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

The Hechinger Report

In September 2019 the Department of Education’s Office of Federal Student aid released data showing two consecutive years of falling default rates. Higher Education. 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.

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Colorado hybrid school taps into personalized learning

eSchool News

students attend blended classes on campus and take online courses from home, and district educators say a personalized learning solution has had a positive impact in a number of academic areas. 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.

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

The Hechinger Report

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. He knew it would be easy; he said tests in his special education classes almost always were. Credit: Melissa Lyttle for HuffPost.

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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. The online coursework is designed by the education company Pearson. Just eight states provided both comparable educational and comparable vocational services. Photo: TARA GARCIA MATHEWSON/The Hechinger Report.

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What if we hired for skills, not degrees?

The Hechinger Report

This story is a part of our Map to the Middle Class project, in which readers ask questions about educational pathways to financial stability and then we investigate. In 2014, the labor market analysis firm Burning Glass Technologies tried to capture the extent of degree inflation. Related: Test prep to get into vocational education?

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Why Community College Completion Is Often a Long and Winding Road

MindShift

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

The Hechinger Report

Why It Matters: More minority and low-income grads going to college could require stronger commitment to educate them. 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. Read more about higher education.

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