Leveling the Playing Field

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  Poverty The Strongest Factor In Whether High School Graduates Go To College

  huffingtonpost.com - Rebecca Klein

  Big money interests are running the government — and influencing the news you read. While other outlets are retreating behind paywalls and bending …

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  California students in high-poverty schools lose learning time, study says

  Los Angeles Times - Teresa Watanabe

  California high schools with high-poverty students lose nearly two weeks of learning time annually because of teacher absences, testing, emergency lockdowns and other disruptions compared with their more affluent peers in other schools, according to a new UCLA study. Although public schools …

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  The Economic Benefits of Closing Educational Achievement Gaps

  americanprogress.org

  Our nation is currently experiencing growing levels of income and wealth inequality, which are contributing to longstanding racial and ethnic gaps in …

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  Community College Students Face a Very Long Road to Graduation

  The New York Times - By Ginia Bellafante

  On a Friday afternoon last spring, Dennis D’Amelio, an artist and teacher in late middle age was presiding over a class in color theory at LaGuardia Community College, whose location in the immigrant hub of western Queens makes it one of the most ethnically diverse colleges in the country. It was …

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  Why Poor Students Struggle

  The New York Times - By Vicki Madden

  I WAS rushing to change trains at Delancey Street in downtown Manhattan earlier this year when a tall young man stepped in front of me, blocking my way through the crowd. He said my name and I looked up. “Kelvin!” I cried. As we hugged, I considered what month it was. March. Why wasn’t he upstate at …

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  ‘A National Admissions Office’ for Low-Income Strivers

  The New York Times - By David Leonhardt

  Arianna Trickey was opening a piece of mail in her bedroom during junior year of high school when a pamphlet fell out of the envelope. The pamphlet seemed to offer the impossible: the prospect of a full scholarship to several of her dream colleges. She went running out to her father, a house …