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OPINION: Why it’s time to discard old stereotypes about Asian American parents and education

The Hechinger Report

Families in that suburb had similarly high levels of economic resources to support their children’s educational success, but their strategies were different. Going to academic tutoring after school in China and India is just what one does if your parents can afford it: It’s what it takes to get into a top college.

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For adults returning to college, ‘free’ tuition isn’t enough

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But now a convergence of factors — a dwindling pool of traditional-age students, the call for more educated workers and a pandemic that highlighted economic disparities and scrambled habits and jobs — is putting adults in the spotlight. But in the midst of his studies, he stumbled and had to retake an economics course.

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After her university closes its achievement gap, chancellor says, “The shocker is, why aren’t we all doing this?”

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Its student-adviser ratio is much lower than at other schools, and it boasts a tutoring center staffed not by fellow students, but by faculty members. Student surveys show that one of the university’s most popular services is its “Just Ask” faculty tutoring service. The association endorses common intellectual experiences.

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Minnesota has a persistent higher-ed gap: Are new efforts making a difference?

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With people of color expected to make up a quarter of the state’s population by 2035, these gaps represent an economic threat to Minnesota; unless more residents get to and through college, there won’t be enough qualified workers to fill the jobs that require a post-secondary degree or certificate. Will jobs go begging?

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Inside the Reardon-Hanushek clash over 50 years of achievement gaps

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Reardon, a sociologist, says the growing achievement gaps he has found stem from increasing income inequality in our society and the decisions of many rich parents to invest more in their kids, from private tutors to after-school programs. Reardon is a professor at the Graduate School of Education.

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Is California saving higher education?

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But in the coming decades, politicians of both parties would respond to economic downturns by cutting higher education funding, causing tuition to rise. Today, Mora is an associate professor of sociology at Berkeley and a mentor to other first-generation college students.

Education 105
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If more students become pregnant post-Roe, are we prepared to support them?

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LaTavia BigBack lives at Hope House Colorado, which offers programs for pregnant and parenting teen mothers such as free legal support, financial counseling and individual tutoring. Many struggled in the classroom setting, so at Hope House they work with tutors, one on one. Credit: Jimena Peck for The Hechinger Report.

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