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PROOF POINTS: COVID has been bad for college enrollment — but awful for community college students

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According to a preliminary October 2020 report from National Student Clearinghouse Research Center that tallied fall enrollment figures from just over half of the nation’s colleges and universities, the number of undergraduate students has fallen 4 percent since the fall of 2019. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

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Ramos would connect to the library’s Wi-Fi — sometimes on her cellphone, sometimes using her family’s only laptop — to complete assignments and submit essays or tests for her classes at Skyline High School. Ramos’ parents promised to buy her a laptop eventually, but bills mounted and it wasn’t in the family’s budget.

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The pandemic knocked many Native students off the college track

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Even before the pandemic, American Indian and Alaska Native students had the highest high school dropout rate and lowest college enrollment rate of any U.S. Credit: Andi Murphy for The Hechinger Report. Monica Braine, who is Assiniboine and Hunkpapa Lakota, contributed reporting. racial group.

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Progress in getting underrepresented people into college and skilled jobs may be stalling because of the pandemic

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With schools mostly online, nearly one in four public school students in Detroit aren’t logging in or showing up , the superintendent says — many because they don’t have laptops or Wi-Fi. Experts say that this means dropout rates, which had been declining for more than a decade, will likely start to rise again. We’re just triaging.

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

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For the rest of her junior year and most of her senior year, she learned from a laptop in her family’s living room, with her younger sibling taking Zoom classes down the hall in their shared bedroom. Credit: Erika Rich for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Erika Rich for The Hechinger Report. “It Their failure is my failure.”.

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Will the students who didn’t show up for online class this spring go missing forever?

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She and her colleagues have had to intercede in evictions, deliver supplies and report children in dire circumstances to child protective services since the start of the pandemic. Other districts around the country have reported similarly high numbers of missing students. Credit: Bonnie Arbittier, San Antonio Report.

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As enrollment falls and colleges close, a surprising number of new ones are opening

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Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report. It reports enrolling 313 students this semester. Department of Education reports. It seems a bad time to start a university or college. Related: Colleges face reckoning as plummeting birthrate worsens enrollment declines.

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