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3 Ways Big Data Can Soften the Campus Dropout Crisis

EdNews Daily

And like any major problem, this mass exodus of dropouts must be addressed sooner rather than later through innovative interventions. The “soft” predictors, those subtle hints that are precursors to student dropout. Social media engagement data analysis can assist in targeting potential dropouts before they disappear from your rosters.

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Preventing Dropouts: An Impossible Dream?

Battelle for Kids

July 2, 2015, Volume 2, Issue 8, Number 3. Driving Question: What if we rethink teacher's professional preparation? In California, educators are facing a critical problem, an undiminished drop out rate. These students face a future of marginal, low-paying jobs.

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With the Help of Google and SF Muni, A Bus Sets Off to Serve City's High School Dropouts

Edsurge

Now, Good and his team are trying to solve a new problem: helping high school dropouts get their diplomas in the face of strict gang lines, rundown schools, and spotty internet. The idea for a mobile classroom started in 2015, as Good and his team become increasingly concerned about the conditions their students were learning in.

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ReUp Education Raises $6 Million Series A to Help College Dropouts Return

Edsurge

Founded in 2015, ReUp claims it has since brought 8,000 students back to more than 30 colleges it currently works with. Often, she says, a life event usually interrupts their studies—starting a family or a parent becomes ill, for example—and the CEO of ReUp Education says students shouldn’t suffer for it. “It

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Fewer teenage mothers, but they still present a dropout puzzle

The Hechinger Report

An 18-year-old attended an online high school in Detroit for young mothers, in 2015. So the Child Trend researchers combed through the 2011-2015 surveys for female respondents in their twenties who said they had had a baby during their teenage years, and looked to see if they had completed a high school degree or its equivalent.

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Addressing the needs of all learners at Wolf Creek Public Schools

Hapara

Since 2015, H?para In fact, dropout rates were reduced to 2.2% target and five points below the provincial average dropout rate of 2.7%. para Workspace has increasingly enabled WCPS to deliver flexible learning options and rigorous content to all high school students using the division’s Enhanced Learning Model.

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School Cellphone Use Contracts Can Reduce Bullying

EdNews Daily

That was a jump of 15 percent from the 2014-2015 school year. In 2014, Schargel was nominated for the Brock International Prize in Education for “demonstrating clear evidence of success in dropout prevention and for retaining students in alternative education environments. percent jump in those who were bullied or by text or online.

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