Advocacy Company Dropout Policies 
Digital Promise
APRIL 23, 2019
When schools persistently graduate less than half of their students of color and students with disabilities, we call those schools dropout factories. Real change can come from our unanimous stance against ineffective edtech, including predatory companies who make baseless claims in order to sell their products. Let’s start a movement.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 17, 2022
But new research suggests colleges’ policies around unpaid balances may also be contributing to the decline while creating lasting financial harm for the institutions and students. Schools can refer students to state tax collectors to have their tax refund garnished or send them to debt collection companies, which often charge high fees.
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The Hechinger Report
JULY 4, 2018
It’s about making sure they come back from one year to the next,” said Eboni Zamani-Gallaher, a professor of higher education policy, organization and leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Education. Dropouts cost colleges a collective $16.5 “It’s not just about getting them in the door.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 26, 2019
It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance. It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance,” said Aponte, who also served as U.S. Department of Education.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 14, 2020
In recent years, truancy policies have started shifting away from punitive measures to providing more support for students who are chronically absent. Her job as an escrow officer for a title company requires her to go into the office in person, leaving her two sons to work independently during most of the day.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 3, 2019
Meanwhile, all but four states are spending less on higher education, per student, than they did in 2008 , according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal-learning think thank. Those spending more? Hawaii, North Dakota, Wyoming — and California. Some of what is happening here is inspiring similar reforms around the country.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 6, 2018
Only about one in five of 2016 graduates got full-time jobs in legal offices, the advocacy organization Law School Transparency reported. The standoff between the federal government and the states comes as DeVos has appointed several for-profit college industry executives to high-level positions overseeing their former companies and others.
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