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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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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

Demand for shorter, more focused courses is growing, and universities are finding themselves “unbundling” their core offerings in order to keep up. Where enthusiastic faculty insist on teaching emerging trends or technologies they are compelled to do so as extracurricular courses. A grim future for today’s providers of HE?

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Millennials: The Straw That Will Stir Higher Education’s Next Disruption

EdNews Daily

Famous billionaire college dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and the late Steve Jobs are prominent examples of successes who never completed undergraduate degrees. One example of this is the newest trend of “ digital badges.” Peter Thiel’s initiative, the Thiel Fellowship , underscores this growing perception.

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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

The Hechinger Report

Educators and school leaders are scrambling to figure out how to regain ground next year in a course that often makes or breaks students’ life chances. Only half of students who take college algebra score C or higher in the course, a 2015 report by the Mathematical Association of America noted. I’m very worried. practices solving?

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

The Hechinger Report

In a trend that has been widely lauded, the proportion of high school graduates who go straight to college has increased from 63 percent in 2000 to 70 percent now, the Department of Education says. These trends together mean that there are nearly 2.9 Dropouts cost colleges a collective $16.5

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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

The Hechinger Report

The idea is to find trends and patterns in huge amounts of historical data and use those patterns to predict the future. The companies claim this kind of pattern analysis can help colleges pinpoint which students are veering off course and help them when there’s still plenty of time for them to get back on track to finish college.

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DEBT WITHOUT DEGREE: The human cost of college debt that becomes “purgatory”

The Hechinger Report

Bowie navigated a daunting obstacle course of family and health crises during his teenage years and made it to his dream school – Georgia State University. Students who withdraw are also much more likely to default on their loans; dropouts make up two-thirds of defaults nationwide. On a bad day, he won’t leave until 1 a.m.

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