The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2022

It’s not a retail company. It’s not a retail company. As for graduation rates that weren’t increasing, and dropout rates that didn’t decline, she said, “you have to ask why.”. A university analysis shows that this approach has sharply reduced dropout rates. And you can’t. It’s not a bank. And you can’t. It’s not a bank.

Case Study 104

Case Study Study Dropout Education 104

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A high school dropout cannot tap on an app and get the help they need if it involves more than one organization. When a Millennial or Gen Z-er accesses a new consumer app, it is as simple as opening the morning newspaper is for their parents or grandparents.

Social Media 117

Social Media Dropout Training Smartphone 117

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

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.

Education 79

Education Survey Dropout Learning 79

The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

On a laptop in the nearly empty office, he worked on code for a webpage he was developing for his employer, the learning materials company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. In half an hour, he needed to join a conference call about changes to the company’s website. He had been at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for four months.

Company 112

Company Survey Report Training 112

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. It impedes access to institutions they might be qualified for, because it’s not being accepted.”. How is it going to be accessible?

Dropout 111

Dropout Report Accessibility Study 111

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

These programs serve a dual purpose, district leaders say: Students get career training that could help land them an in-demand job in their hometown, and industries get a pipeline of workers with the qualifications they’re looking for. But the approach has taken hold in totally different business landscapes, too.

Industry 131

Industry Elementary Education Robotics 131

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.

Dropout 74

Dropout Training Industry Kaplan 74

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. Helping community college students, many of whom are trained to be frontline pandemic fighters, continue their educations is a great investment for America,” Oakley said. “We

Dropout 104

Dropout Policies Data Report 104

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

That is why many companies and colleges have been taking deliberate efforts to increase diversity in their organizations. Related: How one district solved the special education dropout problem. We urge more companies to follow in this auspicious trend of hiring those with learning differences due to neurodiversity.

Dropout 52

Dropout Company Examples Trends 52

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Then, he and half his team got Covid, forcing him to isolate in the basement of his girlfriend’s parents’ home nearby, disrupting his academics and prized time training with teammates. “I Becky Fein, director of training and engagement for Active Minds. I have been struggling to keep mentally strong.”.

Training 122

Training Meeting Report Policies 122

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

New faculty at Dickinson College attend a training session about how to help students who might be foundering. Riccio fell back on training Dickinson gives faculty, who are expected to contact the college’s “early-alert” team of advisors when they spot a student who appears to be struggling. CARLISLE, Penn. Like a lightning bolt.”.

Training 81

Training Report Dropout System 81

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The institute, which opened last year in borrowed space with sweeping views of Casco Bay in Portland’s fast-developing East End, is offering master’s degrees , certificates and professional training in computer science, data analytics, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, cybersecurity and other subjects.

Report 117

Report Dropout System Company 117

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Instead of enrolling, for example, they might subscribe to college; for a monthly fee, they could take whatever courses they want, when they want, with long-term access to advising and career help. SNHU, in a collaboration with the education company Pearson, is testing AI grading. Related: Is California saving higher education?

Course 108

Course Pearson Accessibility Company 108

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

Other universities see three-year degrees as a way to compete in the struggle for declining numbers of students, including those being lured away by faster-paced training programs such as coding schools or questioning the need to go to college at all. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts.

Report 103

Report Course Dropout Training 103

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The company promised to revolutionize how students were taught, except without teachers. The company measured its success based on a curriculum created directly from the test; as it turns out, the company profited off the students' lesson progression.

EdTech 218

EdTech Learning Blended Learning Dropout 218

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.

Dropout 60

Dropout Comparison Data Company 60

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

The book also calls for ending legacy admissions, ensuring that colleges enroll at least 20 percent of their students from low-income families, and treating high school, college and career training as one system. I do not want to take classes online and I don’t want to miss out on football games and the whole college experience,” Fogel said.

Education 111

Education Policies System Survey 111

MindShift

OCTOBER 27, 2016

A nationwide survey of ELL educators by McKinsey & Company during the 2012-13 school year revealed 70 percent created their own materials. Many reported that they did not have enough time or money to access quality materials, while others stated these materials simply don’t exist. Those statistics recently prompted the U.S.

Instructional Materials 28

Instructional Materials Survey Dropout Common Core 28

The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2018

For in-person instruction, students will go to classes at designated spaces easily accessible from their jobs and provided by the college’s corporate partners. The companies select them,” Sorrell said. You have to be very deliberate and know what it’s going to take, not only in cost but also for personnel, too, and training.”.

Report 92

Report Meeting Accessibility Outcomes 92

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2016

LONDON — Taking shelter from the cold and chilly night inside a cavernous gym in a community center in the East London borough of Newham, two dozen teenagers gossip, stretch, and set up hurdles for a track-and-field training session. companies, at just under 15 percent, according to the Center for American Progress.

