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By Martin Kidston “Montana earns high marks for holding the line on the rising cost of tuition, but it’s losing ground to other states in its contributions to financial aid and per-student spending, according to a new higher education report...
By Martin Kich “…These results provide a further demonstration that the decline in state support for higher education may have been exacerbated by the Great Recession, but it is more a reflection of an ideological antipathy toward adequately supporting public...
By Gail Schontzler “Montana gets a D-plus grade for state spending on higher education, says a national group advocating college affordability and reducing student debt. Young Invincibles, a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., issued report cards Friday for each state.”...
By Liliana Valenzuela “There is a gap in the educational achievement of young Texans in which Hispanic and African-American students continue to lag behind their white counterparts. The educational disparity often translates into a wage and opportunity divide, according to...
By Liliana Valenzuela “Entre los adultos de Texas, de 25 a 64 años de edad, el 44.89% de los anglosajones tiene un título universitario, 29.24% de los afroamericanos y sólo el 17.65% de los latinos, según datos de la encuesta...
By Charles D. Ellison “…While black male incarceration rates dipped slightly from 2000 to 2010, brothers were still six times more likely to find themselves in jail than white men, according to a Pew Research study—with the less educated being...
By Danielle Douglas-Gabriel “By the time Wayne Tibak graduated from college this spring, he had more than $118,000 in student debt. Then came the monthly payments, $1,700 due every month. Tibak started working two jobs, one during the day at...
By Anna Dembowski “The price of graduating college with student loans may mean post-college life includes leaky windows, a cockroach-infested apartment, sleeping on the floor and the lack of a washer, dryer and dishwasher. But Bekah (Cvetich) Schouten, a 2012...
By Álvaro Ortiz “Los políticos y las autoridades educativas de Texas deben aumentar la financiación de programas académicos que ofrezcan a más estudiantes de minorías la oportunidad de cursar estudios universitarios, concluye un estudio preparado por Young Invincibles (YI, por sus...