The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

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. And for all of the work it’s done to reduce the number of dropouts, the higher education industry has so far barely moved the needle.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

The dean’s list student ended up a college dropout, a gay 20-something cut off from his parents after coming out, and working at a UPS Store in a job he described as “retail drudgery” while running up credit card debt and stringing out his college loans. It turned out instead to be a bump in the road.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

A task force studying the problem in 2017 found those layers of developmental coursework were a barrier for many students, who would become discouraged and drop out, according to Brad Fricks, director of academic affairs for the community college system. percent in 2017-2018 to 73.66 percent in 2017-2018 to 73.66

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

The latest 2017 birthrate data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posts new lows, marking almost a decade of reduced fertility. “Students are going to be a hot commodity, a scarce resource,” said Grawe. . “The number of kids born from 2008 to 2011 fell precipitously.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2017

Teased mercilessly at school and with few mental health resources available to him, he dropped out, and was eventually incarcerated. Students who withdraw are also much more likely to default on their loans; dropouts make up two-thirds of defaults nationwide. He said God had told him to run and never stop.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Though some programs have helped lower dropout rates and improved graduation rates for students of color, the gap in the percentage of students finishing a degree has barely budged across the 30 community colleges in the Minnesota State Colleges and University system. Paul College that shows students’ countries of origin.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2018

Anabel Garza, Principal After realizing modest improvements on tests scores over the past few years, going from 16 percent showing grade-level academic achievement on state exams in 2013 to 30 percent in 2017, the teaching staff has deepened their mission. Donated resources to the school's college and career center.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

To lower the dropout rate and keep students on track to earn diplomas, we started a “credit-recovery” program to assist high school students who have lost credit in core subjects due to failing grades or excessive absences. In 2017, we raised it again to 99.7 “Credit recovery” for struggling learners.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

college students with lifetime diagnoses of mental health conditions in 2017 was 36 percent, compared with 22 percent in 2007. Yet few institutions plan on allocating more resources to enhance student success, advising, or mental health services for students. According to the American Psychiatric Association , the percentage of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

ATLANTA — When Keenan Robinson started college in 2017, he knew the career he wanted. For an absurd example, if dropouts tended to take classes on Thursdays in their first semester at college, but students who completed their degrees didn’t, then you might worry about current students who are currently taking classes on Thursdays.

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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.

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2016

The district is also known for having one of the largest dropout rates and one of the highest pupil-to-teacher ratios in the country. As I reflect on the upcoming 2016-2017 school year, I wonder how this negativity has affected my own 5th grade reading classroom. What offers a wealth of literary resources? Capstone Interactive.

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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.” 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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2018

But in March of 2017, when Paul Quinn College officially became a work college, it changed the image and perception of what these schools can do and where they can do it. Among adults age 29 or younger, 37 percent had outstanding student loan debt, according to a 2017 report from the Pew Research Center.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 16, 2020

Panelist Phyllis Jordan, editorial director at FutureEd, pointed to the results of the organization’s analysis of states’ 2017 ESSA plans, which require one non-academic indicator for school assessments. Chronically absent middle schoolers have lower grades and test scores that increase dropout potential. Data that Drive Solutions.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

No resources. It was just not a very helpful experience, partially because of the resources and the time. Student interviews were carried out during the 2015-2016, 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 school years. For instrumental music, there is almost nothing. I don’t have a piano class. I mean, there were problems with it.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2020

But last week, with the campus closed due to the coronavirus, his refuge and the resources that came with it were suddenly gone. Consuela Robinson, 35, returned to college in 2017 after dropping out more than a decade earlier, working two, sometimes three jobs to make ends meet.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

professor called “the behemoth to the north,” in Columbus, have more financial resources. The problems pre-date Nellis, who arrived in 2017. Enrollments have been falling since 2017; for the past three years the university has dipped into its financial reserves. Meanwhile, flagships and major research campuses saw a 1.4

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Two students died by suicide, in fall 2017 and summer 2018, said Beth DeJongh, an associate professor of pharmacy practice who knew both and had one in class at the time. “And the interest is coming from presidents and provosts.”. At Concordia, as for many of the 400 schools that have worked with JED, outreach followed tragedy.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

