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How a dropout factory raised its graduation rate from 53 percent to 75 percent in three years

The Hechinger Report

Photo: Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report. In this ongoing series, The Hechinger Report is visiting high schools that have beaten the long odds to learn what’s behind their success in improving graduation rates and sending more students to college. Photo: Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report. Research found that a $3.5

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What’s Lost When a Teacher Leaves a School

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Relationships are critical in engaging students and families in meaningful and culturally appropriate ways, and are associated with increased literacy acquisition, lower dropout rates and improved attendance. Strong family and community engagement can enhance learning outcomes and help to create a sense of belonging.

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Some kids have returned to in-person learning only to be kicked right back out

The Hechinger Report

Although national data on discipline for the current school year isn’t expected to be public for several years, The Hechinger Report requested data from a dozen medium and large school districts around the country and found that in some of them, exclusionary discipline is down, even way down. Credit: Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report.

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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

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percent (about 10,000 students) in the 2017-2018 school year, to 15.1 By comparison, the state of California reported a 12 percent chronic absenteeism rate among students in 2018-2019, representing 676,000 students. Attendance is an incredibly valuable tool for identifying students in need of additional support early.

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Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost

The Hechinger Report

Photo: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report. ATLANTA — When Keenan Robinson started college in 2017, he knew the career he wanted. This podcast about colleges using predictive analytics is produced by APM Reports. Photo: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report. He’d gone to high school in a small town outside Atlanta.

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It’s Time To Unlearn & Relearn Learning

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You’re just using the tool we’re all familiar with. That F often transposed into poor work reports or lateral/downward movements in the company. University of California, California high school dropouts cost state $46.4 Journal of Neuroscience 37, 8549-8558 (2017). Open Education Europe, Barcelona, Spain, 2017).

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TEACHER VOICE: “I realized that my education had occurred within a racist system that privileged Eurocentric achievements”

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Education is a tool for social justice.”. In a traditional system, he almost certainly would have been retained, putting him on a path towards potential dropout. Education is a tool for social justice. This work requires that students understand learning as broader than how we often envision what happens inside classrooms.

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