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Lynsie Kimple is 18, a high school senior, and gets straight As. She works several part-time jobs. She's also the parent of a young child.
For young student-parents like Kimple, getting to and through college can be tough. It often means facing a system that works against them from the start.

There are almost 2 million people in jails, prisons, and detention centers, and they are disproportionately people of color.
Education plays a key role in helping both incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals envision a better life. But too often, state policies create barriers to these educational opportunities.

LaGuardia Community College is creating an Office of Credit for Prior Learning, a first for the college and for the City University of New York system.
The idea is to give working adults, especially those returning to college, credits for work experience and accomplishments outside the classroom so they can earn degrees in less time.

More than 1,700 Ukrainians are studying in the United States. Marta Hulievska, a freshman at Dartmouth College, is one of those students.
Hulievska's mother, grandmother, and sisters fled to the west of Ukraine when the war started. Her father—who is of fighting age—was forced to stay behind. Even though New Hampshire is thousands of miles away, Hulievska feels the constant stress of what they're going through.

When Greg Singleton first moved to Craven County in 2014, he applied for five jobs. He was met with silence.
Singleton knew the likely reason: He’d been incarcerated from 1992 to 1996 as a first-time, nonviolent offender. Today, Singleton is focused on helping others find second chances through education.

Nine high school students from across the United States discuss the lives they’re working toward and the choices they’re making to get there.
Their reflections, along with insights from educators, economists, psychologists, and employers, offer lessons about how postsecondary pathways could serve young people better if recreated for their adolescent brains and crafted around their dreams.