After a three-year pause prompted by the pandemic, the clock on student loan repayments suddenly started ticking again in September 2023, and forbearance ended last September. For millions of borrowers like Shauntee Russell, the resumption of payments marked a harsh return to financial reality. Russell, a single mother of three from Chicago, had received $127,000 […] The post OPINION: The resumption of student loan payments means students will need new policies — and our help appear...| The Hechinger Report
The blows keeping coming, from the end of affirmative action to outright interference in who leads college campuses.| The Hechinger Report
Community colleges should be an avenue into high-value STEM degrees for students from low-income backgrounds, but just 2 percent of students who begin at a community college earn a STEM bachelor’s degree within six years. Here are ways to improve the process.| The Hechinger Report
Nory Sontay Ramos was deported to Guatemala — a country she barely remembers.| The Hechinger Report
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Large-scale replication in high-poverty schools yields mixed results| The Hechinger Report
The College Board changed its criteria for an awards program that could shift tens of thousands of scholarship dollars from Black and Latino students to white students.| The Hechinger Report