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OCTOBER 26, 2015

And just as universities haven’t been “job training facilities,” more immediately, neither has K-12. When we seek to train students, we have to ask ourselves what we’re training them for, and make sure we can live with the consequences.” Reduce the college dropout rate to closer to 10% (than the current 40%+).

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Examples MOOC E-rate Dropout 40

Edsurge

MAY 11, 2017

That’s why it might come as surprise to hear AspirEDU , an educational analytics company, pitch their Dropout Detective software as an “academic credit score” for students. Whereas credit scores are designed to prevent risky buyers from getting approved on loans, Dropout Detective is meant to improve student success and lower dropout rates.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Douglass was the worst-performing school in the state in 2008. Dale, who was one of Sci’s first teachers in 2008, admitted that embracing football came with trade-offs. The school jettisoned its “no excuses” policy, provided more training to teachers and tried to attract more locals to the faculty.

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Report Training Policies System 53

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2019

But in August 2008, the state-run Recovery School District included only one Ninth Ward high school in its first master plan for building construction. At first, it seemed overwhelming: his principal training hadn’t taught him what to do when alumni protested his school. “I

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Groups Report Industry Dropout 96

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

High school dropouts are much more likely to be unemployed and earn thousands of dollars less per year than people with higher levels of education. She filled classrooms with four full-time substitutes, who had bachelor’s degrees but no training in teaching. She asked teachers to stay for extra training during the summer.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

From 2008 to 2017, the share of Latinx students at this commuter school of roughly 4,000 rose from 13 percent to 22 percent — the highest of any public university in the state. She blamed the high dropout rates on the fact that many students have to juggle school with full- and part-time jobs, leaving little time for academics.

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Dropout Laptops Study Report 110

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Over the past four years, participation in I-BEST (Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training), one of the programs that helped Blanco, has increased by about 50 percent, with more than 3,200 students now enrolled. Many of these shorter-term programs train students for industries such as manufacturing and auto body repair.

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Learning Handbook Training Report 79

EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

What can be done to stop the hemorrhaging of these trained and certified educators? Many of those trained to become teachers never enter the classroom. Teachers today are inadequately trained or prepared for the students, parents, and conditions they face. The overriding question is, who will teach the children?

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Dropout Training Report Social Media 130

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Since 2008, it has spent almost $60 million to hire an additional 270 counselors and provide professional development training at 365 low-income middle and high schools throughout the state, via grants from the Colorado School Counselor Corps. Colorado Spring’s District 11 began enrolling teachers in AVID training in 2005.

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Dropout Report Training Outcomes 111

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

At the time, a third of Louisiana’s adults were high school dropouts. He brought in a naval commander to lead a summer program that was part boot-camp, part academic training. The trouble started in 2008 when Gov. Only 16 percent had earned a bachelor’s degree or higher. He bought back-to-school clothes for the children.

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Dropout Policies STEM Outcomes 87

The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2021

Because people had fewer children during the last recession in 2008, the number of 18-year-olds graduating from high school is expected to fall again nationally after 2025 by 11 to 15 percent, according to estimates by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education , or WICHE, and Carleton College economist Nathan Grawe.

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Dropout Data Survey Report 136

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Longitudinal studies of corporal punishment in schools internationally, meanwhile, have found the practice is correlated with lower math scores , lower motivation and diminished academic progress , along with increased absenteeism and dropout rates. House of Representatives subcommittee hearing on corporal punishment in schools.

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Elementary Handbook Report Policies 144

Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn, for example, predicted in their 2008 book Disrupting Class that by 2019 half of all high school classes would be taught via the Internet. For its part, Udacity has fully rebranded itself as a high-tech job training company, a topic I’ll cover in more detail in a forthcoming article in this series.

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MOOC Coursera Education Broadband 55

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2018

This could be a problem for colleges and universities, about which a slew of opinion polls suggest Americans take a dim view at a time of campus speech controversies, athletic scandals, high dropout rates , sexual harassment and assault, comparatively generous pay for faculty and administrators and complaints about the competence of graduates.

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Report Dropout Survey System 78

Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

” Via The Economic Times : “Startups in student-lending sector see dropouts, but some score too.” ” The Business of Job Training. “ Big data could solve the college-dropout problem ,” says The Washington Post. Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Higher Ed Inflation Hits Highest Level Since 2008.”

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