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Innovative program evens the playing field for poor students

Author: PBS NewsHour

Narrator: PBS NewsHour

Unabridged: 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/28/2016


Synopsis

For Georgia State’s Tyler Mulvenna, a $900 grant from an innovative retention program let him live on campus, work less and do what he came to do: study. The school, worried about abysmal graduation rates for poor students found, a full course load, commuting and holding a job was just too much for many. The NewsHour's April Brown takes a look at the program praised by President Barack Obama.

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