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The mindboggling barriers that colleges create — and that end up hurting their own students

The Hechinger Report

Nancy Lee Sanchez, in red, executive director of the Kaplan Educational Foundation, with students she advises. I think the majority of higher education is complacent” about their dropouts, he said. Sanchez is one of the increasing number of outside coaches finding surprising obstacles that colleges put up in front of students.

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Child care, car seats and other simple ways to keep teen moms in school

The Hechinger Report

A slim, poised young woman with waist-length hair, Viviana walked past the principal’s office, along the main hallway, and made a left into the building that houses the school library and the daycare. Credit: Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. “My Credit: Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report.

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Hack Education

.” “More than 150 House and Senate Democrats sent Education Secretary Betsy DeVos a letter Monday that objected to her department’s recently announced shift in how it chooses the contractors that service federal student loans ,” Inside Higher Ed reports. ” Via Education Dive : “The Purdue-Kaplan Earthquake.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” “A new analysis from the Center for American Progress found more than two dozen minority-serving institutions would fail a graduation rate requirement for funding in the proposed House update to the Higher Education Act ,” Inside Higher Ed reports. More on Claypool’s resignation from WaPo’s Valerie Strauss.

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