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That timespan should look familiar: The Great Recession lasted from December 2007 to June 2009. Higher Ed K-12 News Graduation and dropouts Higher education access Higher education affordability Higher education completion poverty RaceRyan Tillman-French, a developer for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in Boston. Chelsea Stahl / NBC News. MORE
This echoes a 2009 report by Public Agenda for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which found that boredom played a major or minor role in 45% of recent college dropouts’ decisions to leave school. Patient-centered care initiatives often aim to increase patients’ health literacy, encourage them to participate more actively in treatment decisions, and create a less stressful care delivery environment for them. MORE
More than 15 percent of these graduates and dropouts defaulted in both time periods. That’s because community colleges cater to lower income students and dropout rates are high. These income-based repayment plans have been available since 2009 and more students are becoming aware of them. Many people who might have been in default before 2009 are now in income-based repayment plans but not really able to pay their loans. MORE
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. Without measurement, there is no pressure for improvement,” he said in a 2009 speech to the National Conference of State Legislatures. MORE
The high school graduation rate in Utah’s Juab School District was 78 percent in 2009. The high school graduation rate in Utah’s Juab School District increased from 78 percent in 2009 to 97 percent for the last three years in a row. K-12 News Graduation and dropouts High school reform Personalized Learning Rural schools MORE
CHICAGO — By Marquell Brown’s count, he has been locked up “roughly 42 times” since 2009. In Illinois, Marquell Brown got a firsthand look at the improvements made from 2009 to 2017. K-12 News achievement gap Graduation and dropouts poverty Solutions MORE
Cody High used to be what's called a "dropout factory," most years graduating just 60 percent of its seniors. But, in 2009, things began to change. Kevin Mahone hopes to use extra credit and after-school work to meet the requirements for graduation. LA Johnson/NPR. The US high school graduation rate is at an all-time high. But why? NPR Ed partnered with 14 member stations around the country to bring you the stories behind that number. MORE
Anastasia Gnyp of Hendersonville, Tennessee, graduated from Merrol Hyde Magnet School a semester early in 2009 with big dreams. In the year 2000, the Department of Education began publishing graduation rates for every community college, and even taking into account the very narrow criteria used to gather the numbers (including counting all transfers, even to four-year schools, as a dropout), the numbers were dramatically low, hovering around the 20 percent mark. MORE
In 2009, the school was down to 167 students, according to Nithya Govindasamy, dean of the work program. At Wisconsin’s Silver Lake College, Matt Goff, dean of SLC Works, the school’s work college model, sees another potential boost from his school’s year-old program: fewer dropouts. Clare Cameron, a senior at Warren Wilson College, at her work assignment managing a farmer’s market. Photo: Jesse Pratt Lopez for The Hechinger Report. ASHEVILLE, N.C. MORE
Bush and Obama administrations, with initiatives such as No Child Left Behind (2001) and Race to the Top (2009), spurred what’s been called a “ nationalization of education politics ” and, many teachers say, a relentless cycle of shiny fads promising to revolutionize the field. K-12 News Data and research Graduation and dropouts online learning Personalized Learning MORE
Student engagement, described as the tendency to be behaviorally, emotionally, and cognitively involved in academic activities, is a key construct in motivation research (Thijs & Verkuyten, 2009). Further, engagement has also been associated with positive student outcomes, including higher grades and decreased dropouts (Connell, Spencer, & Aber, 1994). MORE
In this case that meant at the fringe of schools—in the advanced classes, foreign languages, and credit and dropout recovery options they couldn’t otherwise offer, for example. The Poudre School District Global Academy opened in 2009 to provide a flexible schooling option. Public school districts began innovating with blended learning before most charter schools. MORE
Since opening in 2009 as a credit recovery and dropout prevention school, PGA has transformed into a small, personalized school serving a mix of former homeschoolers and students coming from traditional schools. Achievement increasing by up to 240 percent in math and reading. At Poudre School District Global Academy (PGA), a hybrid school in Fort Collins, Colo., MORE
Even though the unemployment rate has improved in the last decade, the class of 2016 joined “a sizable backlog of unemployed college graduates” dating back to 2009, the study found. Andre Perry Columnists Higher Ed K-12 Graduation and dropouts Higher education completionThe adage, “To whom much is given, much is expected,” can’t just apply to high school graduates. MORE
