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Colleges emphasize student ‘stickiness' to boost graduations
Author: PBS NewsHour
Narrator: PBS NewsHour
Unabridged: 6 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: NewsHour Productions
Published: 08/29/2014
Categories: Nonfiction, Language Arts, Education, Schools
Synopsis
In Tennessee, a disturbingly high dropout rate at public universities prompted the state to change how they fund schools: the more students graduate, the more a school gets paid. Hari Sreenivasan reports on the rise of performance-based funding and innovations by schools to keep students invested.