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PROOF POINTS: Lessons from college dropouts who came back

The Hechinger Report

Like many dropouts, Floyd always intended to finish his college education. His father was a college-educated aerospace engineer. The number of college dropouts swelled during the tight labor market; an additional 2 million people joined their ranks from only a year and a half earlier in 2018. He was 40 years old.

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Can peer counseling programs bridge access gaps for youth? Experts say it’s complicated

The Hechinger Report

There’s no shortage of peer support programs to evaluate, and tools used to deploy them are evolving to become more professional and accessible in an increasingly digital world. Educators and others are experimenting with new ways to address students’ mental health needs — or reinvent old strategies. Read the series.

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How higher education lost its shine

The Hechinger Report

“He starts telling me, ‘I don’t want to do this,’ ” one adviser, Portia Cook, was recounting to her colleagues from the state program, called Advise TN, about a student at the top of his class who had changed his mind about continuing his education. “ ‘You’re talking about four more years of school? They don’t think that anymore.”.

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VHS Learning Elects Dr. Yolanda D. Johnson to its Board of Directors

eSchool News

6, 2021 – VHS Learning, an accredited non-profit organization empowering schools with the industry’s best online learning programs, has appointed Dr. Yolanda D. A passionate educator, Dr. Johnson supports educational leadership development, scholarship, service, and helping students envision and attain their postsecondary goals.

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Schools can’t afford to lose any more Black male educators

The Hechinger Report

In 2017, Thorne’s last year as a high school teacher, he was one of only about 1,436 Black male teachers in South Carolina, or less than 3 percent of the total teacher workforce, according to the state’s department of education. Four years later, Black male teachers still made up less than 3 percent of teachers in the state.

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Overdue tuition and fees — as little as $41 — derail hundreds of thousands of California community college students

The Hechinger Report

In the spring of 2021, $600 stood between Endele Wilson and his dream of achieving a teaching credential from Long Beach City College. million students from fall 2019 to fall of 2021, according to state data leaving campuses worried about their future and potential students with fewer of the opportunities offered by higher education.

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PROOF POINTS: New wave of research shows nudging students by text is not as promising as hoped

The Hechinger Report

One of the most promising uses of technology in education seemed to be a cheap one: nudging text messages. Based on these early successes, education leaders in government and nonprofit organizations sought to bring the power of text messages to hundreds of thousands of students. 1/2) Hi [first_name].

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