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William T. Grant Foundation supported research at Stanford which found African-American and Latino students who completed self-affirming writing exercises in middle school took more challenging courses and were more likely to enroll in college,...

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Century Foundation Senior Fellow Comments On Colleges Still Giving Preference to Legacy Students

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05/02/2016

Legacy preference is the practice of providing qualifying students who have some sort of family connection to the school with an advantage in the college admissions process.

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Century Foundation Study Reveals that Most Student Loan Fraud Claims Involve For-Profits

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11/09/2017

Century Foundation Study Reveals that Most Student Loan Fraud Claims Involve For-Profits The study by ... of full loan cancellation in favor of partial forgiveness. Student advocates point to the Trump...

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funds Program to Improve Retention and Graduation Rates for All Students

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04/27/2018

Wabash College has received an $800,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to improve retention and graduation rates for all students with special emphasis on students from particular populations that have been historically disadvantaged in...

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Century Foundation Expert Says Tuition-Free College Wouldn’t Admit More Low-Income Students

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08/18/2016

Top public schools fear falling in national college rankings if they accept students with lower test scores.

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Presidential Advisers on Black, Latino, and Asian Students Say Trump Admin. Ignoring Them

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10/03/2017

Three long-standing presidential commissions designed to expand educational opportunities for non-white students are set to expire Saturday and members say months of silence from the White House has them worried they’re about to be dissolved.

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Indian Child Welfare at Casey Family Programs is Highlight for Native American Students in Crisis

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08/02/2017

... Two more students whisper, sharing a joke. Still another student , his face set in a serious expression, stares at the ...

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Edna McConnell Clark and Other Powerful Funders Stand Behind At-Risk Students

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11/23/2016

Communities in Schools is a federated network of about 165 separate 501(c)(3) in 25 states and the District of Columbia.

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A Message from the President of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation: Announcing New COVID-19 Grantmaking

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04/08/2020

... President of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation: Announcing New COVID-19 Grantmaking As we enter the most critical time ... COVID-19 public health crisis, individuals experiencing homelessness are especially...

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Though Enrolling More Poor Students, 2-Year Colleges Get Less of Federal Pie

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05/22/2013

... on higher education over the last decade even as their student bodies have become poorer and more heavily ...

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Design High Schools for the 21st Century

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10/12/2016

... and Saskia Levy Thompson, Carnegie Corporation of New York This article was first published on The Hechinger ... that the next generation of high schools must "give every student an...

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Edwin Gould Foundation Supporter Online Tool Quill Connect Helps Students Become Better Writers

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11/29/2017

The nonprofit’s Quill Connect tool, designed to improve students’ writing skills through online exercises, uses machine learning to help them create better sentences.