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How higher education lost its shine

The Hechinger Report

Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. on that list have increased their bachelor’s degree attainment during that time by an average of 177 percent, an analysis by the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education found. The countries ahead of the U.S.

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Is California saving higher education?

The Hechinger Report

Data analysis is being used to pinpoint bottlenecks, such as those overcrowded courses. It’s one example of the many ways that California is taking on seemingly intractable problems that are plaguing higher education nationwide. Lumina is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report, which co-produced this story.).