2016 Advocacy Course Dropout 
The CoolCatTeacher
FEBRUARY 5, 2018
And I was describing to them that, “We got here with a long-term commitment to stay on a course of — really, if you want to call it, progressive education, but trying to really stay focused on trying to educate kids for lifelong learning, not just simply to build a transcript to take some test and to be able to walk across a stage.”
The Hechinger Report
JULY 4, 2018
Texas A&M University at Texarkana has one of the lowest retention rates of public higher-education institutions; 55 percent who started in 2012 were gone by 2016. 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.
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The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 24, 2020
Hernandez, a 33-year-old mother of four and high school dropout, had already overcome an array of obstacles on her nearly five-year journey. “No No matter how much I studied, I was failing,” Hernandez said, recalling the pediatric and medical-surgical care course that almost felled her. “I I was just so frustrated.”.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 7, 2019
The practice of holding on to students’ transcripts prohibits them from enrolling in another college, which will need proof of courses taken, and can result in the loss of a job offer. Black women earn just 61 cents for every dollar earned by their white male counterparts, according to analysis by the nonprofit advocacy group Equal Pay Today.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 13, 2021
“Frankly, students didn’t lose anything, they just never had the opportunity to learn it,” said Allison Socol, an assistant director at The Education Trust, a nonprofit education research and advocacy organization. Over the course of the 2020-21 school year, 15 graduate students worked up to 20 hours a week, with some earning $14.70
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 4, 2019
So in 2016 she headed back to the 42-acre campus near Gary’s dilapidated downtown to study for a degree in general studies. “I Between 1996 and 2016, their share of overall college enrollment rose from 8 to 19 percent , according to the U.S. I have two little ones and their dads don’t help me,” said Perez, 45. Census Bureau.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 7, 2023
She watched as they fell behind in everything from academic courses to physical education. In the 2015-2016 school year, Black students lost 103 days of learning per 100 students, 82 more days than their white peers. Her sixth grader soon was at risk of being unable to move up to seventh grade in fall 2023. “I I feel like a failure.
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