Promoting student success: What the media and the general public need to know

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2005

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Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research

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After several years of intense public focus on the need to improve K-12 education, more attention has turned recently to what happens when high school graduates move on to college. Students, parents, and lawmakers are asking whether undergraduates are getting adequate value for their investments of time and money, particularly as college and university tuition keeps rising. Employers are expressing concern about whether some graduates are adequately prepared for the world of work. Demographic pressures in some states also mean that institutions have to find places for more students, even though state appropriations to many public institutions have been cut or are barely increasing. In addition, legislators and policy experts are pressing institutions to make it possible for students to complete degree requirements in a reasonable period of time and worry that significant dropout rates at some colleges and universities may reflect a waste of public resources spent on those students.

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Deep learning

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