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One surprising barrier to college success: Dense higher education lingo

ATHENS, Ga. — Leslie De Santos furrowed her brow as she read the passage. This story also appeared in Atlanta Journal-Constitution The four sentences contained terms such as “litigation,” “adjudicative,” “jurisdiction” and “identifiers,” and the last sentence, 23 words long, included two semicolons. It wasn’t an assignment from an advanced course in legal studies. The […]