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Student loan default rates inch down as for-profit sector contracts

The Hechinger Report

percent of students who graduated or left school during the 2009-10 year. More than 15 percent of these graduates and dropouts defaulted in both time periods. That’s because community colleges cater to lower income students and dropout rates are high. And it’s a whopping 4.6 “But there’s a bureaucracy.

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Colorado hybrid school taps into personalized learning

eSchool News

The number of high school students being held back a grade dropped in the 2014-15 school year by nearly two-thirds—from 19 down to 7. In this K-12 school serving almost 200 students, the successes don’t end there.

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Online learning can open doors for kids in juvenile jails

The Hechinger Report

CHICAGO — By Marquell Brown’s count, he has been locked up “roughly 42 times” since 2009. In Illinois, Marquell Brown got a firsthand look at the improvements made from 2009 to 2017. Photo: TARA GARCIA MATHEWSON/The Hechinger Report. In February, Brown had been out for six months and he called it a record. Source: PEARSON CONNEXUS.

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Why Community College Completion Is Often a Long and Winding Road

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Anastasia Gnyp of Hendersonville, Tennessee, graduated from Merrol Hyde Magnet School a semester early in 2009 with big dreams. More data from 2014 show 60 percent of community college graduates went on to earn their bachelor’s in four years or less, and 12 percent more were persisting toward graduating after four years.

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What if we hired for skills, not degrees?

The Hechinger Report

In 2014, the labor market analysis firm Burning Glass Technologies tried to capture the extent of degree inflation. That timespan should look familiar: The Great Recession lasted from December 2007 to June 2009. If this movement continues to gather steam, researchers say, it could aid not only individual job seekers but also the U.S.

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Colleges face a new reality, as the number of high schools graduates will decline

The Hechinger Report

According to one respected tally , just under 55 percent of students who entered college in 2010 had earned degrees after six years – an increase of two percentage points since 2009. According to the report: The number of Latinos graduating from high school is projected to reach 920,000 students by 2025 – an increase by 50 percent since 2014.

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Low academic expectations and poor support for special education students is ‘hurting their future’

The Hechinger Report

Even before starting high school in 2009, Nelson knew he wanted to go to college. His system fails when he has to determine random words or subjects,” his mom wrote in a letter to the superintendent in April 2014. He’s thinking about getting his bachelor’s next. But it wasn’t an easy path.