Also inside: Detecting when students aren’t trying on tests. How America teaches a slavery-lite version of history.
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Liz Willen Dear reader,
When considering the price tag of a four-year college, one cost isn’t immediately apparent: Off-campus housing.
Living off campus can be cheaper than dorm living, especially in some rural areas. But in many parts of the country, the cost of off-campus housing is rising steadily and adding to already untenable student debt loads, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics analyzed by The Hechinger Report.
Our story this week ([link removed]) shows that between 2000 and 2017, room and board expenses for students living off campus increased 24 percent at public four-year universities after inflation. All of this adds to the growing inequality that permeates higher education, where money (or lack of it) too often determines who gets a degree.
Liz Willen, Editor
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** The hidden risk in off-campus housing costs ([link removed])
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Only one expense — off-campus housing — is outside the control of colleges and universities, and the data suggest that cost problem is growing worse over time, adding to already-soaring student debt loads.
Reading List
** Researchers can detect when students aren’t trying on computerized tests ([link removed])
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Boys, in general, do it at twice the rate of girls. By eighth grade, nearly 16 percent of boys are guessing their way through at least 10 percent of a commonly used reading assessment in U.S. schools.
** Slavery still shapes all of our lives, yet students aren’t taught its history ([link removed])
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It’s crucial that we understand its inner workings and aftereffects; only then can we create a moral, economic and social roadmap to achieving our democratic ideals.
Solutions
* “How teen Greta Thunberg shifted world's gaze to climate change ([link removed]) ,” via NBC News
* “How one city saved $5 million by routing school buses with an algorithm ([link removed]) ,” via Route Fifty
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