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Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts

The Hechinger Report

It’s a small but noteworthy example of a new emphasis at colleges and universities on plugging the steady drip of dropouts who end up with little to show for their time and tuition, wasting taxpayer money that subsidizes public universities and leaving employers without enough of the graduates they need to fill jobs. Dickinson stayed.

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Looking to Eliminate Dropouts? How Idaho Reached English Language Learners with a ‘Hybrid’ Course Experiment

Edsurge

In the past two academic years, Idaho Digital Learning Academy (IDLA), an online state school created by the Idaho Legislature, has taken proactive steps to fix a key problem: losing English Language Learner (ELL) students before high school graduation, and losing them from highly technical and content-driven courses like biology.

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Some evidence for the importance of teaching black culture to black students

The Hechinger Report

A Stanford University study finds that dropout rates were lower in Oakland, California, high schools that offered a special class for black students called the Manhood Development Program. Advising and college counseling were part of the course, too. Ann Hermes/The Christian Science Monitor via Getty Images. Weekly Update.

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PROOF POINTS: How much does it cost to produce a community college graduate?

The Hechinger Report

Obviously, all those college dropouts aren’t improving local work forces. That’s because dual-credit courses cost less to administer and high school students need fewer support services from local colleges. And state lawmakers aren’t keen to write community colleges blank checks without accountability.

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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. An experimental psychologist by training, Logue designed an experiment.

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What Is Prior Knowledge and Why it Matters?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

2014) in “ Confidence in prior knowledge, self-efficacy, interest and prior knowledge: Influences on conceptual change ” sheds light on prior knowledge as what students bring into the learning environment – a mix of accurate scientific understanding and misconceptions about a specific topic. link] Cordova, J., Sinatra, G.

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The Des Moines Register’s editorial on student retention is lazy and irresponsible

Dangerously Irrelevant

Back in January 2014, I noted that. Significantly higher dropout rates. Retention has found to be a stronger predictor of student dropout than socioeconomic status or parental education. Most parents care very much about their children’s literacy development, of course. In that January 2014 blog post I said that.