The participation of high school students who register directly at the university continues to fall, the data from the research center of the National Clearinghouse Center Research Center. The college inscription of the high school class 2020 showed an "unprecedented" decrease between four and 10 percentage points according to the high school category, in accordance with the finalized version of the secondary school reference report published by the month last.
The prospects for the graduation class of 2021 do not appear much better; The preliminary data of the Clearinghouse Show's Freshman enrollment declined 2.7 percent since last autumn, 13.1 percent since 2019, to all sectors, except for four-year nonprofit private institutions, which increased 2.5 percent in Last autumn. In general, postsecondary inscription for autumn 2021 is running 2.6 percent below the level of 2020, by a total drop of 5.8 percent since 2019.
Continuous loss of enrollment among students Traditional university age, from 18 to 24, continue "with respect to" the center indicated.
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Some state councils of regents are feeling the grip. In Arizona, a new postsecondary report of Achievements of the Board of Regents of Arizona discovered that of the 73,400 high school students who graduated by 2020, less than half 46.3 percent, enrolled at the university, a steep fall as of 2019, When 52.9 percent high school graduates did.
"Arizona is not moving in the right direction in the graduates of the high school going to college and this problem was exacerbated by the pandemic," says the report. "This is a concern because educational achievement is a main factor that affects the quality of the Arizona labor market and the capacity of the State to compete at the regional and national level for high-remuneration employers and jobs."
The decrease in enrollment mostly hit the institutions of two years of Arizona, who saw a decrease in a percentage point of 6.1 year during the year; The four-year registration was maintained "relatively constant" at 28.3 percent of high school graduates, according to the report. googleg.cmd.push (function () googleg.display ("dfp-ad-article_in_article"););
Data from the University of Wisconsin System Show There were 1,710 new first-year students, full-time, full-time by 2020 compared to 2019. In Ohio, the number of public high school graduates who enroll in a public institution It reached its maximum point in 2018 to the 51,075 students and decreased 4 percent to 48,451 by 2020. The Kansas Regent Board shows the registration by the entry students for the first time decreasing from 16 percent in the autumn of 2019 to 14 by HIGH IN AUTUMN 2021. According to the latest report of secondary school reference points, the decrease in registration between 2020 high school graduates disproportionately affected students from low-income schools , who enrolled at a rate of 49 percent; In comparison, 65 percent of the highest-income high school graduates enrolled immediately at the university.
In high poverty schools, the immediate registration rate fell from 55 percent to 45 percent between 2019 and 2020, the report was found.
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Anthony Carnevale, Director of the University Center of Georgetown in Education and the Labor Force, he noted that some low-income students can be dissuaded from going to college for the physical risks of Covid-19, while others have had difficulty finding work during the pandemic, leaving them unable to offer University.
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