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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. Arizona collects limited discipline data from its districts.

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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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They’re pulling a bait and switch on students,” said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the advocacy group Complete College America. Dropout rates rose in the fall of 2020 to their highest level since 2012, the Clearinghouse reports. Related: Some colleges ease up on pushing undergrads into picking majors right away.

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Schools can’t afford to lose any more Black male educators

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” Eric Duncan, part of education advocacy organization Ed Trust’s policy team, said Thorne’s story is one echoed by Black male educators nationwide who feel perpetually overlooked. . “Preston Thorne was a unique piece of what made our school culture so great,” she said.

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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.

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Universities try to catch up to their growing Latinx populations

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household incomes by 5 percent by 2060, according to one analysis. She blamed the high dropout rates on the fact that many students have to juggle school with full- and part-time jobs, leaving little time for academics. Related: More Hispanics are going to college. The bad news? They’re still behind. But Debra Santiago, CEO of the D.C.-based

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Colleges must stop holding students hostage and release their debt

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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. Native American women and Latinas earn 58 cents and 53 cents, respectively for every dollar earned by a white male.

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

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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. “It’s not something we’re going to make up in a summer or in a year. It’s a long road of recovery.” Whitney Oakley, Guilford County Schools.

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