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

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percentage points since 2011, the federal data show. And at private for-profit colleges and universities, more than 44 percent of students leave before finishing, a figure that is eight-tenths of a percentage points worse than it was in 2011. Dropouts cost colleges a collective $16.5 percentage points.

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As enrollment falls and colleges close, a surprising number of new ones are opening

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The Roux Institute opened last year in borrowed space in this tech company building on the Portland, Maine, waterfront to teach computer science and other subjects. Postsecondary enrollment has been falling since 2011 , with particularly big dips last year and this , according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

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Some colleges seek radical solutions to survive

The Hechinger Report

million since the last peak, in the fall of 2011 , according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. 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. Will there be more?

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How a Chinatown school is trying to bring more diversity to theater

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A two-year pilot program for a year-round, after-school theater club at Yung Wing was underwritten by Freddie and Myrna Gershon, a philanthropically minded theater-world couple (Freddie is chairman and CEO of the licensing company Music Theatre International). Those realities lend extra urgency to the work that iTheatrics and NAAP do.

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At a growing number of colleges, faculty get a new role: spotting troubled students

The Hechinger Report

million since the most recent peak, in 2011, the National Student Clearinghouse reports. This story about reducing the number of college dropouts was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. That’s $13.3

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10Q: Martin Weller - the battle for open

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2) You wrote a book on being a digital scholar in 2011. large scale dropouts, superficial learning)? MOOC dropouts are a real issue - at the Open University we''ve known for a long time that students really require a lot of support if they are to succeed. blogs, social media, learning objects, OERs, MOOCs, etc in this period.

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Seeking advantage, colleges are increasingly admitting students as sophomores

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million fewer college students in the spring semester just ended than at the last peak in 2011, the National Student Clearinghouse reports. Alana Wolf at her summer internship at a theater company in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. That’s gotten harder during an ongoing enrollment slide now entering its seventh year; there were nearly 2.9