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Dual enrollment has exploded. But it’s hard to tell if it’s helping more kids get a college degree

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Share of new college students in the fall of 2015 who were still in high school and taking a dual enrollment class. asked Kristen Hengtgen, a policy analyst at EdTrust, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization that lobbies for racial and economic equity in education. Dual enrollment is exploding.

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PROOF POINTS: Test-optional policies didn’t do much to diversify college student populations

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Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, pictured above, was one of 99 colleges that adopted test-optional admissions between 2005-6 and 2015-16. He then compared these diversity gains to what happened at a similar group of colleges that didn’t adopt test-optional policies until after 2015-16. and DePaul University in Chicago.

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Eligible for job and college aid, half of Tennesseans with disabilities get nothing

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In Tennessee, however, half of the residents found eligible for VR services in 2015 didn’t get any, according to federal data. Yet the state left $14 million in federal VR dollars on the table in 2015 and again in 2016, even as the agency temporarily shut its doors to new clients. More than 40 percent of counselor positions are vacant.

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A shocking number of young people can’t separate fact from fiction online

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The researchers created 56 tasks for students in 12 states, and collected 7,804 student responses from January 2015 until June 2016. They measured the ability of students to accurately gauge the validity of information they encounter online. Never have we had so much information at our fingertips,” the study’s authors wrote.

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Eligible but got nothing: Hundreds of thousands of people with disabilities blocked from college aid

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In 20 states, more than one-third of cases stretched past the 90-day limit in 2015. But in the Bronx, for example, the average caseload rose to 270 in 2016, up from 222 in 2015. Statewide, 30 percent of casework-related staff left between 2012 and 2015, according to a state audit. Close to 14,000 cases stretched past a year.

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Students sick of ‘lip service’ from universities over racism

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Torrey enrolled at the university fully aware that the student body president had been called the same epithet in 2015; she hoped things had changed. A University of Missouri spokesperson said that since 2015 it had increased faculty diversity and raised graduation rates “among underrepresented minorities.”.

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Many state flagship universities leave black and Latino students behind

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Even though more than half of Mississippi’s public high school graduates in 2015 were African American, they only made up 10 percent of that fall’s freshman class at the University of Mississippi. African-Americans comprised 10 percent of freshmen at Ole Miss in 2015, an 8-percentage-point drop since 2010. . More than a third of U.S.

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