The Hechinger Report – SARAH BUTRYMOWICZ
“A new study adds to a body of evidence that low-income students graduate college at lower rates than their more affluent classmates. But the report argues that this has more to do with what schools the students go to than any disadvantage springing from their socioeconomic status. Education Trust, a Washington-based education advocacy organization, collected the graduation rate of Pell grant recipients from 1,149 of public and nonprofit four-year colleges and university – a sample covering nearly 85 percent of first-time, full-time Pell students…The study found that Pell recipients had a six-year graduation rate of 51 percent in 2013 compared to 65 percent for non-Pell students. But the study found that the average was being dragged down by institutions from which few students ever graduate.”(more)