High-quality child care programs can be prohibitively expensive, when they can be found at all
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Liz Willen Hi all!
This week, we feature some new hope for student parents ([link removed]) , who disproportionately give up before they reach the finish line. Fewer than 4 in 10 graduate with a degree within six years, compared with more than 6 in 10 other students. Having young children and working simultaneously makes prioritizing education particularly difficult. But colleges — recognizing declining enrollments and demographic changes — are now paying attention to the needs of student-parents, from priority course registration to on-site childcare.
And our new interactive tool ([link removed]) helps prospective college students who may need child care search whether institutions offer them that option.
Such care remains elusive, however, for many others: In the first installment of our new series with the Education Reporting Collaborative ([link removed]) , we look at how the country's child care crisis affects working mothers and how the high cost ([link removed]) of child care has upended the careers of even those with college degrees.
We’d love to hear more from our readers on these and other issues, so get in touch — and please remember to sign up for our newsletters ([link removed]) and become a member ([link removed]) .
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Main Idea
** Universities and colleges that need to fill seats start offering a helping hand to student-parents ([link removed])
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Some states are requiring colleges to ask something they don’t now: Which of their students even have kids?
** Our child care system gives many moms a draconian choice: Quality child care or a career ([link removed])
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While women’s workforce participation has recovered from the pandemic, mothers without four-year degrees are disproportionately forced out of jobs because of child care costs
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Reading List
** Eliminating advanced math 'tracks' often prompts outrage. Some districts buck the trend ([link removed])
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Districts that try to ‘detrack’ — or stop sorting students by perceived ability — often face parental pushback. But a handful of districts show it can be done
** PROOF POINTS: Stanford's Jo Boaler talks about her new book 'MATH-ish' and takes on her critics ([link removed])
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An academic fight reflects wider weaknesses in education research
** COLUMN: Climate change lessons arrive in kids’ entertainment ([link removed])
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New educational video and audio content designed to counter ‘doom and gloom’
** After enrollment slump, Denver-area schools struggle to absorb a surge of migrant and refugee children ([link removed])
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Thousands of migrant children, some bused to Colorado from Texas, have helped stave off enrollment-related cuts, but now some schools are running out of space and teachers are growing fatigued
** OPINION: Sending college students into classrooms to help our struggling students could be a winning post-pandemic solution ([link removed])
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If we remove obstacles, the federal work-study program could bring thousands of tutors into the nation’s schools
** To better serve first-generation students, expand the definition ([link removed])
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A simple yes-no question about parents’ education cannot reveal much about a student’s readiness for college
** OPINION: Community colleges have a lot of work to do helping students overcome learning gaps post pandemic ([link removed])
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Urgent action is needed to give students the extra support they need to succeed
** Reporter’s Notebook: Even the 'father of IQ tests' thought the results weren't written in stone ([link removed])
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Alfred Binet paved the way for widespread intelligence testing in schools, but his doubts still have relevance today
** OPINION: Algebra success isn’t about a ‘perfect’ curriculum — schools need to invest in math teacher training and coaching ([link removed])
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I’ve seen too many schools abandon curriculums before making sure teachers understand how to use them
Listen Up
This month, we and our partners at GBH bring you a new season of the College Uncovered podcast. In our first season ([link removed]) , we helped you navigate the college admissions process. Now we’re back with season 2 ([link removed]) to guide you through the even more confusing territory of financial aid and some of the ways colleges make their prices seem much lower than they actually are. These are the latest episodes:
** Half Off Full Price ([link removed])
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College Uncovered, Season 2, Episode 3
** Closing Time ([link removed])
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College Uncovered, Season 2, Episode 4
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