Though some programs have helped lower dropout rates and improved graduation rates for students of color, the gap in the percentage of students finishing a degree has barely budged across the 30 community colleges in the Minnesota State Colleges and University system. College dropouts cost Minnesota millions of dollars in wasted subsidies and lost revenue each year. MORE
Performance here is defined as outcomes, such as “dropout, graduation, default, or forbearance rates” The Congresspeople are especially concerned about “predatory” institutions. The signatories also want accreditors to get tough, complaining that they’ve been too lenient: A 2014 report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) showed that, from 2009 to 2014, only 1 percent of institutions lost their accredited status and a mere 8 percent were sanctioned. MORE
Who would have thought a program started in 2009 to help the teachers at one school ( International School Bangkok ) would 7 years later have over 1000 educators going through this learning journey……not us. Full disclosure our dropout rate is roughly 15%. I haven’t made much time to blog this semester….OK….this this year. But what a year it has been! I am currently writing this sitting at Rialto Beach on the coast of Washington. MORE
Around 2009, Lee learned about the Junior Theater Festival (JTF) in Atlanta, where students from across the country gather for three days to compete, take workshops and nerd out over musical theater. A study found an 18-percent difference between dropout rates for low-income students with high arts participation (4 percent drop out) and those with less arts involvement (22 percent). The P.S. 124 Theatre Club performs a musical adaptation of the animated movie “Madagascar.” MORE
Colleges are also working to reduce their numbers of dropouts on the principle that it’s cheaper to provide the kind of support required to keep tuition-paying students than to recruit more. And for all of the work it’s done to reduce the number of dropouts, the higher education industry has so far barely moved the needle. Higher Ed News Business Graduation and dropouts Higher education access Higher education affordability Higher education completion Higher Education newsletter MORE
High school dropouts are much more likely to be unemployed than those with a diploma, and they earn thousands of dollars less per year. In 2009, three years before Roark took over as principal, Leslie County High School was among the 5 percent lowest-performing high schools in the state. The average ACT score was 19, close to the national average, up from a score of 16 in 2009. Featured Stories K-12 News achievement gap Graduation and dropouts poverty Race Rural schools MORE
Performance here is defined as outcomes, such as “dropout, graduation, default, or forbearance rates” The Congresspeople are especially concerned about “predatory” institutions. The signatories also want accreditors to get tough, complaining that they’ve been too lenient: A 2014 report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) showed that, from 2009 to 2014, only 1 percent of institutions lost their accredited status and a mere 8 percent were sanctioned. MORE
Even before starting high school in 2009, Nelson knew he wanted to go to college. K-12 News Graduation and dropouts Special educationMark Nelson poses for a photo at Citrus College in Glendora, California. Credit: Melissa Lyttle for HuffPost. This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. MORE
For example, as reported in Education Week, California lost 53 percent of its school of education enrollment between the 2008–2009 and 2012–2013 school years. Clearly, something must be done to address the teacher dropout problem. By Franklin Schargel. MORE
According to one respected tally , just under 55 percent of students who entered college in 2010 had earned degrees after six years – an increase of two percentage points since 2009. Higher Ed News achievement gap Graduation and dropouts Higher education access Higher education affordability Higher education completion Race MORE
Dartmouth says first-generation college students have ranged between 10 to 15 percent of each entering class since it started tracking the number in 2009; they will be 13 percent of the incoming class, its most selective ever. MORE
And the resulting decline in borrowing and dropout rates on those campuses suggest the toll that fees were taking on their students. Dropout rates have also fallen. Georgia’s Board of Regents added a $100 “special institutional fee” in 2009 when state funding was cut near the start of the recession. The University of Dayton, which has stopped charging separate fees. Photo: University of Dayton. MORE
The Hechinger Report
MAY 22, 2019
The high school graduation rate in Utah’s Juab School District was 78 percent in 2009. The high school graduation rate in Utah’s Juab School District increased from 78 percent in 2009 to 97 percent for the last three years in a row. K-12 News Graduation and dropouts High school reform Personalized Learning Rural schools
