Pricing out high school dropouts. The price to take the GED test will triple in the next year, making it inaccessible to some of its poorest students. (The Columbus Dispatch)

Midwest colleges take the largest chunk. International enrollment in U.S. universities has increased 6 percent since last year, even as total enrollment has leveled off. (Associated Press)

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The New York Times reporting on preschool education litigation: “A Manhattan woman has sued a $19,000-a-year preschool her daughter attended, arguing that the program failed to adequately prepare her daughter for the test required to enter New York City’s hypercompetitive private school system.” (The New York Times)

Richard Vedder on college student employment: “StudContinue Reading »

Almost 27 million Americans, 13.6 percent of all adults, are college dropouts.* To put that in perspective, that’s 10 million more than the number who have completed associates degrees and more than the number who’ve completed Master’s, professional, and doctoral degrees combined. These are adults over the age of 25 who were once enrolled in higher education somewhere but did Continue Reading »

Evidently, there’s a run on GED classes. Some say this is because the economy is so bad that 16-21 year old dropouts are making the rational choice for education over unemployment. Others say it’s b/c getting the GED is easier than finishing high school (and in some cases taking state exit exams). An NCES report on late dropouts shows that this view of the GED as the easier alternative to high Continue Reading »