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Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff

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The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. West Philadelphia High School’s current building opened in 2011.

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Fewer teenage mothers, but they still present a dropout puzzle

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So the Child Trend researchers combed through the 2011-2015 surveys for female respondents in their twenties who said they had had a baby during their teenage years, and looked to see if they had completed a high school degree or its equivalent. But it also happens to ask respondents about their educational attainment.

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OPINION: Misguided payment policies that fuel the college-dropout trap

The Hechinger Report

The Alliance says it drew its inspiration from the Panther Retention Grants program that Georgia State University started in 2011, when 1,000 students were dropping out every semester because of unpaid tuition of less than $1,500 each. Georgia State says the program has helped 8,000 students since 2011.

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

The Hechinger Report

percentage points since 2011, the federal data show. And at private for-profit colleges and universities, more than 44 percent of students leave before finishing, a figure that is eight-tenths of a percentage points worse than it was in 2011. Dropouts cost colleges a collective $16.5 percentage points.

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New research offers hope to first-generation college grads

The Hechinger Report

It’s unclear from the current data if the dropout rates for first-generation students are improving or worsening. The February 2018 report noted that the proportion of first-generation students enrolled at universities had declined to 33 percent in 2011-12 from 37 percent in 1999-2000. That figure reflects dropout rates, too.

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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. [But] That’s typical, said Smith of the Center on Education and the Workforce.

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