2017 Dropout Events Study 
The Hechinger Report
MAY 29, 2020
One cataclysmic event can do it in,” said Renn, a professor of higher, adult and lifelong education at Michigan State University. Now, just as happened in the last recession, it is likely to take them even longer and cost more, while — after years of hard-won progress — dropout rates rise and graduation rates fall.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 11, 2018
There are just a few weeks left until their big trip to Atlanta for a three-day event called the Junior Theater Festival, and they’re hoping to add another trophy to the assortment that fills the school’s front lobby. NEW YORK — It’s 3 p.m. Sit up straight!” calls out instructor Kyle Garvin from the base of the stage. percent of the U.S.
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The Hechinger Report
APRIL 26, 2019
Among the many other problems dragging down Puerto Rico’s stagnant economy, made worse by hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, is a huge high school dropout rate and, among those students who do manage to graduate, a comparatively low trajectory to college — especially college on the mainland — and a high dropout rate there, too.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 8, 2018
District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. For the 2017-18 school year, they broke up Vista’s freshman class of almost 700 students into six self-contained “houses.” War, peace and Chromebooks. Photo: Mike Elsen-Rooney for The Hechinger Report.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 3, 2017
José Pinales, a 2017 graduate, credits the school’s band program with getting him off the streets and keeping him out of trouble. Last year, students studied the Latino influence in U.S. Ferneidi Pina Baez, a 2017 graduate, counts that as her favorite project of the year. José Pinales, 2017 graduate, Margarita Muñiz Academy. “As
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 24, 2019
Keith Perrigan, Bristol school superintendent since 2017, said he gets emails from companies pitching their social-emotional curricula almost every day. A 2018 study of existing research on social-emotional curricula found an overall positive effect on math, reading and science learning. He knows enough to be cautious.
MindShift
AUGUST 17, 2018
District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. For the 2017-18 school year, they broke up Vista’s freshman class of almost 700 students into six self-contained “houses.” With part of the grant money, Vista turned its library into a “learning commons.”
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