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The students disappearing fastest from American campuses? Middle-class ones

The Hechinger Report

The amount of financial aid at four-year institutions that goes to students from families making $48,001 to $75,000 per year rose 25 percent between 2009 and 2017, the last period for which federal figures are available. Greg Wolniak, associate professor, University of Georgia Institute of Higher Education.

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Teaching kids how battles about race from 150 years ago mirror today’s conflicts

The Hechinger Report

The program was also offered in 2016 and 2017. Julian Hipkins III, a former staff member at Teaching for Change who now serves as the global studies coordinator at Theodore Roosevelt High School in Washington, D.C., Twenty-five teachers will be selected to attend. Reconstruction is the answer to that question.”.

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