The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 9, 2017
By 2025, more than 60 percent of Georgia jobs will require some kind of post-secondary education, and now only 45 percent of the state’s young adults meet that criterion. Students who withdraw are also much more likely to default on their loans; dropouts make up two-thirds of defaults nationwide. In 2016 it was 79 percent.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 10, 2018
“The number of kids born from 2008 to 2011 fell precipitously. The institution’s existence is dependent on meeting the expectations of the student.” It has already increased to more than 70 percent from 60 percent since Grawe first calculated his forecasts using data from 2011 and earlier.
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The Hechinger Report
MAY 22, 2023
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.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 19, 2022
The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. West Philadelphia High School’s current building opened in 2011.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 1, 2017
Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem. Although an estimated 90 percent of students with disabilities should be able to meet the same graduation standards as their peers, the national graduation percentage for students with disabilities lingers in the mid-60s. Her fear is well-founded.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 6, 2019
In meetings with his academic adviser during the second semester of his freshman year, Robinson said he learned that though his GPA was solid, the school’s computer algorithm saw trouble. The dropout problem got a lot worse in the 1990s when more people started attending college. Georgia State agreed to start using analytics in 2011.
The Hechinger Report
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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