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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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In dark days of coronavirus, acts of generosity can restore students’ faith in higher education and each other

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Estrella Rodriguez, a pregnant community college student with her 5-year-old daughter, Nevaeh, is grateful for the women who bought her diapers when they saw her on line at Costco, but also anxious to get her laptop computer back from her shuttered campus. Photo by Uvaldo Rodriguez. That was just so nice.”.

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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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Universities try to catch up to their growing Latinx populations

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Aaron Cantú, for The Hechinger Report. Aaron Cantú, for The Hechinger Report. 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. Aaron Cantú, for The Hechinger Report. Aaron Cantú, for The Hechinger Report.

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For anxious students, a teacher who comes to your house might be the answer

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Photo: Robbie Feinberg for The Hechinger Report. They set up two laptops and began their weekly, three-hour class. Photo: Rebecca Conley with Maine Public for The Hechinger Report. They’ll be in and out, so they’ll increase the dropout rate. The student, Jessica Cousins, wasn’t in trouble for skipping school.

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OPINION: Here’s why chronically underfunded HBCUs are needed now more than ever

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Like many colleges, we’ve created a laptop loaner program to meet the needs of both on- and off-campus students by providing year-long access to reliable, new devices. The post OPINION: Here’s why chronically underfunded HBCUs are needed now more than ever appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Twenty-one and in high school

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This story is part of a Hechinger reporting series about how “last chance” high schools are pioneering some of the latest trends in high school reform. He realized that some students don’t succeed on the conventional academic path, and ran a school for dropouts on Arena Boulevard. Photo: Luba Ostashevsky. I gravitated toward them.”

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