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More high school grads than ever are going to college, but 1 in 5 will quit

The Hechinger Report

Texas A&M University at Texarkana has one of the lowest retention rates of public higher-education institutions; 55 percent who started in 2012 were gone by 2016. percentage points since 2011, the federal data show. Dropouts cost colleges a collective $16.5 Photo: AP photo/Jeannie Nuss. percentage points.

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DEBT WITHOUT DEGREE: The human cost of college debt that becomes “purgatory”

The Hechinger Report

Students who withdraw are also much more likely to default on their loans; dropouts make up two-thirds of defaults nationwide. The number of dropouts with federal loans at these institutions has grown from 35,443 in 2007-09 to more than 56,600 in 2013-15. [But] In 2016 it was 79 percent.

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Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost

The Hechinger Report

Companies like Amazon and Netflix have been using data tools like these for years to track our clicks and steer us to buy or watch more of their products. In 2016, after years of declines, national college graduation rates started ticking back up again and have continued rising for the past three years. It wasn’t always this way.

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Celebrating Math Education With A Taste Of Math

MIND Research Institute

Campbell Soup Company shared why real food matters. A photo posted by Eating Around So Cal (@eatingaround) on Nov 4, 2016 at 8:17pm PDT. Hyundai Motor America’s partnership with MIND Research Institute and JiJi started in 2011 in Fountain Valley when Hyundai provided funding to two elementary schools to adopt MIND’s ST Math program.

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Some colleges seek radical solutions to survive

The Hechinger Report

By 2016, annual expenses had begun outpacing operating revenues by $14 million. million since the last peak, in the fall of 2011 , according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. 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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How a Chinatown school is trying to bring more diversity to theater

The Hechinger Report

An annual study of Broadway and the 16 top nonprofit theaters in New York City, put out by the Asian American Performers Action Coalition, shows that from 2006 to 2016, Asian actors were hired for 3.7 (Lee won a Tony Award last June for her work with NAAP.) percent of all roles, though Asians are 5.6 percent of the U.S.

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Trump has promised manufacturing jobs, but high school grads might want to seek credentialed “middle-skills” posts instead

The Hechinger Report

Those blue-collar jobs – at least as we remember them in our collective imagination – went to people, mostly men, fresh out of high school, graduate and dropout alike. This country created 82 million jobs from 1967 to 2011, and all of them were in service industries. It was all the education they needed to earn a middle-class living.

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