Also inside: Graduate students incensed about new fees. School counselors “move mountains” for undocumented students

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** Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost ([link removed])
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Companies like Amazon and Netflix have been using data tools like these for years to track our clicks and steer us to buy or watch more of their products. In higher education, colleges are using analytics to keep students enrolled and continue collecting tuition dollars.
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** Already stretched grad students rebel against rising and often surreptitious fees ([link removed])
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If undergraduates are tired of these fees, graduate students are incensed — and starting to push back. This is especially true among the many who were promised free tuition and small stipends to work as teaching or research assistants, but who have been surprised to find they still have to pay thousands of dollars in fees with euphemistic names and indeterminate purposes.


** OPINION: School counselors must ‘move mountains’ to help undocumented students access U.S. higher education ([link removed])
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The recent announcements of raids terrified my undocumented students. One even let us know that she would not be attending our program, as she did not want to risk leaving her home. I tried to convince the student to come and even offered to provide transportation myself, but my efforts failed. I have not been able to reach this student since.


** A study of Latino students reveals two sides of the segregation debate ([link removed])
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How can this be? How can Latino children be more evenly spread around the nation’s schools while they’re simultaneously more ethnically isolated? The answer has to do with population changes and migration patterns.


** OPINION: 6 ways to teach college-level Spanish to students who hear the language at home ([link removed])
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Here’s the paradox of these scenes: Students recurrently complain about their bad Spanish, citing family, friends and previous teachers, successfully communicating this concern — in Spanish.
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* “America’s youngest kids need good teachers. Why is it so difficult to find them? ([link removed]) ” via Quartz
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