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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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2017

What’s worse, the average 2016 college graduate who took out loans celebrated his or her new degree with a staggering $37,000 in student loan debt. high-profile dropouts and the rise of the so-called “ anti-credential.” Crushing Student Debt: Less than half of graduates left school with student loans back in 1993. At almost $1.3

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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.”

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Famous billionaire college dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and the late Steve Jobs are prominent examples of successes who never completed undergraduate degrees. These are online representations of an earned skill, often through taking small credit courses aimed toward working and non-degree-seeking individuals.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

By 2016, the high-poverty school district had turned around. To lower the dropout rate and keep students on track to earn diplomas, we started a “credit-recovery” program to assist high school students who have lost credit in core subjects due to failing grades or excessive absences. From 2006 to 2016, St.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

In 2016, after years of declines, national college graduation rates started ticking back up again and have continued rising for the past three years. The dropout problem got a lot worse in the 1990s when more people started attending college. million students dropped out of college with debt in 2015 and 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2017

Bowie navigated a daunting obstacle course of family and health crises during his teenage years and made it to his dream school – Georgia State University. Students who withdraw are also much more likely to default on their loans; dropouts make up two-thirds of defaults nationwide. In 2016 it was 79 percent.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Most online courses are a solitary experience for learners. The lack of social interaction could be one reason behind high dropout rates in online classes. For large introductory courses, even if students can interact with their professors there are still those who “sit” in the back and neglect to raise their virtual hands.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

Fewer than a quarter of Latino American adults had a college degree in 2016, less than half the rate of white Americans, according to a report by The Education Trust. percent, of Latino Americans ages 25 to 64 held a two-year college degree or higher in 2016, the report said. Photo: Jesse Pratt. ” Fewer than a quarter, or 22.6

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

The district’s class of 2010 had a 73 percent graduation rate for students in special education and a 13 percent dropout rate — double the dropout rate for the student body overall. The high dropout rate for students with disabilities is a pressing national problem. Covina-Valley has seen its efforts pay off.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Though some programs have helped lower dropout rates and improved graduation rates for students of color, the gap in the percentage of students finishing a degree has barely budged across the 30 community colleges in the Minnesota State Colleges and University system. Paul College that shows students’ countries of origin.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

In the 10 years ending in 2016, college tuition and fees rose 63 percent, or three times the rate of everything else tracked by the Consumer Price Index, the U.S. In the 10 years ending in 2016, college tuition and fees rose 63 percent, or three times the rate of everything else tracked by the Consumer Price Index. “We Baenninger said.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

In normal times, students enrolled in her courses as 10th graders already knew how to navigate high school life. The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. At home in front of her Chromebook, she struggled to get motivated for her online courses. “My

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

You’ve probably heard the stories about the millions of dropouts who are saddled with debt. Almost 11,000 students were enrolled in CUNY’s SEEK program as of the fall of 2016, the most recent year for which data is available. Some 420,000 students have been through the program over the course of its 50-year history.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2018

Now students take dual credit courses on the community college campus working with the professors. According to data from the Texas Education Agency , the graduating class of 2016 started with 326 ninth-graders, but only graduated 243 students or 74.5

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2017

Spokane has eliminated all remedial classes, such as Outdoor Living, a science course that Wyborney described as “Camping 101.” College prep courses are now the default curriculum for all high school students, and the district has increased the number of AP courses it offers. Rogers High School. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

FUN SAD FACT: According to Avi Yashchin, Senior Offering Manager at IBM Watson: “Sadness [sentiments] in incoming freshman college application essay is the sixth strongest predictor of dropout.” University IT departments are still feeling the effects of budget cuts from the recession, according to the 2016 Campus Computing Survey.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2017

