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  • The smallest art colleges are struggling in a fiercely competitive market. Why are they showing such signs of stress?
  • About a third of high school students took courses for college credit in 2009, according to a nationally representative study from the U.S. Department of Education.
  • A new study challenges the notion that student loan debt is bad for people attending community colleges and finds that borrowing may actually increase their academic success.

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