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Momentum builds behind a way to lower the cost of college: A degree in three years

The Hechinger Report

Consumers are definitely ready for something different.”. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. It’s “definitely a lot more challenging,” said Zanca, at Wentworth. But it has been, hands-down. A handful of conventional colleges and universities are coming to the same conclusion.

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In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

The Hechinger Report

Among the many other problems dragging down Puerto Rico’s stagnant economy, made worse by hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, is a huge high school dropout rate and, among those students who do manage to graduate, a comparatively low trajectory to college — especially college on the mainland — and a high dropout rate there, too.

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