The students in the blended version also take most of their courses online, but they occasionally meet in person for mentoring from a certified teacher or for clubs and sports. Most of them were dropouts.” “In They were lost in the cracks,” says Carter. They were not at the juvenile facility center.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Educators and school leaders are scrambling to figure out how to regain ground next year in a course that often makes or breaks students’ life chances. A 2016 study by the American Institutes for Research noted that about a third of Chicago’s public high school students fail one or both semesters of algebra I. I’m very worried.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Her aunt and uncle offered her a room in 2016, and for nearly eight months, Johnson experienced a stable, calm home. A 2015 study found that students who had experienced homelessness were 13 times more likely to have failed college courses and 11 times more likely to have withdrawn from them or failed to register.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

By 2016, annual expenses had begun outpacing operating revenues by $14 million. Colleges are also working to reduce their numbers of dropouts on the principle that it’s cheaper to provide the kind of support required to keep tuition-paying students than to recruit more. When Steve Thorsett crunched the numbers, things looked grim.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

In 2016, 75 percent of its ELL students graduated, a rate 14 percentage points higher than the district’s average for this group and higher even than the overall graduation rate for BPS. And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5 But not at the Muñiz Academy.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

An annual study of Broadway and the 16 top nonprofit theaters in New York City, put out by the Asian American Performers Action Coalition, shows that from 2006 to 2016, Asian actors were hired for 3.7 (Lee won a Tony Award last June for her work with NAAP.) percent of all roles, though Asians are 5.6 percent of the U.S.

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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 And of course, she plans to show up on Jan.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

But Goldstein, who helped create a hands-on manufacturing course at Randolph Union in 2014, says “retention is much easier than recruitment.” At Randolph Union, there are 32 students participating in “independent learning opportunities,” or ILOs, and another six in a course that introduces students to careers in water management.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

The repercussions of not learning to read are magnified for poor children: Research shows that low-income children who cannot read at grade level by third grade are six times more likely to become high school dropouts. “In Yet we routinely only prepare between 60 and 70 percent of kids to be successful readers.” So far, results are promising.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2018

Despite these efforts, high school dropout rates remain high. Of course, the school had a lot of resources, which often took the form of connections. When I arrived in New York City for my first semester in the fall of 2016, I was well equipped with the foundation and study skills to do well. I’m one of the lucky few.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

In New Orleans, the large number of dropouts who lack HiSET credentials drives the astronomically high count of so-called “opportunity youth.” In 2016 schools earned the 25-point incentive for a total of only 41 students citywide; the 2017 total was worse, a mere 17 students. But most don’t take the test immediately after dropping out.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2020

She’s interrupting what would be the natural course for kids who might not have the resources to get themselves out.”. In February 2016, he was brought back to court to be formally arraigned. It was a week before Mardi Gras 2016. ince 2017, Rhodes has gotten a crash course in college financial aid. I refused to drop out.

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MindShift

JUNE 18, 2020

In this time, as in previous educational disruptions, teenagers are most at risk for being knocked off course. South Fort Myers High School follows a dropout prevention program called BARR, which stands for Building Assets, Reducing Risks. Give teens one-on-one support. One April survey found 4 in 10 U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

A Harvard study from 2016 sorted through almost 200 well-designed experiments in improving education, and found that frequent one-to-one tutoring with research-proven instruction was especially effective in increasing the learning rates of low-performing students. Allison Socol, The Education Trust. Another is studying inequalities.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Students have access to hundreds of courses while they are in Illinois’ juvenile justice facilities, but they tend to focus on math, language arts, social studies and science. In 2016, 45,567 young people were held in facilities nationwide, down 20 percent from 2012.) Photo: TARA GARCIA MATHEWSON/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2019

Limas piloted a 7-week interactive online video course last fall for parents of freshmen students, which he described as an “extension” of the school’s freshman orientation. After arriving at Elizabethtown in fall 2016, she had trouble juggling her classwork while also dedicating three hours a day to the swim team.

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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. And the lack of a transcript is no small matter. Mortgages, car loans and student loans are some of the largest sources of debt.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

” Via The Economic Times : “Startups in student-lending sector see dropouts, but some score too.” ” Apparently it’s all Audre Lorde ’s fault, because of course it is. Via International Business Times : “ Charles Koch Gave $50 Million To Higher Ed In 2016. What Did He Buy?”

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