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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. Beyond coursework, students swim in a flux of data, buffeted by phone calls, text messages, Facebook updates, Twitter tweets, news crawls, and other sources.

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To help first-generation students succeed, colleges enlist their parents

The Hechinger Report

Aranda is also part of a Facebook group with other parents of first-generation college students, whom he met through a federal government program called Gear Up. According to one study, a third of first-generation college students drop out within three years. He talks to Alexis nearly every day.

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A Year in Review 15-16

The Thinking Stick

You can view them here ( link to blog ) or follow COETAIL on Facebook or Twitter as we release them once a week over the summer. Full disclosure our dropout rate is roughly 15%. Chris Beals , IT Director in Enumclaw and myself put together a case study of our work and partnership together here.

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

Edsurge

One study even found that 45 percent of new graduates are in positions that don’t require a degree. 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.”

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Teachers are first responders to the opioid crisis

The Hechinger Report

My job as a teacher is to be a first responder to poverty,” said Cruey, a 58-year-old middle school social studies teacher at Southside K-8 school. “If In 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ranked McDowell County as second-most at-risk in the country for an HIV outbreak due to intravenous drug use. average of 369. .

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via The New York Times , a profile on the Indiana charter chain Excel Schools : “A Chance for Dropouts, Young and Old, to Go Back to School.” ” Via the Google blog : “Rolling Study Halls: turning bus time into learning time.” Reminder that Facebook built the Summit Learning Platform.).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

on Election Day 2016, closed at post-election high of $17.85 Via ProPublica : “ For-Profit Schools Get State Dollars For Dropouts Who Rarely Drop In.” ” Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg will offer a scholarship “to ‘cut through’ unequal access to opportunity.” Shares closed at $13.46