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University of Chicago student Rudra Patel happily shows off the work of famed artist Ando Hiroshige that he'll get to display in his dorm room for one year.  Hiroshige was a master of Japanese woodblock printing whose work focused on landscapes and everyday life in Edo-period Japan.

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  • National

Want a Picasso? UChicago students borrow original art for their dorms

College students often use posters to help spruce up their dorm. At the University of Chicago, they get a chance to borrow works by prominent artists for a year.

October 28, 2024
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By:
  • Alison Cuddy
People gather at a FEMA Disaster Recovery Center at A.C. Reynolds High School in Asheville, N.C.,, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024.

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  • Weather

Schools in Asheville are reopening in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene

After-school activities will still be suspended Monday and Tuesday.

October 28, 2024
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
Matt and Emily Kayser of Westchester County, N.Y., visit Colby College in Maine for a campus tour in August.

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  • Education

Some colleges are targeting financial aid to middle-class families

Many middle-income families are frustrated by the cost of higher education, feeling they earn too much for financial aid, but not enough to pay for it themselves.

October 27, 2024
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By:
  • Jon Marcus

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  • Education

2024 Student Podcast Challenge Honorable Mentions

Here are the honorable mentions from the 2024 Student Podcast Challenge. Congratulations!

October 24, 2024
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Julie Beck earns roughly $20 an hour teaching in Head Start classrooms 10 months a year. “I'm paycheck to paycheck,” she says.

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  • Education

These teachers often live in poverty. A pay raise could help — but there’s a cost

A new Biden administration effort to raise Head Start teacher wages could force the federally funded preschool program to serve fewer children.

October 23, 2024
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By:
  • Cory Turner
Republican nominee for North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction Michele Morrow at a candidate forum in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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  • Politics

GOP candidate for NC schools chief has spread falsehoods, ‘groomer’ rhetoric

Michele Morrow has a track record of falsehoods - for example, saying Islam is a cult and that the plus in LGTBTQ+ stands for pedophilia.

October 21, 2024
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  • Liz Schlemmer
U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona speaks with Peter Biello at the GPB Studios on Oct. 17, 2024.

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  • Education

In Georgia, U.S. Secretary of Education announces millions in funding for student mental health

GPB's Peter Biello speaks with Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona about Biden Administration investments in student mental health and a milestone for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.

October 17, 2024
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  • Peter Biello
Eden Alonso-Rivera of Grandville, Mich. is the Student Podcast Challenge 2024 high school winner for her podcast "A Relationship Behind Bars" about her father's incarceration.

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  • Education

'You're not alone:' A teen podcaster sends message to kids with incarcerated parents

Eden Alonso-Rivera of Grandville, Mich. is the high school winner of NPR's Student Podcast Challenge. Her winning entry, "A Relationship Behind Bars," is about her father's incarceration.

October 15, 2024
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  • Cory Turner and
  • Janet W. Lee
Three residents of Haven Hotel in Stone Mountain, Georgia, hold rolls of toilet paper given to them by community volunteers. The hotel charges residents $1 per roll, they say.

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  • News

Extended-stay hotels, a growing option for poor families, can lead to health problems for kids

Extended-stay hotels are often a last resort for low-income families trying to avoid homelessness. But hotel living can lead to — or exacerbate — various physical and mental health issues for children, say advocates for families and researchers who study homelessness.

October 12, 2024
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  • Andy Miller and
  • Renuka Rayasam
Malcolm Mitchell

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  • Education

He was a UGA star and Super Bowl winner. But Malcolm Mitchell says literacy is his greatest victory

As part of Georgia Pre-K Week, a celebration of the state's pre-K program, Georgia resident and former NFL star Malcolm Mitchell joined political leaders and local celebrities in reading to children. Literacy is important to Mitchell, who spoke to GPB's Orlando Montoya in the studio.

October 11, 2024
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  • Orlando Montoya
In 2020, Congress voted to overhaul the FAFSA, seen here in its old, paper form. The federal application's relaunch, in late 2023, came with a whole host of problems.

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  • Education

Some students are fighting to stay in college after the FAFSA delayed financial aid

Students had to make all kinds of decisions about college before knowing how much financial aid they would get. Now, some are scrambling to stay in school.

October 10, 2024
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By:
  • Jonaki Mehta
Pro-Palestinian protestors rally at Brown University in April as their delegation met with school leaders on campus in Providence, R.I.

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  • National

Brown says no to pro-Palestinian students' demands for divestment

Supporters of divestment ended their encampment last spring in exchange for a promise that their proposal for divestment would get a vote from the board this fall.

October 10, 2024
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  • Tovia Smith

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  • Politics

To combat misinformation, start with connection, not correction

People trust information more when it comes from sources or contexts they’re familiar with. Help counter misinformation in your community by having conversations with your friends and family.

October 01, 2024
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  • Audrey Nguyen
President Joe Biden speaks about student loan relief at Madison College in Madison, Wisconsin, on April 8.

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  • Education

Two major student loan grace periods are set to expire this week. Here's what to know

Two federal programs that helped federal student loan borrowers ease back into payments are ending. It will have the biggest impact on borrowers with defaulted loans or borrowers who miss payments moving forward.

September 30, 2024
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  • Juliana Kim
Promise Career Institute Principal Dr. Yalanda Bell speaks during a morning presentation before a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. Photo by Donnell Suggs/The Atlanta Voice

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  • Education

Fulton County Schools celebrates opening Promise Career Institute

Fulton County Schools took a moment during the academic year to celebrate the opening of what is being described as a college- and career-focused high school: The Promise Career Institute.

September 27, 2024
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  • Donnell Suggs
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