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Fewer teenage mothers, but they still present a dropout puzzle

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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. Child Trends analysis of NSFG 2011-15 data, accessed through the National Center for Health Statistics.

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College students predicted to fall by more than 15% after the year 2025

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These urban college markets, such as San Diego, may diverge from their state’s or region’s trends. “The number of kids born from 2008 to 2011 fell precipitously. Meanwhile, less selective institutions are not as likely to buck the powerful demographic trend of declining birthrates. Grawe, Carleton College.

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

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In a trend that has been widely lauded, the proportion of high school graduates who go straight to college has increased from 63 percent in 2000 to 70 percent now, the Department of Education says. percentage points since 2011, the federal data show. These trends together mean that there are nearly 2.9 percentage points.

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

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] That’s typical, said Smith of the Center on Education and the Workforce.

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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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The idea is to find trends and patterns in huge amounts of historical data and use those patterns to predict the future. 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. After years of decline, the rates have begun to rise.

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

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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. But this fall has brought a reversal of the trend. Studies show not only is it ineffective at improving students’ future behavior, it can also do the opposite.