Dangerously Irrelevant
MARCH 24, 2016
Significantly higher dropout rates. Retention has found to be a stronger predictor of student dropout than socioeconomic status or parental education. Even the laziest of reporters or legislators can do a quick Google Scholar search and see that decades of peer-reviewed studies are clear that retention hurts kids and will hurt Iowa.
Edsurge
JULY 29, 2020
In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time. To address absenteeism, school administrators have turned to outside groups to help implement data-informed intervention and outreach strategies.
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The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 14, 2019
National Student Loan Data System. In September 2019 the Department of Education’s Office of Federal Student aid released data showing two consecutive years of falling default rates. Related: Federal data shows 3.9 More than 15 percent of these graduates and dropouts defaulted in both time periods.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 1, 2018
He recently visited a fourth-grade classroom and spoke with two boys who were looking at a Google satellite image of a neighborhood and designing a new development, with houses, trees and streets drawn onto their new map. “How can a kid aspire to a career if he doesn’t know it even exists?” Hidalgo said. This helps kids find their why.”.
Edsurge
DECEMBER 4, 2019
Although everyone wants magic solutions that can transform high-school dropouts into Google engineers in six months, this rarely happens. Increasingly, bootcamps are discovering that it takes more than new financing options , job promises and teaching hard technical skills to enable graduates to succeed.
EdNews Daily
NOVEMBER 30, 2016
Famous billionaire college dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and the late Steve Jobs are prominent examples of successes who never completed undergraduate degrees. Beyond coursework, students swim in a flux of data, buffeted by phone calls, text messages, Facebook updates, Twitter tweets, news crawls, and other sources.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 14, 2022
Though only about 40 miles north of Silicon Valley, home to technology giants such as Google and Apple, Oakland was deeply underconnected when the pandemic shuttered its schools. Jen Bender, the data tech lead at Castlemont High School, gives a new student her #OaklandUndivided Chromebook and hot spot in May 2021. Like, we had no idea.
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