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Most Popular EdSurge Podcast Episodes of 2019

Edsurge

High School Dropout. The title of Anthony Johnson’s book explains why he’s an unlikely educator: it’s called “High School Dropout to Teacher of the Year.” Here's the count-down of the most-listened-to episodes of the year. Meet Anthony Johnson: Teacher of the Year. Rebel ‘Mayor.’

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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%. respectively, in 2019 and 2020. 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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School Cellphone Use Contracts Can Reduce Bullying

EdNews Daily

The Washington Post reported (July 16, 2019) that a report filed by the National Center for Education Statistics, that online bullying and texting is the rise among middle and high school students. Auburn University awarded him the “Auburn Hero Award” for his work in “reducing dropouts and for helping Alternative Education Schools.” .

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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. The first rigorous evaluation of one of the larger programs came out in October 2019 and found some promising results.

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Overdue tuition and fees — as little as $41 — derail hundreds of thousands of California community college students

The Hechinger Report

Wilson, 47, started taking courses in 2019, a few months before the pandemic hit and just before he lost his job as an elementary school music teacher. The report said that at one UC campus, which it did not name, the share of undergraduates withdrawing with debt doubled from 2019-2020 to 2020-2021 and the amount of debt owed tripled.

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Why America Needs More Black Male Teachers

Edsurge

After changing schools and moving more than 150 miles away, a former student—a young Black male graduate of the class of 2019 whom Roberts never taught in the classroom—thanked him for his mentorship and support during convocation. And that number is highly unusual. A special story recently emerged regarding Roberts.

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PROOF POINTS: How much does it cost to produce a community college graduate?

The Hechinger Report

Obviously, all those college dropouts aren’t improving local work forces. First generation students made up half of Texas’s 750,000 community college students between the academic years 2014-15 and 2019-20. And state lawmakers aren’t keen to write community colleges blank checks without accountability.

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