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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

Edsurge

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

EdNews Daily

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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Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff

The Hechinger Report

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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A Year in Review 15-16

The Thinking Stick

Last week at a training that Kim and I were facilitating for Cohort 2 (the next 150 teachers) a math teacher said to me, “I’ve started using Google Forms and ‘Flipping’ my class, but other than that I’m not doing much.”. Full disclosure our dropout rate is roughly 15%. This is not just some courses that you do to learn.

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A Skills Gap From College to Career Doesn't Exist. It's the Awareness Gap We Need to Fix.

Edsurge

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.” Twenty years ago, Google did not exist. Today, it is 68 percent. At almost $1.3 At almost $1.3

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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. 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.

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5 Radical Schooling Ideas For An Uncertain Fall And Beyond

MindShift

In this time, as in previous educational disruptions, teenagers are most at risk for being knocked off course. “I’m in touch with my students two, three times a week,” by text, phone, Google classroom and Zoom meetings, Concepcion says. Give teens one-on-one support. One April survey found 4 in 10 U.S.