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The new low-income big borrower of student loans
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College & University
A mother breaks the cycle of poverty and goes to college
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Students
College students are increasingly forgoing summers off to save money, stay on track
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Broadband
FCC changes its rules, puts educational broadband service on free market
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Education
Can presidential candidates deliver on their early educaiton plans?
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Education
Kindergarten behavior predicts adult earning power
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As grown-ups everywhere have long suspected, poorly behaved 6-year-olds will come to no good. Or, at least not as much good as their more attentive, …
HBCUs
Don’t say there’s a lack of STEM talent in the South
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Earlier this month, sports and culture news site The Undefeated published a story about NASA mathematician Clyde Foster. His calculations and …
Disability
Ending the stigma for college students with learning disabilites
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Students with disabilities, and especially those with invisible disabilities that affect how they learn, often struggle because of public …
Education
What's missing in music education is social and cultural relevance
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I was trained and licensed to be a music teacher in the traditional American way. My classes included all varieties of instruments. I sang and learned …
Los Angeles County
California’s overhaul of prison education programs a blueprint for others
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Education
Does lunch have to be 45 minutes? Rethinking school schedules to support innovation
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Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with …
Students
Online homework tools can help end racial and financial inequalities
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The use of technology is growing in schools, but we’re missing critical opportunities if technology isn’t being used to close the pernicious …
Disability
Preschool for children with disabilities works, but federal funding for it is plummeting
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SURPRISE, Ariz. — Lindsey Eakin’s son Corbin was only six months old when she started to suspect something was wrong. Corbin, her third child, wasn’t …
Wisconsin
'They just saw me as a dollar sign': How some certificate schools profit from vulnerable students
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OAKHAM, Mass. – The timing seemed fortuitous. The five people Jessica Evers lived with had left for work and school, leaving her alone to care for …
Personalized Learning
The messy reality of personalized learning
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Half an hour west of downtown Providence, Rhode Island, past potholed highways lined with maple, ash and pine trees, is the town …
Education
OPINION: When it comes to raising school achievement, is love in the mix?
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After spending over two decades working to advance racial equity in education through advocacy and philanthropy, I took a new job last year that has …
Texas A&M
Texas top ten percent policy provides a cautionary lesson
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One proposal to boost the number of black and Latino students in elite schools is to cream the top students from every neighborhood or community, …
Metz
From prison to dean’s list: How Danielle Metz got an education after incarceration
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NEW ORLEANS – The sun glowed gold, and a second line parade was tuning its horns just a few streets away. But Danielle Metz had missed half her life …
Kindergarten
To smooth transitions from home to prek to kinder, states must invest in every aspect of early ed
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LEWISBURG, W.Va. — Shenandoah Cochran, 34, greeted the two teachers at the front door of her elevated house in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, like …
Education
Higher education can't leave working families behind
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The promise of education in America is a promise of opportunity. A promise that education — especially higher education — can offer a pathway to the …
Education
What does ‘career readiness’ look like in middle school?
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Education
Teaching global warming in a charged political climate
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PIEDMONT, Okla. — “Weather is chaotic,” said Melissa Lau, a sixth grade teacher in this bedroom community outside of Oklahoma City. “What does that …
Students
Teacher trades a traditional class for a diverse, online one
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After 17 years of teaching in a brick-and-mortar school, I was pretty sure I had the whole teaching thing figured out. I had taught students from …
Philadelphia, PA
Virtual field trips bring students face-to-face with fragile ecosystems
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Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with …
Mississippi State University
How to program greater diversity among Mississippi’s computer science grads
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Makenzie, Mariah and Makayla are triplets who, by the age of 13, have created websites, programmed a handheld Raspberry Pi computer and given orders …
Education
Districts should use proven community school models and supports
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When you think about the obstacles that many students face, you might not put the weather at the top of the list. But during a typical Twin Cities …
Charter Schools
Charter schools aren’t a radical solution and neither is blaming them - The Hechinger Report
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Seemingly conceding the error of his ways in his efforts to spur education reform, President Barack Obama tweeted last week that “education reform …
U.S. Dept. of Education
LaGuardia principal exit shows the difficulties of firing problem principals
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NEW YORK — When the embattled principal of the celebrated “Fame” high school left last month after an epic controversy over arts education, she also …
Foster Care
The challenge of graduating high school while in foster care
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At recent high school graduations across the nation, the seas of smiling faces and matching caps and gowns mask the complexity of individuals’ lived …
Students
University shrinks achievement gap with student focused programs
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ROCHESTER, Minn. – Amarachi Orakwue felt stifled during high school in Minnesota, having immigrated to the United States from Nigeria in 2010. She …

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