The Hechinger Report
MARCH 6, 2022
It’s a small but noteworthy example of a new emphasis at colleges and universities on plugging the steady drip of dropouts who end up with little to show for their time and tuition, wasting taxpayer money that subsidizes public universities and leaving employers without enough of the graduates they need to fill jobs. Dickinson stayed.
Digital Promise
APRIL 23, 2019
When schools persistently graduate less than half of their students of color and students with disabilities, we call those schools dropout factories. We can’t allow frustrations to lead us toward alternative examples of mediocrity or failure. However, where edtech attempts to replace human interaction, it will likely fail.
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The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 6, 2020
Related: Leading by example: Black male teachers make students ‘feel proud’. Studies show that the effect of having a black male teacher, especially between grades 3 and 5, decreases the dropout rate among black male students by 30 percent and increases the likelihood of black students aspiring to higher education.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 7, 2024
Education is an example of what’s called “recovery capital,” something earned that makes long-term recovery more likely. After graduating this spring, she plans to transfer to nearby Western Washington University, where talks are underway to expand recovery supports thanks in part to advocacy from students in the Breaking Free club.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 17, 2022
A report published Thursday by the Student Borrower Protection Center , a nonprofit advocacy group focused on student debt, attempts to quantify the scope of this problem. Long Beach City College, for example, has forgiven $2.1 It turns into a self-sustaining way of dealing with this debt,” Thompson said.
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.
edWeb.net
AUGUST 26, 2019
A recent edWebinar led by Bobbi Bear, Director of Customer Advocacy for Achieve3000, identified effective ways to integrate SEL with reading instruction, through classroom conversations about nonfiction and fiction texts. This edWeb broadcast was sponsored by Achieve3000. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. About the Presenter.
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