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. And a third of this year’s high school seniors say they’re less likely to go to college when they graduate, according to a survey by the think tanks New America and Third Way. College enrollments have fallen.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In fact, according to a survey , the teachers are nearing breaking points with 75% of them admitting to high-stress levels and a third of educational professionals experiencing mental health issues. How can teaching technology help improve effectiveness in the classroom?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2022

On the other hand, said Kieffer, faculty need to “look at the modern world and figure out how to adapt to that.”. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

Like many dropouts, Floyd always intended to finish his college education. The number of college dropouts swelled during the tight labor market; an additional 2 million people joined their ranks from only a year and a half earlier in 2018. As with many dropouts, Floyd had unpaid student debt to resolve.

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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. Yet colleges remain focused on recruitment, “which they already know how to do,” said Andrew Nichols, senior director of higher education research at The Education Trust.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

As school presidents agonize over how to reopen their campuses, student affairs and enrollment management leaders are working feverishly to make their services accessible to all students, wherever they are. Related: How higher education’s own choices left it vulnerable to the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Gutierrez and Williams spent 90 minutes standing on the sidewalk outside the house in the Texas sun, at arm’s length from the students, showing them how to sign into Google Classroom on their school-provided Chromebooks and helping their father figure out passwords. This story also appeared in The Christian Science Monitor.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

I had to learn how to balance my finances. I had to learn how to balance work and school and the relationship I’m in.” It’s learning how to be an adult.”. Teenagers said that the pressure to get good grades was their biggest cause of stress , a 2019 survey by the Pew Research Center found. “A

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

That’s what an Adobe-commission survey , published in partnership with futurist Bryan Alexander and the New Media Consortium, revealed. 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.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Colleges are also working to reduce their numbers of dropouts on the principle that it’s cheaper to provide the kind of support required to keep tuition-paying students than to recruit more. And for all of the work it’s done to reduce the number of dropouts, the higher education industry has so far barely moved the needle.

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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? 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. “I

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

New faculty at Dickinson College attend a training session about how to help students who might be foundering. Yet only a surprisingly small minority of colleges and universities explicitly include their faculty in this work and teach them how to do it, though that number is beginning to grow. CARLISLE, Penn.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

It is hard to overstate how much the pandemic has short-circuited the college experience and affected students’ well-being. To those already burdened by the demands of social media and fears about how to succeed in the world, Covid piled on. Questions like, “How do I build community? How do I build meaningful relationships?”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

More than a third of Americans without degrees now don’t believe that getting additional education would help them find a job , according to a survey by the Strada Center for Education Consumer Insights. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Then Covid decimated them.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Then the admissions counselor showed her something new – MyinTuition , a six-question survey that takes only a few minutes to fill out and predicts with surprising accuracy just how much financial aid a student can anticipate from the college. She loved the place, but not its price tag: $60,000, well beyond her family’s means.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2017

I needed advice on how to talk with faculty and how to join a fraternity. According to a new study they published in March, two in three community college students they surveyed are food insecure — an increase of 50 percent from their 2015 report. There is much more to graduation than what happens in high school.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2017

The higher employment rate is likely partially attributable to the fact that former special education students are less likely to be spending that time in college; 21 percent of special education students surveyed were enrolled in college compared to 41 percent of general education students.

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Outcomes Education Report Survey 90

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2018

This nearly majority-Latino city began its experiment with personalized learning three years ago, after a districtwide survey revealed that thousands of high schoolers felt their education wasn’t relevant. District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate.

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Personalized Learning Chromebook Learning Groups 77

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

These also show that Nichols has reduced the number of dropouts, holding onto $5.4 Almost seven in 10 parents said in a survey that they had eliminated colleges from consideration for their children because of the cost. million a year in tuition revenue it was previously losing. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2017

One by one, the principals looked at each student’s profile, which included the student’s answers to district-wide survey questions about what worries them about AP classes, what subjects interest them and what adults they trust in the building. But the students were not yet scheduled to take one in the coming fall.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2020

In the absence of clear federal and state guidance for reopening, school districts have debated everything from whether to mandate masks for in-person classes to how to make online-only learning more effective. Other student groups have also conducted surveys to capture students’ experiences.

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Survey Policies Groups Report 145

MindShift

AUGUST 17, 2018

This nearly majority-Latino city began its experiment with personalized learning three years ago, after a districtwide survey revealed that thousands of high schoolers felt their education wasn’t relevant. District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate.

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Personalized Learning Chromebook Learning Groups 34

The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2018

Although roughly two-thirds of student-parents we surveyed did not feel that available child care provided them the time they needed to complete their schoolwork, around three-quarters of them were on financial aid, which suggests that existing financial aid is insufficient to pay for necessary child care to provide time for schoolwork.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In addition to keeping tabs on homework and grades, pod leaders teach students how to manage their time, apply for summer jobs and create goals for life after high school. Related: Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff. Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

As a college readiness coach at low-income high schools in San Diego, I talked to multiple high school refugee students to figure out how to support them, especially as many schools continue to operate remotely. (My Related: Schools provide stability for refugees. Covid-19 upended that.

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Meeting Survey Study Report 107

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

and Canada, obtained from scores and surveys of people who take the Medical College Admissions Test, which the AAMC administers. And law school deans will meet March 1 to talk about how to deliver more and better information about their institutions. “We We all know that the data is out there. They deserve that.”

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Survey Data Report Dropout 89

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Some of the queries were straightforward: how to enroll, the price of tuition, how to register for classes. Almost a third of students at New Jersey’s Union County College work full time and nearly another third part time, according to a 2020 student survey. What if I can’t pay my tuition balance right away?

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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.”. If policymakers are going to close California’s graduation gap, they’ll have to figure out how to meet the needs of students like Mora and Deas.

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Education Policies Course System 97

Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

“Free College” “How to Pay for Free Community College ,” according to Inside Higher Ed. Via ProPublica : “ For-Profit Schools Get State Dollars For Dropouts Who Rarely Drop In.” ” Via Alternet : “How Hackers Held an Entire School District Hostage.” ” Related? .”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

Some of the reasons for the decrease include teens waiting longer to have sex, increased access to contraception and popular reality TV shows such as “16 and Pregnant,” which depicted the struggles of young moms. But these same students who don’t have access to medically accurate, up-to-date information have to live with the consequences.

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Report Accessibility Outcomes Social Media 133

Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The Department of Education has placed restrictions on access to federal student aid for West Virginia public universities after the state was late submitting required annual financial statements for the third year in a row. “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? .” $100,000.

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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. .” ” Via NPR : “How To Apply The Brain Science Of Resilience To The Classroom.”

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Education Coursera MOOC Kaplan 44

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

” Via Chalkbeat : NYC schools Chancellor Richard “Carranza unveils capital plan with $750 million in fixes for disability access.” How a College Dropout Plans to Replace the SAT and ACT.” Via Edsurge : “Campus Support for OER is Growing, Survey Finds.” ” asks Daniel Willingham.

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Education Company Report IXL Learning 53

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

’” Via Education Week : “ FCC Seeks Comment on Access to WiFi for Schools and Libraries.” Meanwhile, the state has given initial approval for ECOT to become a “dropout school.” Via the Future of Privacy Forum : “ Law Enforcement Access to Student Records : What Is the Law?”

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Education Company Data Report 47