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OPINION: Can ‘risk-share’ financial aid models reverse some ‘alarming data’ on student completion rates?

The Hechinger Report recently wrote about some alarming data from the U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard that shows 3.9 million students dropped out of college with debt in 2015 and 2016. As Jill Barshay reported in Hechinger’s “Proof Points” column, a disproportionate share of these students attended for-profit institutions. As a result, these students are saddled […]