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Facts about race and college admission
The Trump administration has reversed Obama-era policies encouraging universities to consider race as a factor in admission. The Justice and Education departments jointly announced this week that they...
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As feds pull back, states step in to regulate for-profit colleges and...
North Carolina’s attorney general shut down the Charlotte School of Law before it was scheduled to open this past fall. Photo by Ken Cedeno/Corbis via Getty Images Signs of trouble at the Charlotte...
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A conservative Supreme Court could threaten the education of immigrant students
The United States Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. Photo by Zach Gibson/Getty Images When we think of what’s at stake in education with the impending conservative swing of the Supreme Court,...
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Good teachers use the N-word
President Donald Trump listens to Omarosa Manigault Newman, then-director of communications for the White House Public Liaison Office, during an event in the Oval Office of the White House October 24,...
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Some colleges extend scholarships and other help to rural high school grads
Cameron Russell, left, is a freshman at the University of Michigan from rural Crowley, Louisiana. His mentor as part of a special program for first-generation students is Elijah Taylor, a senior who...
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Bold, progressive ideas aren’t unrealistic
Universal pre-K, which was once considered a pipedream for liberal Democrats, is coming closer to reality — because predominantly white conservatives in the deep red state of Alabama have decided to...
View ArticleSchools should not be battlegrounds for Trump’s fake war
We’ve all seen images of migrant caravans comprised of thousands of asylum seekers from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador making their way to the U.S. to find refuge from the poverty and violence in...
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A big reason rural students never go to college: Colleges don’t recruit them
Sarah Lowndes, a rural student in Michigan, at a college recruiting fair in Grand Rapids she traveled an hour on a school bus to attend. Photo: Aaron Gettinger for The Hechinger Report GRAND RAPIDS,...
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Getting rid of the ‘gotcha’: College students try to tame political dialogue
Students at the University of Minnesota formed the Bipartisan Issues Group and designed a logo with elephant and donkey overlapping to form a heart. Logo courtesy of designer, Johanna Schmidt ANN...
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Colleges provide misleading information about their costs
College graduates in the academic year just ended. The federal government is pushing for more information to be made available about college costs and success rates, saying that will help students...
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