Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 6, 2019
The idea is to find trends and patterns in huge amounts of historical data and use those patterns to predict the future. The dropout problem got a lot worse in the 1990s when more people started attending college. Since 2003, Georgia State has raised its graduation rates by 23 percentage points, which adds up to more than $60 million.
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