The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. You don’t have a computer, you don’t have internet, you can’t even access distance learning,” Silver said. OAKLAND, Calif.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

Other times, they’ve paid tuition in full, but owe money for overdue parking, library or housing fees. Several other community colleges and universities across the state have used their federal relief funds to forgive student debt, in hopes that students will stay enrolled or dropouts will return.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Staff say that they try to be strategic with locations, setting up shop within strip malls and sites that are easy for students to access and that are close to other resources like the public library. The organization also has established partnerships with local businesses and other community groups.

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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. My learners needed choices that my physical book collection could not provide, and I need a way to bolster my library and give students more choices.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2020

Luis Gallardo’s favorite place to study was the library at the University of California, Berkeley. Some students don’t have internet access or the computers they now need to do their coursework. He preferred to work at night when it was quiet, and the distractions of the day didn’t pull at his mind.

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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.” What do you make of it? Would you like to follow along?

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EdNews Daily

JULY 2, 2016

I grew up in my parent’s motel and attended local urban public schools, which had a dropout rate of 40 percent. After hours of studying in the library, preparing and identifying patterns for the test, I was able to improve my score from 1760 to a perfect 2400. Therefore, they moved to Las Vegas and purchased a budget motel.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Thanks to one-on-one counseling like this, the dropout rate is a third lower than at conventional universities and colleges, according to figures provided by the school. The Rivet School itself consists of an office big enough for four desks, a minifridge and some bookshelves.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

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.”. One reason seems to be that it gives them access to grade-level content that otherwise might be unavailable for months or years as they learn English but end up falling behind in other subjects.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2020

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. To expand their scope, they co-founded an organization called Unafraid Educators to organize teachers and to help students access college.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2018

District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. With part of the grant money, Vista turned its library into a “learning commons.” And having small groups of teachers sharing the same students also paid academic dividends. What changes are ahead?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Ensconced in the campus library, Jordan credits the home visits — and the bond that developed between him, his teacher and his family as a result of them — for where he is today. He’s the first one.”. He believes more students could benefit from teachers reaching out because McDowell students aren’t likely to ask for support.

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MindShift

AUGUST 17, 2018

District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. With part of the grant money, Vista turned its library into a “learning commons.” The space now serves as one of the school’s primary gathering spaces, a gallery for student art and a technology hub.

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Personalized Learning Chromebook Learning Groups 34

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2017

Now add fees for student activities, fees for athletics, fees for building maintenance , fees for libraries — even fees for graduation, the bills for which often arrive just as students and their families thought they were finally done paying for their higher educations. Dropout rates have also fallen. Think tuition is high?

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

The district faced challenges with dropouts and reduced graduation rates due to failed classes, school transfers, and absences due to weather and medical issues. TI-NSpire CAS BLENDING THROUGH COLLABORATION PATCH has a lending library of tech awaiting learners’ eager hands. Desmos graphing calculator ? OverDrive ? PicCollage ?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

High school dropouts are much more likely to be unemployed than those with a diploma, and they earn thousands of dollars less per year. Freshly painted two-floor shingle houses sit next to beat-up trailers that lack regular access to electricity. In Leslie County, few people think that industry or the government will help.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The Center for Hope and Redemption can be seen from the main entrance of Pollak Library at California State University, Fullerton. It now spans 15 CSU campuses, where it offers academic counseling, opportunities to network, financial advice, tutoring, a community, help in accessing campus resources, financial aid, and more.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Among single, Black and Latino fathers, the dropout rate is about 70 percent. Men without degrees have better access than women to jobs that require only high school diplomas and are financially rewarding but physically demanding, such as welding and construction. Fathers,” Benitez said, “are the forgotten parents.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

These institutions are helping students find cost-free ways to leave campus, keeping dorms open for those who don’t have other options or identifying ways to enable less-wired students who can’t access online learning to still finish out the semester. Not all colleges are being heaped with praise, however, and the contrasts are striking.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Langdell Hall library at Harvard Law School. If you’re a law school, you’re likely not going to lie to your accrediting agency. He said consumers need to do the same independent vetting they would if they were buying a car. “I I don’t necessarily believe everything the car salesman tells me.” News & World Report rankings.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2019

The stretch of grass overlooking the amphitheater, Reflection Pond and the library “is pretty breathtaking,” she said. Working more than 15 hours a week can lead to worse academic outcomes , including higher dropout rates. The botanical gardens were a boon, too. “I I mainly go there to see the wildlife.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2021

A slim, poised young woman with waist-length hair, Viviana walked past the principal’s office, along the main hallway, and made a left into the building that houses the school library and the daycare. When those factors are combined with abstinence-focused education, as they are in Texas, rates remain persistently high.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

The federal share of Medicaid funding, for example, is capped at 55 percent (if Puerto Rico were a state, it could receive 83 percent), residents are denied certain disability benefits and there are restrictions on access to other funding, such as the child tax credit. A book in an elementary school library — El Apagón means The Blackout.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Jaelyn Deas and her four best friends shared everything, including late-night study sessions in the library at San Jose State University and a never-ending preoccupation with how they’d pay for their tuition there. “It took a burden off my shoulders,” Deas says. Photo: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. SAN JOSE, Calif.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

“We are expected to fail,” said Inoa, discussing widely held perceptions of poor black and Latino young men, while gesturing towards Dartmouth’s iconic symbols of privilege: white brick buildings with black shutters, sweeping lawns and well-stocked libraries. “We We are not supposed to be here.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

the trauma for many continued, as the Trump administration separated families in detention centers where cells were sometimes kept frigid, food was inadequate and kids were not given access to basic hygiene. The school stocks several Spanish titles in the library, and Woodson encouraged the children to keep up their Spanish.

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The Department of Education has placed restrictions on access to federal student aid for West Virginia public universities after the state was late submitting required annual financial statements for the third year in a row. “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? .” $100,000.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

Some internet-access advocates say EBS is underutilized at best, and wasted at worst, because loose regulatory oversight by the FCC has allowed most of the spectrum to fall into the hands of commercial internet companies. ” Student workers at the University of Chicago’s library have voted to unionize.

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Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

” (Did you know he recorded his first mixtape at the Chicago Public Library’s YOUmedia studio ?). ” Via Real Clear Education : “ K–12 Predictive Analytics : Time for Better Dropout Diagnosis.” Via Techcrunch : “ FCC votes to negate broadband privacy rules.”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

’” Via Education Week : “ FCC Seeks Comment on Access to WiFi for Schools and Libraries.” Meanwhile, the state has given initial approval for ECOT to become a “dropout school.” Via the Future of Privacy Forum : “ Law Enforcement Access to Student Records : What Is the Law?”

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Education Company Data Report 48

Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Via Pacific Standard : “Why Is the FCC Considering Cutting Broadband Access for Students?” ” Via The Economic Times : “Startups in student-lending sector see dropouts, but some score too.” ” Via CJR : “‘This is unprecedented’: Public colleges limiting journalist access.”

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Kaplan Education Robotics E-rate 51

Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

” “A Conveyor Belt of Dropouts and Debt at For-Profit Colleges ” by Susan Dynarski. ” In other MIT news : “MIT task force releases preliminary ‘Future of Libraries ’ report.” Blackboard has acquired Fronteer , a software company that helps make course materials accessible.

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