The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Even for students who are poor enough to qualify for free tuition, it’s been a turbulent year to submit documents and meet paperwork deadlines to receive financial aid. But the fall data show that white students are now matching these same high dropout rates. Native American college students have declined the most, down 11 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

However, there is not much research on the life outcomes of students with disabilities who attain high school diplomas versus those who get alternative exit documents. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem. How one district solved its special education dropout problem.

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Dropout Advocacy Outcomes Report 79

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. The way these kinds of learning get documented is also about to change. Related: Is California saving higher education?

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Course Pearson Accessibility Company 106

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

FUN SAD FACT: According to Avi Yashchin, Senior Offering Manager at IBM Watson: “Sadness [sentiments] in incoming freshman college application essay is the sixth strongest predictor of dropout.” based developer of Ally, a tool that makes digital content more accessible for learners with special needs. Solution: offer happier prompts?).

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Pearson Blackboard Survey Learning Analytics 60

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

It’s trying to increase enrollment, which has rebounded after a decline, according to publicly available and internal documents administrators made available. These also show that Nichols has reduced the number of dropouts, holding onto $5.4 million a year in tuition revenue it was previously losing.

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Report Dropout Examples Analysis 86

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2020

To expand their scope, they co-founded an organization called Unafraid Educators to organize teachers and to help students access college. She became Carver’s first student to move from undocumented to documented status and to enroll in college. We told them, ‘Work hard, keep your grades up, do well on the ACT and you’ll be fine.’

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Strategy Education E-rate Report 109

MindShift

APRIL 2, 2015

Zack’s group also found that the majority of prisoners are high school dropouts, most are living under the poverty line, and 33 percent of the nation’s black males will be incarcerated during their lifetime. Students had to document specific mathematical concepts laid out by their teachers in the assignment.

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Analysis Dropout Data Groups 28

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The success of home visits has been well documented for infants and has been studied at the elementary and middle school level , but it’s an open question whether these visits make a difference for older students, according to some experts. Related: This program is proven to help moms and babies — so why aren’t we investing in it more ?

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Report Elementary Study Conference 111

The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2016

To the right of the computerized door allowing access to the classrooms and living spaces for the students, a sign adorned with a cute Easter duck reads “hello!” Related: Dropouts try to find their way back to school. Judge Thomas H. Broome is the youth-court judge for Rankin County. Photo: Imani Khayyam.

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Education Report System Policies 40

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

We are speaking about an equal right, an equal opportunity to access education,” said Sabrina Bernadel, legal counsel at the National Women’s Law Center. In the meantime, Crawford said, the boys were provided with laptops and Google Classroom access. But even free legal aid can be difficult for already-vulnerable families to access.

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Handbook Learning Online Learning Data 98

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

It now spans 15 CSU campuses, where it offers academic counseling, opportunities to network, financial advice, tutoring, a community, help in accessing campus resources, financial aid, and more. Study after study lists housing as a primary barrier to educational access for formerly incarcerated students. I’ll just sleep in my car.”

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E-rate Study Report Accessibility 116

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Meanwhile, interventions aimed at teenagers, such as dropout prevention programs , often disappoint. The study is part of a larger body of work in which Lavy has documented positive results from intervening with older students. There is considerable research on the benefits of intervening early when a child is falling behind at school.

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Dropout Study Groups Report 118

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2019

don’t have a single staff member dedicated to college admissions guidance – a major reason why, at The Hechinger Report , we are partnering with the makers of Personal Statement , a film documenting the challenging admissions journeys of three public high school seniors from Brooklyn, to bring public attention to this crisis.

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Policies Report Accessibility Analysis 98

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. It’s also important that they don’t return until they are ready.

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Course Report Strategy System 89

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

as Zar-Kessler is known] to send countless documents to college.”. “We can finally sigh with relief now that the hardest part for us is over,” Daniel said. “No No more personal statements or constantly nagging Ms. Sanborn or Ms. Daniel told his classmates to not be afraid.

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Report Training Study Course 73

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

In a June 2022 report , the department said it had deleted the term “equity” from the title of a report about equitable access to qualified teachers for low-income and minority students. The former School and Educator Equity Report is now called Rates of Access to Qualified Teachers.

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Policies Report Dropout Study 144

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Enoch Jemmott’s shot at a college education depends entirely on a football scholarship, along with tracking down the financial aid documents he needs from his homeless mother. Some of the film’s best scenes come as the students are seen helping one another untangle the barrage of baffling forms and documents they need. Source: VIMEO.

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Report Accessibility STEM Resources 92

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2018

The disparity is largest for black and brown teenage boys, who are shepherded out of school into the juvenile justice system as part of the well-documented school-to-prison pipeline. The incident was reported to the administration because of my older son’s documented “emotional disturbance.” What will we choose to pay for?

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Dropout Report System Meeting 95

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Nearly two decades ago, the reporter Todd Oppenheimer documented the aggressive rise of emerging Silicon Valley technologies — personal computers and the Internet — in the nation’s public schools. She added, “Facebook plays no role in the Summit Learning Program and has no access to any student data.”). There are no exceptions to this.”

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Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 96

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. He’s missing out on how to document, experiment, prove your theory — that’s important stuff if you want to go into sciences,” she said.

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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.

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Elementary Report Dropout System 103

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

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

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Education Policies Course System 96

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2017

” The document The Times obtained doesn’t specify which race or races are being discriminated against, but the language seems to pretty clearly indicate the Department is interested in investigating affirmative action programs and is concerned about discrimination against white students. But what do we think of that idea? Thanks, guys!

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Analysis Dropout Policies Report 46

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

the trauma for many continued, as the Trump administration separated families in detention centers where cells were sometimes kept frigid, food was inadequate and kids were not given access to basic hygiene. At Mary Harris Mother Jones Elementary, Principal Karen Woodson was a master at making everyone feel welcome, documented or not.

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Elementary Report Exercises Trends 143

The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2018

disclosed in securities documents that they are under scrutiny from the Office of Higher Education in Capella’s home state of Minnesota after complaints were made by doctoral students; Minnesota’s legislature has given that office new authority to penalize the schools or order refunds if wrongdoing is found by the ongoing investigation.

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Company Industry Advocacy Report 69