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This photo taken March 12, 2014, shows student Rahman Hassan holding a pencil as he works on an exercise in a remedial English course at Baltimore City Community College in Baltimore. Only about a quarter of students nationally who take developmental _ or remedial _ classes ever graduate. The problem is so profound that the advocacy group Complete College America dubs remedial classes the “bridge to nowhere.” The challenge, educators say, is that even as billions is spent annually on remedial classes, many of these students run out of financial aid before they can complete their credit requirements, get discouraged by non-credit classes or find themselves unable to complete them. The Baltimore school is one of several places around the country looking to improve the odds for these students. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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** FILE ** This combination of undated family photos shows, from left, Martin Richard, 8, Krystle Campbell, 29, and Lingzi Lu, a Boston University graduate student from China. Richard, Campbell and Lu were killed in the bombings near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013, in Boston. (AP Photo/File)
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Tony Boland, 79, plays flute during band practice at Kennedy Elementary School Thursday, April 10, 2014, in Dubuque, Iowa. Boland is a volunteer at the school who practices and plays with the school's band. (AP Photo/Telegraph Herald, Jessica Reilly)
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A body is removed early Friday, April 11, 2014 from the charred remains of a chartered bus that collided with a FedEx truck on Interstate 5 in Orland, Calif. At least ten people were killed and dozens injured in the fiery crash,Thursday, between a FedEx truck and a bus carrying high school students on a visit to a Northern California College. (AP Photo/The Sacramento Bee, Hector Amezcua) MAGS OUT; LOCAL TV OUT (KCRA3, KXTV10, KOVR13, KUVS19, KMAZ31, KTXL40); MANDATORY CREDIT
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Workers begin clearing the charred remains of a charter bus that collided with a FedEx truck on Thursday at Interstate 5 in Orland, Calif. Friday, April 10, 2014. At least ten people were killed and dozens injured in the fiery crash,Thursday, between a FedEx truck and a bus carrying high school students on a visit to a Northern California College. (AP Photo/The Sacramento Bee, Hector Amezcua) MAGS OUT; LOCAL TV OUT (KCRA3, KXTV10, KOVR13, KUVS19, KMAZ31, KTXL40); MANDATORY CREDIT
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Workers begin clearing the charred remains of a charter bus that collided with a FedEx truck on Thursday at Interstate 5 in Orland, Calif. Friday, April 10, 2014. At least ten people were killed and dozens injured in the fiery crash,Thursday, between a FedEx truck and a bus carrying high school students on a visit to a Northern California College. (AP Photo/The Sacramento Bee, Hector Amezcua) MAGS OUT; LOCAL TV OUT (KCRA3, KXTV10, KOVR13, KUVS19, KMAZ31, KTXL40); MANDATORY CREDIT
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A charter bus is prepared for removal by workers along with remains of a FedEx truck on Friday, April 11, 2014, the day after they collided on Interstate 5 in Orland, Calif. At least ten people were killed and dozens injured in the fiery crash,Thursday, between a FedEx truck and a bus carrying high school students on a visit to a Northern California College. (AP Photo/The Sacramento Bee, Hector Amezcua) MAGS OUT; LOCAL TV OUT (KCRA3, KXTV10, KOVR13, KUVS19, KMAZ31, KTXL40); MANDATORY CREDIT
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California Highway Patrol Multidisciplinary Accident Investigation Team Lt. Scott Fredrick, center right, speaks at a news conference in Willows, Calif., Friday, April 11, 2014. At least ten people were killed and dozens injured in the fiery crash between a FedEx truck and a bus carrying high school students on a visit to a Northern California College. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, APRIL 14, 2014, AND THEREAFTER- In this undated photo Joyce Barkoff helps Bailey Bowers with an assignment at Cave City Elementary, in Cave City, Ark. Barkoff has been a foster grandparent at the Cave City School District since 2009. (AP Photo/Batesville Daily Guard, Luke Stroud)
