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New research offers hope to first-generation college grads

The Hechinger Report

Consider students who graduated from college with a four-year bachelor’s degree during the 2007-08 academic year. But four years later, in 2007-08, only 20 percent of all bachelor’s degree recipients were first-generation students. That figure reflects dropout rates, too.

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Are our definitions of ‘college readiness’ too high?

Dangerously Irrelevant

Considering that these data don’t include dropouts, it seems safe to say that no more than one in three American high-school students is capable of hitting the College Board’s benchmark. In these states in 2015, the percentage of students averaging at least 500 on the reading section ranged from 33 percent (in D.C.) via [link].

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TEACHER VOICE: College students who lack basic skills can learn to love reading and writing

The Hechinger Report

percent literacy rate , the seventh-lowest among the 50 states, and one of the highest school dropout rates. Since 2007, with his spouse, Leilani Darling, J.D., And even though they were high school graduates, many were only borderline literate. In 2017 New Mexico had an 83.5

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It’s Time To Unlearn & Relearn Learning

EdNews Daily

University of California, California high school dropouts cost state $46.4 2007 ([link]. Gruia, “The education pipeline in the United States 1970-2000,” (The National Board on Educational Testing and Public Policy, Boston, 2004). billion annually. UC Santa Barbara. Stevens, T. Satwicz, L. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008), pp.

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

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. In that time the median student debt at most schools more than doubled.

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OPINION: A New York model helps community college students reach their goals

The Hechinger Report

The ASAP model was designed in 2007 to address institutional barriers to student success, particularly for CUNY’s low-income students. A good example is the Accelerated Study in Associate Programs , or ASAP, at the City University of New York (CUNY).

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OPINION: The pandemic exposes just how much support college students need

The Hechinger Report

college students with lifetime diagnoses of mental health conditions in 2017 was 36 percent, compared with 22 percent in 2007. According to the American Psychiatric Association , the percentage of U.S.

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