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Advocates hope pandemic shift away from requiring SAT and ACT will help diversity

The Hechinger Report

It also withdrew from the National Merit Scholarship Program, which is based on the preliminary SAT, or PSAT, taken by high school sophomores and juniors. High-scoring students can receive scholarships from the program as well as from participating universities and colleges. “We percent in 2017 to 15 percent in 2020.

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School support staffers stuck earning poverty level wages

The Hechinger Report

Educator strikes have also increased across the country since 2020, not only among teachers, but among the school staff who support them. She was diagnosed with dyslexia in fourth grade, and couldn’t read until junior high, when she received reading intervention and worked one-on-one with a paraprofessional. It’s 7:45 a.m.

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Seeking asylum in a time of Covid

The Hechinger Report

Meanwhile, immigrants have been ravaged by the virus globally, as they’ve endured much higher risk of infection than native-born populations while their jobs have also been decimated by the economic downturn. on March 29, 2020, they had stopped in at least nine states during back-to-back bus rides over three days, even as life in the U.S.