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Meredith Kolodner

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Investigative reporter covering education @hechingerreport, D.C. native, Brooklyn convert, Liverpool F.C. fanatic. DM or email me [email protected]

Brooklyn, NY
Joined November 2012
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In the midst of all the debate about college, this seems significant -- freshmen enrollment didn't actually drop this fall.
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RT @jillbarshay: After I wrote about the dual enrollment explosion at U.S. high schools, readers said that too many dual enrollment credits…
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Beautiful and deeply reported story by @jackiemader "The government’s view isn’t that child care is a place to put children so parents can work, or even to prepare children for the rigors of elementary school. It’s about protecting childhood."
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RT @L_willen: As free-tuition programs have multiplied, so have questions and doubts. Are low-income students benefiting? Is free tuition l…
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RT @hechingerreport: This week's Elementary to High School newsletter takes you to North Carolina. Sign up to get this free newsletter sent…
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RT @L_willen: These are not schools where students post the highest test scores, but schools where kids learn more each school year than st…
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RT @jackiemader: We were so truly fortunate to get out. I cannot overstate the severity of devastation in western NC. Please don’t forget a…
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The assumption that "young people don't vote" no longer applies -- here's why from @JonMarcusBoston
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RT @cpreston: Disasters like Helene are a threat to education, girls' in particular. @ckwauk says that in Bangladesh, economic shocks from…
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5 months
Another drop in Black college enrollment, this time at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The freshman class is 2 percent this fall, down from 3 percent last fall.
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RT @jillbarshay: There are strange paradoxes when you eliminate remedial ed at college. More students pass gateway courses, and yet more st…
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This fall, 12 percent of Columbia University's freshmen class are Black, down from 20 percent last year.
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RT @fastlerner: starting in 2021, I reported on whistleblowers who said they were being pressured to make new chemicals seems safer than th…
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RT @hechingerreport: A principal lost her job after she came out. Her conservative community rallied around her  - The Hechinger Report htt…
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Interesting that Ed Blum is threatening to sue the universities where the racial composition of the freshman class changed very little, but isn't concerned with the ones where the number of Black and Latino students dropped sharply
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A stricter Tennessee law is causing some school library books to quietly disappear, via @ChalkbeatTN
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@BillDeBaun @FSAconf So glad to be here!
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The last year has been like reactive firefighting, and that's not how you do your best work, says Jeremy SInger of @FSAconf This year's FAFSA will be similar to last year, but institutions will be able to send out financial aid offers in December, January and February #NCAN2024
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RT @tjvari: “85% of students want more career exploration opportunities in high school.” ~ @JohnBarnshaw #NCAN2024
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