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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

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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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OPINION: We can and must do better to help Black students enroll in college and succeed

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Little wonder that a recent report reveals that Black public community college enrollment dropped by 26 percent, or almost 300,000 students, between 2011 and 2019 and by another 100,000 students during the pandemic, bringing Black community college enrollment levels back to where they were more than two decades ago.

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

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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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Bending to the law of supply and demand, some colleges are dropping their prices

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million fewer customers than they did at the last peak, in 2011, according to the National Student Clearinghouse , which tracks this. Utica College, which reduced its tuition in 2016, lowered its dropout rate, President Laura Casamento said. Related: Eligible for financial aid, nearly a million students never get it. Baenninger said.

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Some kids have returned to in-person learning only to be kicked right back out

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In 2011-12, the year before its agreement with the Obama administration’s Office for Civil Rights, Oakland logged 6,134 suspensions, according to state data. In Sydney Chaffee’s ninth grade humanities class at Codman Academy, a charter school in Boston, students have access to “fidget tools” to help them release energy when they get antsy.

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Some colleges seek radical solutions to survive

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million since the last peak, in the fall of 2011 , according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Colleges are also working to reduce their numbers of dropouts on the principle that it’s cheaper to provide the kind of support required to keep tuition-paying students than to recruit more. Will there be more?

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