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Wikimedia Where Obama's Community-College Plan Falls Short
Tuition is only part of the problem at two-year institutions.
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Peter Morenus/UConn Photo When Gender Discrimination and Racism Collide
A scuffle between a largely black sorority and a predominantly white fraternity provides an interesting case study on Title IX.
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Does Exposure to Violence and Trauma Impact Students' Education Prospects?
In the wake of Ferguson, policymakers need to pay more attention to the challenges that community violence pose for teenagers and young adults.
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Why Your Physician Is Most Likely to Be White or Asian
Racial disparities in medical schools and professions persist. But a storefront medical school in Harlem is working toward a solution.
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Why Is Florida Ending Remedial Education for College Students?
Starting this fall, academically underprepared students at Florida's public universities no longer have to take classes designed to help them catch up.
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Racial Power Imbalances in Ferguson Start Early
Look at what's happening to black kids in the area's schools.
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National Journal Education Department Launches Review of the University of Phoenix
While the analysis of the nation's largest student financial aid recipient is standard practice, it comes at a time of increased scrutiny for the for-profit college sector.
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Nico Paix/flickr Why Do Low-Income Students Take Longer to Graduate?
Financial-aid restrictions are woefully out of keeping with the way most students attend school today.
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National Journal Do Higher-Ed Policies Make It Harder for Low-Income College Students to Graduate?
Federal financial-aid programs usually cover only 12 credit hours per semester. That automatically puts students on a five-year graduation path.
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Molly Riley/Reuters In Public Schools, White Students Are No Longer the Majority
U.S. classrooms will enter a new era this fall—one in which black, Hispanic, and Asian students form the majority.
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National Journal School Is Over for the Summer. So Is the Era of Majority White U.S. Public Schools.
When schools reopen this fall, demographic changes will have tipped the balance to nonwhite students.
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National Journal Is Open-Access Community College a Bad Idea?
The authors of the book Community Colleges and the Access Effect argue that low expectations and outside pressure to produce more graduates could doom community colleges.
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National Journal Life After Community College
Forty-five percent of college students start out at a community college. To continue on for a bachelor's degree, they'll have to beat the odds. Here are three who did.
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Mario Tama AFP/Getty The End of Public Schools in New Orleans
When school starts again in the fall, New Orleans will be an all-charter system, the first in the country.
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Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo For Black Kids in America, a Degree Is No Guarantee
A new study shows that African-American college graduates face unemployment rates nearly twice as high as others with the same education.
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National Journal African-Americans With College Degrees Are Twice As Likely to Be Unemployed as Other Graduates
A new study finds that 12.4 percent of black college graduates were unemployed. For all college graduates, the unemployment rate stood at just 5.6 percent.
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Charlie Riedel/AP Photo Why Do Most Black and Latino Students Go to Two-Year Colleges?
A new initiative in east Los Angeles hopes to create a culture that will steer students to four-year schools.
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National Journal Why Do a Majority of Black and Latino Students End Up at Two-Year Colleges?
A new initiative in East Los Angeles hopes to create a college-going culture that will steer Latino students to four-year schools, where they're much more likely to graduate with a degree.
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National Journal The Early-Childhood Intervention That Can Make Even Congress Stop Fighting
Political support for evidence-based home visiting programs is so broad-based that Congress approved a funding extension earlier this spring.
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National Journal What Can Be Learned From the KIPP School Model?
Michael Cordell talks about preschool, parenting, and what works at KIPP DC's elementary schools.
