Posts published on July 30, 2014

Prospective College Students Do Not Show Up After Senior Year Summer

Postsecondary
Schools work to focus incoming college students
Recent studies by Harvard University’s Center for Education Policy Research found that an estimated 20 percent of graduating seniors from urban school districts in places such as greater Boston, suburban Atlanta, Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, abandon their plans to attend college over the summer. Some schools are making efforts to stop this so-called “summer melt.” (The Associated Press, July 7) via ECS