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School Cellphone Use Contracts Can Reduce Bullying

EdNews Daily

So, even though incidents of bullying remained steady, in the 2016-2017 school year, there was a 3.5 That was a jump of 15 percent from the 2014-2015 school year. Auburn University presented him with their “Hero Award” as the individual who has addressed bullying situations in schools in June 2016. About the Author.

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More high school grads than ever are going to college, but 1 in 5 will quit

The Hechinger Report

Texas A&M University at Texarkana has one of the lowest retention rates of public higher-education institutions; 55 percent who started in 2012 were gone by 2016. Enrollment at the beginning of the academic year just ended was up 13 percent from 2014 , to 2,038. Dropouts cost colleges a collective $16.5 Nobody noticed.”.

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Change One Simple Thing to Start Your Journey to Remarkable Teaching

The CoolCatTeacher

” We have a significantly low dropout rate and high on-time graduation rate in Albemarle. In 2014, Albemarle County students had the second highest SAT scores among 133 school divisions in Virginia in critical reading and the third highest SAT scores for writing and math. Reasons that Keep Kids Coming Back to School.

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PROOF POINTS: Inside the perplexing study that’s inspired colleges to drop remedial math

The Hechinger Report

When Alexandra Logue served as the chief academic officer of the City University of New York (CUNY) from 2008 to 2014, she discovered that her 25-college system was spending over $20 million a year on remedial classes.

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

The Hechinger Report

million students dropped out of college with debt in 2015 and 2016. 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. Related: Federal data shows 3.9 Two years earlier, there were 1.25

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Bending to the law of supply and demand, some colleges are dropping their prices

The Hechinger Report

In the 10 years ending in 2016, college tuition and fees rose 63 percent, or three times the rate of everything else tracked by the Consumer Price Index, the U.S. In the 10 years ending in 2016, college tuition and fees rose 63 percent, or three times the rate of everything else tracked by the Consumer Price Index. “We Baenninger said.

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Why placing students in difficult high school classes may increase college enrollment

The Hechinger Report

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 had hit a high of 82 percent in 2016.

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