The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

When Alexandra Logue served as the chief academic officer of the City University of New York (CUNY) from 2008 to 2014, she discovered that her 25-college system was spending over $20 million a year on remedial classes. The confusion stems from the study design. An experimental psychologist by training, Logue designed an experiment.

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Study Course Dropout Data 120

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

How has Putnam County created partnerships with universities and institutions in Tennessee to essentially allow students to dual-enroll in these courses? It's setting those kids up with high school credits that's going to allow them to take more advantage of actual college courses in high school. How does tech fit into this?

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Dropout Chromebook Personalized Learning Flipped Classroom 119

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. A 2008 study in Los Angeles public schools found that those who didn’t pass algebra by ninth grade were half as likely to graduate as those who did. I’m very worried.

STEM 132

STEM Report Course Study 132

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

For an absurd example, if dropouts tended to take classes on Thursdays in their first semester at college, but students who completed their degrees didn’t, then you might worry about current students who are currently taking classes on Thursdays. The dropout problem got a lot worse in the 1990s when more people started attending college.

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Data Dropout Company Report 109

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

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. Yet, funding for the arts currently shows no sign of rebounding from cutbacks stemming from George W.

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Dropout Elementary Report Common Core 78

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

A student jumps off a bus to enter McDonogh #35 Senior High School before the start of the school day March 19, 2008 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Funding for McDonogh 35, New Orleans’ last noncharter school, fell from $15,594 per student in 2008-09 to $11,651 per student in 2016-17. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images).

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Meeting Groups Report Course 89

Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2017

In the United States alone, jobs website Indeed reports that reduced productivity stemming from open positions accounted for $160 billion of lost revenue in 2014. high-profile dropouts and the rise of the so-called “ anti-credential.” These unfilled positions carry a tremendous economic cost for businesses. At almost $1.3

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Dropout iPhone Outcomes Course 97