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. The DMZ is a tech incubator and a shared workspace that facilitates the development of technology startups for both students and members of the tech community.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

“The problems tends to arise when kids go to school because the deeper they get in, the more they start to lose interest,” Robinson said, pointing to the United States’ large student dropout percentage as evidence that school—as a system—is failing students. In 2016, Mary Jo was named to the Forbes "30 Under 30" list in education.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

” We have a significantly low dropout rate and high on-time graduation rate in Albemarle. A past gubernatorial appointee to the State Council on Higher Education for Virginia, Dr. Moran was selected by her peers across the Commonwealth as Virginia’s 2016 Superintendent of the Year. Reasons that Keep Kids Coming Back to School.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2018

Then, after the school received an innovation grant in February, they reached out to feeder schools to identify 8th-grade students who performed well in logic, critical thinking and showed interest in information technology. However, problems with completion do not primarily stem from dropouts, which were recorded at 2 percent in 2016.

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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

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. James Wiley is a technology analyst with Eduventures, which does consulting work for companies in the predictive analytics industry. But that progress may come at a cost.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

Much as she loves technology, Wilkins-Walker said, “I have never wanted to be an online teacher.”. The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. This story also appeared in Billy Penn. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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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

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

CityTech, The New York City College of Technology in Brooklyn, is one of CUNY’s four-year colleges that gives some academically unqualified students extra financial aid and academic support. You’ve probably heard the stories about the millions of dropouts who are saddled with debt. Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2017

Brown says technology has made differentiating instruction based on students’ needs easier, noting how the curriculum is personalized through programs such as Odysseyware, a learning management system that allows students to move through lessons at their own pace (based on assessed content mastery). Most of them were dropouts.” “In

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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The full stack of technologies and frivolous thrills one might expect to find on today’s college campuses were on full display at Educause, the. hulking gathering of higher-ed technology staff, faculty and companies. No longer, he says, does it make sense for colleges to divorce technology from teaching and learning.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Starkville, in contrast, was regarded as a successful school system, offering opportunities such as Advanced Placement classes and robotics competitions through a career and technology center. John Jones asks a question to his students in AP Human Geography on August 18, 2016. The school district had a 27 percent dropout rate in 2014.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

The technology, the computers, they’re probably more than 12 years old. Student interviews were carried out during the 2015-2016, 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 school years. Highline hasn’t been rebuilt for a while, so it’s pretty old. We got moles, squirrels, rats everywhere. Other rooms you can’t turn it on.

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The Thinking Stick

JUNE 15, 2016

Full disclosure our dropout rate is roughly 15%. This is a community you join to truly reflect on your teaching practice and make the most of the technology you have available to you in your classroom. Christina Massimino (@TeachMassimino) April 2, 2016. The program continues to get rave reviews from educators who complete it.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

We compared tutoring to summer school, after school, extended day, technology and other things. And it’s [a] night and day difference.”. Guilford County Schools turned to tutors early in the pandemic to confront unfinished learning. Students didn’t lose anything, they just never had the opportunity to learn it.”

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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. That means algebra I is also the class that decides whether students get jobs involving science, technology, engineering or math. Jeffrey Coots, a Kentucky algebra teacher.

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MindShift

JUNE 27, 2016

Gnyp said she’s grateful to have emerged on the other side with no student loans, even though getting through the two-year associate program took nearly four years, first as a part-time pre-nursing major for two years, then switching to a full-time medical lab technology major, which took a year to complete.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Not only in our smarts or technology, but to help us progress as a human race: preparing us to tackle the issues that they couldn’t defeat. Student interviews were carried out during the 2015-2016, 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 school years. What role do you think school and teachers should play in students’ lives?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

And in 2016 just 8 percent of McDowell County residents of working age held an associate degree or higher, compared to 31 percent statewide. Thinking ahead to their next meeting to discuss goals, she’ll introduce Johnathan to the coding program offered at the district’s Career and Technology Center. Call me up.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2019

