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OPINION: Let’s change our approach to traditionally overlooked students

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To start with, colleges must consider factors other than the traditional standardized scores when recruiting underserved students from communities with few economic, health and educational resources. In Chicago, only 42 percent of public school graduates enrolled in four-year colleges in 2019. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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Most college students are taking online classes, but they’re paying just as much as in-person students

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You still need advisers, you still need a writing center, a tutoring center, and now you have to provide those services for students who are at a distance, said Dylan Barth, vice president of innovation and programs at the Online Learning Consortium, which represents online education providers. Graduate students often subsidize undergrads.

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The simple intervention that could lift kids out of ‘Covid slide’

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Carr, 21, began tutoring the rising fifth grader in mid-June, shortly after wrapping up his junior year at Middle Tennessee State University. Victor had made lots of progress in math since he began meeting twice a week with Carr at a Nashville-area Boys & Girls Club through an ad hoc, statewide tutoring initiative.

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Arizona gave families public money for private schools. Then private schools raised tuition

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Families can spend their ESAs on almost any education-related expenses, such as private school tuition, tutoring and homeschool supplies. Already, Arizona has registered more than 4,000 vendors for ESAs — including retailers, tutors and even traditional school districts — a jump of 35 percent over last year.

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STUDENT VOICE: My state supports public school choice, and I’m grateful for the options

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As a family, we wanted to spend as much time with her as possible throughout her recovery, which meant reconsidering my traditional elementaryschool schedule. I live in rural Idaho, and if I’d gone to a traditional middle school, I would have needed to travel more than 90 minutes round-trip from my home in Priest Lake to attend.

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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. Traditional institutions have treated adults “as a kind of afterthought,” he said.

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As admissions season descends, warning signs appear for low-income applicants

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Wealthier families have also been able to pay for tutoring, private college counselors and test prep; although submitting tests is optional at more than 1,650 colleges and universities this year, families are convinced a good score can still help in admission. Related: Number of rural students planning on going to college plummets.

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