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More high school grads than ever are going to college, but 1 in 5 will quit

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In a trend that has been widely lauded, the proportion of high school graduates who go straight to college has increased from 63 percent in 2000 to 70 percent now, the Department of Education says. These trends together mean that there are nearly 2.9 Dropouts cost colleges a collective $16.5

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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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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. By 2006, the school was majority minority. A growing trend. It wasn’t always this way. Other vendors do, too.

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Will the coronavirus transform or destroy higher education as we know it?

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In 2006, journalist Daniel Golden exposed how President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, found his way into Harvard despite lackluster grades with the help of his dad’s $2.5 Transparent admission standards? million donation. The answer is a little of both, Carnevale explained.

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Momentum builds for career-focused P-TECH schools

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Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. The act was first passed in 2006, to support career preparation programs. Subscribe today!

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Canadian schools succeed in nudging one minority group to and through college

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The number of indigenous Canadians grew four times faster than the rest of the population between 2006 and 2011, the most recent period for which the figure is available, and that pace is expected to continue, according to the government agency Statistics Canada. As in the United States, they’re also practical.

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