The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

The dean’s list student ended up a college dropout, a gay 20-something cut off from his parents after coming out, and working at a UPS Store in a job he described as “retail drudgery” while running up credit card debt and stringing out his college loans. Department of Labor to promote on-the-job learning. Credit: Juawana Allen.

Company 132

Company Training Industry Dropout 132

The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

Fifty-five percent who started in 2015 were gone by the following year, the most recent period for which the figures are available, according to U.S. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Dropouts cost colleges a collective $16.5 or a solid B, according to the education consulting company Civitas Learning.

Dropout 95

Dropout Report Policies Data 95

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Students participate in morning workshops in advance of national May 1 “Day Without Immigrants” rallies, learning also about the labor rights history of May Day rallies worldwide. And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5 We have to make space for them to access the content.”.

Learning 111

Learning Dropout Report Elementary 111

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2017

When my students are study the Haitian Revolution, they learn that Haiti’s crippling poverty can be traced to colonialism. Hurricane Matthew’s recent devastation provides us another opportunity to extend our learning, and my students and I have begun brainstorming fundraising ideas. Education is a tool for social justice.”.

System 91

System Dropout Education Study 91

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

What you learn in a regular high school in a year, you could learn here in six months.”. What you learn in a regular high school in a year, you could learn here in six months.” . Students spend 80 percent of their time learning from home. This [place] gives you the opportunity to graduate faster,” he said.

Dropout 98

Dropout Blended Learning Course Report 98

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Students have access to hundreds of courses while they are in Illinois’ juvenile justice facilities, but they tend to focus on math, language arts, social studies and science. Students technically have access to hundreds of courses, but Jones-Redmond said the district focuses on math, language arts, social studies and science.

Online Learning 66

Online Learning Blended Learning Pearson Learning 66

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

Around 2009, Lee learned about the Junior Theater Festival (JTF) in Atlanta, where students from across the country gather for three days to compete, take workshops and nerd out over musical theater. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Photo: Eveline Chao for The Hechinger Report. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

Dropout 76

Dropout Elementary Report Common Core 76

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

In practice, this process is more complicated and sometimes relegates capable students into diluted settings, stunting their ability to not only learn in school but also to achieve later in life. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning.

Dropout 78

Dropout Advocacy Outcomes Report 78

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

His flow of customers had fallen to a 10-year low , down more than 20 percent since 2015. Colleges are also working to reduce their numbers of dropouts on the principle that it’s cheaper to provide the kind of support required to keep tuition-paying students than to recruit more. Business was flagging. Will there be more?

Dropout 72

Dropout Training Industry Kaplan 72

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Others have revamped remedial education, a major stumbling block for students who are forced to repeat subjects they should have learned in high school. College dropouts cost Minnesota millions of dollars in wasted subsidies and lost revenue each year. Related: More Hispanics going to college: The bad news? High cost of dropping out.

Dropout 69

Dropout Secondary Course Report 69

The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2020

Educators typically loathe the idea of denying anyone an opportunity to learn, which is what happens in a randomized controlled trial. The treatment was a multifaceted and expensive program that included not only free tuition and books for three years, from 2015 to 2018, but also a $50 a month stipend.

Study 137

Study Report Course Outcomes 137

Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Continuing with our reading of Richard DeMillo’s Revolution in Higher Education: How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable (2015) ( publisher ; Amazon ): this week we’re discussing chapter 2, “Shifting Landscape.” DeMillo links Crow to good old and doomed Fathom.com (1152).

MOOC 40

MOOC Coursera Education Dropout 40

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Asynchronous access to this content, especially when this access is not through a dated university learning management system, but something more authentic to the student, maybe even accessed on their own mobile devices. Radically improve learning/understanding. As does–or should–YouTube. And iTunesU.

Examples 40

Examples MOOC E-rate Dropout 40

Edsurge

JULY 28, 2016

The district is also known for having one of the largest dropout rates and one of the highest pupil-to-teacher ratios in the country. Teachers Know Best, 2015 Report Ebook platforms can provide scaffolding that English language learners need, such as audio enhancements and highlighting features that help support the reluctant readers.

Technology 60

Technology eBook Dropout Libraries 60

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

million students enrolled in community colleges in 2015-16, about 903,000 were 40 or older, according to Martha Parham, senior vice president of public relations for the American Association of Community Colleges. But she’s wondering about others like her: What steps are people in their 40s, 50s and 60s taking to retrain themselves?

Training 78

Training Data Report Study 78

The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2018

The Plano region added more than 114,000 jobs between 2010 and 2015, according to the city’s economic development team. Across the country, most undergraduates work, Sorrell says, so it only makes sense to ensure that a student’s work life complements what he or she learns in class.

Report 88

Report Meeting Accessibility Outcomes 88

Learning with 'e's

MARCH 16, 2015

This time, I''m very happy to interview two of the keynote speakers for the EDEN 2015 conference , which will be held in Barcelona. blogs, social media, learning objects, OERs, MOOCs, etc in this period. large scale dropouts, superficial learning)? 2) You wrote a book on being a digital scholar in 2011.

MOOC 28

MOOC Dropout OER Social Media 28

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Four-year institutions charged , on average, $26,120 in tuition, board and other fees in 2015-16, compared with $5,504 in 1985-86. With this in mind, more school districts and local governments are trying to identify lower-cost learning opportunities that can still vault students into well-paying careers.

