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Math can be a path to success after prison

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When she arrived at Southern Maine Womens Reentry Center in December 2021, she was 51, had left high school when she was 16, and had only attended two weeks of a ninth grade math class. Since 2020, he has published four academic papers: three in math and one in sociology. Sherry Smith understands that kind of anxiety.

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Jobless college students are being given summer jobs to mentor younger peers

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Several programs aimed at keeping incoming freshmen on track for college and others that provide tutoring to elementary students are scooping up jobless undergraduates as mentors in relationships that benefit everyone. Up to a third of high school graduates who plan to pursue higher education never do, the U.S.

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Reality check: After four years of tough college prep, high school seniors grapple with gaps in financial aid

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This story is the third in an occasional series looking at six members of the senior class at Match High School, a college preparatory charter school in Boston. BOSTON — Every April, Match High School principal Hannah Larkin and the staff celebrate a few major college admission victories in the senior class.

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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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Amarachi Orakwue felt stifled during high school in Minnesota, having immigrated to the United States from Nigeria in 2010. 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. Mikhail Zinshteyn for The Hechinger Report.

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

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Seeing that “things could literally end in a split moment” pushed her to revisit an old goal: going to college, maybe to become a high school English teacher. Free college” or “promise” programs have long focused on recent high school grads. White, like many adult students, has quality work experience.

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

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Nearly three-fourths of students at New York City’s elite Stuyvesant High School are Asian American. 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. but lower achievement in South Korea.

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The Prison to College Pipeline

The Hechinger Report

Two chairs by the fireplace sit ready for one-on-one tutoring, a cluster of ottomans nearby can accommodate a study group, and spaces to hunker down with a book or notes abound: a couch by the front door layered with pillows and blankets, a desk tucked into a corner, a fire table on the patio, and a backyard. From Project Rebound?”

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