The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The dropout spike was even more startling for community college students like Izzy, an increase of about 3.5 The rising dropout rate on college campuses has consequences for individual students, their families and the economy. But what we really need to study are the students who don’t come back. percentage points. percent. “But

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

As an assistant professor of economics at City College in New York, Shankar knew that one of the most important requirements of scientific research was often missing from studies of the effectiveness of online higher education: a control group. A gold mine of evidence,” a study she co-authored called it.

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Education Survey Dropout Learning 81

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

Using data from three California Community College districts and student demographic information, researchers estimate that, from July 2020 to June 2021, some 321,000 community college students accrued a collective $107 million in debt to their campuses. The California Community College Chancellor’s Office does not track this information.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2018

The push to reach these dropouts by Mississippi and other states, including Indiana and Tennessee, reflects a growing recognition that there just aren’t enough students coming out of U.S. Go Back” campaign in Indiana, among the several states trying to get college dropouts to finish their college educations.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

She studies how burdensome paperwork and processes often prevent poor people from accessing health benefits. Tameka’s kids have essentially been out of school since COVID hit in March 2020. Tameka’s kids have essentially been out of school since COVID hit in March 2020. Tameka is her middle name.

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Policies Online Learning Dropout Elementary 81

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2021

Curley told Jake she’d love to have him in the class, which covered topics such as study skills, but he needed to promise to upload his assignments every week and come to the live Zoom session every Monday morning. All of the 266 students enrolled at the high school are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a federal measure of poverty.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. You don’t have a computer, you don’t have internet, you can’t even access distance learning,” Silver said. OAKLAND, Calif.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2020

So a recent study caught my attention because it not only copied a New York City program for community college students in three different Ohio communities but it also studied 1,500 low-income Ohio students for three years to see how many graduated when only half of them received the treatment.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

said Christina Ciocca Eller, an assistant professor of sociology and social studies at Harvard University who studies regional public universities. That is $3,792 in 2020 dollars. The Brookings study counts 100 regional public universities serving 1.2 From 2005 to 2020, Vedder said, O.U. What kind of school is it?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

Suspensions and expulsions plummeted during the 2020-21 school year, as most school districts closed their buildings and put instruction online to slow the spread of Covid. Studies show not only is it ineffective at improving students’ future behavior, it can also do the opposite. And three days was a lot to miss.”.

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Personalized Learning Learning Data Report 137

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

In 2020, there were 39 million or one out of every five American adults under 65 who had dropped out of college and never finished their degrees, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Floyd said he lost interest in his studies, was doing poorly in his classes and didn’t want to burden the family with tuition bills.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

Andrea Hernandez studied the multiplication table nearly every day during the summer between her third and fourth grade years. From the tiniest kindergarteners to college-ready high school seniors, nearly all students had their education disrupted starting in March 2020. Other students faced barriers of access.

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Education Course Report Policies 128

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. but Allen made it through, graduating in December 2020. Credit: Laura Hopkins.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2021

Lassen, who graduated from Hamilton High School in 2020, took a year off after high school. Lassen, who Bohannon describes as “like a brother,” wants to study to become a barber and Bohannon will study nursing at College of the Desert. She was elated by the news that she’d been accepted to study nursing.

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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 2019-2020 according to ACCS data. percent in 2017-2018 to 73.66

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2022

Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Riley White, who is studying digital graphic design at Eastern Maine Community College, who qualifies for temporary free tuition. “I So you need a better-paying job,” said Riley White, who is studying digital graphic design at EMCC.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Districts across the country have been ramping up career education programs spurred, in part, by federal legislation updated in 2018 that provides funding for career education (commonly referred to as Perkins V ), said Matt Giani, a research associate professor in sociology at the University of Texas at Austin who studies education policy.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Data from the 2021 Healthy Minds Study shows 34 percent of college respondents struggling with anxiety disorder and 41 percent with depression — rates that have risen in recent years. And students clearly wanted help; use of campus counseling rose 23 percent from 2019 to 2020. Credit: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report ?.

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Training Meeting Report Policies 122

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

“The underlying hope is that these navigators and these coaches help students manage to navigate the inevitable bumps that will come up and be able to persist in their academic studies.” In 2020, as COVID-19 spread across the country, the number of students at Texas community colleges fell by 5.7 percent, or by more than 1.5

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2020

Students planning to enroll at community colleges are in many cases just starting their applications, sometimes without access to the internet at home. Goulart’s district is providing Chromebooks to all students and wifi hotspots to those who don’t have access to the internet at home. Related: School counselors keep kids on track.

