The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
Experts say that this means dropout rates, which had been declining for more than a decade, will likely start to rise again. And a third of this year’s high school seniors say they’re less likely to go to college when they graduate, according to a survey by the think tanks New America and Third Way. College enrollments have fallen.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 1, 2017
In 2009, the school was down to 167 students, according to Nithya Govindasamy, dean of the work program. At Wisconsin’s Silver Lake College, Matt Goff, dean of SLC Works, the school’s work college model, sees another potential boost from his school’s year-old program: fewer dropouts. The number has rebounded to about 500.
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The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 9, 2019
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.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 4, 2019
In surveying broader groups of occupations, Burning Glass found a credentials gap of 26 percent for management jobs, 21 percent for computer and math jobs and 13 percent for sales jobs. That timespan should look familiar: The Great Recession lasted from December 2007 to June 2009. to $11 per hour. “I’m
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 1, 2018
CHICAGO — By Marquell Brown’s count, he has been locked up “roughly 42 times” since 2009. A 2015 survey by the Council of State Governments Justice Center found that only 13 states provided educational services for kids inside juvenile justice facilities that were comparable to those provided for kids outside of them.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 15, 2022
More than a third of Americans without degrees now don’t believe that getting additional education would help them find a job , according to a survey by the Strada Center for Education Consumer Insights. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Then Covid decimated them.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 3, 2017
And the resulting decline in borrowing and dropout rates on those campuses suggest the toll that fees were taking on their students. The university was surprised to find that graduating students, in a survey, said they were “feeling nickel-and-dimed,” said Jason Reinoehl, Dayton’s vice president for strategic enrollment management.
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