{"id":21733,"date":"2011-08-06T16:20:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T20:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=21733"},"modified":"2011-08-06T16:21:34","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T20:21:34","slug":"debt-to-degree-a-new-way-of-measuring-college-success-carey-dillon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/08\/06\/debt-to-degree-a-new-way-of-measuring-college-success-carey-dillon\/","title":{"rendered":"Debt to degree: A new way of measuring college success [Carey &#038; Dillon]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.educationsector.org\/sites\/default\/files\/publications\/Debt%20to%20Degree%20CYCT_RELEASE.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Debt to degree: A new way of measuring college success<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from educationsector.org by Kevin Carey and Erin Dillon<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The American higher education system is plagued by two chronic problems: <strong>dropouts<\/strong> and <strong>debt<\/strong>. Barely half of the students who start college get a degree within six years, and graduation rates at less-selective colleges often hover at 25 percent or less. At the same time, student loan debt is at an all-time high, recently passing credit card debt in total volume.1 Loan default rates have risen sharply in recent years, consigning a growing number of students to years of financial misery. In combination, drop-outs and debt are a major threat to the nation\u2019s ability to help students become productive, well-educated citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debt to degree: A new way of measuring college success &#8212; from educationsector.org by Kevin Carey and Erin Dillon Excerpt: The American higher education system is plagued by two chronic problems: dropouts and debt. Barely half of the students who start college get a degree within six years, and graduation rates at less-selective colleges often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[415,68,61,115,302,3,285,480,321,214],"tags":[768,604,52,600,628,303,566,27,792,728,679],"class_list":["post-21733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accreditation","category-assessment","category-business-side-of-he","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-higher-education","category-legislation-legislatures","category-society","category-united-states","category-universities","tag-accreditation","tag-assessment","tag-budgetary","tag-business-side-of-he","tag-colleges","tag-community-college","tag-higher-education","tag-legislation","tag-society","tag-united-states","tag-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21733"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21739,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21733\/revisions\/21739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}