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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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. Students working in the new center.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

PORTLAND, Maine — The ergonomic chairs, glass-walled conference rooms, ubiquitous technology and smell of new carpets and fresh paint scream well-funded startup. Some are focusing on high-demand disciplines such as technology, health and alternative energy. This story also appeared in The Washington Post.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

ATLANTA — When Keenan Robinson started college in 2017, he knew the career he wanted. James Wiley is a technology analyst with Eduventures, which does consulting work for companies in the predictive analytics industry. The dropout problem got a lot worse in the 1990s when more people started attending college.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Whittenberg, a public elementary school in downtown Greenville, South Carolina, that focuses on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in its curriculum. In 2017, Greenville County Schools awarded 601 industry certifications to students. Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report. It was engineering week at A.J.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

” We have a significantly low dropout rate and high on-time graduation rate in Albemarle. h ttps://spacesforlearning.wordpress.com/2017/10/16/the-phygitals-have-arrived%e2%80%8a-%e2%80%8aa-generation-for-this-century/. Reasons that Keep Kids Coming Back to School. She holds a B.S. View story at Medium.com. Twitter: @pammoran.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Experts say that this means dropout rates, which had been declining for more than a decade, will likely start to rise again. The Detroit region added 173,000 new jobs after the last recession, mostly in industries requiring college credentials, such as information technology, insurance, financial services and health care.

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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.” With part of the grant money, Vista turned its library into a “learning commons.”

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MindShift

MARCH 3, 2017

NPR Ed previously covered trials using text messages and emails that prompt college students to sign up for financial aid and reduce dropouts among adult-education students. Justin Reich, who studies education technology at MIT, says this direction of research looking for simple, cheap interventions is welcome.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Ramos knew there were many kids like her, eager to keep up with school but lacking the technology to do so. Though only about 40 miles north of Silicon Valley, home to technology giants such as Google and Apple, Oakland was deeply underconnected when the pandemic shuttered its schools. To her, it was “heartbreaking.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2020

And even without technology problems, catastrophic job losses are plunging some families into economic peril. 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. Adult students who have children are being buried by home-schooling demands.

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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. Student affairs must become a function learned across the institution, integrating people, processes and technology. According to the American Psychiatric Association , the percentage of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2020

It almost broke us,” Detmer, who graduated in 2017, said of her family. “If Its cheapest – and shortest – program is nail technology, which costs $4,600 for 350 hours. “If I can save one person from having to experience this, I’d say this lawsuit will be worth it.”. Jenna Detmer, graduate of La’James beauty school. “It

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Students spend every afternoon taking two arts electives, which can include band, visual arts, theater or technology. José Pinales, a 2017 graduate, credits the school’s band program with getting him off the streets and keeping him out of trouble. Ferneidi Pina Baez, a 2017 graduate, counts that as her favorite project of the year.

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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. In 2014, the labor market analysis firm Burning Glass Technologies tried to capture the extent of degree inflation. Matthew Sigelman, CEO of Burning Glass Technologies, a labor market analysis firm.

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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.” The Hechinger Report/Mike Elsen-Rooney). War, peace and Chromebooks.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The United States is notoriously ineffective at retraining workers who’ve been displaced by outsourcing and technological change, and it invests just 0.03 Now 61, she’s about midway through a certificate program in medical transcription and editing. percent of GDP on training people, compared with Denmark’s 0.6 percent and Germany’s 0.2

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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 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

APRIL 16, 2018

Essex Tech’s MCAS scores have climbed steadily since the campus opened, and the vast majority of its students met or exceeded the state’s standards for basic proficiency in reading, math and science in 2017. Gabriella Okparaoko, a student in the Automotive Technology program, participates in indoor track after school.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

That’s down 11 percentage points since 2017. “He In Arizona, 46 percent of high school graduates in 2020 went to college the following fall, a drop from more than 55 percent in 2017. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Last year, it was less than 53 percent.

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

Adaptive learning technology is the new go-to for personalized learning. This technology solved another of the district’s biggest struggles—implementing an effective common assessment among 12 elementary and middle schools. The graduation rate rose dramatically, from 81 percent in 2011 to 91 percent in 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Department of Education data from the 2017-18 school year shows that students with disabilities accounted for 16 percent of total enrollment but received 25 percent of in-school suspensions and 28 percent of out-of-school suspensions.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

A report by Richard Ingersoll has observed that new teachers are particularly vulnerable because they are more likely than more experienced teachers to be assigned to low-performing schools in urban areas, where the dropout rates reach or exceed 50 percent. Clearly, something must be done to address the teacher dropout problem.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

So says a 2017 study published by the Institute of Policy Studies. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Anxiety over the influence of technology in schools, as in our lives, is an old story — but one made painfully acute by the glowing smartphone on which you may be reading this article. Gist: Our goal is to be the first state to fully blend technology into all schools. Yet the academic and policy research behind it is thin.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2021

Dawn Hall has served as principal at Lincoln Park School in Brownsville, Texas since 2017. School should not be considered impossible for young women with children to manage, said Alma Cardenas-Rubio, the district’s assistant superintendent for innovation, strategy, and educational technology. No, sweetie,” she tells them.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

Filter bubbles are bad, including in educational technology. Here’s what caught my eye this week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 9 Edition). government.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Me: pic.twitter.com/gmb3Oigcv0 — Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) October 5, 2017. pic.twitter.com/yehgZ82br6 — Shahien Nasiripour (@nasiripour) October 5, 2017. Via ProPublica : “ For-Profit Schools Get State Dollars For Dropouts Who Rarely Drop In.” ” Or maybe her announcement itself was comedy?

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Hack Education

APRIL 6, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Via The New York Times , a profile on the Indiana charter chain Excel Schools : “A Chance for Dropouts, Young and Old, to Go Back to School.” National) Education Politics. ” This is my shocked face.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ Student-Loan Borrowers , by Age Group, Amount Owed, and Repayment Status, 2017.” despite having Arizona ’s third-highest dropout rate.” Is Losing Its Accreditation.

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

” Via Politico : “Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has increased her financial stake in a ‘neurofeedback’ company that says its technology treats attention deficit disorder and the symptoms of autism. ” Via The Student Loan Report : “Halfway Through 2017, Here Are the Best & Worst Student Loan Servicers.”

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

” Oh, how very different “the politics of education (technology)” drumbeat sounds from some ed-tech publications: Trump will mean more “ innovation ” in higher ed, according to eCampus News. Via Campus Technology : “ AP Exam Pass Rates Rise Even as Participation Doubles.” Galore has raised $1.65

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

Via Chalkbeat : “New York City’s largest school charter network, Success Academy , has won the 2017 Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools.” ” Via Edsurge : “Education Technology Tools for Adult Learners Get Mixed Results From SRI Study.” ” Contests and Awards. ” asks The Atlantic.

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Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

VR “comes of age,” says Campus Technology. ” Via Campus Technology : “New Education Think Tank Debuts, Offering Online News and Research.” ” Via The MIT Technology Review : “Big Questions Around Facebook’s Suicide-Prevention Tools.” ” It’s called FutureEd.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

.” let PM = "signed"; if (PM "signed") { let CODING = "4 All"; } pic.twitter.com/QRKQPgbxjW — Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) September 26, 2017. pic.twitter.com/lfNWyW7z5f — Shaun King (@ShaunKing) September 28, 2017. High schools are now following Trump’s order. ” asks Edsurge.

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