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3 Ways Big Data Can Soften the Campus Dropout Crisis

EdNews Daily

And like any major problem, this mass exodus of dropouts must be addressed sooner rather than later through innovative interventions. Sweeping the issue under the rug makes no sense; hitting it head-on with technology does. The “soft” predictors, those subtle hints that are precursors to student dropout. Big Data Hits the Quad.

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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

Naturally, technology plays a central role in scaling quality education supply to meet this demand. In the previous posts on this topic our examination found that technology can and does help when it comes to improving completion rates , reducing tuition costs and helping universities to bridge the revenue gap.

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Thriving SAT Scores: Meet Shaan Patel, Founder of Prep Expert and Shark Tank Winner

EdNews Daily

The maximum SAT score 2015 is vastly greater than today’s SAT. I grew up in my parent’s motel and attended local urban public schools, which had a dropout rate of 40 percent. The New SAT requires students to write an analysis essay based on an argumentative passage that they read. Real world problems.

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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

James Wiley is a technology analyst with Eduventures, which does consulting work for companies in the predictive analytics industry. The dropout problem got a lot worse in the 1990s when more people started attending college. million students dropped out of college with debt in 2015 and 2016. Earning a profit.

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The community college “segregation machine”

The Hechinger Report

A Hechinger Report/inewsource analysis of California community college data yielded stark results. Although whites and Asians also have poor pass rates in these low-level remedial classes, the inewsource/Hechinger Report analysis found that Latino students are twice as likely as whites to end up in the lowest level of remedial English.

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College dreams often melt away in summer months. ‘Near-peer’ counseling is helping keep them alive.

The Hechinger Report

The 19-year-old, who moved to New York City from Bangladesh four years ago, was trying to envision her fall: Four days of classes each week at the New York City College of Technology (City Tech).* Two to three days working as a cashier at Marshalls. Long commutes on the subway between her home in Queens and the campus in downtown Brooklyn.

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How higher education lost its shine

The Hechinger Report

Proportion who had confidence in higher education in 2015: 57 percent. Only a quarter of recent grads in another survey, by the educational publishing and technology company Cengage, said that, if they could do it again, they’d take the same educational path. Proportion who thought so before the pandemic: 60 percent.

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