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

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

A year ago, a group of prominent economists led by Raj Chetty of Stanford University came out with a splashy piece of research measuring exactly how much each college in the nation helps working-class kids rise up the economic ladder. You’ve probably heard the stories about the millions of dropouts who are saddled with debt.

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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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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. Although we may make much of college dropout successes, remember this: The biggest Internet Age success of all — Google — was started within a graduate program, as a Ph.D.

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MIND Research Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

A photo posted by Eating Around So Cal (@eatingaround) on Nov 4, 2016 at 8:17pm PDT. Lifetime Achievement Honoree: Marian Bergeson (1925-2016). Sub Zero showcased temperature measurement in ice cream creation. Tacos and Co. connected parallel processing to taco creation. Presenting the Taste of Math Honorees.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

The lack of social interaction could be one reason behind high dropout rates in online classes. Sure, there are sophisticated online lectures where learners can see one another on screen and break out into small groups to chat via video. But these are still the minority online classes.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

Dallas’ changes are part of a wider movement away from exclusionary discipline due in part to its disproportionate impact on some groups of students, including Native American students and students with disabilities along with Black students. Still, every suspension means missed learning time.

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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. With that comes low self-confidence, he added.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. Credit: Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

As of 2016, Louisiana and 23 other states had alternative diploma or certificate options specifically for students with disabilities, each state with its own system. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem. They “didn’t bring up his ability to do the work,” Comeaux said of that January 2016 meeting.

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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. We found 800.”.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2018

And another nonprofit group known as AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) has helped the school create study skills programs to support student retention once they are in college. 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

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

JANUARY 14, 2019

As a state, we cannot afford to leave anyone behind,” said Alex Hermida, senior research analyst at the Minnesota Office of Higher Education and chair of a state-led group that is tackling the challenge. As the college itself put it in its 2016 equity and inclusion plan : “The community college does not look like the community.”.

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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 Taveras headed to her desk where five children were waiting to do small group work. So far, results are promising.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Photo: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

So unrelentingly are the cards stacked against them that only 694 high school graduates from all of Puerto Rico went to college on the mainland or abroad in 2016 , the last year for which the figure is available from the U.S. million, only 694 high school graduates from all of Puerto Rico went to college on the mainland or abroad in 2016.

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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 Asians were also the group least likely to be cast in roles that did not call for a specific race. percent of the U.S.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2017

Most of them were dropouts.” “In Carter hopes that this rehabilitative approach to incarcerated youth can reduce the recidivism rate, which according to the 2016 State Board of Pardons and Paroles Report stands at 35 percent. Yet through partnerships with clinical behavior groups in Huntsville, Ala.,

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

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. In a group of 30 students in an online platform, they can’t watch everyone and check their students’ body language as in the classroom, he said.

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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

MAY 17, 2016

As of 2016, that rate stood at just 45 percent. Jones discussed programs at Temple that provide financial resources to students the university thinks are at risk of dropping out, while Tough discussed the power of just telling students they belong in college—a potentially far cheaper solution to the college dropout crisis.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

The youth unemployment rate is roughly twice the overall national rate, when youth is defined as anyone under the age of 24, according to a 2016 study conducted by the Economic Policy Institute , a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank. Chicago’s job prospects for black youth make the national outlook look positively sunny.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2019

A group of colleges has decided to stop holding students captive and allow them to get their lives back on track. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Researchers and educators are considering various methods to fill these gaps, including small-group instruction, extended school hours and summer programs. The first group of tutors was placed in Title I middle schools, in which low-income families make up at least 40 percent of enrollment. Allison Socol, The Education Trust.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Black parents hold more student debt than parents or nonparents of any other racial or ethnic group. But just 3,300 of the more than 4 million student parents received assistance through the program in the 2016-17 school year. But the singular toll on students like me — Black parents — continues to go largely unremarked upon.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2019

Across the city, alumni groups felt left behind, like exiles without a country. Though a few alumni groups still resent the schools that replaced their legacy institution, others have formally collaborated with leaders at their replacement schools. Some schools moved into new buildings emblazoned with new names.

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MindShift

JUNE 18, 2020

A national survey by the advocacy group ParentsTogether found big gaps by income in the ability to access emergency learning. South Fort Myers High School follows a dropout prevention program called BARR, which stands for Building Assets, Reducing Risks. But access to home support is arguably even more important.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that between 2016 and 2026, employment will grow by 10 percent for jobs that require a bachelor’s degree – faster than the growth projected for all occupations. These are really an invisible group of students,” she said.

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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 In 2016, Hernandez decided to go back to school for her associate degree in nursing at BMCC. This year, foundations and policy groups put together $1.5 I want to be a nurse.’ ”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2017

And it’s sending more low-income students to universities: 27 percent of its spring 2016 graduates who received free lunch enrolled in a four-year school in the fall, the highest proportion of any school in the district. Rogers had hit a high of 82 percent in 2016. But students also know she’s serious about making them work harder.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

John Jones asks a question to his students in AP Human Geography on August 18, 2016. The current desegregation order, issued in March 2016, mandated a Biracial Advisory Committee to oversee implementation of the desegregation plan. The school district had a 27 percent dropout rate in 2014. Photo: Nicole Lewis.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2020

Though Carver’s student body had been nearly 100 percent African American for years, the school — like its sister schools in the Collegiate Academies charter-management organization — was now starting to enroll its first groups of immigrants. In February 2016, he was brought back to court to be formally arraigned.

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MindShift

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. Taveras headed to her desk where five children were waiting to do small group work. So far, results are promising.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2017

Mississippi’s adjusted cohort graduation rate (ACGR) in the 2014-15 school year for all student groups was 75.4 Among student groups, this rate varied from 30.7 Mississippi’s practice of handing out poorly-regarded alternate diplomas to these students makes it one of the worst in the nation for fostering achievement among this group.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2019

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. Besides safety, a frequent topic for the group is how to stay on top of financial aid. He talks to Alexis nearly every day.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

I would have been a dropout.”. But, with an eye toward local accountability and sustainability, the program demanded that the bulk of the heavy lifting, both financial and strategic, be done through a collaboration among city and education officials, community organizations, civic groups and local philanthropy.

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