The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

At the start of the 2015 school year, about 800 new students — the majority African-American—from schools in Oktibbeha County prepared for their first year in the newly consolidated Starkville Oktibbeha County Public School District. Jones came to Starkville High in 2015 from East Oktibbeha County High School. Photo: Nicole Lewis.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

The proportion of overage students — those who have been retained for at least one grade — hovers around 40 percent for New Orleans high school students, according to an analysis of 2014 data by researchers at Education Research Alliance for New Orleans, which is based at Tulane University. percent national average.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The top 20 percent of earners saw their incomes rise by 95 percent in real terms between 1979 and 2014, whereas the middle three quintiles recorded just 28 percent growth, according to the Congressional Budget Office. And as wages have flat lined, college costs have spiraled. Outstanding student loan debt now tops $1.5

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2017

In Spokane, 48 percent of 2014 graduates who received free or reduced-price lunch — a typical indicator of poverty — went on to higher education the following year, compared to 65 percent of those who didn’t receive subsidized meals, according to state data. Rogers has the lowest college-going rate in the district.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

In 2014, an Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice remedial plan, created as part of a settlement agreement following a 2012 lawsuit against the department, specifically called for a blended-learning model to resolve inadequate educational opportunities in the system.

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Online Learning Blended Learning Pearson Learning 75

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

Melanie Tucci calculated that she would have to work about 30 hours a week as well as take out loans to make it through college when she started at Temple in 2014. Since 2015, when Florida State University began to counsel incoming freshmen on the wisdom of 15 credits, those who took the advice have actually earned higher G.P.A.’s.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Only 1 percent of African-American students and 2 percent of Latino students who enrolled in the lowest level of remedial math in 2014 made it through an entry-level college math class within two years (the amount of time it’s supposed to take to earn a full associate’s degree). California part of national trend.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2020

So a social worker called his home on a December morning in 2015 when he didn’t come to school. NEW ORLEANS — School absences were rare for Lorenzo Elliott, the drum major of the George Washington Carver High School band and an honor roll student with a 96 percent attendance rate. His family said that police had picked him up.

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Strategy Education E-rate Report 116

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

In fiscal year 2015, the federal government gave states about $12 billion, or 16 percent of the excess costs, according to a report by the New America Foundation, a nonprofit public policy institute. The government has never reached that target, forcing school districts to make up the difference — when they can afford it.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

KIPP Renaissance moved into the building in 2010, adding a new grade each year until it fully ousted Douglass in 2014. By 2015, Renaissance had earned a B rating from the state. Yet the fate of the school ultimately rested in the state capital, Baton Rouge, and the locals couldn’t persuade state officials to preserve it. I mean arts.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

Proportion who had confidence in higher education in 2015: 57 percent. In Alabama, recent high school graduates’ college-going in 2020 fell to 54 percent, down 11 percentage points since 2014; and in Idaho, to 39 percent, down 11 percentage points since 2017. Proportion who thought so before the pandemic: 60 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

million public school students were identified as gifted in 2015-16, about 6 percent of the total school population, according to the federal Department of Education. percent, were considered gifted in 2015-16. There are gifted dropouts. In 2014, a group of Buffalo parents filed a racial discrimination complaint with the U.S.

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Education Elementary Report Data 145

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. Old Dominion students in 2014-2015 paid $1,429 each in athletics fees alone, accounting for 65 percent of the athletics budget.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

In 2014, the county led the state in opioid-related hospitalizations. In 2015, the abandoned school was burned down in an act of arson. Overall, there’s been an increase in graduation rates and a decrease in dropouts. So when the opioid crisis hit, it hit McDowell County particularly hard. I see a growth in our students.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2018

Factor in the higher dropout rate among nonwhite students in rural high schools, and the odds that black and Hispanic students from areas like this will ever earn degrees are just as low as for their urban counterparts. They are less likely to have parents or role models around them with degrees, or see job opportunities that require one.

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Report Dropout Groups Examples 85

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Though the rate of low-income students in the district has steadily increased in the last decade, so have graduation rates, to 83 percent in 2014. At the start of the 2015–2016 school year, all K-8 math and ELA elementary school classrooms in Middletown used some form of blended learning as part of their instructional approach.

