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

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Sent from one office to another, he was close to giving up — until he found himself referred to someone whose title was “retention specialist.”. “I Credit: Saul Martinez for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Saul Martinez for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Saul Martinez for The Hechinger Report. Dickinson stayed.

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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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Photo: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report. This podcast about colleges using predictive analytics is produced by APM Reports. Photo: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report. Data source: National Student Clearinghouse Graphic credit: Andy Kruse/APM Reports. This story was produced in partnership with American Public Media.

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

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Photo: Meredith Kolodner/The Hechinger Report. Students who withdraw are also much more likely to default on their loans; dropouts make up two-thirds of defaults nationwide. The number of dropouts with federal loans at these institutions has grown from 35,443 in 2007-09 to more than 56,600 in 2013-15. [But]

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Movie magic could be used to translate for the deaf

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His laboratory is developing software to animate ASL avatars. On average, deaf students graduate high school reading English – a second language to them – at a fourth-grade level, according to a report out of Gallaudet University, the premier university for deaf students. Photo: John Myer. Read more about Blended Learning.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

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Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. Nearly two decades ago, the reporter Todd Oppenheimer documented the aggressive rise of emerging Silicon Valley technologies — personal computers and the Internet — in the nation’s public schools. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report.