Accessibility Advocacy Dropout Policies 
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 6, 2022
It’s a small but noteworthy example of a new emphasis at colleges and universities on plugging the steady drip of dropouts who end up with little to show for their time and tuition, wasting taxpayer money that subsidizes public universities and leaving employers without enough of the graduates they need to fill jobs. Dickinson stayed.
Digital Promise
APRIL 23, 2019
In our current education system, we continue to see gaps in graduation rates and unequal access to high-quality public schools. When schools persistently graduate less than half of their students of color and students with disabilities, we call those schools dropout factories. Let’s start a movement.
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The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 19, 2023
“One of the biggest problems that we have is kids that are missing and chronic absenteeism,” says Pamela Herd, a Georgetown University public policy professor. She studies how burdensome paperwork and processes often prevent poor people from accessing health benefits. But it was also about race and class.” Communities such as St.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 29, 2020
Now, just as happened in the last recession, it is likely to take them even longer and cost more, while — after years of hard-won progress — dropout rates rise and graduation rates fall. In-person events like this have proven to reduce dropout rates for first-year students, but some may be canceled this year because of the pandemic.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 17, 2022
But new research suggests colleges’ policies around unpaid balances may also be contributing to the decline while creating lasting financial harm for the institutions and students. California has been at the forefront of policies to ease student debt burdens. Long Beach City College, for example, has forgiven $2.1
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, Black students who are raising children borrow an average of $18,100 for college, compared with an average of $13,500 among all students. We need to name the racist policies baked into our postsecondary system that contribute to this unequal burden.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 27, 2017
Only one in four students with learning disabilities disclose their disabilities to their colleges, leaving them without access to critical accommodations and putting them at greater risk of leaving school without a degree. Related: How one district solved the special education dropout problem. So why does this happen?
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