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Washington Student Achievement Council, 2021
Nationally, student debt has doubled between 2009 and 2019 and is now hovering around $1.7 trillion. The impact that student debt financing is having on borrowers of color is harmful and unsustainable. It is also widening the already significant racial wealth gap. The pandemic is likely to only exacerbate these inequities as people of color and…
Descriptors: Student Loan Programs, Student Financial Aid, Debt (Financial), Minority Group Students
Manwaring, Robert – Education Sector, 2010
In 1997, the state of California labeled Markham Middle School as low-performing. Located in the Watts neighborhood of Southeastern Los Angeles, Markham is stuffed with over 1,500 students in just three grades, sixth-eighth. Roughly 70 percent of the students are Hispanic, and 30 percent are black. Eighty-two percent are poor. That year, the…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Disadvantaged Schools, Intervention, Educational Improvement