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Accessibility Policies Chromebook Exercises 105

MindShift

JUNE 27, 2016

But it was the GI Bill, along with the Truman Commission calling for more Americans to have access to higher education, that changed everything: By the 1960s, a massive expansion of local colleges spread across the country to serve individual communities’ needs, both to expand who could go to college and to train skilled workers for better jobs.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2016

And a new study warns that, in America, all boys at the bottom of the income ladder are losing hope of ever climbing up it, in what the authors call “economic despair.”. Francesca Ashton at the University of Liverpool, where she studies dentistry, a subject in which women now far outnumber men. In the U.S., and the U.S. In the U.K.,

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Her cellphone’s data plan — the only way she could access the internet at home — wasn’t up to the task. But asking Kentiona to look after her younger siblings — and maintain her studies — seemed like too much. Widespread lack of broadband access complicates learning. This story also appeared in HuffPost. We can’t hug you’.

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Broadband Digital Divide Education Accessibility 145

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Two chairs by the fireplace sit ready for one-on-one tutoring, a cluster of ottomans nearby can accommodate a study group, and spaces to hunker down with a book or notes abound: a couch by the front door layered with pillows and blankets, a desk tucked into a corner, a fire table on the patio, and a backyard. I’ll just sleep in my car.”

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E-rate Study Report Accessibility 118

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

There has been a significant and steady drop nationwide in the proportion of high school graduates enrolling in college in the fall after they finish high school — from a high of 70 percent in 2016 to 63 percent in 2020, the most recent year for which the figure is available, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

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Education Survey Report Trends 143

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Suspensions can also contribute to new problems, such as lower academic performance and higher dropout rates. Dysart Unified School District celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2020. He struggled to read and do grade-level math and couldn’t follow what was being taught in science and social studies.

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Dropout Analysis Policies Report 102

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2021

A recent study commissioned by the Afterschool Alliance found that unmet demand for middle school after-school programs has risen sharply. million middle school students were in after-school programs nationwide in 2020, down from 2.3 million in 2014. In after-school programs, it’s about a lot more than academics.

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Dropout Report Course Groups 141

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

We are speaking about an equal right, an equal opportunity to access education,” said Sabrina Bernadel, legal counsel at the National Women’s Law Center. Schools kick students out but call it a ‘transfer’ In 2020, nearly every school district in the nation was forced to come up with a way of providing education online.

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Handbook Learning Online Learning Data 98

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

By then he was accustomed to juggling the demands of fatherhood with the unyielding deadlines and expectations of college, where he is studying computer science while working full time and helping raise his kids — a responsibility for which he said he doesn’t get much sympathy from faculty. This story also appeared in The Guardian.

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Policies Report Dropout Study 135

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

When schools shifted to remote learning in 2020, Superintendent Stephanie Downey Toledo watched another crisis unfolding. So, in late 2020, when Shawn Rubin of the Highlander Institute, a professional development nonprofit, approached her to about applying for a grant to set up pods in the district, she thought, “We gotta at least try.”.

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Learning Report Elementary Dropout 86

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

As of this fall, it had 198,645 students, compared with 205,778 in the 2019-2020 school year, and was still trying to track down students who’d gone missing. It feels really good and really important that our children… have access to in-person, five-day-a-week education. Evan Garner , father of three and rector of St.

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Elementary Broadband Assessment Dropout 143

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Toward the end of her first semester at the University of Pittsburgh, Sophie Fogel spent every night studying alone in her dorm room, eating lukewarm takeout meals from the cafeteria and wondering why she bothered going away to college in the first place. Credit: Jennipher Acheampong.

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Study Guidelines Strategy Report 103

MindShift

JUNE 18, 2020

Here are some ideas that seem newly relevant given the constraints of 2020 and beyond. But access to home support is arguably even more important. A national survey by the advocacy group ParentsTogether found big gaps by income in the ability to access emergency learning. Support families to help teach children.

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Khan Academy Survey Dropout Meeting 57

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2020

“I particularly worry about my fellow students with disabilities, English Learner students, and foster youth students having access to the supports and services that they need to participate in the classroom and be successful … We must be able to voice our concerns, our needs, and our recommendations to make our schools better.”

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Survey Policies Groups Report 145

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

Mental health and education experts are working to develop shorter, more accessible models that can be used on any campus and help ensure that more students are able to successfully return from leaves of absence and earn their degrees. Now that Lynch has fulfilled her major goal of graduating from college, she’s considering her next move.

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Course Report Strategy System 93

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Community colleges can help lift students into the middle class, but their enrollment has plummeted and their dropout rates are high. When Santos Enrique Camara arrived at Shoreline Community College in Washington State to study audio engineering, he quickly felt lost. That’s down by nearly 15 percent since 2020.

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Panasonic Survey Report Dropout 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The gifted program at Eve opened two years ago as a way to increase access to Buffalo’s disproportionately white, in-demand gifted and talented programs. There are gifted dropouts. For fall 2020, the parents of 403 children applied to Olmsted’s elementary gifted program and 39 to Eve’s, according to data the district provided.

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Education Elementary Report Data 145