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3 Ways Big Data Can Soften the Campus Dropout Crisis

EdNews Daily

Instead of tossing mortarboards into the air come June, these non-graduates face a rocky climb in the job force, where they scramble to make up for their educational gaps. And like any major problem, this mass exodus of dropouts must be addressed sooner rather than later through innovative interventions. Click to tweet.

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

Edsurge

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 Founded in 2015, ReUp claims it has since brought 8,000 students back to more than 30 colleges it currently works with. ReUp has raised $7.8

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Preventing Dropouts: An Impossible Dream?

Battelle for Kids

July 2, 2015, Volume 2, Issue 8, Number 3. In California, educators are facing a critical problem, an undiminished drop out rate. If they pursue postsecondary education, they often wind up spending long hours in remedial courses trying to learn the mathematics, reading, and writing skills they should have acquired in high school.

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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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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. What happens to the education of these young women? But it also happens to ask respondents about their educational attainment. Not to mention millions of children who might benefit from having a more educated, employable mother as they grow up.

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Addressing the needs of all learners at Wolf Creek Public Schools

Hapara

para , an online instruction platform that allows teachers to create and facilitate interactive online instruction,” explains Sean Lougheed, Director of Education Services for the division. Since 2015, H?para para has helped us improve educational equity because it lets us adapt to learners’ lives,” says Lougheed.

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School Cellphone Use Contracts Can Reduce Bullying

EdNews Daily

The Washington Post reported (July 16, 2019) that a report filed by the National Center for Education Statistics, that online bullying and texting is the rise among middle and high school students. That was a jump of 15 percent from the 2014-2015 school year. Part of the educational process is the teaching of responsibility.

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