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eSports: The Growing Extra-Curricular Activity NOW!

The CoolCatTeacher

Over the past 20 years, she has helped lead the CHSM team to state and national honors including a Crystal Star Award for Dropout Prevention Schools, Civic Advocacy Award, Promising Practice Award, and being named a National School of Character. Dr. Custer is a leader in character education and civic advocacy.

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Fewer teenage mothers, but they still present a dropout puzzle

The Hechinger Report

Only 53 percent of women in their twenties who first became mothers when they were teenagers completed a traditional high school degree, according to a January 2018 report released by the nonprofit research organization Child Trends. What happens to the education of these young women?

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Addressing the needs of all learners at Wolf Creek Public Schools

Hapara

In fact, dropout rates were reduced to 2.2% target and five points below the provincial average dropout rate of 2.7%. The rates jumped from the low 70s before 2018 to 78 and 77.2, in 2020, well below the 2.9% Also, graduation rates denoted as three-year and five-year completion rates for students entering grade 10 increased.

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One university has a new college specifically to re-enroll adults who had dropped out

The Hechinger Report

Starting in 2018, while working full time, Golden began taking classes online – first at a community college in Ohio, then at Morgan State – with a resolve she didn’t have at 18. Related: PROOF POINTS: Lessons from college dropouts who came back. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Stopping dropouts .

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The Secret to Preventing Community College Dropouts? Start With Middle School

Edsurge

Our goal is structured around 2018. That gave us the opportunity to. put students on individualized learning plans, possibly using technology in the classroom. Now, Chromebook is the device of choice. We're well on our way to one-to-one integration. We have 11,000 students in Putnam County, and we have about 8,500 Chromebooks today.

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Some evidence for the importance of teaching black culture to black students

The Hechinger Report

A Stanford University study finds that dropout rates were lower in Oakland, California, high schools that offered a special class for black students called the Manhood Development Program. Throughout the city, the black male graduation rate jumped from 46 percent in 2010 to 69 percent in 2018. “It shows that it works.”

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How does an intelligent learning platform help teachers create a truly personalized learning environment?

Neo LMS

According to a 2018 Education Week Research Center survey centered on U.S. The system can spot and signal these users so that teachers can close knowledge gaps effectively and prevent more serious problems such as school dropout. . Video content and digital presentations . Online games and assessments. Digital field trips .