Franklin Roosevelt worked with Democrats and Republicans to give veterans of World War II -- including my grandfather, Stanley Dunham -- the chance to go to college on the G.
If the immorality of the Vietnam War was the only reason those lucky enough to go to college dodged the draft, why did we not encourage our children to volunteer for military service once that war was done?
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They will once again become what they used to be before a century of prosperity allowed large segments of the population to go to college: preserves of the children of rentier elites.
And when my grandfather came back home, he got the opportunity to go to college because of the GI Bill.
So today, the President will talk about the difference between what -- who he's fighting for, middle-class tax cuts, making sure college kids have access to the assistance they need to go to college, and also the steps that need to be taken on the drought and moving the farm bill forward, and the contrast that that is with the vision of his opponents.
Try to think of the last article you read about young people who do not go to college that used the intellectual demands of college-level work as an explanation.
And if somebody makes that decision not to go to college because of the cost that they think they're going to struggle with both while they're in college and when they get out, they may be making a very short-term decision with very, very long-term ramifications for where they're going to end up.
Economists like Robert Reischauer ruffled feathers several years ago by pointing out that talented, driven kids are more likely to go to college in the first place--that they succeed, in other words, because of their innate abilities, not because of their formal education.
By my sophomore year, I had committed to myself to work full-time during and after college to build this movement so that we can solve this very measurable injustice and make sure students who deserve to go to college have the opportunity to do so.
During his late teens he was the only member of his generation from Possum Hollow to go to college, attending the state teachers school in Murfreesboro, while also hauling livestock to market, raising a tobacco crop, and selling radios door-to-door for the furniture man in Carthage.
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But neither of my parents had the opportunity to go to college, but as I told the girls earlier, what my parents did for us is that they saved, and they sacrificed everything for us because they wanted something more for me and my brother.
"Some of our young people join the services, the armed services, some of them go to college or apply to college, " Bryce In The Woods told us.
Ideally, we want everyone to go to college, because college gets everyone on the same page.
And Barack believes that, yes, these young people also deserve the chance to go to college, to contribute to our economy, to serve the country they know and love.
Listen to this: He is fighting for responsible young people who came to this country as children, through no fault of their own, and were raised as Americans -- the only country they know -- because he believes that these young people also deserve the chance to go to college, to contribute to our economy, to serve the country they know and love.
Their kids, my parents, like many immigrant children, were the first in their family to go to college, buy a house and live the good middle class life.
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The U.S. Army has provided me such a wonderful opportunity to realize my dreams to go to college and see parts of the world that I had only read about in schoolbooks.
Ly said she hopes to see the children ultimately go to college.
But he also had a message for the next generation looking to make it big: go to college, take advantage of the world of tech and think about ways to change your local community.
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Universities -- those young people who are about to go to college, part of the reason your tuition is going up is because every employee at the university, their health care costs are going up.
It's up to young people to make sure that they continue to have opportunities in the future to go to college, to get a good job.
As the first in her family to go to college, she felt that by fulfilling her passion in the medical field it would make the whole family proud.
About 64 percent of students who are the first in their families to go to college transfer or graduate within three years, compared to the national average of 40 percent.
If the children did not go to college in their 18th year, the separation agreement.
You're the reason a young man right here in Columbus, whose mother worked three jobs to raise him, can now afford to go to college -- got to The Ohio State University.
They are proposing essentially that we lower our support to students on student loans who want to go to college and grants for students who want to go to college, which would affect millions of students all across the country.
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