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OPINION: What if corporate America did more to raise the high school graduation rate?

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Some school districts with high rates of poverty — including Tacoma, Washington, Fresno, California, and Cleveland, Ohio — had very high percentages of dropouts more than a decade ago. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Related: How a dropout factory raised its graduation rate from 53 percent to 75 percent in three years.

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OPINION: Higher Education needs to get comfortable with trial and error

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Over the past seven years, through the University Innovation Alliance (UIA), those institutions have innovated together, scaled what works, held each other accountable and shared everything they’ve learned. Additionally, our members are on track to double their founding goal and graduate 136,000 additional graduates by 2025.

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Minnesota has a persistent higher-ed gap: Are new efforts making a difference?

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Recognizing these trends, state policymakers set a goal almost four years ago of increasing the proportion of 25- to 44-year-olds, of all races, with at least a postsecondary certificate to 70 percent by 2025. Related: College students predicted to fall by more than 15 percent after the year 2025 . High cost of dropping out.

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Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

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His school and his state are trailblazers in personalized learning, a method that tailors instruction to students’ individual interests and learning speeds. Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. About 20 other states sprinkled elements of personalized learning into their plans.

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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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In meetings with his academic adviser during the second semester of his freshman year, Robinson said he learned that though his GPA was solid, the school’s computer algorithm saw trouble. For more stories about education, opportunity, and how people learn subscribe to the Educate podcast. It wasn’t always this way.

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Universities cut services for a big group of their students: those over 25

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A mother of two, Amy Nalesnik felt her heart drop when she learned the campus day care center she had hoped would watch her kids all day was being evicted. Minnesota, for example, wants 70 percent of its residents to have certificates or degrees by 2025. Courtesy of Amy Nalesnik. How student-ready are our colleges?”.

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The mindboggling barriers that colleges create — and that end up hurting their own students

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A student at a Massachusetts private college learns midway through a semester that his financial aid is less than he expected. I think the majority of higher education is complacent” about their dropouts, he said. Photo: Michael Hunnicutt. Such students “just circle around in failure,” she said.

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