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Meet Anthony Johnson: Teacher of the Year. Rebel ‘Mayor.’ High School Dropout.

Edsurge

Anthony’s classroom is as much an invitation to his students to take ownership of their learning as it is a rebellion against the education system that failed him when he was a student. In his book, “ High School Dropout to Teacher of the Year ,” Anthony’s complicated relationship to education comes through as the fuel behind his work.

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How one district solved its special education dropout problem

The Hechinger Report

The district’s class of 2010 had a 73 percent graduation rate for students in special education and a 13 percent dropout rate — double the dropout rate for the student body overall. Special education teachers joined meetings with general education teachers. Covina-Valley has seen its efforts pay off.

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Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff

The Hechinger Report

Her classes focus on computer systems networking; students earn certificates for jobs in fields like IT while also providing tech support to the high school. The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. This story also appeared in Billy Penn.

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When Employment is the Goal, Should 'Student Success' Include Dropouts?

Edsurge

At the University of Alaska Anchorage’s Community & Technical College, Associate Dean Kim Griffis says dropouts aren’t considered a failure, if the student has landed a job in the technical field they were training for. Kim Griffis. But some colleges have a different perspective on the matter. Graduation rates are not the whole story.”.

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How a dropout factory raised its graduation rate from 53 percent to 75 percent in three years

The Hechinger Report

With school budgets already limited by a conservative-led state legislature that critics say chronically underfunds public education , the district turned to Diplomas Now, an education nonprofit whose aim is to increase graduation rates using a data-driven system of early intervention. The results have been impressive.

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One university has a new college specifically to re-enroll adults who had dropped out

The Hechinger Report

Related: PROOF POINTS: Lessons from college dropouts who came back. John Reyes, who manages coaches at ReUp, said that, along with helping students navigate financial aid and transfer credit systems, he also encourages them to “dig a little deeper under the surface” and evaluate their goals for college.

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Edtech, Equity, and Innovation: A Critical Look in the Mirror

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In our current education system, we continue to see gaps in graduation rates and unequal access to high-quality public schools. When schools persistently graduate less than half of their students of color and students with disabilities, we call those schools dropout factories. These basic tenets can guide our stance: 1.

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