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Colleges and states turn their attention to slow-moving part-time students

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Kennedy School of Government, Victoria Dzindzichashvili pauses in the Harvard Square subway station and reflects on the decade it took her to get here. But not every student can make the leap to full-time status, said Karen Stout, president of the nonprofit advocacy group Achieving the Dream; many have neither the money nor the time.

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Universities increasingly turn to graduate programs to balance their books

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In this day and age the bachelor’s degree is what the high school diploma used to be and the master’s degree is what the bachelor’s degree once was,” said Armstrong. That’s among the signs that persuading students to go to graduate school is getting harder. Applications to U.S. Thomas University Provost Jeremy Moreland.

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Trust issues

The Hechinger Report

Arlee High School is a public school on the Flathead Reservation. Six tribes, including CKST, have sued the state of Montana for failing to implement its Indian Education for All curriculum in public schools over the past few decades, despite a mandate to do so.

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STUDENT VOICE: What losing the Department of Education would mean for special education

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Romila Santra is a member of the class of 2027 at Harvard Medical School and a freelance writer. She is passionate about advocacy for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities. She has also written for STAT news. Contact the opinion editor at opinion@hechingerreport.org.

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Former Trump commissioner blasts DOGE education data cuts

The Hechinger Report

Removal of commissioner disturbing Woodworth also decried the unexplained and sudden removal last week of his successor, Peggy Carr, a Biden appointee whose congressionally determined six-year term was supposed to extend through 2027. He called her departure a disturbing development. Many of those data collections were canceled.

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