Professors are scrambling to fill learning gaps and fend off what they say will be inequitable consequences of the pandemic.

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Liz Willen Dear reader,

We’re in the season when my inbox is filled with press releases from elite four-year colleges announcing record-low admit rates while boasting “the most competitive year ever” for admissions. It’s a phrase you’ll see repeated in major news outlets, but here at The Hechinger Report, our higher education coverage ([link removed]) is more focused on who is not going to college, how to pay for it without crushing debt, and what happens when students arrive.

And that’s whythe story ([link removed]) Hechinger’s Olivia Sanchez reported out of Austin, Texas, about the struggles many freshmen are having is so important.

“Their failure is my failure,” legendary University of Texas math professor Uri Treisman told Olivia. The pandemic is creating a new class of students who are less prepared, more anxious and not as ready for college-level work. Last fall, some 25 percent of students in Treisman’s first-year calculus class failed; in a normal year, just 5 percent fail. There are steps being taken to help these students, and what is happening at UT is not isolated.

Another important higher education story ([link removed]) comes from our Proof Points columnist Jill Barshay; it looks behind the promise of free-tuition programs to determine who actually applies and enrolls. We welcome your thoughts and reactions, and greatly appreciate when you share our stories – as well as reminders to sign up ([link removed]) for our newsletters.

Liz Willen, Editor

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** After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared ([link removed])
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Professors are scrambling to fill learning gaps and fend off what they say will be inequitable consequences.
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** PROOF POINTS: Study finds guaranteed free tuition lures low-income students ([link removed])
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Requiring financial aid forms stops many low-income students from applying



** Tight labor market hits after school ([link removed])
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Parent demand is growing, but the pool of potential employees is drying up



** OPINION: Why we need a socially responsible approach to ‘social reading’ ([link removed])
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There are better ways to do the reading, by working together and using digital tools



** OPINION: There’s a hidden, but important lesson from the findings in the Tennessee pre-K study ([link removed])
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Better data is needed before we jump to conclusions about the value of universal pre-K



** OPINION: Data matters, but only if it leads to effective teaching action ([link removed])
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No single piece of data gives you the whole picture of what’s really happening in education
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