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Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts

The Hechinger Report

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.

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While focus is on fall, students? choices about college will have a far longer impact

The Hechinger Report

That’s how long it takes some undergraduates to finish college, if they ever do, even in the best of times. 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 your head, you’ve lost the race.”.

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

The Hechinger Report

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. Some try on their own to collect the debt. by contacting students.

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OPINION: Fearful that they will be seen as ‘lazy’ or ‘unintelligent,’ most college students with disabilities don’t seek accommodation

The Hechinger Report

They may not realize how important accommodations are to their success in school, and they often don’t know what kinds of services are available in college or what particular supports and accommodations they need. Related: How one district solved the special education dropout problem.

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More high school grads than ever are going to college, but 1 in 5 will quit

The Hechinger Report

It’s about making sure they come back from one year to the next,” said Eboni Zamani-Gallaher, a professor of higher education policy, organization and leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Education. Dropouts cost colleges a collective $16.5 “It’s not just about getting them in the door.

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

The Hechinger Report

And it has everything to do with the policies of the states.”. The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning.

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In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

The Hechinger Report

It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance. It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance,” said Aponte, who also served as U.S. Department of Education.

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