Among Act 77’s aims: to reduce high school dropout rates, particularly among low-income students. (In If enough students do it, it’s a shift in resources, not necessarily an addition,” he says. It recognized that learning can occur anywhere.”. percent of nondisadvantaged students.). “You

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Not just so students could keep learning during the shutdown, but so that the whole family had access to information and resources.”. “We Jen Bender is an instructional teacher leader and technology coordinator at Castlemont High School, in a historically under-resourced neighborhood in East Oakland.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

In the fall of 2017, he moved to Boston and enrolled in a community college, planning to transfer to a four-year program. Nonetheless, according to Harvard’s survey of 600 business and human resource leaders, 61 percent of respondents reported tossing resumes without four-year degrees, even if the applicant was qualified.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2020

She’s interrupting what would be the natural course for kids who might not have the resources to get themselves out.”. But she had heard nothing by January 2017, when her FAFSA was rejected due to “incomplete information” — because she, too, had no Social Security number. “I Educators can change this.”. grade-point average.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

Teachers, resources and programs for McDonogh 35 disappeared. Alumni of the historic black high school accused the school district of starving the school of resources as the district shifted its focus from the business of running schools, to the business of authorizing charters.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

I think if you tried to be a real bully here no one would even take you seriously,” said Dylan Jenkins, a junior in the Natural Resource Management program. On a Monday in early January, Essex Tech is playing catch-up after winter storms forced a four-day weekend. It’s a challenging curriculum for high schoolers, O’Toole said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

A black bachelor’s degree recipient is more likely to default than a white college dropout. That has far-reaching consequences, leaving many black people with a lower net worth and less money for long-term savings or a down payment on a house, not to mention fewer resources to invest in local schools, businesses and communities.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

At IU Northwest in 2017, Latinx students like Perez had a six-year graduation rate of just 28 percent, while the graduation rate for white students was 35 percent. From 2008 to 2017, the share of Latinx students at this commuter school of roughly 4,000 rose from 13 percent to 22 percent — the highest of any public university in the state.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

20, 2017, in Durham, N.C. The services are out there, but a lot of times, parents of color just don’t have the information and resources they need to fight for them,” said Daisy Brown, Tyrone’s mother. Kenyatta Burn works with her tutor at the Durham Literacy Center on Thursday, Nov. Photo: AP Photo/Brian Blanco. In Washington, D.C.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

High school dropouts are much more likely to be unemployed and earn thousands of dollars less per year than people with higher levels of education. In 2017, he graduated from the Louisiana School for Agricultural Sciences, a charter school with one of the highest graduation rates in the parish. Stanley Celestine Jr., Personnel.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Our aim is to be able to share best practices around the model, and complement that with resources and technical assistance,” said Owusu-Kesse. In West Philadelphia, one of the poorest areas in that city, a five-year, $30 million Promise Neighborhood grant went into effect in 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

It now spans 15 CSU campuses, where it offers academic counseling, opportunities to network, financial advice, tutoring, a community, help in accessing campus resources, financial aid, and more. At CSUF, 106 students participate, bringing the total to more than 300 since 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

In June 2017, weeks after finishing his first year of college at Columbia University, Shariq Jumani was struck by a car while crossing Riverside Drive near campus. A playlist can be on paper or online, where resources can be found via links, and for any age level. Supporting students with brain injuries, one campus at a time.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Citing low student engagement, high dropout rates and gaping opportunity differences between high-income and low-income groups, New America’s Education Policy program identified a list of 10 essential education policy actions for the Trump administration, Congress, and state and local policymakers.

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Policies Dropout Education Student Engagement 53

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Local government and foundations have teamed together to give public high school graduates a tuition-free year at any of the nine local colleges, starting in the fall of 2017. “ The dropout rate is around 70 percent. I tell high school students, “It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish.”. Community college is not perfect.

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Dropout Study Report STEM 40

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2018

She was sitting in the campus’s Bernhard Center, which offers a mix of fast-food dining options, quiet places to work, a bookstore and other student resources. Edward Lara started as a campus coach in July of 2017 and works with about 22 students. Some proposed legislation would make foster youth eligible for food stamps. .

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

At Union High School, where Mayko was a student, only 21 percent of incoming ninth graders could do math or read at grade level in 2017. Seventy-nine percent of Latino students graduated from Sampson County schools last year, up 3 percentage points from 2014 and just about matching the state average. But significant obstacles remain.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

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