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One state offers lessons in how to cope with the college enrollment crisis

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AUGUST 28, 2022

Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Outside in a parking lot, others were learning how to pilot tractor-trailer trucks. The post One state offers lessons in how to cope with the college enrollment crisis appeared first on The Hechinger Report. People want that.”.

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

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JULY 4, 2018

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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Some kids have returned to in-person learning only to be kicked right back out

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JANUARY 20, 2022

In 2011-12, the year before its agreement with the Obama administration’s Office for Civil Rights, Oakland logged 6,134 suspensions, according to state data. In her program, educators learn how traumatic experiences affect kids’ brain development and how to identify the behaviors that stem from such trauma.

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Some colleges seek radical solutions to survive

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

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

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JANUARY 14, 2019

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.”. In 2011, fewer than 16 percent of employees were people of color. Paul College that shows students’ countries of origin. Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report.

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

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OCTOBER 8, 2018

New faculty at Dickinson College attend a training session about how to help students who might be foundering. Yet only a surprisingly small minority of colleges and universities explicitly include their faculty in this work and teach them how to do it, though that number is beginning to grow. CARLISLE, Penn. That’s $13.3

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College dreams often melt away in summer months. ‘Near-peer’ counseling is helping keep them alive.

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AUGUST 30, 2019

For aspiring college students, the summer before freshman year can be a perilous time, as they contend with swelling concerns over how to pay for college, often inscrutable paperwork and uncertainty about whether they belong on a college campus at all. Camacho isn’t a professional counselor. At 22, she’s just a few years older than Tasnia.

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Momentum builds for career-focused P-TECH schools

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AUGUST 29, 2018

It opened in 2011 and has spawned a movement. Much of IBM’s work in expanding the P-TECH network is helping states figure out how to pay for a high school program that promises a free associate degree. She said the internship taught her how to be adaptable and introduced her to a corporate work environment. We’re prepared.”.

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As small private colleges keep closing, some are fighting back

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APRIL 15, 2019

These also show that Nichols has reduced the number of dropouts, holding onto $5.4 Nichols has been doing some of all of these things, showing that there are still ways to improve efficiency in higher education, but also how — even on a campus where the process has been notably transparent — there can be opposition and anxiety.

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Testing abuses, legacy preferences and bad parent behavior all influence who gets into college: What must change?

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JUNE 20, 2019

I asked Jerome Lucido, executive director at the University of Southern California’s Center for Enrollment Research, Policy and Practice, how admissions can be fixed. Ted Mitchell, a former U.S.

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Why placing students in difficult high school classes may increase college enrollment

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MARCH 10, 2017

But it has made the most improvement in the last five years, raising that rate from 43 percent in 2011 to 53 percent in 2015, the most recent year for which the district has full data available. Related: Most colleges enroll many students who aren’t prepared for higher education. Rogers has the lowest college-going rate in the district.

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The ‘forgotten’ part of special education that could lead to better outcomes for students

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DECEMBER 15, 2017

A 2011 federal study found that although the employment rate within 6 years of leaving high school for special education students (71.1 College-bound students might be instructed to research colleges and fill out college applications — but the plans often don’t include training in other essential skills for college, such as how to study.

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The vast majority of students with disabilities don’t get a college degree

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NOVEMBER 10, 2017

But high schools often neglect to teach these students the soft skills that will help them in higher education — like how to study, manage their time and self-advocate. Students with other disabilities, such as autism, may have trouble knowing how to act in social situations. It’s a crisis. Our kids are graduating to the couch.”.

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Students who drop out for mental health struggles are turning to pricey programs to find their way back

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JUNE 29, 2022

Lynch had left school just before Christmas in 2011, when she was 22, in the middle of a major depressive episode. “I Pinder-Amaker said that now, a lot of what the program does is help students design an effective leave of absence and understand how to assess when they are ready to go back. It resonated.

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