The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

In 2015-16, more than one-third of all retained students were from grades K-3. By the 2015-16 school year, the latest data available online , Louisiana retained 4 percent of its students, still roughly twice the 2.2 If that second attempt wasn’t successful, students couldn’t move on to fifth or ninth grade. percent national average.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

He noted that many of the challenges began well before he came on in 2015. Lewis cut more than 40 positions from the district’s central office between 2015 and 2018, about a third of all central office employees. Morial Convention Center on May 14, 2015 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images).

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

Among students who started college from 2015 to 2018, an average of 52 percent enrolled in I-BEST classes earned a degree or certificate within four years compared to 38 percent of students who did so while enrolled in traditional adult basic education coursework, according to the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Four-year institutions charged , on average, $26,120 in tuition, board and other fees in 2015-16, compared with $5,504 in 1985-86. And as wages have flat lined, college costs have spiraled. Outstanding student loan debt now tops $1.5 trillion, according to the Federal Reserve, compared with less than $250 billion in 2003.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

In McDowell, educators aren’t reacting to problems, they’re seeking preemptive solutions, trying to stem the tide of generational poverty and trauma. “And those tend to be home visits in reaction to real problems that have come up.”. More than half the children and nearly 40 percent of the county’s population live in poverty.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2019

But while New York’s efforts to stem summer melt are part of a broader trend, intensive coaching programs like CARA’s are still relatively rare, Castleman said, and “there’s a lot of promise to this approach.”. (A

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Unfortunately, she added, teachers often don’t know how to address this — a problem that stems from teaching preparation programs. “In In fiscal year 2015, the federal government gave states about $12 billion, or 16 percent of the excess costs, according to a report by the New America Foundation, a nonprofit public policy institute.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

million public school students were identified as gifted in 2015-16, about 6 percent of the total school population, according to the federal Department of Education. percent, were considered gifted in 2015-16. There are gifted dropouts. School administrators often see gifted education as a frill. Nationally, 3.3

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

High school dropouts are much more likely to be unemployed and earn thousands of dollars less per year than people with higher levels of education. That’s the number one obstacle,” said Blaine Dauzat, who became Avoyelles superintendent in 2015. In a neighboring parish teachers can make over $4,000 more a year.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

In 2015, the abandoned school was burned down in an act of arson. Overall, there’s been an increase in graduation rates and a decrease in dropouts. And he hopes they stay in the area and help revitalize it, stemming the tide of transience and instability. It was previously attached to Big Creek High School.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The school has struggled to stem sliding enrollment and to address poor safety ratings by parents and test scores that were among the worst in the city. So in the fall of 2015, P.S. 67 began the year with yet another new principal, this time as part of the city’s “Renewal” program, a last-ditch effort to rescue failing schools.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Fellows receive monthly stipends that start at $450 and rise each year, up to $700, in an attempt to combat steep post-secondary dropout rates — 33 percent of black college students drop out after one year of college, often because of financial shortfalls. That uptick in the hiring of white teachers was counter to national trends.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Her father was a social worker and her mother, a high school dropout, worked as a maid, a bus driver and eventually as an attendance officer in the district. “I Stein was brought on as principal of Desert Pines in 2015 to turn around the low graduation rate — it was 42 percent four years ago — and stem the high student-transiency rate.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “A state-court jury in Connecticut on Thursday sided with a fraternity whose house was closed by Wesleyan University in the fall of 2015 after the fraternity, Delta Kappa Epsilon, resisted complying with a university mandate to admit women.”

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Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

” Via CNET : “ Trump signs laws to promote women in STEM.” Via The Atlantic : “The STEM Superhero of Sesame Street.” The funding actually occurred in November 2015 but was not disclosed until required by law. ” Here’s the Department of Education press release. The cause : a typo.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

” This stems from a protest at the University of Connecticut. ” Via The Economic Times : “Startups in student-lending sector see dropouts, but some score too.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ Private Colleges Had 58 Millionaire Presidents in 2015.” ” From the HR Department.

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