2005, Course and Dropout

PROOF POINTS: Most manufacturing certificate holders don’t get jobs in manufacturing

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

More than 100,000 adults earned earned entry-level manufacturing certifications at community and technical colleges between 2005 and 2018, but only 40 percent worked in manufacturing afterward. Why would someone sign up for a manufacturing course, pass the certification exam and not land a manufacturing job? That’s a mystery.

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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Educators and school leaders are scrambling to figure out how to regain ground next year in a course that often makes or breaks students’ life chances. Of those who failed both semesters in 2005-06, only 15 percent graduated in four years. “I think this is a lost school year for most kids.”. I’m very worried. practices solving?

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Momentum builds behind a way to lower the cost of college: A degree in three years

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

The once-steady flow of international students to the United States increased every year from 2005 until 2019 , when anti-immigration sentiment, tension with China and other problems began to chip away at the numbers. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Then Covid decimated them.

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Colleges and states turn their attention to slow-moving part-time students

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Dzindzichashvili enrolled at the University of Massachusetts Boston in 2005 after graduating from high school, commuting across the city from her family’s duplex in East Boston for class before heading home again to work at a law firm. Others find it nearly impossible to fit courses around work and childcare.

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How a Chinatown school is trying to bring more diversity to theater

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

In 2005, Lee co-founded NAAP to offer summertime musical theater programs to schoolchildren in Chinatown. She noted that she learned public speaking from a course during college, but that her elementary-school aged daughter is already able to speak confidently in front of groups.

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In rural Maine, a university eliminates most Fs in an effort to increase graduation rates

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2018

In the traditional model, students need to pass a specific set of courses to graduate. Only 11 percent of the students who entered UMPI in 2005 graduated in four years, and only 30 percent graduated in six — all at a time when the region desperately needs more college grads. But the obstacles ahead are substantial.

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Held back, but not helped

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

Now, after realizing that academic stragglers who were retained frequently didn’t receive the support they needed, the state is changing course. Most students lost months or even years of school time after Katrina hit in 2005. Teachers told us, ‘Oh, of course, that’s a Katrina effect.

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A regional public university’s identity crisis

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

Given current circumstances, Richard Vedder, an economics professor emeritus at Ohio University, has decided to teach his fall course, “Economic History of Europe,” for a salary of $1. From 2005 to 2020, Vedder said, O.U. is one reason why hiship-hop course, he said, is always full. Plus, a parking sticker.

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No longer ruled out: an educator develops strategies to keep court-involved students in school

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2020

She’s interrupting what would be the natural course for kids who might not have the resources to get themselves out.”. ince 2017, Rhodes has gotten a crash course in college financial aid. Zelaya is now in her second year of college courses. Educators can change this.”. grade-point average.

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Charter schools nearly destroyed this New Orleans school. Now it will become one.

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

Up until Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, McDonogh 35 had required entering ninth graders to have a high level of academic preparation. He’s promised to add ACT prep, more Advanced Placement courses, and maybe even a STEM program. She’d heard the new management will bring better teachers, programs and more challenging course work.

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PROOF POINTS: Even older teens benefit from catch-up classes

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Meanwhile, interventions aimed at teenagers, such as dropout prevention programs , often disappoint. But researchers occasionally find things that work with high schoolers. An earlier version was circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research.).

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School counselors keep kids on track. Why are they first to be cut?

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Aimed at curbing dropouts, improving graduation rates and sending more kids to college and other postsecondary programs, the corps is designed to offset a growing achievement gap in this relatively affluent but increasingly diverse state. Colorado Spring’s District 11 began enrolling teachers in AVID training in 2005.

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Schools can’t afford to lose any more Black male educators

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

He started teaching social studies at Blythewood High School in Richland 2, a school district in the Midlands, in 2005, the same year the school was founded. “I During his fourth year, Thorne started teaching an African American Studies course that he designed. I was proud to be a part of a community,” he said.

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A school once known for gang activity is now sending kids to college

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Ocon, who had been at the school since 2005, became convinced that the source of the dismal performance numbers was not the kids but a hidebound curriculum that was simply not working to their benefit. To accomplish this, courses are year-long instead of being divided into semesters. We don’t have deadlines,” said Ocon.

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PROOF POINTS: Most manufacturing certificate holders don’t get jobs in manufacturing

Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

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Momentum builds behind a way to lower the cost of college: A degree in three years

Colleges and states turn their attention to slow-moving part-time students

How a Chinatown school is trying to bring more diversity to theater

In rural Maine, a university eliminates most Fs in an effort to increase graduation rates

Held back, but not helped

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Charter schools nearly destroyed this New Orleans school. Now it will become one.

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School counselors keep kids on track. Why are they first to be cut?

Schools can’t afford to lose any more Black male educators

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