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Fewer teenage mothers, but they still present a dropout puzzle

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Photo: Erin Einhorn for The Hechinger Report. Only 53 percent of women in their twenties who first became mothers when they were teenagers completed a traditional high school degree, according to a January 2018 report released by the nonprofit research organization Child Trends. What happens to the education of these young women?

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OPINION: Misguided payment policies that fuel the college-dropout trap

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The Alliance says it drew its inspiration from the Panther Retention Grants program that Georgia State University started in 2011, when 1,000 students were dropping out every semester because of unpaid tuition of less than $1,500 each. Georgia State says the program has helped 8,000 students since 2011. Sign up for our newsletter.

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OPINION: We can and must do better to help Black students enroll in college and succeed

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Little wonder that a recent report reveals that Black public community college enrollment dropped by 26 percent, or almost 300,000 students, between 2011 and 2019 and by another 100,000 students during the pandemic, bringing Black community college enrollment levels back to where they were more than two decades ago.

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Colleges face reckoning as plummeting birthrate worsens enrollment declines

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“I typically don’t look at it from a doom-and-gloom point of view, but it’s just basic math” that more campuses will close, said Rob Sentz, chief innovation officer at the labor market analytics firm EMSI and coauthor of a report about the looming demographic cliff he calls a “sansdemic ,” as in a crisis resulting from an absence of people.

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

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Department of Education data analyzed by The Hechinger Report. That, in turn, contributes to the fact that more than a third of students who start college still haven’t earned degrees after six years, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center reports , often piling up loan debt with no payoff. 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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Although national data on discipline for the current school year isn’t expected to be public for several years, The Hechinger Report requested data from a dozen medium and large school districts around the country and found that in some of them, exclusionary discipline is down, even way down. Credit: Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report.

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

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Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report. And the state’s community colleges, which depend on the same dwindling supply of learners, are reporting record numbers of applications for the fall. Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report. “I Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report. People want that.”.

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