Online Learning Update

January 25, 2021

COVID-19 Hits High Schooler College Plans Hard

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:10 am

By Dian Schaffhauser, THE Journal
While there was little effect on high school graduation rates this year, due to changes in education wrought by COVID-19, the number of 2020 high school graduates who went to college immediately this fall dropped by nearly 22 percent compared to 2019 graduates, almost eight times the pre-pandemic loss rate of 2.8 percent. The decrease occurred across the board, in all kinds of high schools. But the decline hit high poverty schools the hardest, where college enrollment dropped by nearly twice as much as higher income schools.

https://thejournal.com/articles/2020/12/14/covid19-hits-high-schooler-college-plans-hard.aspx

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