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A decade of data in one state shows an unexpected result when colleges drop remedial courses

The Hechinger Report

In 2015, Tennessee’s public colleges were some of the first higher education institutions to eliminate stand-alone remedial courses. That’s why it’s more important now than ever to figure out how to help under-prepared college students if we want to improve post-secondary education.

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

The Hechinger Report

In doing so, he joined more than 108,000 other students who withdrew from Georgia’s public colleges and universities between 2013 and 2015 with thousands of dollars in federal student debt but no degree. Students who withdraw are also much more likely to default on their loans; dropouts make up two-thirds of defaults nationwide.

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Storefront Advising Programs Bring Free College Counseling Into Low-Income Communities

Edsurge

Northside High was previously named for Confederate leader Jefferson Davis, and it was once labeled a “ dropout factory ” in a Johns Hopkins University study of institutions with low graduation rates. As Canizales discovered on his own, the costs and benefits of various post-secondary pathways are not always obvious.

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Minnesota has a persistent higher-ed gap: Are new efforts making a difference?

The Hechinger Report

With people of color expected to make up a quarter of the state’s population by 2035, these gaps represent an economic threat to Minnesota; unless more residents get to and through college, there won’t be enough qualified workers to fill the jobs that require a post-secondary degree or certificate. “[O]ur Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report.

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Intent vs. Impact

The Principal of Change

This is one of my favourite quotes from a college dropout who felt a post-secondary education was no longer relevant to what he needed to be successful in our world today: “Wanting” is not good enough on it’s own; the impact of our actions are how progress is always measured.

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Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair Refugee Education Fund Partners with Discovery Education

eSchool News

The increase in dropouts from secondary education amongst refugees is alarming, whereby less than 2% of Syrian refugees complete their secondary education. The Fund supports high-impact education programs at the secondary, vocational, and tertiary levels of education for refugee youth in Jordan and Lebanon.

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Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

The Hechinger Report

Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. High schools were rated on standardized tests, as well as dropout, attendance and graduation rates. In 2015, RAND Corporation found that in 62 schools using personalized learning strategies, students progressed faster than their peers.