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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. Data source: National Student Clearinghouse Graphic credit: Andy Kruse/APM Reports. This story was produced in partnership with American Public Media.

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At this one-of-a-kind Boston public high school, students learn calculus in Spanish

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Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. BOSTON — When the Boston Public Schools opened the Margarita Muñiz Academy in 2012, it was a first-of-its kind dual-language high school meant to address issues faced by the city’s growing Hispanic population. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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Students, feeling nickel-and-dimed, force new scrutiny of college fees

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Now add fees for student activities, fees for athletics, fees for building maintenance , fees for libraries — even fees for graduation, the bills for which often arrive just as students and their families thought they were finally done paying for their higher educations. Dropout rates have also fallen. Think tuition is high?

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Hope in coal country: Parents without diplomas keep their kids in school

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The Hechinger Report traveled to three counties with very high numbers of adults without a high school credential to learn about the obstacles schools and families must overcome to provide and obtain this essential first step to a middle-class life. Photo: John Flavell for The Hechinger Report.

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Largely unseen and unsupported, huge numbers of student fathers are quitting college

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Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report. “If Among single, Black and Latino fathers, the dropout rate is about 70 percent. When he reentered school at Olympic College in Washington State in 2012, Jackson was elected class president and made the dean’s list. Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report.

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‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

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This story also appeared in Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. “I Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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” (Did you know he recorded his first mixtape at the Chicago Public Library’s YOUmedia studio ?). The allegations center on reports that Paris, through inappropriate means, asked legislators to provide state funds to the college, a Christian institution in Arkansas.” ” More via The New York Times.