The 19-year-old, who moved to New York City from Bangladesh four years ago, was trying to envision her fall: Four days of classes each week at the New York City College of Technology (City Tech).* In 2016, the New York City Department of Education rolled out its own version of the model at high schools throughout the city. “I

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

The goal of the class is to introduce students to technology. Sarah filed a complaint with the state and went through mediation, which earned Brad the chance to use assistive technology, allowed him to make up some of his failed classes and paid for private tutoring and an outside evaluation.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2018

I’ve spent 16 years serving on and chairing the board of the National Dropout Prevention Center (NDPC) and 25 years leading companies that serve schools and students of all kinds. According to a 2016-17 national study of more than 1.2 My colleague finished his email to me with this: “What we do MATTERS!” Source: Achieve3000.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

There has been a significant and steady drop nationwide in the proportion of high school graduates enrolling in college in the fall after they finish high school — from a high of 70 percent in 2016 to 63 percent in 2020, the most recent year for which the figure is available, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

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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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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

— Digital Promise (@DigitalPromise) February 9, 2016. The district is working toward this goal through a wide range of bold initiatives, which include offering two years of kindergarten, ending “social promotion,” connecting every student to technology, and putting significant resources into athletic facilities and music programs. “We

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Sheryl Javier graduated from Bronx Arena in July 2016, after 8 years of high school. This model demands more resources than those available to a traditional high school, but given that the typical high school dropout costs the state an estimated $300,000 over their lifetime , Cesene argues that the math is elementary.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

The lack of social interaction could be one reason behind high dropout rates in online classes. In summer 2016 Rosé and her team used Bazaar to run a team-based project for a MOOC offered by the Smithsonian Institution.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

In the 2015-2016 school year, Black students lost 103 days of learning per 100 students, 82 more days than their white peers. Without data, advocates like Fink worry that disproportionate disciplinary measures against already-marginalized groups could be hiding in plain sight.

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MindShift

JUNE 18, 2020

South Fort Myers High School follows a dropout prevention program called BARR, which stands for Building Assets, Reducing Risks. The district has been lauded for its technology-driven approach where every student follows an individualized learning plan. “Our learners have agency.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Community colleges can help lift students into the middle class, but their enrollment has plummeted and their dropout rates are high. The proportion who enroll in the fall after they finish high school is down from a high of 70 percent in 2016 to 63 percent in 2020, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Indeed, in a 2016 state-by-state assessment that compared student achievement, chances for success and financial investment per student, Nevada ranked last in the nation. Her father was a social worker and her mother, a high school dropout, worked as a maid, a bus driver and eventually as an attendance officer in the district. “I

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

About one-third of all black collegians earn degrees in either a STEM-related (science, technology, engineering and math) field or in business, according to my analysis of integrated post-secondary education data system (IPEDS), the national dataset of college outcomes. Admissions have skyrocketed since the 2016 election. percent).”

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2016

The Watch reports that, of the 93 students enrolled at ABLE at the start of the 2015-2016 school year, just 12 remained until the end of the year, a steep dropout rate. He also pointed out that ABLE is a nonprofit school attempting to serve homeless students, unlike many other virtual charter schools run by for-profit companies.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. They are often placed in separate classrooms within public schools and spend large numbers of hours on computers using technology that is not aligned with their specific needs.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

In a city that recorded 762 murders in 2016, the most in the nation , security measures like these were authorized years ago for every public high school. A competency-based curriculum builds on what Juarez has already done, said Matt Townsley, director of Instruction and Technology in Iowa’s Solon school district. “In

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Those blue-collar jobs – at least as we remember them in our collective imagination – went to people, mostly men, fresh out of high school, graduate and dropout alike. President-elect Donald Trump promises to deliver those jobs back to the many who have idled by shifts in the economy. The key growth in U.S.

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