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...She’s got to support her daughter as well as her education and herself—the struggles that she’s facing in that process are an echo of what is happening to many students,” Joshua Wyner says. He adds that Woo is an exception: “Many of them don’t find a way out of it.” A DAY IN HER SHOES...
...lower-income students in the top tier in reading fall out of it by fifth grade. As economically disadvantaged brainiacs get older, 25% of them drop ranks in math in high school, and 41% don't finish college. "We're losing them at every stage in education," says Joshua Wyner, executive vice president of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, which wrote the report with public-policy development firm Civic Enterprises...
...undergraduates in the country are enrolled in community college, they only account for six percent of transfers to Harvard and less than one percent of the student body.“Top students at community college have a lot to offer elite colleges,” said Josh Wyner, vice president for programming at the Cooke Foundation, a foundation that provides scholarships for students at community college. Community college students include large populations of minorities, students from single parent families or who are the first in their families to attend college, and low income students that four-year colleges seek...
...model for other selective schools to increase their enrollment of transfer students from community colleges. “With broad dissemination of the success these schools have had, other colleges and universities will create similar programs that serve thousands more students in the future,” said Joshua Wyner, Vice President of Programs at the foundation. The schools and the foundation see this program as necessary because only 10 percent of students at the most selective colleges come from the bottom half of the socio-economic scale, while 75 percent come from the top quarter, according to the foundation...
...Sally Wyner...