Policies 110

Policies Report Trends Mobility 110

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2020

So a social worker called his home on a December morning in 2015 when he didn’t come to school. He was a responsible kid, eager to learn,” said Rhodes. True to form, she began studying late into the night, repeating phrases and learning new vocabulary from English language recordings she checked out from the library.

Strategy 107

Strategy Education E-rate Report 107

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2019

But the incoming Queens College junior has been trained by the nonprofit College Access: Research and Action (CARA) to help guide students like Tasnia through the transition to college. She’d dreamed of attending the State University of New York at Albany — before learning how expensive it was. Camacho isn’t a professional counselor.

Training 94

Training Report Accessibility Study 94

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

But one day in February, after refusing to go into her classroom and allegedly cursing at her teachers, the seventh grader was sent home to learn online indefinitely. Sometimes, there is no system in place for tracking how many students are being punished this way or how many days of in-person classroom learning they are forced to miss. “We

Handbook 98

Handbook Learning Online Learning Data 98

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The teachers also learned that there are a handful of family members in the household, including Johnathan, his mother, a sister and an infant relative. We’re coming to build a relationship with you because we know that you’re an expert on how your child learns, and we as educators can learn a lot from you.”.

Report 111

Report Elementary Study Conference 111

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Over the past decade, school officials in Fulton County, Georgia’s fourth-largest school district, have experimented with so-called personalized learning , tried integrating English language learners into mainstream classes, and introduced high school-level courses in middle school. That puts it on them, not on me,” she said.

Report 110

Report Study E-rate Training 110

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The professor was teaching basic math skills that the 18-year-old had already learned in high school. Who goes to college to learn what they were doing in high school?” SAN DIEGO – Anthony Rodriguez recalled sitting in a remedial math class at Grossmont College, bored out of his mind. Eventually, he dropped out too.

Report 111

Report Course System Data 111

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2017

But it has made the most improvement in the last five years, raising that rate from 43 percent in 2011 to 53 percent in 2015, the most recent year for which the district has full data available. Rogers has the lowest college-going rate in the district. For us, it’s more about the skill-building than it is about the content,” said Wyborney.

Data 90

Data Course Study Meeting 90

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Between 2000 and 2015, the number of Latinx college students more than doubled , to 3 million. Between 2000 and 2015, the number of Latinx college students more than doubled , to 3 million. Ortiz knew she had Pell Grant aid coming in, but didn’t know how to access it.

Dropout 107

Dropout Laptops Study Report 107

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

By 2015, Renaissance had earned a B rating from the state. I’m glad some things are different, I’m happy about all the new opportunities, but these charter school people are learning just like the kids are learning.”. “All the things we do are in service to that. I mean sports. I mean arts. I mean band.”.

Report 49

Report Training Policies System 49

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The gifted program at Eve opened two years ago as a way to increase access to Buffalo’s disproportionately white, in-demand gifted and talented programs. Buffalo educators hoped Eve’s new program would give more children — particularly children of color — a chance at enrichment and advanced learning. There are gifted dropouts.

Education 145

Education Elementary Report Data 145

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik. FRAMINGHAM, Mass.

Personalized Learning 40

Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2017

And the resulting decline in borrowing and dropout rates on those campuses suggest the toll that fees were taking on their students. Dropout rates have also fallen. Old Dominion students in 2014-2015 paid $1,429 each in athletics fees alone, accounting for 65 percent of the athletics budget. It’s our beacon.

Dropout 0

Dropout Libraries Study Report 0

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Compared to white and affluent students, low-income and minority students have less access to nearly every type of educational benefit. Using what it learned from the strings program, the district decided to offer courses for free — with the help of its Race to the Top grant. Connecting Every Student to Personalized Learning.

Blended Learning 136

Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 136

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Compared to white and affluent students, low-income and minority students have less access to nearly every type of educational benefit. Using what it learned from the strings program, the district decided to offer courses for free — with the help of its Race to the Top grant. Enrollment skyrocketed to nearly 300 students.

Blended Learning 120

Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 120

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2018

Factor in the higher dropout rate among nonwhite students in rural high schools, and the odds that black and Hispanic students from areas like this will ever earn degrees are just as low as for their urban counterparts. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. The factors behind these dire outcomes are also getting worse.

Report 74

Report Dropout Groups Examples 74

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

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. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

Dropout 110

Dropout Report Training Outcomes 110

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Community colleges can help lift students into the middle class, but their enrollment has plummeted and their dropout rates are high. Santos Enrique Camara, who dropped out of Shoreline Community College in 2015, prepares food at Capers + Olives, Friday, March 24, 2023, in Everett, Wash. grade-point average. I gave it my all.

Panasonic 144

Panasonic Survey Report Dropout 144

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

In another room, children rotate through learning stations, sometimes at screens, sometimes putting pencils to paper. Danusis and her teaching staff practice personalized learning, an individual-comes-first approach, usually aided by laptops, that has become a reformist calling card in education. Future of Learning.

Personalized Learning 98

Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 98

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

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. “We saw it as a scaffolding until things got better — a short-term, possible solution,” Agnew recalled. The state of Georgia filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit in October.

Education 79

Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System 79