California fires, college commencements, war in Ukraine: Week in Photos
A look at the week’s top photos from around the globe.
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Colorado college reckons with a troubling legacy of erasing Indigenous culture
Over the course of more than 100 years beginning in the 1800s, hundreds of thousands of Native American children in the U.S. were removed from their families, placed in federal boarding schools and forced to abandon their Native languages and…
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Anonymous donor clears debt for Texas college graduates
An anonymous donor has paid off the student debts for graduates of Wiley College, a historically Black college in East Texas, officials said.
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San Antonio, Texas tackles education inequality with free or reduced college tuition
President Biden proposed providing two years of tuition-free community college after he took office, but the idea was dropped after congressional opposition. Yet efforts persist at the local and state level to boost college attendance. More than 400 such programs…
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Fewer Black men are enrolling in community college. This state wants to change that
Even before the pandemic, higher education had an enrollment problem. The last few years have made it worse. That’s particularly true for community colleges, where enrollment dropped 13 percent since 2019. The number was 21 percent for Black men. As…
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