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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

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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. The dropout problem got a lot worse in the 1990s when more people started attending college.

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‘It’s really hard to parent from behind bars’

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She worked physically demanding jobs until 2003 when she was injured, went back to school for office administration and found a job working for an attorney. Growing up in Texas decades earlier, she struggled too. She married at 14, had five children, endured abusive relationships and spent a few years in prison on drug charges.

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

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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. Black schools for black children. Related: Early evidence of a ‘Trump effect’ on bullying in schools.

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