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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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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

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Department of Education reported that for the 2015-2016 school year, more than 7 million students —or 16 percent of all students—and 20 percent of high school students are chronically absent. In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time.

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Behind the Latino college degree gap

The Hechinger Report

Fewer than a quarter of Latino American adults had a college degree in 2016, less than half the rate of white Americans, according to a report by The Education Trust. percent, of Latino Americans ages 25 to 64 held a two-year college degree or higher in 2016, the report said. Photo: Jesse Pratt. ” Fewer than a quarter, or 22.6

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

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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.” Or it will affect higher education in ways that we cannot even predict from the vantage of 2016.

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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

The idea is to find trends and patterns in huge amounts of historical data and use those patterns to predict the future. In 2016, after years of declines, national college graduation rates started ticking back up again and have continued rising for the past three years. There are indications that analytics may be having an impact.

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

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] In 2016 it was 79 percent.

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Some kids have returned to in-person learning only to be kicked right back out

The Hechinger Report

But this fall has brought a reversal of the trend. Researchers at the Center for Civil Rights Remedies at UCLA estimated that California schoolchildren collectively lost 763,690 days of instruction time during the 2016-17 school year. million after two consecutive years of cuts. Still, every suspension means missed learning time.