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Many of the students are placed into language development courses, which often do not provide the rigorous coursework needed for college preparation. [37] These students also may struggle with their schoolwork due to the discontinuity in their education. Some students arrive in the United States after attending schools in their country of birth.
The college counselor at my high school told me that she’s seen kids not apply to certain universities after hearing that fellow classmates whom they considered to be better students were applying.
In America, for instance, students won the right to retain their civil rights in institutions of higher education. [5] In Europe, this movement has been explosive. Students have banded together and formed unions in individual institutions, at the state and national levels and eventually at the continental level as the European Student Union. [6]
Those cheap CDs and DVDs you bought on sale this spring and summer cost Borders bookstores dearly, but kids' books and coffee hold future profits. Borders Group Inc. (BGP) posted a loss of $45.6 ...
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 Biden administration clearly isn’t going to act, so the state has a moral obligation to protect itself and the country. | Opinion
First-generation college students in the United States are college students whose parents did not complete a baccalaureate degree. [1] Although research has revealed that completion of a baccalaureate degree is significant in terms of upward socioeconomic mobility in the United States, [2] [3] [4] a considerable body of research indicates that these students face significant systemic barriers ...
For many students, Caplan argues that most of the negative social return to pursuing further education comes from the incursion of student debt and lost employment opportunities for students who are unlikely to complete college (p. 210-211, ch. 8 [1]). He suggests that these students would be better served by vocational education.