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Community College Incarcerated Reentry Programs: Looking Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Prison education in the rearview mirror Prison education programs have long been in the crossfire of fierce clashes between those viewing prisons as proper punishment to promote a safe and just society and those seeing prisons as democracy’s hope for rehabilitation and restorative justice. Roueche and Margaretta B.

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2022: Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Using the authority Congress granted to the Department of Education, we will forgive $10,000 in outstanding student federal loans. In addition, students who come from low-income families, which allowed them to qualify to receive a Pell Grant, will have debt reduced $20,000,” Biden said in August. Department of Education (ED).

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2023 Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Per the one-time federal student loan debt relief effort, Pell Grant recipients who earned within a certain amount of income during the pandemic — less than $125,000 for individuals and under $250,000 for married couples or heads of households — would have had up to $20,000 in debt forgiven. Approximately 2.9 1, 2023, to Sept.