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Overdue tuition and fees — as little as $41 — derail hundreds of thousands of California community college students

The Hechinger Report

In the spring of 2021, $600 stood between Endele Wilson and his dream of achieving a teaching credential from Long Beach City College. million students from fall 2019 to fall of 2021, according to state data leaving campuses worried about their future and potential students with fewer of the opportunities offered by higher education.

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More students are dropping out of college during Covid — and it could get worse

The Hechinger Report

The dropout spike was even more startling for community college students like Izzy, an increase of about 3.5 The rising dropout rate on college campuses has consequences for individual students, their families and the economy. Castro-Chavez took the spring semester off and focused on her trucking company job. percentage points.

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PROOF POINTS: Lessons from college dropouts who came back

The Hechinger Report

Like many dropouts, Floyd always intended to finish his college education. The number of college dropouts swelled during the tight labor market; an additional 2 million people joined their ranks from only a year and a half earlier in 2018. As with many dropouts, Floyd had unpaid student debt to resolve. He was 40 years old.

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What happened when a South Carolina city embraced career education for all its students

The Hechinger Report

Greenville County Schools has begun partnering with companies in the area, such as BMW and Michelin, to develop courses in mechatronics and automotive research. Each high school has specialties as well: Fountain Inn High School, which opened in 2021, was built with manufacturing and STEM in mind.

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College students to administrators: Let’s talk about mental health

The Hechinger Report

Data from the 2021 Healthy Minds Study shows 34 percent of college respondents struggling with anxiety disorder and 41 percent with depression — rates that have risen in recent years. As one Concordia student put it, “I haven’t had a normal year of college that wasn’t impacted by Covid.”. Credit: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report ?.

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EdTech Promised to Change How Students Learn, But the Real Revolution Lies Within Us

Edsurge

The company promised to revolutionize how students were taught, except without teachers. The company measured its success based on a curriculum created directly from the test; as it turns out, the company profited off the students' lesson progression.

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How higher education lost its shine

The Hechinger Report

In West Virginia, 46 percent of 2021 high school graduates went on to college the following fall, 10 percentage points below that state’s high of 56 percent in 2010. Fifty-four percent of 2021 high school grads in Michigan went straight to college, down 11 percentage points from 2016. Credit: Austin Anthony for The Hechinger Report.

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