Outcomes 40

Outcomes Report Study Dropout 40

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. Related: A handful of colleges are finally providing training in a way consumers want it: fast. Credit: Austin Anthony for The Hechinger Report.

Education 144

Education Survey Report Trends 144

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

As manufacturing jobs are replaced by skilled-service positions, Latinx who lack training beyond high school will be increasingly stuck in low-wage and unstable jobs; the resulting lack of skilled workers could depress annual U.S. Ortiz knew she had Pell Grant aid coming in, but didn’t know how to access it. They were sisters. “I

Dropout 109

Dropout Laptops Study Report 109

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

For the last two years, Summit has set out to replicate its success, not by opening more Summit schools, but by offering other schools free tools, training and support to transform themselves. Basecamp schools then receive mentoring from and troubleshooting by Summit staff, as well as PLP access throughout the academic year.

Personalized Learning 40

Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

Indeed, being a black college dropout negatively affects earnings by at least $10 per hour, according to research by the Economic Policy Institute. For minorities that are already battling racial discrimination, unequal access to capital, and fewer mentors, losing this network could be detrimental to future success. percent).”

Dropout 87

Dropout STEM Analysis Company 87

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2021

After 20 years as a house cleaner, she’d gotten better work as a packaging operator at local manufacturing and pharmaceutical companies, but kept losing jobs because she had trouble filling out the required forms. She’d tried once to enroll at Raritan but gave up after she couldn’t figure out the application. So the school used $1.6

Software 96

Software Report Trends Adobe 96

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2017

Those institutions are being asked to do more, such as provide remedial education, workforce training, and professional certificates to students who often come from low-performing public high schools. That’s down $531 per student since before the recession, when adjusted for inflation.

Policies 76

Policies Dropout Analysis Trends 76

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. What’s more, research has shown that integrating children with disabilities into classrooms, when accompanied by adequate teacher and staff training, yields positive academic and social results.

Education 80

Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System 80

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.

Elementary 105

Elementary Report Dropout System 105

Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

” There’s more news from the White House in the job training section below. “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?

Education 46

Education MOOC Robotics Company 46

Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Via the AP: “A new federal lawsuit by Pennsylvania ’s attorney general says the nation’s largest student loan company engaged in abusive practices that have cost borrowers billions of dollars.” ” The largest student loan company is Navient. ” The Business of Job Training. ” Related? .”

Education 49

Education Robotics Company MOOC 49

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. He brought in a naval commander to lead a summer program that was part boot-camp, part academic training. A college education for everyone’.

Dropout 81

Dropout Policies STEM Outcomes 81

Hack Education

APRIL 6, 2018

Via Education Week : “ FCC Chair Moves to Block E-Rate Funds for Companies Deemed ‘Security Risk’ ” (State and Local) Education Politics. ” Via The New York Times , a profile on the Indiana charter chain Excel Schools : “A Chance for Dropouts, Young and Old, to Go Back to School.”

Education 45

Education MOOC E-rate Facebook 45

Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

” Via Politico : “Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has increased her financial stake in a ‘neurofeedback’ company that says its technology treats attention deficit disorder and the symptoms of autism. “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? ” $100,000. .” ” $100,000.

Education 43

Education MOOC Company Report 43

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

Some internet-access advocates say EBS is underutilized at best, and wasted at worst, because loose regulatory oversight by the FCC has allowed most of the spectrum to fall into the hands of commercial internet companies. The Business of Job Training. ” The company has raised $16.5 ” Contests and Awards. .”

Education 44

Education Coursera MOOC Kaplan 44

Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

” Reminder: here are the education companies Palantir founder Peter Thiel has invested in. Via Eater : “Sorry Senator, You Can’t Call Sizzler Training a ‘ Business Degree.’” Via Edsurge : “What Colleges Should Know About A Growing ‘ Talent Strategy ’ Push By Companies.”

Education 40

Education MOOC Company Pearson 40

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

” Via Chalkbeat : NYC schools Chancellor Richard “Carranza unveils capital plan with $750 million in fixes for disability access.” News from the most well-funded ed-tech company, student loan provider SoFi : SoFi settles w/ FTC over allegations it misrepresented how much borrowers save by refinancing.

Education 53

Education Company Report IXL Learning 53

Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

Following up on ProPublica reporting , “ Florida to Examine Whether Alternative Charter Schools Underreport Dropouts.” Via GeekWire : “ Amazon Education GM leaves; company says it ‘remains committed’ to K–12 technology.” ” The Business of Job Training. That’s UC Berkeley.

Education 46

Education Robotics E-rate Social Media 46