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

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Photo: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report. This podcast about colleges using predictive analytics is produced by APM Reports. Photo: Jill Barshay/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.

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

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Photo: Meredith Kolodner/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]

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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. Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report. It reports enrolling 313 students this semester.

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

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Photo: Eveline Chao for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Eveline Chao for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Eveline Chao for The Hechinger Report. A study found an 18-percent difference between dropout rates for low-income students with high arts participation (4 percent drop out) and those with less arts involvement (22 percent).

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Some colleges seek radical solutions to survive

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

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Photo: Harrison Jones for The Hechinger Report. million since the most recent peak, in 2011, the National Student Clearinghouse reports. Photo: Harrison Jones for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Harrison Jones for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Harrison Jones for The Hechinger Report. CARLISLE, Penn.