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Making the American Dream a Reality for Underserved Students

Edsurge

Collectively, college dropouts owe a staggering $1.35 In just one year (2010), the cost of college dropouts was $4.5 Because millions of students like Tyler have so much potential, it is imperative that universities engage them and figure out how to help them get back into college. How should they do this?

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PROOF POINTS: Lessons from college dropouts who came back

The Hechinger Report

Like many dropouts, Floyd always intended to finish his college education. The number of college dropouts swelled during the tight labor market; an additional 2 million people joined their ranks from only a year and a half earlier in 2018. As with many dropouts, Floyd had unpaid student debt to resolve.

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Kids Don’t Fail, Schools Fail Kids: Sir Ken Robinson on the 'Learning Revolution'

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“The problems tends to arise when kids go to school because the deeper they get in, the more they start to lose interest,” Robinson said, pointing to the United States’ large student dropout percentage as evidence that school—as a system—is failing students.

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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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Alabama community college overhaul improves the odds for unprepared students

The Hechinger Report

Karolewics cites the contrast between the sections offered in 2010 at Wallace State and last fall to illustrate the impact of the change. In 2010, there were 17 sections of developmental English courses. “If it had not worked, you would have expected to see the college level success rate go down but that is not what we saw.”.

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How success coaches anticipate and tackle college students’ challenges

The Hechinger Report

Nationally, the number has dropped by 37 percent since 2010 — nearly 2.6 Credit: Liesbeth Powers/Dallas Morning News After Frost coached a student on how to ask her instructor about grades and opportunities to earn extra credit, she knew she’d developed a relationship with her. percent, or by more than 1.5 million students.

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What happened when a South Carolina city embraced career education for all its students

The Hechinger Report

Whittenberg has been around since 2010, when Greenville County Schools opened it as a magnet school in an area that is historically low-income and majority Black. Fisher Middle School stop by a table where a nurse is demonstrating how to intubate a patient at the Greenville County Schools seventh grade career fair.

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