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Facing a white-collar worker shortage, American companies seek a blue-collar solution

The Hechinger Report

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 feels like we’re the kids of the company,” said Haruza, now 27.

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Ancora High School Partners with McGraw Hill to Launch New Online High School for Adults

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In 2020, according to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the high school dropout rate was 5.3% About McGraw Hill McGraw Hill is a leading global education company that partners with millions of educators, learners and professionals around the world. Learn more at www.ancorahigh.com.

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What researchers learned about online higher education during the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

For two years we’ve had sort of a petri dish of experimenting with learning online,” said Anant Agarwal, chief platform officer of the online program management company 2U and former CEO of edX, the online provider created by MIT and Harvard and sold last year to 2U for $800 million. Related: How higher education lost its shine.

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College students to administrators: Let’s talk about mental health

The Hechinger Report

It’s true that there are not enough professionals to meet rising demand. As a student at Dartmouth in 2020, Sanat Mohapatra launched a mental health peer support app called Unmasked, which kept students connected when the pandemic sent them home. At a recent meeting, she brought supplies for students to make valentines to themselves.

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How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up

The Hechinger Report

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. Guilford sent its first batch of tutors to middle schools in November 2020. It’s a long road of recovery.”

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PROOF POINTS: Lessons from college dropouts who came back

The Hechinger Report

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. Like many dropouts, Floyd always intended to finish his college education. Credit: NICOLAS TUCAT/AFP via Getty Images.

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What happened when a South Carolina city embraced career education for all its students

The Hechinger Report

Greenville County Schools has begun partnering with companies in the area, such as BMW and Michelin, to develop courses in mechatronics and automotive research. Students intubated dummies at a station run by a local hospital, while others hammered nails into a log at a station for a construction company.

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