President Obama's recent proposal for free tuition for community college students will soon go before Congress. If passed, this bill would allow two years of free tuition for qualifying students. ... Many community colleges suffer from low completion rates. This is partially due to the underprepared high school graduates entering community colleges. ... It will be interesting to see how President Obama's community college proposal develops. ...

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Most of the programs grant money to support education to the states or directly to students. ... Pell Grants are "provided to students who exhibit a significant financial need for funding to attend college" (Calhoun). ... One would think that with such a dramatic increase, test scores of students would have increased as well, but that is not the case. ... People continue to pay more and more money to this department, when the test scores of the students barely move. ... These requirements are "establish learning standards, create annual assessments to measure student progress in reading and ma...

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" It is clear, when the NYPD was set to servile Muslims, they were many college students complaining about feeling uncomfortable of not even having the opportunity to practice their religion in a peaceful and respectful way, because they were seen and treated as if they were criminals, when at the end, they were just students. This and many other cases occur, for example when another college student posted a tweet commenting about his Islam Studies class, the state police went to his school and made him a small interview and investigations in order to keep everything under control. ...

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Consequently, the Equal Employment Act of 1972 forced colleges and universities to admit members of minorities in greater numbers, especially in professional and graduate schools. ... A closely divided Supreme Court, with no majority opinion and six opinions in all, struck down a medical school admissions program that set aside a specific number of places for "disadvantaged" minority students. Yet the court upheld under the Fourteenth Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, consideration of race as a "plus" factor in admissions for the purpose of fostering educational benefits that flo...

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President Bush has expanded the Pell Grant program through reforms to the student loan program. The expansion will provide more assistance for low-income students to receive higher education as well as indirectly lowering the national debt. The expansion of the Pell Grant program can prevent students from taking out large amounts of loan, which will then lower the public's debt. The President's Fiscal Year 2006 budget will increase the maximum Pell Grant award to $4,150 this year and $4,550 over five years to help more students. ... Newswire reports that Bush has no plans to address ...

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After he managed his way through college, he became a practicing lawyer before entering politics and becoming President. ... Richard had hoped to attend Harvard College but had to accept the local Whittier College instead because of the lack of funds. ... In 1934, Nixon graduated from Whittier College (Anderson 7). ... Eager to receive a proper education, Richard quickly accepted the offer, but when he arrived he found out that in order to keep the full scholarship he would need to be one of the top students in the class. ... While enrolled at Duke University he managed to get scholarship rene...

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Though the Republican Party was founded on pro-minority ideals and continued to have the support of minorities its reputation quickly began to change. Wagner (2007) states that during the early late 1800's and the early 1900's, Republican support weakened among the working class. In addition, many Americans, including a sizable number of Republicans, believed that American society had lost its moral fiber. As a result of these factors, many Republicans became affiliated with the Progressive Movement, a reform movement designed to assist the working class attain better working conditi...

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