; the other, black, a senior and a native of Detroit. Photo: Diane Weiss for The Hechinger Report. ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Department of Education reports.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” The story contains some machinations at the Department of Education in which the White Hous e tried to fire a Jeb Bush-supporting staffer. “ Are iPads and laptops improving students’ test scores? ” asks Chester E. “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? ” asks ZDNet.