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Preventing Dropouts: An Impossible Dream?

Battelle for Kids

If they pursue postsecondary education, they often wind up spending long hours in remedial courses trying to learn the mathematics, reading, and writing skills they should have acquired in high school.

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The Secret to Preventing Community College Dropouts? Start With Middle School

Edsurge

How has Putnam County created partnerships with universities and institutions in Tennessee to essentially allow students to dual-enroll in these courses? It's setting those kids up with high school credits that's going to allow them to take more advantage of actual college courses in high school. How does tech fit into this?

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PROOF POINTS: Inside the perplexing study that’s inspired colleges to drop remedial math

The Hechinger Report

When Alexandra Logue served as the chief academic officer of the City University of New York (CUNY) from 2008 to 2014, she discovered that her 25-college system was spending over $20 million a year on remedial classes. An experimental psychologist by training, Logue designed an experiment.

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PROOF POINTS: COVID has been bad for college enrollment — but awful for community college students

The Hechinger Report

For profit and online institutions are generally more nimble in being able to attract students short term, enrolling students on a monthly basis or offering shorter courses,” said Shapiro. Earlier data from summer course taking suggested that Black students might be dropping out of college at higher rates than other races and ethnicities.

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College students predicted to fall by more than 15% after the year 2025

The Hechinger Report

“When the financial crisis hit in 2008, young people viewed that economic uncertainty as a cause for reducing fertility,” said Grawe. “The number of kids born from 2008 to 2011 fell precipitously. Of course, Grawe’s predictions may turn out to be wrong. “But you can understand.

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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

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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OPINION: What health care can teach educators about the difference between ‘equal’ and ‘equitable’

The Hechinger Report

” Of course, we’d never do this in health care. Longitudinal data show that students enrolled in City Connects schools performed better academically and had lower grade retention, chronic absenteeism and dropout rates. He served as Secretary of Education in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 2008 to 2013.

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