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ReUp Education Raises $6 Million Series A to Help College Dropouts Return

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The idea came out of its work with Bellevue University, which enlisted Entangled’s help with figuring out how to re-enroll students who had dropped out. About 26 percent of students who started college in 2016 failed to make it to their second year, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

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The Secret to Preventing Community College Dropouts? Start With Middle School

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And it's taken some time, so you have to pick out what your biggest need is, and then, you have to start with a small number of students, show success, and learn how to do it. In 2016, Mary Jo was named to the Forbes "30 Under 30" list in education. We started back in 2008, and look where we are right now.

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How to help struggling young readers

The Hechinger Report

The repercussions of not learning to read are magnified for poor children: Research shows that low-income children who cannot read at grade level by third grade are six times more likely to become high school dropouts. “In Children do not come wired to learn how to read: It is an acquired skill. So far, results are promising.

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States use direct mail, money, to get more of their residents back to college

The Hechinger Report

The challenge policymakers now confront: how to find them and get them back. The push to reach these dropouts by Mississippi and other states, including Indiana and Tennessee, reflects a growing recognition that there just aren’t enough students coming out of U.S. One of the advertisements produced by the “You Can.

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OPINION: Why school shutdowns are a disaster for science classes

The Hechinger Report

At the college level, Hispanic and Black students have lower completion rates of STEM majors; according to the National Science Foundation, in 2016 Hispanics earned 13.5% They will also likely depress high school graduation rates, cause a spike in dropout rates, and negatively impact final educational attainment.

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More high school grads than ever are going to college, but 1 in 5 will quit

The Hechinger Report

Texas A&M University at Texarkana has one of the lowest retention rates of public higher-education institutions; 55 percent who started in 2012 were gone by 2016. After all, the plummeting number of prospects makes it much harder to replace dropouts than it was when there was a seemingly bottomless supply of freshmen.

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How to Prepare Students in the Early Years to Read at Grade Level

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The repercussions of not learning to read are magnified for poor children: Research shows that low-income children who cannot read at grade level by third grade are six times more likely to become high school dropouts. Children do not come wired to learn how to read: It is an acquired skill. Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report). “In

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