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Test of mentoring on thousands of students who left without degrees suggests that bureaucratic attitudes pose daunting barrier to key national policy goal

U.S. universities struggle to support dropout students, hindering their return to higher education, posing challenges to equitable access. Continue reading for more details.

State shouldn’t nudge students who might otherwise attend four-year colleges to two-year schools.

Enrollment in the city’s network of public colleges had been in freefall since the start of the COVID pandemic, dropping 17%. Now it’s ticked up 2% year-over-year.

A new study finds the four-day school week in 27J may have had negative consequences on the housing market, academics, and teacher retention.

Researchers extrapolate from data in the California school system. After the COVID-19 crisis hit in March 2020, federal student aid applications in the U.S. dropped sharply among potential first-year students, according to a study published in Educational Researcher. Oded Gurantz and Christopher Wielga of the University of Missouri in Columbia used data from the California Student Aid Commission and the American Community Survey to study trends among college applicants in Cali...