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PROOF POINTS: Lessons from college dropouts who came back

The Hechinger Report

Like many dropouts, Floyd always intended to finish his college education. The number of college dropouts swelled during the tight labor market; an additional 2 million people joined their ranks from only a year and a half earlier in 2018. As with many dropouts, Floyd had unpaid student debt to resolve. It’s kind of funny.”

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Spreading First Aid for Teens’ Mental Health by Training Adults to Help

MindShift

Left untreated, mental health concerns can contribute to high school dropout rates. When kids struggle, their emotional problems often unfold in the classroom, affecting their ability to concentrate and straining interactions with teachers and peers.

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Temple University is spending millions to get more students through college, but is there a cheaper way?

The Hechinger Report

Jones discussed programs at Temple that provide financial resources to students the university thinks are at risk of dropping out, while Tough discussed the power of just telling students they belong in college—a potentially far cheaper solution to the college dropout crisis. Subscribe to our Higher Ed newsletter.

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Universities cut services for a big group of their students: those over 25

The Hechinger Report

The institute says 95 of 100 campus day care centers surveyed have waiting lists with an average of 82 children. Only 40 percent of older students with children manage to get degrees or certificates within six years, a lower proportion than their traditional-age classmates, and dropout rates are higher among older students with kids.

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Professors Aren’t Good at Sharing Their Classroom Practices. Teaching Portfolios Might Help.

Edsurge

In fact, there have been bigger attempts to build central libraries of them in the past, such as a 2001 project by the the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching called the Knowledge Media Laboratory (which is now defunct). The rate of dropout or failure is down from 13 to 5 percent. Teaching portfolios aren’t a new idea.

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Who will Teach the Children?

EdNews Daily

Department of Labor figures, that teachers are quitting their jobs at record rates, since such records began to be kept in 2001. Clearly, something must be done to address the teacher dropout problem. The Wall Street Journal reported at the end of 2018, using U.S. Why are teachers, and others in the field, leaving?

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