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New Research Shows Some 1 Million College Dropouts Returned to School in the Past Five Years and Earned Degrees

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Charters and District Schools Share Strategies on Getting Low-Income Students Through College, Putting Uneasiness Aside

Richard Whitmire
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IDEA Understands That College Is the New High School — For the Texas Charter Network That Means Making It Attainable for Everyone

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The Magic Moment: College Signing Days Make Rock Stars out of College-Bound Seniors, Inspiring Those Waiting in the Wings

Richard Whitmire
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Whitmire: As School Districts Collaborate With Top Charters and Foundations, We’re on the Cusp of a Breakthrough in Guiding Low-Income & Minority Students to a College Diploma

Richard Whitmire
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Change Agent: From Georgetown to Franklin & Marshall to Aspen, How Dan Porterfield Is Leading a Revolution to Get First-Generation Students Through College With a Degree

Richard Whitmire
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The Pride of 2009 From Rural North Carolina Reflect on How Their Lives Were Changed by the Chance to Go to College

Richard Whitmire
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With High School Counselors Badly Outnumbered, Innovative Nonprofit Steps In to Offer Smart College Advising to Low-Income Students Across the Country

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How a Houston Experiment in College Counseling Is Succeeding in Sending Low-Income, First-Generation Students to the Country’s Top Universities

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A ‘Bot’ That’s Changing the Game for College Selection: Meet the Midwest Software Whiz Whose Program Is Now Helping Students Find Better Fits — and Earn More Degrees

Richard Whitmire
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The B.A. Breakthrough: How College Creates Opportunity

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The B.A. Breakthrough: How Foundations Support Equity

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The B.A. Breakthrough: KIPP Through College

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The B.A. Breakthrough: Making College Accessible

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The B.A. Breakthrough: A First-Generation Student Talks About Her Challenges

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The B.A. Breakthrough: How UCLA Creates Opportunity

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Expanding the Community College-to-University Pipeline: Why More Elite Schools Are Embracing Transfers and the 15,000 Annual Community Graduates With 3.7 GPAs

Richard Whitmire
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When It Comes to Predicting Which College Students Will Actually Go On to Attain a Bachelor’s Degree, High School GPA Is King

Richard Whitmire
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Alarming Statistics Tell the Story Behind America’s College Completion Crisis: Nearly a Third of All College Students Still Don’t Have a Degree Six Years Later

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How Opening a High School on a Rural Peanut Field Altered the Arc of a NC Town — and Doubled the College Degrees in 5 Years

Richard Whitmire
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Porterfield — Inside ‘The B.A. Breakthrough’: What an Inspiring New Book Reveals About America’s Growing Success in Propelling First-Generation Students to (and Through) College

Daniel Porterfield
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WATCH: Why America Needs a ‘B.A. Breakthrough’ — and How Ending Diploma Disparities Could Become the Most Effective Anti-Poverty Program in History

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