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Preventing Dropouts: An Impossible Dream?

Battelle for Kids

Only a third of high school students in California graduate on time and transition easily to postsecondary education and lasting career success (Hoachlander, Sterns, & Studier, (2008).

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The Secret to Preventing Community College Dropouts? Start With Middle School

Edsurge

We started back in 2008, and look where we are right now. My big last question for you, then, is this: What do you think is a first step that districts and schools can take in creating this bridge between K12 and higher ed? Today, we had our 62nd district visit the VITAL program in 2 years to ask that very question.

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Dropout Detective Offers Academic ‘Credit Scores’—But Is That a Good Thing?

Edsurge

That’s why it might come as surprise to hear AspirEDU , an educational analytics company, pitch their Dropout Detective software as an “academic credit score” for students. Whereas credit scores are designed to prevent risky buyers from getting approved on loans, Dropout Detective is meant to improve student success and lower dropout rates.

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A Skills Gap From College to Career Doesn't Exist. It's the Awareness Gap We Need to Fix.

Edsurge

Unemployment/Underemployment: Unemployment for recent college graduates has improved in recent years (the unemployment rate currently hovers around around 5 percent , compared to 9 percent back in 2008). high-profile dropouts and the rise of the so-called “ anti-credential.” At almost $1.3

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It’s Time To Unlearn & Relearn Learning

EdNews Daily

University of California, California high school dropouts cost state $46.4 The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008), pp. Pear Press, San Francisco, 2008). 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.

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College students predicted to fall by more than 15% after the year 2025

The Hechinger Report

“When the financial crisis hit in 2008, young people viewed that economic uncertainty as a cause for reducing fertility,” said Grawe. “The number of kids born from 2008 to 2011 fell precipitously. Fast forward 18 years to 2026 and we see that there are fewer kids reaching college-going age.”

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PROOF POINTS: COVID has been bad for college enrollment — but awful for community college students

The Hechinger Report

But the fall data show that white students are now matching these same high dropout rates. After the 2008 recession, many men were laid off from manufacturing jobs and enrolled in college to retrain. The number of Black and white undergraduate students is each down 8 percent between fall of 2019 and fall of 2020.

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