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 9, 2019
Colleges are also working to reduce their numbers of dropouts on the principle that it’s cheaper to provide the kind of support required to keep tuition-paying students than to recruit more. And for all of the work it’s done to reduce the number of dropouts, the higher education industry has so far barely moved the needle. Higher Ed News Business Graduation and dropouts Higher education access Higher education affordability Higher education completion Higher Education newsletter
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The Hechinger Report
JULY 10, 2019
Bush and Obama administrations, with initiatives such as No Child Left Behind (2001) and Race to the Top (2009), spurred what’s been called a “ nationalization of education politics ” and, many teachers say, a relentless cycle of shiny fads promising to revolutionize the field. K-12 News Data and research Graduation and dropouts online learning Personalized Learning
The Hechinger Report
MAY 4, 2019
That timespan should look familiar: The Great Recession lasted from December 2007 to June 2009. Higher Ed K-12 News Graduation and dropouts Higher education access Higher education affordability Higher education completion poverty RaceRyan Tillman-French, a developer for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in Boston. Chelsea Stahl / NBC News.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 1, 2018
CHICAGO — By Marquell Brown’s count, he has been locked up “roughly 42 times” since 2009. In Illinois, Marquell Brown got a firsthand look at the improvements made from 2009 to 2017. K-12 News achievement gap Graduation and dropouts poverty Solutions
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 20, 2019
High school dropouts are much more likely to be unemployed than those with a diploma, and they earn thousands of dollars less per year. In 2009, three years before Roark took over as principal, Leslie County High School was among the 5 percent lowest-performing high schools in the state. The average ACT score was 19, close to the national average, up from a score of 16 in 2009. Featured Stories K-12 News achievement gap Graduation and dropouts poverty Race Rural schools
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The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 10, 2017
Even before starting high school in 2009, Nelson knew he wanted to go to college. K-12 News Graduation and dropouts Special educationMark Nelson poses for a photo at Citrus College in Glendora, California. Credit: Melissa Lyttle for HuffPost. This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 17, 2017
Even though the unemployment rate has improved in the last decade, the class of 2016 joined “a sizable backlog of unemployed college graduates” dating back to 2009, the study found. Andre Perry Columnists Higher Ed K-12 Graduation and dropouts Higher education completionThe adage, “To whom much is given, much is expected,” can’t just apply to high school graduates.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 16, 2018
Dartmouth says first-generation college students have ranged between 10 to 15 percent of each entering class since it started tracking the number in 2009; they will be 13 percent of the incoming class, its most selective ever.
User Generated Education
MAY 23, 2016
Student engagement, described as the tendency to be behaviorally, emotionally, and cognitively involved in academic activities, is a key construct in motivation research (Thijs & Verkuyten, 2009). Further, engagement has also been associated with positive student outcomes, including higher grades and decreased dropouts (Connell, Spencer, & Aber, 1994).
The Christensen Institute
MAY 7, 2015
In this case that meant at the fringe of schools—in the advanced classes, foreign languages, and credit and dropout recovery options they couldn’t otherwise offer, for example. The Poudre School District Global Academy opened in 2009 to provide a flexible schooling option. Public school districts began innovating with blended learning before most charter schools.
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Bryan Alexander
APRIL 25, 2016
Performance here is defined as outcomes, such as “dropout, graduation, default, or forbearance rates” The Congresspeople are especially concerned about “predatory” institutions. The signatories also want accreditors to get tough, complaining that they’ve been too lenient: A 2014 report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) showed that, from 2009 to 2014, only 1 percent of institutions lost their accredited status and a mere 8 percent were sanctioned.
Bryan Alexander
APRIL 25, 2016
Performance here is defined as outcomes, such as “dropout, graduation, default, or forbearance rates” The Congresspeople are especially concerned about “predatory” institutions. The signatories also want accreditors to get tough, complaining that they’ve been too lenient: A 2014 report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) showed that, from 2009 to 2014, only 1 percent of institutions lost their accredited status and a mere 8 percent were sanctioned.
