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

The Hechinger Report

Enrollment at the beginning of the academic year just ended was up 13 percent from 2014 , to 2,038. After all, the plummeting number of prospects makes it much harder to replace dropouts than it was when there was a seemingly bottomless supply of freshmen. Dropouts cost colleges a collective $16.5 Nobody noticed.”.

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What if we hired for skills, not degrees?

The Hechinger Report

One day, a friend forwarded an email about Resilient Coders, a boot camp that trains people of color for web development and software engineering jobs. In 2014, the labor market analysis firm Burning Glass Technologies tried to capture the extent of degree inflation. Degree inflation. billion in revenue last year. Closing the gap.

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Low academic expectations and poor support for special education students is ‘hurting their future’

The Hechinger Report

In addition to designing and racing cars, students learn how to use graphic design software under the instruction of a special education teacher. His system fails when he has to determine random words or subjects,” his mom wrote in a letter to the superintendent in April 2014.

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Adapting to the New Classroom

techlearning

Diagnostic products and software systems that target specific areas of learning for improvement can help students find success, freeing educators to help every learner reach their personal best within one classroom. Z-Space lab with AR/VR software ? CAD software. TOOLS THEY USE COXSACKIE-ATHENS ? Google Classroom ? OverDrive ?

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

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. Instead, teachers, aided by learning software, determine students’ strengths and weaknesses and tailor activities toward them. The rest of the country is starting to pay attention as well.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

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. Instead, teachers, aided by learning software, determine students’ strengths and weaknesses and tailor activities toward them. In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S.