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For some kids, returning to school post-pandemic means a daunting wall of administrative obstacles 

The Hechinger Report

. “It looks good from the curb, but when you get inside you see that Black and brown people are worse off economically than in West Virginia — and no one wants to talk about it,” says Frank Brown, who heads Communities in Schools of Atlanta, an organization that runs dropout-prevention programs in Atlanta Public Schools.

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Universities try to catch up to their growing Latinx populations

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From 2008 to 2017, the share of Latinx students at this commuter school of roughly 4,000 rose from 13 percent to 22 percent — the highest of any public university in the state. She blamed the high dropout rates on the fact that many students have to juggle school with full- and part-time jobs, leaving little time for academics.

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From foster care to college

The Hechinger Report

Started in 2008, the Seita Scholars Program is one of several efforts at U.S. The percentage of Seita students to graduate from Western Michigan has ranged from 24 to 44 percent for cohorts that started between 2008 and 2013, according to university administrators. colleges to help students like Mayes.

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Is California saving higher education?

The Hechinger Report

Meanwhile, all but four states are spending less on higher education, per student, than they did in 2008 , according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal-learning think thank. The trend peaked during the recession that began in 2008, when UC hiked undergraduate tuition by nearly a third in a single year.

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‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

The Hechinger Report

Longitudinal studies of corporal punishment in schools internationally, meanwhile, have found the practice is correlated with lower math scores , lower motivation and diminished academic progress , along with increased absenteeism and dropout rates. These are the only possible two things we can come up with?”.