In a New York Times article, Sam Boakye—the only black student on his freshman year floor—said that "if you're surrounded by whites, you have something to prove."

在《纽约时报》的一篇文章中，一年级唯一的黑人学生山姆·博阿凯说：“如果你周围都是白人，你就会想要做点事情来证明自己。”

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One 2013 study of college students found that 80% of students use their phones or laptops during class, with the average student checking their digital device 11 times in a typical class.

2013年的一项关于大学生的研究发现，有80%的学生在课上使用手机或笔记本电脑，在一堂平常的课上，平均每个学生查看数码设备的次数高达11次。

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More than half of all recent graduates are unemployed or in jobs that do not require a degree, and the amount of student-loan debt carried by households has increased more than five times since 1999.

在最近毕业的所有毕业生中，超过一半的人没有工作，或者从事不需要学位的工作。并且自1999年以来，有学生贷款债务的家庭数额增加了五倍多。

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Consider these facts: A minority student is four times more likely than a non-minority student to attend a high school with very low graduation rates (so-called "dropout factories") and three times less likely to attend a high school with very high graduation rates.

CNN: Commentary: Give kids a beacon of hope

Other times the student profiles just take up space in a coach's inbox.

WSJ: Competing for Scholarships on the Field and Online

If lifts are not available at the times when student need to travel to college, then this becomes a barrier and disincentive to continuing in education.

BBC: Transport barrier to rural education