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Students from middle class families have started to disappear from colleges, with the presence of these students dropping from 45 percent in 1996 to 37 percent in 2016. Many of these families felt cut out of access to financial help to pay tuition, with incomes too high to qualify for need-based aid, and too low to just pay for schooling outright.
Now, it turns out, a collection of schools — including private, nonprofit institutions — are designating financial aid specifically for middle-income families to lure them back, Jon Marcus reports in a story with National Public Radio. It’s an antidote to our ongoing reporting on college closures — college enrollment has been falling for more than a decade.
We also took a look this week at the impact of dual enrollment, as researchers try to parse whether, among other things, these credits help students earn college degrees faster and save money.
Finally, check out Kavitha Cardoza’s reporting on an unexpected teacher bias, and in our opinion section, a topic close to my heart, and more important than ever during these difficult times: the value of an arts education. Hope you can read and share all of these, and never miss a story.
Liz Willen, Editor
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Middle-income Americans have borne a disproportionate share of college price increases, with the net cost of a degree rising from 12 percent to 22 percent since 2009, depending on their earnings, federal data show. Now a handful of schools — many of them private, nonprofit institutions trying to compete with lower-priced public universities — are beginning to designate financial aid specifically for middle-income families in an attempt to lure them back.
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