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ReUp Education Raises $6 Million Series A to Help College Dropouts Return

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Often, she says, a life event usually interrupts their studies—starting a family or a parent becomes ill, for example—and the CEO of ReUp Education says students shouldn’t suffer for it. “It Founded in 2015, ReUp claims it has since brought 8,000 students back to more than 30 colleges it currently works with.

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

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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. I closed a deal with Mark for $250,000 in exchange for a 20 percent equity stake in my test-prep company. Real world problems.

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Millennials: The Straw That Will Stir Higher Education’s Next Disruption

EdNews Daily

Famous billionaire college dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and the late Steve Jobs are prominent examples of successes who never completed undergraduate degrees. One example of this is the newest trend of “ digital badges.” In 2015, it was named the No. In some ways, this is nothing new. This is a vital issue.

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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. James Wiley is a technology analyst with Eduventures, which does consulting work for companies in the predictive analytics industry. 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

Fifty-five percent who started in 2015 were gone by the following year, the most recent period for which the figures are available, according to U.S. 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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Some colleges seek radical solutions to survive

The Hechinger Report

His flow of customers had fallen to a 10-year low , down more than 20 percent since 2015. 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. Business was flagging. Will there be more?

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A school district wades through a deluge of social-emotional curricula to find one that works

The Hechinger Report

That fall of 2015, they began rolling out twice-daily meetings where students could talk about their emotions, exercises in which students mapped out their goals and aspirations and lessons to help teachers improve how they communicate with kids. In the Bristol school district and elsewhere, some administrators feel overwhelmed — and wary.