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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. These trends together mean that there are nearly 2.9 Dropouts cost colleges a collective $16.5 Photo: AP photo/Jeannie Nuss.

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In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

The Hechinger Report

So unrelentingly are the cards stacked against them that only 694 high school graduates from all of Puerto Rico went to college on the mainland or abroad in 2016 , the last year for which the figure is available from the U.S. million, only 694 high school graduates from all of Puerto Rico went to college on the mainland or abroad in 2016.

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Schools can’t afford to lose any more Black male educators

The Hechinger Report

South Carolina has seen its highest number of educator vacancies this year since the Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention and Advancement started tracking the trend in 2001. After the 2016 presidential election in which Donald Trump was declared winner, that feeling has gotten more intense for educators, he said.

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As feds pull back, states step in to regulate for-profit colleges and universities

The Hechinger Report

Only about one in five of 2016 graduates got full-time jobs in legal offices, the advocacy organization Law School Transparency reported. And the trend is picking up momentum as the Trump administration and Congress seek to soften federal regulations that were beefed up during the Obama years.

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