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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. “If Paul College that shows students’ countries of origin.

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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

ATLANTA — When Keenan Robinson started college in 2017, he knew the career he wanted. For an absurd example, if dropouts tended to take classes on Thursdays in their first semester at college, but students who completed their degrees didn’t, then you might worry about current students who are currently taking classes on Thursdays.

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OPINION: The crisis in black student debt was dire before coronavirus — now it’s more urgent than ever

The Hechinger Report

Half of black borrowers who entered college in the 2003-04 academic year defaulted on their loans within 12 years. A black bachelor’s degree recipient is more likely to default than a white college dropout. Related: OPINION: Can debt relief and investment in HBCUs level the playing field for black students?

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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. billion originally authorized for the program in 2017. Still, that was short of the $1.65

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

The Hechinger Report

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. In 2017 the school received more than $462,000 in contributions, according to IRS filings. Black schools for black children.

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