The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Department of Education earlier this month points out that a college education can still be a lever of social mobility. It’s unclear from the current data if the dropout rates for first-generation students are improving or worsening. That figure reflects dropout rates, too.

Dropout 92

Dropout Report Analysis Survey 92

The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2023

In stories detailing inequities, from post-graduation income gaps to programming that places Black students in less upwardly mobile career tracks , the news consistently demonstrates that our higher education system is not equitably serving Black learners. Related: The college degree gap between Black and white Americans was always bad.

Mobility 109

Mobility Outcomes Accessibility Policies 109

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Although everyone wants magic solutions that can transform high-school dropouts into Google engineers in six months, this rarely happens. But if companies want to help people from underrepresented backgrounds achieve economic mobility over the long term, they’ll need to make ongoing investments. This doesn’t have to be hard.

Adobe 107

Adobe Dropout Company Training 107

Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

A Nudge to Remember In an age when mobile apps and devices send alerts for just about anything, the idea of sending updates via SMS hardly seems radical. Colleges already send “ nudges ” and “early-warning alerts” in an effort to boost student retention rates and reduce dropout rates. But sometimes these efforts backfire.

Outcomes 91

Outcomes Dropout Company Study 91

eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2017

Opened in 1995 as a dropout recovery high school and one of the first generation of charters in Texas, the George Gervin Academy is actually six campuses in one—with five campuses in San Antonio and one in Phoenix. Minority enrollment is pegged at 96 percent. The Impact of Serving At-Risk.

Dropout 79

Dropout Mobility Elementary Policies 79

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. Although we may make much of college dropout successes, remember this: The biggest Internet Age success of all — Google — was started within a graduate program, as a Ph.D.

Dropout 80

Dropout Digital Badges Coursera MOOC 80

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2018

The platform uses social gaming, animation, video and other tools to teach and reinforce critical math, vocabulary, reading and study skills in ways that meet students where they learn today — on mobile phones, tablets and computers.

Dropout 57

Dropout Learning Tablets Trends 57

Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Northside High was previously named for Confederate leader Jefferson Davis, and it was once labeled a “ dropout factory ” in a Johns Hopkins University study of institutions with low graduation rates. So Project GRAD went mobile. Not with an app—with a van. Several people at a time can sit in the vehicle to get college advice.

Libraries 86

Libraries Dropout Secondary Accessibility 86

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Pathways efforts in places like these are leading to vibrant career options that provide economic opportunity and upward mobility for more students. Tennessee has made a historic investment of $500 million to bring innovative pathways models to every public high school and middle school in the state.

Education 105

Education Training Industry Accessibility 105

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2017

Students who withdraw are also much more likely to default on their loans; dropouts make up two-thirds of defaults nationwide. The number of dropouts with federal loans at these institutions has grown from 35,443 in 2007-09 to more than 56,600 in 2013-15. [But] That’s typical, said Smith of the Center on Education and the Workforce.

Dropout 89

Dropout Study Report System 89

edWeb.net

MARCH 16, 2020

Chronically absent middle schoolers have lower grades and test scores that increase dropout potential. He is a behavioral scientist who studies how mobilizing and empowering students’ social networks can increase student success. Chronic high school absenteeism affects grades, test scores, and graduation and college enrollment rates.

Policies 52

Policies Dropout Outcomes Comparison 52

Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2018

However, problems with completion do not primarily stem from dropouts, which were recorded at 2 percent in 2016. Garza explains that the problem with completion at her campus comes from student mobility or the number of students who have to move out of the school during the year. At Reagan a whopping 25.8 percent.

Dropout 87

Dropout STEM Data Study 87

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2021

Grand challenges facing society, like social mobility, sustainability, equity and the preservation of democracy, grow in complexity and urgency each day. We’ve seen that clearly when it comes to student success — and, ultimately, social and economic mobility.

Education 98

Education Mobility Report Examples 98

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Each of us has seen headlines about an online school providing an unaccredited program that looks like a “diploma mill,” or a completely mismanaged school administration that was not prepared for high student mobility or other realities of online learning.

Dropout 60

Dropout Competency Based Learning Differentiated Instruction Online Learning 60

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Asynchronous access to this content, especially when this access is not through a dated university learning management system, but something more authentic to the student, maybe even accessed on their own mobile devices. Reduce the college dropout rate to closer to 10% (than the current 40%+). That’s good.

Examples 40

Examples MOOC E-rate Dropout 40

Learning with 'e's

MARCH 16, 2015

large scale dropouts, superficial learning)? MOOC dropouts are a real issue - at the Open University we''ve known for a long time that students really require a lot of support if they are to succeed. 5) What is your response to the criticism of MOOCs (e.g. I think it is easy to be snobbish about MOOCs.

MOOC 28

MOOC Dropout OER Social Media 28

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

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Policies 109

Policies Report Trends Mobility 109

The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

Analysts say that this “degree inflation,” as they call it, has shrunk opportunities for upward mobility for Americans without four-year degrees. In the meantime, Tillman-French believes there’s a path for advancement at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. trillion in outstanding student loan debt. “My

Company 112

Company Survey Report Training 112

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

The survey asked families if all students at home had devices of their own; whether those devices were loans from a school or family-owned; and whether the family was connected to the internet and, if so, how: via broadband, mobile phone or otherwise. We [didn’t] want this to be a Band-Aid fix,” he said.

