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Where support for college students is ‘high-tech, high-touch’
Florida is one of 35 states that tie college funding to graduation rates. But a new study,“The Pell Divide,” finds a difference in graduation rates between students who receive funding assistance from Pell Grants and those who don’t. Hari Sreenivasan…
How can wealthy private colleges better serve low-income students?
Nearly half of the nation’s wealthy private colleges and universities enroll so few Pell Grant recipients that they would rank in the bottom 5 percent of colleges enrolling such students.
Obama to extend college aid grants to some prison inmates
Some federal and state prisoners could begin receiving student aid to take college courses — while still behind bars — as early as the 2016-2017 school year.
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