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Cory Turner

Reporter · US

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Sep 16, 2026
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Jul 6, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 16, 2026 · Cory Turner

    When students attend these colleges, taxpayers often pay. Here's why (opens the original)

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    Five-hundred colleges and universities in the U.S. now share one alarming distinction: At least 40% of recent students who borrowed federal loans aren't paying them back. That's according to the latest federal nonpayment-rate data published by the U.S. Education Department. The data looks at the roughly 17 million borrowers who entered repayment for the first time between January 2020 and May 2025. "These numbers are really jaw-dropping," says Eileen Connor, head of the Project on Predatory Stud

  2. Article · Sep 16, 2026 · Cory Turner

    The colleges where borrowers aren't repaying their student loans (opens the original)

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    Many federal student loan borrowers are in crisis. We've previously reported that millions are in default on their loans or well on their way to defaults. New federal data offers one reason why. Hundreds of thousands of these borrowers attended the same problematic schools. NPR's Cory Turner has been digging into this new data, and he joins us now to explain. Good morning, Cory. CORY TURNER, BYLINE: Good morning, Leila. FADEL: So walk us through the basics here. What's in this new data, and why

  3. Article · Aug 25, 2026 · Cory Turner

    When is suspending students discrimination? Education Department renews an old fight (opens the original)

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    The U.S. Department of Education recently announced it was investigating Fayetteville Public Schools in Arkansas, much to the district's surprise. The reason, according to a department press release: Teachers there "were directed to take students' racial identities into account when issuing discipline as part of an effort to bring about 'restorative justice' to address 'the disproportionality of discipline on students of color.'" Superintendent John Mulford says the district received notice of t

  4. Article · Jul 31, 2026 · Cory Turner

    450K borrowers say they were ripped off. Their student loans are being erased (opens the original)

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    Catch up on what you missed with our Education newsletter, sent weekly. The long legal battle to erase the debts of nearly half a million federal student loan borrowers who say they were defrauded by their colleges is finally coming to an end, after a recent court ruling in a lawsuit that has spanned three presidential administrations. The class-action suit, originally filed against the first Trump administration seven years ago, centered on a federal rule known as borrower defense. The rule is

  5. Article · Jul 30, 2026 · Cory Turner

    Adults have struggled to set rules for AI in school. These teens figured it out (opens the original)

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    Catch up on what you missed with our Education newsletter, sent weekly. BOSTON — Over the course of one frantic, late-July weekend, 98 teens representing all 50 states put their busy lives on hold to try to do something remarkable. The students, most of them high school juniors and seniors, gathered in a precise replica of the U.S. Senate chamber and attempted what the real, adult Congress has largely failed to do: draft and pass "legislation" to help the nation's K-12 schools navigate the quest

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