Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 10, 2016

Statistically, almost half of school dropouts do so because they don’t see the relevance. Here’s how it works: Sign up for a free version of Nepris (it comes with one live virtual session and access to hundreds of recorded sessions). This was an authentic example for students of on-the-fly problem-solving.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

That is why many companies and colleges have been taking deliberate efforts to increase diversity in their organizations. There exists another example of diversity that is often overlooked, but which is finally gaining more visibility and attention in higher education and in various industry sectors: neurodiversity.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

After all, the plummeting number of prospects makes it much harder to replace dropouts than it was when there was a seemingly bottomless supply of freshmen. This aggressive response has helped lower the dropout rate at the Texarkana campus back to 44 percent, according to still-unreleased figures, the university says.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

Schools can refer students to state tax collectors to have their tax refund garnished or send them to debt collection companies, which often charge high fees. Long Beach City College, for example, has forgiven $2.1 When students owe money to their colleges — even small amounts — they can be barred from re-enrolling.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Greenville County Schools has begun partnering with companies in the area, such as BMW and Michelin, to develop courses in mechatronics and automotive research. Fisher Middle School, for example, to continue in an engineering and STEM curriculum, or they can attend League Academy for a middle school more focused on arts.

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EdNews Daily

JULY 2, 2016

I grew up in my parent’s motel and attended local urban public schools, which had a dropout rate of 40 percent. I closed a deal with Mark for $250,000 in exchange for a 20 percent equity stake in my test-prep company. Since working with Mark, the company has expanded into 20 new sites throughout the country.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The Roux Institute opened last year in borrowed space in this tech company building on the Portland, Maine, waterfront to teach computer science and other subjects. Thanks to one-on-one counseling like this, the dropout rate is a third lower than at conventional universities and colleges, according to figures provided by the school.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

One way is through acquisitions like the one his university made of the Claremont School of Theology in California, or CST, which is being moved to the Salem, Oregon, campus of Willamette, just as private companies consolidate to increase their size and cost-effectiveness. Will there be more?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Experts say that this means dropout rates, which had been declining for more than a decade, will likely start to rise again. Like the Rio Grande Valley, for example, Nashville had been seeing gains in high school graduation and college-going rates. “We Access to talent is their number-one competitive priority.”.

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Survey Laptops Dropout Report 141

Neo LMS

APRIL 5, 2022

Today, edtech companies are actively working on taking digitization even further by converting the traditional LMS into an intelligent learning platform (ILP). They work as content recommendation tools that facilitate access to personalized educational resources. . Lower dropout rates. Less time spent looking for materials .

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Even though the biggest leap forward of the last few decades, for example — delivering courses online — appears to have lowered costs , the graduation rates of online higher education remain much lower than those of programs taught in person. SNHU, in a collaboration with the education company Pearson, is testing AI grading.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

For example, it found, more than 70 percent of faculty and staff didn’t feel qualified to recognize signs of psychological distress in student veterans. McDaniel College, for example, brings together faculty with deans, coaches and residence advisors to discuss students who show signs that they’re at risk of dropping out. “As

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Edsurge

MAY 11, 2017

That’s why it might come as surprise to hear AspirEDU , an educational analytics company, pitch their Dropout Detective software as an “academic credit score” for students. But Chris Munzo, executive vice president of AspirEDU (and fan of metaphors), compares Dropout Detective to a gym membership—it only works if you use it.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

Wentworth, for example, will add combined four-year bachelor’s and master’s degrees in data science and cybersecurity analytics starting in the fall of 2023, the university says. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Then Covid decimated them. Now, said Goldstein, U.S.

