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How a dropout factory raised its graduation rate from 53 percent to 75 percent in three years

The Hechinger Report

By 2013, Webster managed to graduate just 53 percent of its students, and it was clear to school and district officials that drastic change was in order. According to data provided by district officials, in spring 2016 (the most recent year available), Webster graduated 75 percent of its seniors, a 22-point increase in just three years.

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School Cellphone Use Contracts Can Reduce Bullying

EdNews Daily

So, even though incidents of bullying remained steady, in the 2016-2017 school year, there was a 3.5 In 2014, Schargel was nominated for the Brock International Prize in Education for “demonstrating clear evidence of success in dropout prevention and for retaining students in alternative education environments.

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School counselors keep kids on track. Why are they first to be cut?

The Hechinger Report

Aimed at curbing dropouts, improving graduation rates and sending more kids to college and other postsecondary programs, the corps is designed to offset a growing achievement gap in this relatively affluent but increasingly diverse state. “When there’s a budget cut, counselors are the first to go.”. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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Student loan default rates inch down as for-profit sector contracts

The Hechinger Report

percentage points from the default rate of students who graduated or left school in 2013-14. million students dropped out of college with debt in 2015 and 2016. More than 15 percent of these graduates and dropouts defaulted in both time periods. Early Childhood. And it’s a whopping 4.6 Related: Federal data shows 3.9

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Change One Simple Thing to Start Your Journey to Remarkable Teaching

The CoolCatTeacher

” We have a significantly low dropout rate and high on-time graduation rate in Albemarle. A past gubernatorial appointee to the State Council on Higher Education for Virginia, Dr. Moran was selected by her peers across the Commonwealth as Virginia’s 2016 Superintendent of the Year. Reasons that Keep Kids Coming Back to School.

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

The Hechinger Report

And that knowledge, she believes — combined with new strategies to help students regulate their emotions — has contributed to a 43 percent drop in the number of children referred for discipline from 2014 to 2016, according to school data. The number edged back up in 2016-17 to 682 incidents.). Progress was swift. In 2012-13, 10.4

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Kids Don’t Fail, Schools Fail Kids: Sir Ken Robinson on the 'Learning Revolution'

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“The problems tends to arise when kids go to school because the deeper they get in, the more they start to lose interest,” Robinson said, pointing to the United States’ large student dropout percentage as evidence that school—as a system—is failing students. In 2013 alone, the U.S. Sir Ken Robinson. domestic cinema box office ($11.2

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