The Christensen Institute
JANUARY 8, 2018
This echoes a 2009 report by Public Agenda for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which found that boredom played a major or minor role in 45% of recent college dropouts’ decisions to leave school. Patient-centered care initiatives often aim to increase patients’ health literacy, encourage them to participate more actively in treatment decisions, and create a less stressful care delivery environment for them.
EdNews Daily
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
For example, as reported in Education Week, California lost 53 percent of its school of education enrollment between the 2008–2009 and 2012–2013 school years. Clearly, something must be done to address the teacher dropout problem. By Franklin Schargel.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 14, 2019
More than 15 percent of these graduates and dropouts defaulted in both time periods. That’s because community colleges cater to lower income students and dropout rates are high. These income-based repayment plans have been available since 2009 and more students are becoming aware of them. Many people who might have been in default before 2009 are now in income-based repayment plans but not really able to pay their loans.
eSchool News
SEPTEMBER 13, 2015
Since opening in 2009 as a credit recovery and dropout prevention school, PGA has transformed into a small, personalized school serving a mix of former homeschoolers and students coming from traditional schools. Achievement increasing by up to 240 percent in math and reading. At Poudre School District Global Academy (PGA), a hybrid school in Fort Collins, Colo.,
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. Without measurement, there is no pressure for improvement,” he said in a 2009 speech to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
NPR Learning and Tech
JUNE 7, 2015
Cody High used to be what's called a "dropout factory," most years graduating just 60 percent of its seniors. But, in 2009, things began to change. Kevin Mahone hopes to use extra credit and after-school work to meet the requirements for graduation. LA Johnson/NPR. The US high school graduation rate is at an all-time high. But why? NPR Ed partnered with 14 member stations around the country to bring you the stories behind that number.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 11, 2018
Around 2009, Lee learned about the Junior Theater Festival (JTF) in Atlanta, where students from across the country gather for three days to compete, take workshops and nerd out over musical theater. A study found an 18-percent difference between dropout rates for low-income students with high arts participation (4 percent drop out) and those with less arts involvement (22 percent). The P.S. 124 Theatre Club performs a musical adaptation of the animated movie “Madagascar.”
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 1, 2017
In 2009, the school was down to 167 students, according to Nithya Govindasamy, dean of the work program. At Wisconsin’s Silver Lake College, Matt Goff, dean of SLC Works, the school’s work college model, sees another potential boost from his school’s year-old program: fewer dropouts. Clare Cameron, a senior at Warren Wilson College, at her work assignment managing a farmer’s market. Photo: Jesse Pratt Lopez for The Hechinger Report. ASHEVILLE, N.C.
MindShift
JUNE 27, 2016
Anastasia Gnyp of Hendersonville, Tennessee, graduated from Merrol Hyde Magnet School a semester early in 2009 with big dreams. In the year 2000, the Department of Education began publishing graduation rates for every community college, and even taking into account the very narrow criteria used to gather the numbers (including counting all transfers, even to four-year schools, as a dropout), the numbers were dramatically low, hovering around the 20 percent mark.
The Thinking Stick
JUNE 15, 2016
Who would have thought a program started in 2009 to help the teachers at one school ( International School Bangkok ) would 7 years later have over 1000 educators going through this learning journey……not us. Full disclosure our dropout rate is roughly 15%. I haven’t made much time to blog this semester….OK….this this year. But what a year it has been! I am currently writing this sitting at Rialto Beach on the coast of Washington.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 3, 2017
And the resulting decline in borrowing and dropout rates on those campuses suggest the toll that fees were taking on their students. Dropout rates have also fallen. Georgia’s Board of Regents added a $100 “special institutional fee” in 2009 when state funding was cut near the start of the recession. The University of Dayton, which has stopped charging separate fees. Photo: University of Dayton.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 5, 2016
According to one respected tally , just under 55 percent of students who entered college in 2010 had earned degrees after six years – an increase of two percentage points since 2009. Higher Ed News achievement gap Graduation and dropouts Higher education access Higher education affordability Higher education completion Race
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