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NEWS ABOUT: graduation rates

graduation rates stories: 4 news summaries
ANALYSIS

 Dropout Rates 
 Turning US Colleges 
 Into 'Failure Factories' 

Students' failure to make it to the finish line is dragging down the economy

Sep 9, 09 6:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - The failure of America's colleges to turn more freshmen into graduates is doing huge amounts of damage to the economy, David Leonhardt writes in the New York Times. Only half of those enrolled in college emerge with a degree, the worst rate of any developed country except Italy. This dismal... More »

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Personality Test to Supplement Grad Exams

Prospective students will be ranked on
creativity, ethics

Jul 10, 09 6:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - For students applying to graduate school, good GREs and warm recommendation letters will soon not be enough. The Educational Testing Service has developed an index for professors and supervisors to use to rank students on a 1-to-5 scale for attributes like teamwork, creativity and integrity. The goal of the questionnaire... More »

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admissions • educational testing • college • university • graduation rates

NCAA Penalizes Teams for Classroom Performance

Programs with poor graduation rates face sanctions

May 6, 08 5:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - The NCAA has handed out sanctions to more than 200 college teams for poor academic performance, USA Today reports. More than a third of the 329 Division I schools had teams with subpar Academic Progress Rates, which means their players' graduation rate was lower than 60%. Twenty-six teams deemed chronic... More »

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NCAA • NCAA basketball • NCAA football • football • college sports • graduation rates • college basketball • Academic Progress Rates

States Hide Big High School Dropout Rates

They send 1 set of numbers to DC, keep another set at home

Mar 20, 08 10:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Many states report rosy high school graduation rates to Washington but publicize much lower figures at home, the New York Times reports. The higher rates often fail to account for the nation's growing legion of dropouts, but states are leery to give the feds bad numbers in part because of... More »

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education • high school • Department of Education • US states • public schools • high school dropouts • graduation rates

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