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Liz Willen Dear reader,

Nontraditional learners and different ways of learning are among our favorite topics at The Hechinger Report.

For example, did you know about some of the latest efforts to target the roughly 27 million adults age 25 or older don’t even have a high school diploma – at a time when more and more good jobs require college degree – and to help them earn both?

Or that the tuition-free-college movement has been taking hold throughout the country is leaving out many adults? And that some teachers are creating customized “playlists,” to help students learn at their own pace?

All of these fascinating bits of information are part of the stories we told last week via our partnership with the New York Times “Learning,” section, and you can read all about them ([link removed]) on our site. We loved learning about them – and can’t wait to share and hear what you think. Reply directly to this email to share your thoughts with us.

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** New routes to success in learning are popping up around the country ([link removed])
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The Hechinger Report is collaborating with The New York Times to produce Bulletin Board, page 2 of the Times’s education supplement, "Learning."
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** Some colleges seek radical solutions to survive ([link removed])
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The higher education sector is grappling with a historic enrollment decline and financial challenges that cry out not for incremental change, but for radical solutions. Colleges and universities that don’t adapt risk joining the average of 11 per year the bond-rating firm Moody’s says have shut down in the last five years.


** Questioning their fairness, a record number of colleges stop requiring the SAT and ACT ([link removed])
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The SAT and ACT are facing what could be the greatest challenge in their histories, which stretch back to the early 20
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** OPINION: Four ways that educators can help young black students thrive ([link removed])
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As a black parent and an educator, I am concerned for the safety of my children and other black children. Which is why all educators of black children, of all racial and ethnic groups, mustn’t be afraid to prepare them for the world that awaits them while simultaneously empowering them to thrive in spite of it.


** Student loan default rates inch down as for-profit sector contracts ([link removed])
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Despite all the concern about the student loan crisis in our nation, student loan default rates have been dropping.


** OPINION: Let’s never see another first-grader in handcuffs ([link removed])
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Two first-graders in Florida are not the same children today as they were last month. Consider the distress, fear and confusion that being forcibly taken, handcuffed and driven away from your school by a police officer would cause in any 6-year-old you know. Imagine it’s your child, your grandchild.
Solutions
* "Digitally disconnected: How rural students struggle to find internet access, and what one small college is doing about it ([link removed]) ," via High Country News.
* "Rural Western States Work Together to Tackle Physician Shortages ([link removed]) ," via U.S. News and World Report.

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