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"At a time when academics and lawmakers are embracing the importance of preschool education more than ever, a new study from University of Maryland's Melissa Kearney and Wellesley College's Phillip Levine finds that toddlers may achieve many of the same educational benefits by tuning into Sesame Street."

"By the time children in Michigan reach third grade, 40 percent of them aren't reading at proficiency, according to statistics from the Michigan League of Public Policy. In 2013, 80 percent of fourth-graders from low-income families "did not demonstrate proficiency" on a national test."

"There is a constant rallying cry in education circles: Why don't we have more teachers of color? The answer is simple it's not a degree likely to pay off, assuming the student can even make it to graduation."

"Its progressive benefit formula pays a high percentage of your average monthly earnings up to a certain point; but then, as your income grows, lower percentages apply to bring down your overall benefit as a percentage of your career income."

"That's the idea behind America Needs You, a program for low-income, high-achieving, first-generation college students that aims to increase graduation rates in underserved communities. The program started in New York in 2009, expanded to New Jersey in 2012 and added Illinois this year."

"That colleges have little incentive to enroll low-income students is increasingly reflected in their student aid policies. Under the sway of enrollment managersprivate consultants who advise institutions on admissions and financial aid policiesmany public and private colleges are using their limited institutional aid budgets to attract the students they most desire: the 'best and brightest,' and the wealthiest. They are, in other words, providing merit aid both to high-achieving students who can help them rise in the U.S. News & World Report rankings and to affluent students who can help them increase their revenues."

"Low-income and in-state students in particular will face more challenges paying for higher education costs in upcoming years. Public colleges and universities are increasingly awarding those groups less financial aid funneling it to high-achieving, wealthy, out-of-state students instead, according to a new report by the New America Foundation."

"A charter school that teaches boys from lower-income neighborhoods from Palmetto to Newtown not just academics but core values is anxious to expand and reach four times as many students."

"Seventeen schools from nine states will start the 2015-16 school year with new hope and support, as recipients of the "Closing the Gap" awards, sponsored by national non-profit College For Every Student. In January, College For Every Student, which helps underserved students get to and through college, ready to enter the 21st century workforce, announced a nationwide search for middle and high schools serving low-income students in need of college readiness support."

"Students from low-income families pursuing a college degree will continue having access to a grant program funded in part through lottery gaming in Nebraska."