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Four Reasons Why Students Don’t Receive the Degrees They’ve Earned

Edsurge

In keeping with that mindset, some education leaders refer to lost students as “stopouts” rather than “dropouts.” For example, Oakland Community College, in Michigan, has identified 900 students who in the last six years earned a degree but never had it posted to their records. Really what we’re looking at is systemic problems.

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As small private colleges keep closing, some are fighting back

The Hechinger Report

Colleges are closing or merging at an accelerating rate, from about eight per year between 2004 and 2014, to an estimated 20 per year moving forward, with small private colleges particularly vulnerable. These also show that Nichols has reduced the number of dropouts, holding onto $5.4 Susan Engelkemeyer, president, Nichols College.

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A convenient untruth

Learning with 'e's

Style mismatches between teaching and learning, physical learning environments not conducive to information intake and unmet physical needs during the learning process can lead to frustration, stress, learning problems, underachievement, low self esteem, discipline problems among younger students, and dropoutism in high schools." Moseley, D.,

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Is the effort to curb strict discipline going too far, too fast?

The Hechinger Report

So, too, did the growing body of evidence documenting the harm associated with pulling students out of school: One study , for example, found that students’ chances of dropping out doubled with their first suspension. She meanwhile took a handful of steps designed to minimize student conflict and misbehavior. Susan is a hero to me,” he said.

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Georgia program for children with disabilities: ‘Separate and unequal’ education?

The Hechinger Report

Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. Now known as the Alpine Program, it was where 13-year-old Jonathan King, a child diagnosed with ADHD and depression, hanged himself in 2004 after being placed in a windowless “seclusion room.”