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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

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. In 2016, after years of declines, national college graduation rates started ticking back up again and have continued rising for the past three years. It wasn’t always this way.

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

The Hechinger Report

Texas A&M University at Texarkana has one of the lowest retention rates of public higher-education institutions; 55 percent who started in 2012 were gone by 2016. After all, the plummeting number of prospects makes it much harder to replace dropouts than it was when there was a seemingly bottomless supply of freshmen.

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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] In 2016 it was 79 percent.

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Some colleges seek radical solutions to survive

The Hechinger Report

By 2016, annual expenses had begun outpacing operating revenues by $14 million. 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. When Steve Thorsett crunched the numbers, things looked grim.

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

The Hechinger Report

An annual study of Broadway and the 16 top nonprofit theaters in New York City, put out by the Asian American Performers Action Coalition, shows that from 2006 to 2016, Asian actors were hired for 3.7 A 2012 National Endowment for the Arts report underscores the benefits of exposure to the arts. percent of the U.S.

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Online learning can open doors for kids in juvenile jails

The Hechinger Report

According to state data, the number of young people in state juvenile justice facilities dropped from 901 at the end of 2012 to 386 in 2017. In 2016, 45,567 young people were held in facilities nationwide, down 20 percent from 2012.) The online coursework is designed by the education company Pearson.

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Universities try to catch up to their growing Latinx populations

The Hechinger Report

So in 2016 she headed back to the 42-acre campus near Gary’s dilapidated downtown to study for a degree in general studies. “I Between 1996 and 2016, their share of overall college enrollment rose from 8 to 19 percent , according to the U.S. It closed its child care center in 2012, citing low demand. Census Bureau.

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