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Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost

The Hechinger Report

In 2016, after years of declines, national college graduation rates started ticking back up again and have continued rising for the past three years. The dropout problem got a lot worse in the 1990s when more people started attending college. million students dropped out of college with debt in 2015 and 2016.

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Minnesota has a persistent higher-ed gap: Are new efforts making a difference?

The Hechinger Report

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. I felt like I needed mirrors in the classroom.”.

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School counselors keep kids on track. Why are they first to be cut?

The Hechinger Report

Aimed at curbing dropouts, improving graduation rates and sending more kids to college and other postsecondary programs, the corps is designed to offset a growing achievement gap in this relatively affluent but increasingly diverse state. “When there’s a budget cut, counselors are the first to go.”. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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Segregated schools are still the norm. Howard Fuller is fine with that

The Hechinger Report

In 2016 not a single child at “North,” as locals call it, tested proficient in math according to the state’s education department. It’s the first week of school at Milwaukee Collegiate Academy, a charter high school Fuller founded in 2003 that’s housed in a low-slung concrete warehouse just a five-minute drive from the North Division campus.

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