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How a dropout factory raised its graduation rate from 53 percent to 75 percent in three years

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Photo: Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report. In this ongoing series, The Hechinger Report is visiting high schools that have beaten the long odds to learn what’s behind their success in improving graduation rates and sending more students to college. Photo: Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report. Research found that a $3.5

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School Cellphone Use Contracts Can Reduce Bullying

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The Washington Post reported (July 16, 2019) that a report filed by the National Center for Education Statistics, that online bullying and texting is the rise among middle and high school students. More white students, 17 percent reported being bullied on line, compared with 12 percent of other races.

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Leadership Ignited

A Principal's Reflections

This year, they have decided to rely instead on what NASSP members have reported as the issues that keep principals up at night, such as Common Core implementation, new teacher evaluation models, and dropout prevention and graduation rates. While attendees are at Ignite 2013, they will get to reclaim that time and make the most of it.

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

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This office, which would be led by a director of basic needs, would report directly to the undersecretary of education, who has the primary responsibility for higher education policy at the department. We know from exhaustive research that hunger seriously impairs learning outcomes and that financial insecurity drives dropout rates.

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OPINION: What health care can teach educators about the difference between ‘equal’ and ‘equitable’

The Hechinger Report

Longitudinal data show that students enrolled in City Connects schools performed better academically and had lower grade retention, chronic absenteeism and dropout rates. This story about student success plans was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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Momentum builds for helping students adapt to college by nixing freshman grades

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Credit: Amanda Cain for The Hechinger Report. The number of college students with one or more mental health problems has doubled since 2013 , according to a study by researchers at Boston University and elsewhere. Credit: Amanda Cain for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Amanda Cain for The Hechinger Report.

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Student loan default rates inch down as for-profit sector contracts

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percentage points from the default rate of students who graduated or left school in 2013-14. More than 15 percent of these graduates and dropouts defaulted in both time periods. That’s amounts to roughly 120,000 students in default from the class of 2015-16, down from 132,000 students in the class of 2013-14. percent to 6.8

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