 Dear reader,
By the time junior and senior year of high school comes around, those colorful brochures are likely piling up – the first indication of just how aggressive college marketing can be. As it turns out, there’s been a real marketing and advertising boom among colleges and universities, which are now spending billions of dollars to help attract new students.
Many defend the practice, maintaining that it’s needed to counteract an “anti-college” narrative that’s been building. But that’s small comfort to students struggling to afford their education, including the three Native American students The Hechinger Report followed this past year.
This week, we also take a look at the pandemic’s toll on middle schoolers, who are struggling to figure out who they are amid global turmoil, and examine the hopes of cities such as Detroit whose school systems are in dire need of infrastructure repairs, which hinge on federal money.
As always, we look forward to hearing your stories, questions and concerns.
Liz Willen, Editor
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