The Hechinger Report
APRIL 18, 2018
The push to reach these dropouts by Mississippi and other states, including Indiana and Tennessee, reflects a growing recognition that there just aren’t enough students coming out of U.S. Go Back” campaign in Indiana, among the several states trying to get college dropouts to finish their college educations.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 6, 2019
In 2016, after years of declines, national college graduation rates started ticking back up again and have continued rising for the past three years. 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.
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The Hechinger Report
MAY 7, 2019
We didn’t pay a parking ticket or a library fine, and our college refused to release our transcript. But imagine that a student’s debt went beyond failing to pay a library fine. trillion in debt, but for many low-income students, even something as comparatively paltry as a library fine can amount to a week’s food budget.
Edsurge
JULY 28, 2016
The district is also known for having one of the largest dropout rates and one of the highest pupil-to-teacher ratios in the country. As I reflect on the upcoming 2016-2017 school year, I wonder how this negativity has affected my own 5th grade reading classroom.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
In 2016, 75 percent of its ELL students graduated, a rate 14 percentage points higher than the district’s average for this group and higher even than the overall graduation rate for BPS. And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5 But not at the Muñiz Academy. and abroad.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 17, 2016
As of 2016, that rate stood at just 45 percent. Jones discussed programs at Temple that provide financial resources to students the university thinks are at risk of dropping out, while Tough discussed the power of just telling students they belong in college—a potentially far cheaper solution to the college dropout crisis.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 25, 2017
The library is old — and it kind of stinks. Student interviews were carried out during the 2015-2016, 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 school years. Some places are really hot, like, rooms that can’t turn off the heat. Other rooms you can’t turn it on. The technology, the computers, they’re probably more than 12 years old.
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