Digital Divide 110

Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 110

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

The Merit Myth” describes how higher education gives lip service to the promise of social mobility, while remaining ever more segregated by class and race. colleges favor the rich.

Education 110

Education Policies System Survey 110

The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

I would have been a dropout.”. As a result of Say Yes Buffalo partnerships, 11 district schools currently have on-site full-service health clinics; a mobile health clinic program is set to launch next fall. I don’t even talk to my [real] sister about them or cry in front of her. And I do that with [Stubbe]. high schools?

Data 96

Data Secondary System Accessibility 96

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

The school district had a 27 percent dropout rate in 2014. Over the summer, the administration worked round the clock to create more classrooms and add mobile buildings. John Jones, now a teacher at Starkville High, believes the lack of community support in the former Oktibbeha school system had an impact on his student’s achievement.

Report 111

Report Dropout System Elementary 111

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Each time a door opens, cigarette smoke drifts in from the mobile home his family shares next door. The bed dominates the room, and a crooked “home sweet home” plaque hangs on the wall. A lone window allows in little light.

Report 111

Report Elementary Study Conference 111

Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

They only back companies led by college dropouts and people who never studied in higher ed. Or what I also hear on the economic mobility side is, and now I want to go get that internship, but the internship isn't paid. They founded a venture capital firm called the 1517 Fund.

Facebook 180

Facebook Company System Dropout 180

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2016

Girls score 16 percent better than boys in A-Levels, the standardized exams generally required to get into British universities, the British Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission reports. For another, girls do better in school. It says that gap, too, is widening. And poor white boys do the worst of all.

Outcomes 40

Outcomes Report Study Dropout 40

Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 7, 2014

to help decrease the dropout rate at our high school.” ebook, Learning to Go , which has digital/mobile activities for any device and editable/printable handouts and rubrics. At this point, give students their mission with guidelines. ” Keep it short and simple so students understand the task.

Maker Movement 332

Maker Movement eBook Guidelines Dropout 332

Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 7, 2014

to help decrease the dropout rate at our high school.” ebook, Learning to Go , which has digital/mobile activities for any device and editable/printable handouts and rubrics. At this point, give students their mission with guidelines. ” Keep it short and simple so students understand the task.

Maker Movement 278

Maker Movement eBook Guidelines Dropout 278

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Meanwhile, interventions aimed at teenagers, such as dropout prevention programs , often disappoint. There is considerable research on the benefits of intervening early when a child is falling behind at school. Intuitively, teachers and parents know that it’s much harder to improve a person’s academic trajectory later in life.

Dropout 117

Dropout Study Groups Report 117

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Greenville schools have some of the highest school dropout rates in the state, and Johnson also viewed staying at home as necessary to defend her children’s chances of living an easier life. “I Some would log on for as little as 10 minutes per day because that’s all their families’ mobile data plans seemed to be able to handle.

Broadband 145

Broadband Digital Divide Education Accessibility 145

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. District leaders began a search for adaptive and blended learning solutions. 1:1 devices for students was the first step to digital conversion and raising grad rates.

Classroom 54

Classroom Schoology Khan Academy Blended Learning 54

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

“It’s not really considered pure research, so people in this field try to fight hard to convince people in higher education of the value of this area,” says Sang Nam, communications coordinator for ISSOTL and an assistant professor of mobile gaming at George Mason University. The rate of dropout or failure is down from 13 to 5 percent.

Classroom 60

Classroom ePortfolio Dropout Course 60

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

She is grateful for regular calls with her mentor from a summer journalism program she attended at Princeton University; she also got a mobile wifi hotspot sent to her by Swarthmore. Dume is the daughter of a single mom and doesn’t have a big family support system, nor does she have wifi at home.

Laptops 145

Laptops Education Online Learning Report 145

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

The stakes are high for a student trying to return to school after a mental health leave of absence: thousands in tuition dollars and a college degree that could secure economic mobility for the future.

Course 90

Course Report Strategy System 90

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

Tuesday, April 22nd at 1pm CoSN - Smart Education Networks by Design , New advances in technology, including mobile devices, are making it possible for students to learn anytime, anywhere and to experience personalized learning. Is your library mobile friendly? See the schedule in your local time zone and join the sessions here.

BYOD 52

BYOD Libraries Conference Learning 52

The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2020

The survey by Temple University’s Hope Center for College, Community and Justice included student parents at 171 two-year and 56 four-year institutions, many of whom are poor and people of color and are looking for the promise of economic mobility a college education once provided.

Survey 145

Survey Policies Groups System 145

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

Especially in black-majority cities where there are higher percentages of both black students and teachers, reducing the number of black teachers can be detrimental to students’ social mobility, their future professional opportunities in teaching, and the local economy.

Education 145

Education Outcomes Study Assessment 145

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

The podcast feed link is [link] HACK EDUCATION POSTS LAST WEEK To give you a head start in following along with the podcast, here are Audrey''s Hack Education posts from last week: Ed-Tech News Weekly Roundup: The Dept of Ed Launches the Learning Registry, Adobe Tables Mobile Flash Is There an “Education Graph”?

Moodle 37

Moodle Dropout Adobe Education 37