The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

With people of color expected to make up a quarter of the state’s population by 2035, these gaps represent an economic threat to Minnesota; unless more residents get to and through college, there won’t be enough qualified workers to fill the jobs that require a post-secondary degree or certificate. “[O]ur Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report.

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Dropout Secondary Course Report 70

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2017

By 2025, more than 60 percent of Georgia jobs will require some kind of post-secondary education, and now only 45 percent of the state’s young adults meet that criterion. Students who withdraw are also much more likely to default on their loans; dropouts make up two-thirds of defaults nationwide.

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Dropout Study Report System 89

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.” Until 2017, New Orleans high schools had no internal options to help students who fell so far behind a conventional diploma seemed impossible. “My My grades were perfect.

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Dropout Policies Report System 52

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

Among Act 77’s aims: to reduce high school dropout rates, particularly among low-income students. (In We’ll give you math and English credits for writing a business plan; biology credit for studying antibiotics and breeding; and social studies credit for researching how Vermont’s policies affect goat farmers.

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Report Personalized Learning Dropout Course 102

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

We [didn’t] want this to be a Band-Aid fix,” said Jordan Mickens, a Leadership for Educational Equity public policy fellow who served as #OaklandUndivided’s project manager until August 2021. In 2017, he left teaching to work in education technology at Clever, a digital platform for schools.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 108

EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Among teachers who transferred between schools, lack of planning time (65 percent), too heavy a workload (60 percent), problematic student behavior (53 percent), and a lack of influence over school policy (52 percent) were cited by the U.S. Clearly, something must be done to address the teacher dropout problem.

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Dropout Training Report Social Media 130

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

David Hawkins, executive director for education content and policy for the National Association for College Admissions Counseling. Closing that gap and getting kids to continue their training after high school is especially important here: 74 percent of jobs will require post-secondary education by 2020.

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Dropout Report Training Outcomes 111