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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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Progress in getting underrepresented people into college and skilled jobs may be stalling because of the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Experts say that this means dropout rates, which had been declining for more than a decade, will likely start to rise again. I didn’t even know how to contact my advisor to declare a major. Then when you do find them, the offices are closed.”. Even upperclassmen, who are further along, have suffered setbacks. Gregory VanDyke Jr.,

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Minnesota has a persistent higher-ed gap: Are new efforts making a difference?

The Hechinger Report

The idea, said Ann Swartz-Beckius, interim director of student achievement, is to teach students how to remain calm under pressure, “to tune out the noise in their heads.”. College dropouts cost Minnesota millions of dollars in wasted subsidies and lost revenue each year. Paul College that shows students’ countries of origin.

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Some colleges seek radical solutions to survive

The Hechinger Report

Colleges are also working to reduce their numbers of dropouts on the principle that it’s cheaper to provide the kind of support required to keep tuition-paying students than to recruit more. And for all of the work it’s done to reduce the number of dropouts, the higher education industry has so far barely moved the needle.

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

The Hechinger Report

Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. The biggest challenge is how to fit the requirements of a bachelor’s degree designed to take four years into three. Then Covid decimated them. Now, said Goldstein, U.S. institutions “are competing head on against U.K.

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A Year in Review 15-16

The Thinking Stick

Then “Doing the Work” to start changing teaching practice to understand how to make the most of this new tool and connected classrooms…it’s been tough but exciting. Full disclosure our dropout rate is roughly 15%. Soon we will be changing learning for students from 3-12 grade across a district. What an honor!

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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. Weaver said that she’s always looking at how to design programs to engage donors that might interest them. Gnyp said at the time she dreamed of becoming a “political environmentalist.”

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