article thumbnail

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

The Hechinger Report

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. A departing student wouldn’t affect the institution’s graduation data in most cases. Credit: Oliver Parini for The Hechinger Report.

Dropout 75
article thumbnail

Held back, but not helped

The Hechinger Report

The proportion of overage students — those who have been retained for at least one grade — hovers around 40 percent for New Orleans high school students, according to an analysis of 2014 data by researchers at Education Research Alliance for New Orleans, which is based at Tulane University. percent national average.

Analysis 116
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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

The Hechinger Report

Wentworth, for example, will add combined four-year bachelor’s and master’s degrees in data science and cybersecurity analytics starting in the fall of 2023, the university says. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Then Covid decimated them. Now, said Goldstein, U.S.

Report 101
article thumbnail

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

The Hechinger Report

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. Only 11 percent of the students who entered UMPI in 2005 graduated in four years, and only 30 percent graduated in six.

Pearson 77
article thumbnail

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

The Hechinger Report

Up until Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, McDonogh 35 had required entering ninth graders to have a high level of academic preparation. Spending fell from $15,594 per student in 2008-09 to $11,651 per student in 2016-17, the most recent state data available. “There was an expectation that we would succeed – always,” Ivory said.

Meeting 80
article thumbnail

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

The Hechinger Report

“I would say there are maybe five organizations like ours across the country,” said Valeria Do Vale, lead coordinator for the Student Immigration Movement, which was started in Boston in 2005 by immigrant students attending high school with hopes of attending college.

Strategy 101
article thumbnail

Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

Nearly 60 percent of students in gifted education are white, according to the most recent federal data , compared to 50 percent of public school enrollment overall. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights data suggested the problem is acute in some cities that also have high levels of racial segregation by neighborhood.

Education 145