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Some kids have returned to in-person learning only to be kicked right back out

The Hechinger Report

Her online coursework gave teachers no reason to take issue with her classroom behavior. The consequence was an unwelcome reminder that the pandemic isn’t the only thing that can keep her from the classroom. But in October, less than two months after returning to in-person learning in Sacramento, California, she was suspended again.

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Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff

The Hechinger Report

PHILADELPHIA — At first, Marie Wilkins-Walker was just happy to be back in a classroom. On the floor below Wilkin-Walker’s classroom, David Thiebeau had begun to notice similar challenges. The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up.

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Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost

The Hechinger Report

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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At a growing number of colleges, faculty get a new role: spotting troubled students

The Hechinger Report

This shouldn’t be news,” said Damon Yarnell, Dickinson’s dean of academic advising, after leading an orientation for new faculty about its early-alert system in a quiet classroom on the college’s distinctive campus of grassy quads bounded by historic limestone buildings. That’s $13.3 million for the average public and more than $8.3

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Held back, but not helped

The Hechinger Report

As a freshman, she constantly got into fights, and spent long hours in a disciplinary classroom. A 2011-12 survey found an average of 9 percent of students nationwide had repeated at least one grade; in Louisiana, the average was 23 percent. As a sophomore, she worked six hours a night at a burger joint in a shopping mall.

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November 14 - Ed Tech News, Our Weekly Podcast, and the Hack Education Roundup!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

ANNOUNCEMENTS The 2011 Global Education Conference has begun! The Classroom 2.0 The Library as Makerspace Preventing STEM Dropouts Is NYC’s General Assembly the University of the Future? Welcome to week five of this new weekly blog post / email, including the round-up of the week''s news and podcast with Audrey Watters.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Cumulative Growth in Number of MOOCs , 2011–18.” “How a Faculty Trip to Silicon Valley Changed the Classroom Experience,” according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. despite having Arizona ’s third-highest dropout rate.”