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Math can be a path to success after prison

The Hechinger Report

Since 2022 , shes been pursuing an associates degree in human services from prison through a remote program with Washington County Community College. Since 2020, he has published four academic papers: three in math and one in sociology. Nobody else was listening, I could ask any question I needed. She said she cried on her last day.

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

The Hechinger Report

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

The Hechinger Report

Adults with workplace skills such as human resources training or financial management deserve credit for such college-level learning, said Mathew Bergman, an associate professor at the University of Louisville who is a national expert in adult learning and teaches in the program. His counselors reached out.

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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. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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From prison to dean’s list: How Danielle Metz got an education after incarceration

The Hechinger Report

At FCI Dublin, women were studying English literature, psychology and sociology when Metz first arrived. She’d never taken the ACT, and she hadn’t studied math since Marilyn Buck tutored her inside the prison more than two decades earlier. Metz switched to the textbook called “Drugs, Society and Human Behavior.”

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