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After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared

The Hechinger Report

Now, she spends four days a week in an unusually small seminar-style calculus class with 31 other aspiring mathematicians and engineers. “I From the tiniest kindergarteners to college-ready high school seniors, nearly all students had their education disrupted starting in March 2020. She retook precalculus and earned an A.

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At a growing number of colleges, faculty get a new role: spotting troubled students

The Hechinger Report

When she walked into his first-year seminar at Dickinson College, Steve Riccio was impressed by his new student’s enthusiasm. billion a year, collectively, in foregone tuition, according to a review of 1,669 institutions by the Educational Policy Institute. Sign up here for our higher-education newsletter. CARLISLE, Penn.

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From foster care to college

The Hechinger Report

T his story about foster care and higher education was produced as part of a series, “Twice Abandoned: How schools and child-welfare systems fail kids in foster care,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. KALAMAZOO, Mich.

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