The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 10, 2023
In 2009, for example, the state passed legislation requiring many schools to give them priority for on-campus housing. Since then, California lawmakers have passed a slew of budget expansions and laws to benefit students with foster care experience. The organization’s College Success Initiative supports students attending 10 L.A.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
Experts say that this means dropout rates, which had been declining for more than a decade, will likely start to rise again. Her coalition of advocates in Nashville now meets remotely, every Friday morning. Among other things, its members talk about the obstacles confronting students. “I
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The Hechinger Report
APRIL 26, 2019
Among the many other problems dragging down Puerto Rico’s stagnant economy, made worse by hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, is a huge high school dropout rate and, among those students who do manage to graduate, a comparatively low trajectory to college — especially college on the mainland — and a high dropout rate there, too.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 14, 2019
Though some programs have helped lower dropout rates and improved graduation rates for students of color, the gap in the percentage of students finishing a degree has barely budged across the 30 community colleges in the Minnesota State Colleges and University system. Paul College that shows students’ countries of origin.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 9, 2019
Colleges are also working to reduce their numbers of dropouts on the principle that it’s cheaper to provide the kind of support required to keep tuition-paying students than to recruit more. And for all of the work it’s done to reduce the number of dropouts, the higher education industry has so far barely moved the needle.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 6, 2019
In meetings with his academic adviser during the second semester of his freshman year, Robinson said he learned that though his GPA was solid, the school’s computer algorithm saw trouble. The dropout problem got a lot worse in the 1990s when more people started attending college. He could have been another dropout casualty.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 1, 2018
CHICAGO — By Marquell Brown’s count, he has been locked up “roughly 42 times” since 2009. In Illinois, Marquell Brown got a firsthand look at the improvements made from 2009 to 2017. Photo: TARA GARCIA MATHEWSON/The Hechinger Report. In February, Brown had been out for six months and he called it a record. Source: PEARSON CONNEXUS.
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