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 135

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

So in the fall of 2015, P.S. 67 began the year with yet another new principal, this time as part of the city’s “Renewal” program, a last-ditch effort to rescue failing schools. Last year, 23 percent of the school’s third-graders passed the state reading test, up from 0 percent in 2014. Children have noticed the change in the school.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Fellows receive monthly stipends that start at $450 and rise each year, up to $700, in an attempt to combat steep post-secondary dropout rates — 33 percent of black college students drop out after one year of college, often because of financial shortfalls. Our way of convincing our fellows is with experience.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

According to 2015 research by Adam C. In 2007-08, if a student had a stripe on their sock or a mark on a shoe, there was a consequence,” Ben Kleban, then CEO of the charter network College Prep told the Atlantic in 2014. Related: Teachers could retire in droves by the time schools reopen.

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Education Outcomes Study Assessment 145

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Though the rate of low-income students in the district has steadily increased in the last decade, so have graduation rates, to 83 percent in 2014. At the start of the 2015–2016 school year, all K-8 math and ELA elementary school classrooms in Middletown used some form of blended learning as part of their instructional approach.

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 120

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

John Barry School (grades pre-K to 5) in Meriden, for example, reduced its chronic absenteeism rate from 21 percent in the 2014-15 school year to 9 percent in 2015-16. Leong said the pace of progress depends largely on the severity of the root causes contributing to chronic absenteeism and the resources available to combat them.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Nineteen pilot schools participated in 2015; this year, the number skyrocketed, with 113 more joining the Basecamp ranks. Still, there are some stalwart critics, notably Benjamin Riley, who visited many personalized-learning classrooms from 2010 to 2014 as the policy and advocacy director for the NewSchools Venture Fund.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Aimed at curbing dropouts, improving graduation rates and sending more kids to college and other postsecondary programs, the corps is designed to offset a growing achievement gap in this relatively affluent but increasingly diverse state. “When there’s a budget cut, counselors are the first to go.”. percent are Hispanic and 7.6

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

That push officially began in 2014, when Deborah Gist, then the state’s commissioner of education, announced a public-private “innovation partnership” to merge traditional and computerized pedagogy. Collectively, New England Basecamp and Highlander have trained hundreds of educators at dozens of schools in the state since 2014.

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Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 106

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. “We saw it as a scaffolding until things got better — a short-term, possible solution,” Agnew recalled. Related: Column: Stop punishing black children just because they’re black.

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Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System 82

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

ITT Technical Institute, a for-profit university, produced more than 64,000 dropouts with student loan debt in fiscal years 2015 and 2016 before it went bankrupt and shut down in September 2016. (AP trillion in student loan debt are those of college dropouts. Many more indebted dropouts, almost 2.5 undergraduates.

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Dropout Data Report Education 8

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Fewer than 20 percent of her classmates who entered San Jose State in 2014 finished in four years — less than half the national average. percent of CSU students now finishing in four years , up from 19 percent in 2015. ( It was they who were defying the odds. That didn’t make Deas feel any better. Department of Education says.).

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 25, 2016

“If you look at everything that’s happened in the state education-wise, from ACT scores, NAEP test scores, third grade reading gate results, graduation rate and dropout rate, everything is going in the right direction.

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Guidelines Policies Report Dropout 48

Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

The funding actually occurred in November 2015 but was not disclosed until required by law. ” Via Real Clear Education : “ K–12 Predictive Analytics : Time for Better Dropout Diagnosis.” ” Via CNET : “ Trump signs laws to promote women in STEM.” ResearchGate raised $52.6 million total.

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Education MOOC Company Pearson 40

Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

Following up on ProPublica reporting , “ Florida to Examine Whether Alternative Charter Schools Underreport Dropouts.” “Head of Savannah College of Art and Design was the top-paid college leader in 2014,” says The Wall Street Journal. .” More on AB 165 from the ACLU , which also opposes the proposed law.

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Education Robotics E-rate Social Media 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

And Coursera co-founder Andrew Ng left Baidu , where he’d been since leaving the MOOC startup in 2014. A 2015 study from Stanford’s CREDO famously found that the performance was so poor that it was “literally as though the student did not go to school for the entire year.” ECOT refuses to pay.

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MOOC Coursera Education Broadband 55

Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

” Via The Economic Times : “Startups in student-lending sector see dropouts, but some score too.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ Private Colleges Had 58 Millionaire Presidents in 2015.” “ Big data could solve the college-dropout problem ,” says The Washington Post.

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Kaplan Education Robotics E-rate 50