Higher education is under siege, with many students and parents balking at high costs. In a series of op-eds, university leaders lay out their efforts to keep college affordable. This …
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This school district has received death threats for standing up for immigrants. It’s not backing down
WINOOSKI, Vt. — The day’s class started with a writing prompt: Do you feel safe in school? Why or why not? The students — whose families hail from across the …
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In my English and writing classes, I ask my students to interrogate fictional character bots. The first time I assigned this project, I worried that I would get them addicted …
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Former foster youth face very low odds of college or workforce success. Some people are trying to change that
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — On a late February afternoon, a dozen or so Sacramento State students, all current or former foster youth, filed into the office of the university’s Guardian Scholars …
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Absenteeism is a huge and seemingly intractable problem for the nation’s public schools. And Michigan has one of the worst attendance rates in the country. That makes it a prime …
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Since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, the White House and Congress have worked aggressively to overhaul federal student financial aid. On July 1, many of those efforts …
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Juan Lozada’s grandson missed out on almost his entire fifth-grade year at his dual language elementary school in San Antonio, Texas. All because of a child-friendly knife, marketed as safe …
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LINCOLN, Neb. — From the air, the spring landscape here is a vast expanse of brown farmland stretching out below, ready for farmers to dig in and plant their corn …
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When Glennys Torres was looking for summer child care for her kids, she envisioned a program full of outdoor play and time spent with friends. But Torres quickly realized she …
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Every year, Texas sends more than 100,000 students to its system of disciplinary schools, known as disciplinary alternative education programs. When the state legislature established DAEPs in 1995, during rising …