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Author Archives: Meredith Kolodner

Meredith Kolodner is a senior investigative reporter. She previously covered schools for the New York Daily News and was an editor at InsideSchools.org and for The Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute. She’s also covered housing, schools, and local government for the Press of Atlantic City and The Chief-Leader newspaper and her work has appeared in the New York Times and the Washington Post. Kolodner is a graduate of Brown University and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and an active New York City public school parent. She is grateful to her 11th grade English teacher who persistently gave her Cs on essays until she finally stopped burying the lead.

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Do income-based repayment plans drive young borrowers of color deeper into debt?

by Meredith Kolodner January 15, 2021January 15, 2021

“It’s not the amount I borrowed that’s killing me – it’s the interest.” Students all over the country echo that sentiment. And new research shows the problem is worsening. To make a real dent in the amount you owe on a loan,you need to pay enough money each month to cover both the interest and […]

Rundown schools forced more students to go remote

by Bracey Harris, Meredith Kolodner and Neal Morton November 25, 2020November 30, 2020

“Stuck in it until I die”: Parents get buried by college debt too

by Meredith Kolodner November 19, 2020December 1, 2020

Students sick of ‘lip service’ from universities over racism

by Meredith Kolodner June 20, 2020June 22, 2020

Could the online, for-profit college industry be “a winner in this crisis”?

by Meredith Kolodner and Sarah Butrymowicz June 17, 2020June 23, 2020

How do you manage college online — quarantined with eight people?

by Meredith Kolodner April 8, 2020April 8, 2020

‘It almost broke us’: Lawsuit accuses for-profit cosmetology college of withholding student financial aid

by Meredith Kolodner and Sarah Butrymowicz March 26, 2020March 30, 2020

Canceled research, sports, recitals — college students are coping with more than closed campuses

by Meredith Kolodner, Jon Marcus, Caroline Preston and Delece Smith-Barrow March 20, 2020March 30, 2020

Out of the fields: In a North Carolina county where few Latino parents have diplomas, their kids are aiming for college

by Meredith Kolodner October 21, 2019April 2, 2020

Hope in coal country: Parents without diplomas keep their kids in school

by Meredith Kolodner October 21, 2019April 2, 2020

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