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

The Hechinger Report

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. So he applied to the Tennessee Tutoring Corps. I had no second option lined up,” Oates said.

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Nearly all the seniors at this charter school went to college. Only 6 out of 52 finished on time

The Hechinger Report

She tutored other kids from public housing. psychology class. She sat in the front row for the sociology and biology seminars, but couldn’t concentrate in a room with more than 30 classmates. That fall, Williams switched her major from music business to psychology in hopes of becoming a counselor.

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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. Buck had earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology at Dublin the year before the ban. 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.

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Will “school choice on steroids” get a boost under a Trump administration?

The Hechinger Report

In Nevada, in fact, parents can spend state education dollars any way they please — on private, public, online, part-time and full-time schools, on tutoring and extra books — through education savings accounts, which an advocate for them calls “the purest form of educational freedom.”.