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Bebeto Matthews / AP Measuring College (Un)affordability
As many as 95 percent of schools are out of reach for low-income students.
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Andrew Burton / Reuters What Will Happen to Americans Who Can't Afford an Attorney?
President Trump’s budget would eliminate the Legal Services Corporation, which helps low-income individuals obtain representation in civil proceedings.
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Robert Nickelsberg / Getty The University of Michigan’s Plan to Increase Diversity
The administration has launched a multiyear racial and socioeconomic diversity plan, but a lot of students aren’t pleased.
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Yuri Grigas / Reuters What Should the Feds Do About Bad Cops?
Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the ousted top federal prosecutor for Chicago offered two different visions this week.
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Mark Kauzlarich / Reuters A ‘Constitutional Crisis’ in Missouri
In a class-action lawsuit filed Thursday, a group of defendants argued the state’s public-defender system is too underfunded and overworked to meet the Sixth Amendment’s standards.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters Why Trump's Dismissal of Preet Bharara Matters
The move revives questions about the independence of federal prosecutors from political interference.
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Emily Jan / The Atlantic Training Students to Outpace Automation
Schools near Detroit have reworked curriculum to include both technical and soft skills.
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Winslow Townson / AP Why Sports and Elite Academics Do Not Mix
The athletic programs at highly selective institutions are out of sync with the schools' missions.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty A Tale of Two Betsy DeVoses
The generous Grand Rapids resident and the tone-deaf Trump official
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Patrick Fallon / Reuters Customs Agents' Unreasonable Demand
Why the immigration authorities ID search of a domestic flight at JFK is on weak legal ground.
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Toby Talbot / AP The New College Protest
What happened at Middlebury last week marks a shift in campus activism.
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Carlos Jasso / Reuters Why American Universities Need Immigrants
For decades, the United States has welcomed and benefitted from international scholars—but President Trump's travel ban puts that legacy at risk.
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Joe Robbins / Getty Conversations With College Students on a Politically Divided Campus
At Central Michigan University, a group of college students from across the political spectrum meets every week to talk through their differences.
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John Moore / Getty Images Rethinking Mass Incarceration in America
A new book challenges the popular understanding of how the U.S. prison population skyrocketed.
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Emily Jan / The Atlantic Betsy DeVos's Misunderstood Alma Mater
Calvin College is no fundamentalist Christian school.
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Steve Dipaola / Reuters The New Legislation Targeting Protesters
Republican lawmakers in more than a dozen states are mulling bills that target recent protesting tactics.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters 'Some Toxins Can Be Deadly in Small Doses'
The U.S. Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, overturns a death-penalty sentence after an expert witness testified the defendant was more likely to commit future crimes because he is black.
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Jose Luis Gonzales / Reuters Is the Southern Border a Constitution-Free Zone?
The Supreme Court considers a case involving a youth on the Mexican side of the border killed by an American border patrol agent on the U.S. side.
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Charles Dharapak / AP The Glue Helping At-Risk Students Stick With School
Washington, D.C., added pathways coordinators to its high schools to try to help kids who are behind on credits catch up.
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Christine Armario / AP The Myth of Immigrants' Educational Attainment
Those who move to the United States tend to have higher socioeconomic standing in their native countries than what they settle for when they arrive.