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GoConqr

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Dropout rates increase, test and project scores dip, and – worst of all – learning becomes synonymous with boredom. For example, according to the business intelligence company DOMO, each minute there are an average of: 571 new websites created. If this imbalance isn’t a cause for concern among educators, it should be.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Usually that means creating PowerPoint presentations full of pictures and “just kind of pulling from here and there,” he said — the Internet, a third grade textbook or a preschool homeschool curriculum from Sam’s Club, for example. I’m all over the place,” said Brock, who has been teaching for 27 years.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Students have access to hundreds of courses while they are in Illinois’ juvenile justice facilities, but they tend to focus on math, language arts, social studies and science. The online coursework is designed by the education company Pearson. Related: Will thousands of prison inmates lose access to college?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

Will a backdrop of economic ruin prompt higher education to listen to feedback on how to become more accountable, flexible and accessible? She’s in good company within her age group: a stunning 65 percent of people aged 18 to 24 have changed their education plans amid the coronavirus, according to a recent Strada Education Network survey.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2019

I was concerned and afraid of what might happen to her, but you cannot cut their wings,” said Aranda, an operations manager for a talent supply chain company. One example of that coordination, Miles said, came after the school opened a new residential floor specifically for first-generation students.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2018

Alana Wolf at her summer internship at a theater company in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. But unlike most of the other nervous new arrivals, she won’t be starting as a freshman. Cornell admitted her 18 months ago on condition she go somewhere else for a year and come back as a sophomore.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2016

By the time they’re 11, researchers observe, these boys feel little motivation to work hard in school, with few examples in their lives of men who went to college, and little hope they can afford what seem to them to be unaffordable fees. companies, at just under 15 percent, according to the Center for American Progress. In the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

She blamed the high dropout rates on the fact that many students have to juggle school with full- and part-time jobs, leaving little time for academics. Ortiz knew she had Pell Grant aid coming in, but didn’t know how to access it. Around campus, there are some signs of the university’s outreach to Latinx. They were sisters. “I

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

Only a quarter of recent grads in another survey, by the educational publishing and technology company Cengage, said that, if they could do it again, they’d take the same educational path. billion worth of federal loans borrowed by students of the defunct for-profit Corinthian Colleges, for example.

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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. The Lumina Foundation is among the numerous funders of The Hechinger Report.).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Department of Education published its annual look at student loan default rates last week, singling out 15 higher education institutions for rates so high that they are at risk of losing their access to federal student aid. That could spell trouble for the embattled company, which has already shuttered at least seven schools since last year.

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MindShift

JUNE 18, 2020

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. South Fort Myers High School follows a dropout prevention program called BARR, which stands for Building Assets, Reducing Risks.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Basecamp schools then receive mentoring from and troubleshooting by Summit staff, as well as PLP access throughout the academic year. There’s tremendous hype swirling around personalized learning, with money pouring in from foundations and education technology companies eager to capitalize on the trend.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

For example, a user would have to click on the fine print to learn that the graduation rate for four-year colleges shows the proportion of students who finish in eight years, not in four. If you’re a law school, you’re likely not going to lie to your accrediting agency.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. Developed by a company now called Edgenuity , the platform is available for all K-12 subjects. “It The state of Georgia filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit in October.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

The federal share of Medicaid funding, for example, is capped at 55 percent (if Puerto Rico were a state, it could receive 83 percent), residents are denied certain disability benefits and there are restrictions on access to other funding, such as the child tax credit. Child poverty is widespread: In the 50 U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

It’s one example of the many ways that California is taking on seemingly intractable problems that are plaguing higher education nationwide. The goal, writes historian John Aubrey Douglass, was “broad access combined with the development of high quality, mission differentiated, and affordable higher education institutions.”.

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Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

“The FCC Is Threatening to Gut a Program That Provides Internet Access to Minorities,” Pacific Standard reports. ” At least the e-cigarette company (which targets teens) offers a social-emotional learning curriculum, right? I mean, clearly the company has a strong grasp on the politics of information.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

After college, Taylor started an oil company and eventually made the Forbes list of world’s richest people. ‘A At the time, a third of Louisiana’s adults were high school dropouts. A college education for everyone’. Leave this field empty if you're human: When he asked how many wanted to attend college, almost every hand went up.

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Dropout Policies STEM Outcomes 82

Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn, for example, predicted in their 2008 book Disrupting Class that by 2019 half of all high school classes would be taught via the Internet. For its part, Udacity has fully rebranded itself as a high-tech job training company, a topic I’ll cover in more detail in a forthcoming article in this series.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2018

The case is among a slew of enforcement actions, lawsuits and legislative proposals through which states are cracking down on for-profit colleges and universities and loan-servicing companies they say cheat or mislead students. Related: Once-high-flying private, for-profit universities seek turnaround strategies. “We

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