Advocacy Dropout Examples Report 
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.
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.
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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.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 7, 2024
Credit: Leah Fabel for The Hechinger Report Collegiate recovery programs began appearing at four-year institutions in the late 1970s, offering services like sober-living dorms, life skills classes and recovery coaches. Education is an example of what’s called “recovery capital,” something earned that makes long-term recovery more likely.
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. The report was provided jointly to The Hechinger Report and the Los Angeles Times. Long Beach City College, for example, has forgiven $2.1
The Hechinger Report
JULY 4, 2018
Department of Education data analyzed by The Hechinger Report. That, in turn, contributes to the fact that more than a third of students who start college still haven’t earned degrees after six years, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center reports , often piling up loan debt with no payoff.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 26, 2019
Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. It’s essentially a vestige of colonialism,” said Roberto Jiménez Rivera, a rare example of a native Puerto Rican from modest means who went to college on the mainland, where he now is an assistant director of admissions at Tufts University. Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report.
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