Also in this edition: In New Orleans, a reluctant teacher finds his voice and, possibly, his purpose.

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Liz Willen Dear reader,

Is a college degree worth the cost? Questions about the value and challenges of obtaining a postsecondary degree have always been at the heart of our higher education coverage – one reason we’re reading and writing about “The Years that Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us,” a new book by journalist Paul Tough.

“Tough’s book asks us to consider whether higher education in America is more an engine of, or an obstacle to, economic and social mobility,” writes Hechinger contributing editor Justin Snider, who spoke with Tough about his findings ([link removed]) .

This week, we also took a hard look ([link removed]) at the difficulty of obtaining accurate information on college costs. Our story examines how College Scorecard, a website touted by the federal government as a way to spread transparency about higher education, often contains misleading data. We have lots more to explore on this topic; stay tuned!

– Liz Willen, Editor

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Main Idea


** Colleges provide misleading information about their costs ([link removed])
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In lieu of regulating universities, Trump administration encourages them to furnish students with information on expenses and results
– but some of the data is inaccurate.
Reading List


** With a teacher like me, ‘Would I have turned out better?’ ([link removed])
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Though Andrew H. Wilson Charter School in New Orleans has maybe a dozen African American male teachers on its K-8 staff, only one of them teaches within Wilson’s primary school, in the second grade. “It’s a rarity to see male teachers in the classroom at all on this floor."


** OPINION: Do U.S. colleges reinforce or reduce inequality? ([link removed])
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For his new book, Paul Tough spent the last six years studying American higher education in 21 states and interviewing over 100 students as well as parents, professors and admissions officers, among others.


** COLUMN: Economists find free community college can backfire ([link removed])
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Simulations by researchers find that the most cost effective way to raise college education levels in America would be to increase taxpayer spending at public universities.


** OPINION: ‘I’d filled out the FAFSA incorrectly, and I assumed it was the end of my education. It wasn’t — because my principal cared’ ([link removed])
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Helping more underrepresented students, especially black and brown young men, to prepare for life after high school.


** COLUMN: Black athletes have a trump card they are not using enough ([link removed])
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There’s a disconnect between the cultural and economic power that black athletes wield and the way they are treated — and it’s time that they ignored critics and leveraged that power to boost black communities.
Solutions
"California community colleges work to solve housing for foster youths ([link removed]) ," via EdSource
"Project Oklahoma: Miami school district creates new program to keep teachers ([link removed]) ," via KTUL
"At colleges, what’s old is new: retirees living on campus ([link removed]) ," via The New York Times
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