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In order to improve the number of African-American student entering college is simple in my opinion. I have three trying steps to improve the levels of education in African American students. One way is to decrease the cost of education becuase many of the students can't afford or go into debt because of the increase of educational cost. The second is we have to build a better support system for some of the kids. Many of the kids come from troubled homes or large families. There must be more eduactors in the field form the Afriacn American community. The main reason why students are failing out of school is because they have no real educated officials mentoring them in the process.

The cost of education has gotten real bad in america. I mean FASA doesn't cover the amount of aid requested by the universities. Universities are doubling the cost and FASA is lowing the aid. This mean student will have to take out loans and go into default because they can't afford the cost of education. The loans are putting them in a terrible place where they would have to chose a low income job or take a chance at possible banruptcy in order to attend or stay in school. If they attend school they will get a good FASA package for the first year and then the aid will disappear in the next year, while the student's tution will increase quicker than inflation. So it is leaving trying students who need some help having to deal with the sanity of working 40 hours a week, going to school for about 20 hours or more a week, and sitting in the Registars office trying to mangle the mess with FASA. It is putting to much pressure on kids that come from low income families, families that may have been on welfare and is just starting to get better in terms of income.
We have to bulid a better support system for these kids. They are coming into a large environment where the teacher is more about thier personal acheivements rather than the overall growth of the student. Some of the students have increasing trouble while the teacher embarks on a ticky tack lesson that damages the will of he student. Some teacher teach like the students they are teaching have thier education. In many cases they are either over boarding hard on student of under achieving with being to soft on students. There has to be an understanding coming from teachers, you must train the mind, and secure the will to learn. You can't train the mind with out the will, because you will lose the student.
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