The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Thirty-five colleges and universities shut down in 2021, a 70 percent decrease from 2016, when a peak of 120 colleges shuttered, according to an analysis of federal data by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO). First, the numbers. adults who have student loans and no degree.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2024

In 2020, one survey found that approximately 5 million public school students were English learners–that’s over 10 percent of students. Edtech plays a pivotal role in informing policy decisions by providing policymakers with data-driven insights into the efficacy of bilingual education initiatives.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Text messages to students at more than 700 high schools across 15 states also failed to improve the number of students who applied or enrolled in college, according to a 2020 study. High school seniors were targeted, as were college dropouts who wanted to resume their studies.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

In the early months of 2020, her team expanded an attendance campaign called “All In,” from four to 25 schools across the district, which is home to 85 public schools in total. In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time.

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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. The Sacramento City Unified School District, where Hatten’s daughter received her suspension, said it was unable to provide this year’s data.).

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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. million students who started college in fall 2019, 26.1 percentage points. percent from the year before.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

Other data analyses have also shown benefits to bypassing remedial education, but this was one of the only real-life experiments, like a clinical trial, and so it carried a lot of weight. Dropout rates were the same for students in both the remedial and the “corequisite” courses, as the college plus extra help version is often called. “We

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2021

Curley, who attended the high school where she now teaches, said that number dropped significantly for both fall 2020 and fall 2021, as students struggled not only to get online but, in some cases, watched as their relatives lost jobs or became sick or even died from the coronavirus. We were just trying to get through.”. racial group.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Even though this crucial completion figure hit 84 percent in 2016, up from 71 percent in 2001, the nation is off pace when it comes to reaching a graduation rate of 90 percent by 2020. Related: How a dropout factory raised its graduation rate from 53 percent to 75 percent in three years. It’s not enough”.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 30, 2021

Conner categorized the past, present, and future as Before COVID, During COVID, and After COVID, pointing out a radical shift in education occurred on Friday the 13th in March of 2020, when schools were shut down across the United States. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. About the Presenters.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Much of the pre-pandemic research into online higher education concluded that students in online programs did worse than students in in-person courses, with lower grades, higher dropout rates and poorer performance in subsequent classes. A student walks through a mostly empty college campus in Irvine, California, in October 2020.

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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. Oakland’s partnership, known as #OaklandUndivided , launched in May 2020. OAKLAND, Calif. It was all hands on deck.

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

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

One of the coolest and simultaneously heartbreaking things to see was that right around March-April 2020, interest in becoming a volunteer with Teen Link just skyrocketed,” said Zanny Shehata, Teen Link’s volunteer coordinator. But overall, there isn’t much data about the effectiveness of peer mentoring or support programs.

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MindShift

MARCH 6, 2020

Originally posted on Chalkbeat on March 3, 2020. About 700 fifth-year students graduated from public high schools in Indiana in 2018, the latest year for which data is available. Officially, the state’s dropout rate is about 6%, and it’s clear many students never earn diplomas without being counted in that figure.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

National data showed if they had a little bit of support, they could take a college-level course and not have to go through the entire of developmental course load.”. Enrollment in developmental English courses decreased from 9,338 in 2017-18 to 5,284 in 2018-2019, according to data provided by the Alabama Community College System.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2023

Promise programs do help: A 2020 study analyzed 33 programs that provided tuition benefits to students attending local two-year colleges. Data shows that many Black students lack the resources to get into college and succeed, in terms of adequate academic preparation , access to technology and other essential tools.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education. Siemens says rich data about students is a game changer for higher education.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2017

Repayment rates for loans are lower for students who withdraw from college, like Bowie, compared to those who graduate, according to federal data. Students who withdraw are also much more likely to default on their loans; dropouts make up two-thirds of defaults nationwide. million during the economy’s recovery.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

Statewide data shows students in the program graduate at a higher rate than those enrolled in traditional adult basic education. From 2020 to 2021, the number of working RNs in the United States decreased by more than 100,000 — the highest drop in four decades. between now and 2031, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2020

“People thought maybe it was just a New York thing but this study shows you can actually take this and do it somewhere else,” said Colleen Sommo, a senior associate at the research organization MDRC, which conducted the January 2020 evaluation.

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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. It now has 12,000 users at 46 schools. “I

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

Enrollment for low-income high school grads dropped 29 percent from fall 2019 to fall 2020, compared with a 17 percent decline for students from more affluent families. Students who graduated from high school last year but deferred college because of the pandemic are at grave risk of never going at all.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

About half of Dallas College’s students are first-generation; a little more than 20 percent are parents; and about 22 percent are adult learners who are at least 25 with a full-time job,according to self-reported responses and data from a fall 2022 survey. Overall, enrollment in community colleges has plummeted in recent years.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2021

That’s 73,000 additional graduates (above existing stretch goals) between 2014 and 2020, exceeding our 10-year goal of 68,000 in just six years. Additionally, our members are on track to double their founding goal and graduate 136,000 additional graduates by 2025.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

While this approach found some success in reducing the dropout rate of students who participated, there were no measurable improvements in achievement. The basic premise - actionable data for educators and timely, “just right” lessons for students - is admirable, but was this the revolution we were looking for?

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MindShift

JUNE 27, 2016

More data from 2014 show 60 percent of community college graduates went on to earn their bachelor’s in four years or less, and 12 percent more were persisting toward graduating after four years. People realized that community colleges had a concentration of the types of students we’re all worked about, right?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

These students didn’t move out of state, and they didn’t sign up for private school or home-school, according to publicly available data. Missing” students received crisis-level attention in 2020 after the pandemic closed schools nationwide. that provided the necessary data. that provided the necessary data.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Yet the scope of that practice is largely hidden: The federal government doesn’t collect detailed data on why schools suspend students, and most states don’t, either. Arizona collects limited discipline data from its districts. Suspensions can also contribute to new problems, such as lower academic performance and higher dropout rates.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Dropout rates are high at Swiss universities, where less-prepared students are typically weeded out during the first year, so women probably wouldn’t be dropping out of an introductory economics class in such high numbers here in the United States. In the end, 9 percent of the men dropped the course.

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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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

More recently, the data tracking firm Burbio identified 36 districts that are using pandemic relief funds to start hubs or hub-like learning centers. When schools shifted to remote learning in 2020, Superintendent Stephanie Downey Toledo watched another crisis unfolding. A year later, the city filed for bankruptcy.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

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. Without data, advocates like Fink worry that disproportionate disciplinary measures against already-marginalized groups could be hiding in plain sight.

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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. Greenville schools have some of the highest school dropout rates in the state, and Johnson also viewed staying at home as necessary to defend her children’s chances of living an easier life. “I This story also appeared in HuffPost.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Here are some voices from our first round of interviews, which have been lightly edited for length and clarity: (Data note: Masks are required on all school buses, per federal regulation. We feel like we’re in a better place as a school district than we were in October of 2020. FREMONT COUNTY, WYOMING.

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