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More high school grads than ever are going to college, but 1 in 5 will quit

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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. Department of Education data analyzed by The Hechinger Report. Photo by Ben Smith for The Hechinger Report. Photo: AP photo/Jeannie Nuss.

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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. In 2016, after years of declines, national college graduation rates started ticking back up again and have continued rising for the past three years.

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DEBT WITHOUT DEGREE: The human cost of college debt that becomes “purgatory”

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Photo: Meredith Kolodner/The Hechinger Report. Students who withdraw are also much more likely to default on their loans; dropouts make up two-thirds of defaults nationwide. The number of dropouts with federal loans at these institutions has grown from 35,443 in 2007-09 to more than 56,600 in 2013-15. [But]

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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

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At the beginning of 2021, The Hechinger Report’s members (individual readers who donated money to our nonprofit news organization) asked us if we would report on the best practices for helping the nation’s public school system recover from the pandemic. So teachers have been learning new software platforms on the go.

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'Lost in the Cracks' Alabama District Brings Personalized Learning to Incarcerated Youth

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He also uses Mobymax, a software that boasts the ability to help students “find and fix” learning gaps in several subjects. Dr. Rick Carter However, Brown stresses that no software works well without support from parents and teachers. Most of them were dropouts.” “In They were lost in the cracks,” says Carter.

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How one district solved its special education dropout problem

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Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz/The Hechinger Report. This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. The high dropout rate for students with disabilities is a pressing national problem.

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The Cause That Unites Chief IT and Academic Officers

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The smorgasbord of hardware and software at the show floor caters to a wide range of university IT needs, from security and bandwidth to proctoring and instruction. University IT departments are still feeling the effects of budget cuts from the recession, according to the 2016 Campus Computing Survey. 1 priority for 2016?

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