Accessibility, Data, Dropout and Secondary

HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The future looks like this: Access to college-level education will be free for everyone; the residential college campus will become largely obsolete; tens of thousands of professors will lose their jobs; the bachelor’s degree will become increasingly irrelevant; and ten years from now Harvard will enroll ten million students.”.

Secondary

Secondary LMS E-rate Dropout

How a dropout factory raised its graduation rate from 53 percent to 75 percent in three years

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2017

With school budgets already limited by a conservative-led state legislature that critics say chronically underfunds public education , the district turned to Diplomas Now, an education nonprofit whose aim is to increase graduation rates using a data-driven system of early intervention. The results have been impressive.

Dropout

Dropout Secondary Data Report

OPINION: Often overlooked vocational-tech schools provide great solutions to student debt, labor shortages

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Meanwhile, the overall dropout rate at regional voc-techs is 0.5 percent statewide dropout rate, according to 2020-21 Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education data, and special needs students fare particularly well at voc-tech schools. percent , even lower than the overall 1.5

Dropout

Dropout Industry Secondary Elementary

OPINION: Why school shutdowns are a disaster for science classes

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

For many of these students and others coming from low-income backgrounds, science knowledge gaps exist even prior to kindergarten entry but become gravely amplified in primary and secondary schools. Unsurprisingly, such foundational STEM disparities extend far beyond secondary school education.

STEM

STEM Secondary Dropout Elementary

Introducing YouScience® Brightpath: A New Platform That Enables the Convergence of Education-to-Career to Better Prepare Students for Success in School and Life

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In addition, the troubling nationwide high school dropout rate persists, and college enrollment and retention rates are declining for our most vulnerable populations, further highlighting student disengagement. Helping more students enroll and stay active in personalized post-secondary education.

Industry

Industry Dropout Outcomes Education

How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

You don’t have a computer, you don’t have internet, you can’t even access distance learning,” Silver said. RELATED: Racial segregation is one reason some families have internet access and others don’t, new research finds. We need to change that.”. “We We can’t afford not to.”. The homework gap isn’t new.

Digital Divide

Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey

New York is closing a charter school to ‘save’ money. But at what cost to students?

ExcelinEd

JUNE 4, 2020

For the sake of simplifying the equation, we will also assume the post-secondary outcomes for BuffSci and Buffalo Public Schools are the same – the same percentage of high school graduates will attend and graduate from college. 203 more HS dropouts. HS Diploma. Associates Degree. Bachelor’s Degree. 50 fewer college graduates.

Dropout

Dropout Outcomes Secondary Data

Minnesota has a persistent higher-ed gap: Are new efforts making a difference?

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

With people of color expected to make up a quarter of the state’s population by 2035, these gaps represent an economic threat to Minnesota; unless more residents get to and through college, there won’t be enough qualified workers to fill the jobs that require a post-secondary degree or certificate. “[O]ur Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report.

Dropout

Dropout Secondary Course Report

Buffalo shows turnaround of urban schools is possible, but it takes a lot more than just money

The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

I would have been a dropout.”. In particular, he noted, the Say Yes provision to share student data went against the closed-shop mentality of the superintendent’s office. One of the more difficult things for us to give up,” said Keresztes, “was our student data. And I do that with [Stubbe]. Dedecker said the No.

Data

Data Secondary System Accessibility

College tuition breaks for Native students spread, but some tribes are left out

The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Documentation depends on the information families can access to prove their lineage. Limiting which Native students get financial assistance is especially significant, given the rising cost of post-secondary degrees. Some colleges or states have agreements with specific unrecognized tribes.

Groups

Groups Accessibility Policies Advocacy

The vast majority of students with disabilities don’t get a college degree

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

For those that enroll in two-year schools, the outcomes aren’t much better: 41 percent, according to federal data. About a third of the students with disabilities who enroll in a four-year college or university graduate within eight years. The dismal outcomes aren’t because students with disabilities can’t handle the coursework.

Study

Study Advocacy Report Outcomes

School counselors keep kids on track. Why are they first to be cut?

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Aimed at curbing dropouts, improving graduation rates and sending more kids to college and other postsecondary programs, the corps is designed to offset a growing achievement gap in this relatively affluent but increasingly diverse state. “When there’s a budget cut, counselors are the first to go.”.

Dropout

Dropout Report Training Outcomes

We won’t have any black Mark Zuckerbergs or Bill Gates till we do this

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

About one-third of all black collegians earn degrees in either a STEM-related (science, technology, engineering and math) field or in business, according to my analysis of integrated post-secondary education data system (IPEDS), the national dataset of college outcomes. See chart below.). Maybe we need to rethink our advice.

Dropout

Dropout STEM Analysis Company

Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Via Pacific Standard : “Why Is the FCC Considering Cutting Broadband Access for Students?” Jeb Bush’s lieutenant governor, as assistant secretary of elementary and secondary education, the top post at the Education Department overseeing K–12 policy.” ” More on the bill via Inside Higher Ed.

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Kaplan Education Robotics E-rate

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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

How a dropout factory raised its graduation rate from 53 percent to 75 percent in three years

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OPINION: Often overlooked vocational-tech schools provide great solutions to student debt, labor shortages

OPINION: Why school shutdowns are a disaster for science classes

Introducing YouScience® Brightpath: A New Platform That Enables the Convergence of Education-to-Career to Better Prepare Students for Success in School and Life

How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

New York is closing a charter school to ‘save’ money. But at what cost to students?

Minnesota has a persistent higher-ed gap: Are new efforts making a difference?

Buffalo shows turnaround of urban schools is possible, but it takes a lot more than just money

College tuition breaks for Native students spread, but some tribes are left out

The vast majority of students with disabilities don’t get a college degree

School counselors keep kids on track. Why are they first to be cut?

We won’t have any black Mark Zuckerbergs or Bill Gates till we do this

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