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Research has found that immigrant students lack information about financing college and are thus less likely to apply for and take advantage of student loans. [29] With access to the necessary information, support, and financial resources, however, higher education – and the opportunities that come with it – is certainly a viable option for ...
Research into the causes of the disparity in academic achievement between students from different socioeconomic and racial backgrounds has been ongoing since the 1966 publication of the Coleman Report (officially titled "Equality of Educational Opportunity"), commissioned by the U.S. Department of Education. The report found that a combination ...
Cross-border education is the movement of people, knowledge programs providers and curriculum across national or regional jurisdictional borders. It also refers to dual and joint degree programs, branch campuses, and virtual, on-line education. [ 1 ]
Instead, the Bridgeport Police Department sent all four students to a local probation supervisor, who in turn sent them to a local youth support agency. “My mom thought I was going to the detention center,” Kiara said, referring to one of the juvenile jails in the state where kids can still be sent for certain crimes. “She was scared.”
Among those seeking a bachelor’s degree for the first time, over 25% drop out, and of all undergraduate students, up to 40% drop out, according to the Education Data Initiative.
It's easy to simply blame the most recent president for whatever is going wrong at the border. But none of that fully explains why the U.S. is so bad at handling this issue at this specific moment ...
If these immigrant children managed to survive La Bestia and the cartels in Mexico, they now need to find "coyotes" to smuggle them across the Mexican-American border. [18] Most women and children from Central America simply crossed the Rio Grande and turned themselves in to the United States Border Patrol, relying on the belief, partly well ...
The desire to promote these feelings of safety resulted in universities promoting practices such as content warnings (e.g., telling students in advance that the homework contains disagreeable information about racism), safe spaces (e.g., a designated room where students who support trans rights can avoid those who disagree), and bias-response ...