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OPINION: Why Black student parents are at the epicenter of the student debt crisis — and what we can do about it

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But we know from an analysis of federal data that nationally, one in five college students is parenting, more than a third of Black college students are parents, and nearly half of all Black female undergraduates are mothers. But that’s no longer the case. Her book, “Pregnant Girl,” will be released May 2021.

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Colleges must stop holding students hostage and release their debt

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The debt-forgiveness program was announced at a gathering of organizations focused on improving higher education outcomes, hosted by the philanthropic Lumina Foundation. Black women earn just 61 cents for every dollar earned by their white male counterparts, according to analysis by the nonprofit advocacy group Equal Pay Today.

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How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up

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When the kids showed up, educators could see even more clearly how uneven their learning has been during the pandemic. Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. Read the stories.

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The community college “segregation machine”

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This story was produced jointly by inewsource San Diego, a data-focused investigative news organization, and The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. A Hechinger Report/inewsource analysis of California community college data yielded stark results.

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When the punishment is the same as the crime: Suspended for missing class

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But a first-of-its-kind analysis by The Hechinger Report and the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting has found that attendance-related suspensions are pervasive, in some districts accounting for more than half of all in-school suspensions. Department of Education now tracks days lost to out-of-school suspensions.

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Most college students don’t graduate in four years, so college and the government count six years as “success”

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But now, as graduation rates stagnate, the Covid-19 pandemic threatens to make them even worse and the Biden administration proposes spending $62 billion to improve completion at higher education institutions with large proportions of low-income students, it’s attracting unaccustomed scrutiny. After lobbying by universities and colleges, Sen.

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Universities try to catch up to their growing Latinx populations

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Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education. Closing this educational divide matters for individual students and for the U.S. household incomes by 5 percent by 2060, according to one analysis. household incomes by 5 percent by 2060, according to one analysis. Choose as many as you like.

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