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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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Georgia State’s analytics system color codes a student’s risk of dropping out and Robinson’s file was showing yellow, a sign that his plan to go into nursing was risky. Most of the schools using predictive analytics systems aren’t elite universities, where low graduation rates aren’t a big problem. It wasn’t always this way.

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