This week, we feature some new hope for student parents, who disproportionately give up before they reach the finish line. Fewer than 4 in 10 graduate with a degree within six years, compared with more than 6 in 10 other students. Having young children and working simultaneously makes prioritizing education particularly difficult. But colleges — recognizing declining enrollments and demographic changes — are now paying attention to the needs of student-parents, from priority course registration to on-site childcare.
And our new interactive tool helps prospective college studentswho may need child care search whether institutions offer them that option.
Such care remains elusive, however, for many others: In the first installment of our new series with the Education Reporting Collaborative, we look at how the country's child care crisis affects working mothers and how the high cost of child care has upended the careers of even those with college degrees.
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While women’s workforce participation has recovered from the pandemic, mothers without four-year degrees are disproportionately forced out of jobs because of child care costs
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This month, we and our partners at GBH bring you a new season of the College Uncovered podcast. In our first season, we helped you navigate the college admissions process. Now we’re back with season 2 to guide you through the even more confusing territory of financial aid and some of the ways colleges make their prices seem much lower than they actually are. These are the latest episodes:
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