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

The Hechinger Report

percent of students who graduated or dropped out of college during the 2015-16 academic year defaulted before the end of September 2018. million students dropped out of college with debt in 2015 and 2016. In 2015-16, there were 985,000 students coming out of for-profit colleges — 265,000 fewer students. percent to 6.8

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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

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Department of Education reported that for the 2015-2016 school year, more than 7 million students —or 16 percent of all students—and 20 percent of high school students are chronically absent. In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time.

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Millennials: The Straw That Will Stir Higher Education’s Next Disruption

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Famous billionaire college dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and the late Steve Jobs are prominent examples of successes who never completed undergraduate degrees. In 2015, it was named the No. At the same time, a number of factors suggest that perhaps college is not as tied to success as society has traditionally assumed.

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Examples Of Innovation In Higher Ed–With A Caution

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Compare that same MOOC to a self-determined learner Googling topics or searching reddit for information, and suddenly it’s not so bad. Reduce the college dropout rate to closer to 10% (than the current 40%+). It may be a matter of what kind of expectations you’re bringing to your evaluation. What kind of delivery models?

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The newest form of school discipline: Kicking kids out of class and into virtual learning

The Hechinger Report

In the meantime, Crawford said, the boys were provided with laptops and Google Classroom access. In the 2015-2016 school year, Black students lost 103 days of learning per 100 students, 82 more days than their white peers. She denies making this request and says she sought legal help to get them back into school.