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With the Help of Google and SF Muni, A Bus Sets Off to Serve City's High School Dropouts

Edsurge

The organization made its mark in 2003 when they created the nation’s first county jail charter school. Now, Good and his team are trying to solve a new problem: helping high school dropouts get their diplomas in the face of strict gang lines, rundown schools, and spotty internet. percent of which are high school dropouts.

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Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost

The Hechinger Report

James Wiley is a technology analyst with Eduventures, which does consulting work for companies in the predictive analytics industry. The dropout problem got a lot worse in the 1990s when more people started attending college. million students dropped out of college with debt in 2015 and 2016. Earning a profit.

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Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

The Hechinger Report

Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. Often, personalized learning includes technology that adapts lessons to students’ needs and provides data so that teachers can see how each learner is growing. High schools were rated on standardized tests, as well as dropout, attendance and graduation rates.

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OPINION: Mental health services are crucially important for student success but often overlooked

The Hechinger Report

Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey, for example, has a strong institutional commitment to supporting student mental health. Beginning in 2015, Auburn University established a mental health task force with student, faculty, staff and administrator representatives that seeks to understand the mental health needs of its students.

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