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College ‘Deserts’ Disproportionately Deter Black and Hispanic Students from Higher Ed

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The study , which looked at a rich set of high school and college data in Texas, found that Black and Hispanic students and those in low-income families who lived more than 30 miles from a public two-year college were significantly less likely to attend college. I said, ‘This is bananas. This is not how it works.’”

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OPINION: Why every high school student needs a work-based experience

The Hechinger Report

Even before the pandemic shunted them into online learning, many high school students failed to see a connection between their work in the classroom and their real-world futures. The result is that we are losing the energy, intelligence and creativity young people could and should bring to New York’s economic recovery.

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Hundreds of thousands of students are entitled to training and help finding jobs. They don’t get it

The Hechinger Report

Theres a half-billion-dollar federal program that is supposed to help students with disabilities get into the workforce when they leave high school, but most parents and even some school officials dont know it exists. I just wish we could have gotten help while he was still in high school. But he never got that.

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A dismal report card in math and reading

The Hechinger Report

Administered by the federal government, it tracks student performance in fourth and eighth grades and serves as a national yardstick of achievement. More than two-thirds of students in the bottom 25 percent are economically disadvantaged. The only bright spot was progress by higher-achieving children in math. That’s a big deal.

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‘Easy to just write us off’: Rural students’ choices shrink as colleges slash majors

The Hechinger Report

Cloud State University in Minnesota is cutting 42 degree programs , for example, including criminal justice, gerontology, history, electrical and environmental engineering, economics and physics. The proportion of rural high school graduates going to college at all is falling. Henderson State University in Arkansas dropped 25.

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Flagship universities fail to enroll Black and Latino high school graduates from their state

The Hechinger Report

It marked a nadir for a metric crucial to the flagship university’s commitment to diversity in a state where about a third of public high school graduates each year are Black. The university’s admissions team resolved to reverse the trend, with urgent outreach to high school seniors who had started applications but not finished them.

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As Schools Prioritize Digital Literacy, My Students Are Being Left Behind

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San Francisco is seen as a global tech capital, yet even here, high school students are shockingly ill-equipped to survive in the modern digital age. The school where I teach science is nestled in the historic Mission District of San Francisco, mere miles from the sprawling campuses of X, Meta and Google.

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