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Leadership Ignited

A Principal's Reflections

I have tweeted over the past couple weeks my excitement for the new structure of the NASSP Annual Conference. The result is that attendees will return home with action plans of interconnected ideas, rather than the scattered array of stand-alone ideas and initiatives that typify some conferences. Use of time. Participatory learning.

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OPINION: The low-cost steps the government could take right now to ease hunger and homelessness on college campuses

The Hechinger Report

In 2013, the departments of Education and Veterans Affairs jointly challenged schools to adopt best practices to support the educational success of veterans. We know from exhaustive research that hunger seriously impairs learning outcomes and that financial insecurity drives dropout rates.

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It’s Time To Unlearn & Relearn Learning

EdNews Daily

University of California, California high school dropouts cost state $46.4 in Edulearn 17: Neuroscience foundations – 9th Annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies. Carr, in International Conference on E-Learning in the Workplace. billion annually. UC Santa Barbara. 2007 ([link]. Stevens, T.

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Four Reasons Why Students Don’t Receive the Degrees They’ve Earned

Edsurge

In keeping with that mindset, some education leaders refer to lost students as “stopouts” rather than “dropouts.” Data analysis at Shasta College showed that since 2013, 658 students stopped out despite having at least 60 credits, including the four courses required to transfer to a California State University campus.

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DEBT WITHOUT DEGREE: The human cost of college debt that becomes “purgatory”

The Hechinger Report

In doing so, he joined more than 108,000 other students who withdrew from Georgia’s public colleges and universities between 2013 and 2015 with thousands of dollars in federal student debt but no degree. Students who withdraw are also much more likely to default on their loans; dropouts make up two-thirds of defaults nationwide.

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Looking Back & Remembering @Joe_Bower @DevenKBlack @BobSprankle

The Innovative Educator

In 2013 I sat next to Deven in Washington D.C. You may also appreciate his 140Edu Talk where he explains high school dropouts is not a crisis. We often met up at conferences such as Alan November's Building Learning Communities. One of my favorite posts he wrote was “ My One Great Lesson This Year.” Check it out at [link].

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As small private colleges keep closing, some are fighting back

The Hechinger Report

These also show that Nichols has reduced the number of dropouts, holding onto $5.4 When a fellow president told a higher education conference in January that her campus had already cut spending as much as it could — “to the bone. million in 2013 to $15.4 million a year in tuition revenue it was previously losing.

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