Advocacy Dropout Learning Policies 
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. While there are certainly exceptions, this human interaction standard can serve as a compass to guide our investments and advocacy. Let’s start a movement.
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The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 19, 2023
This story also appeared in The Associated Press After more than a year of some form of pandemic online learning, students were all required to come back to school in person. I’m really taken aback that a district would set forth a series of policies that make it actually quite difficult to enroll your child.”
The Hechinger Report
MAY 29, 2020
Now, just as happened in the last recession, it is likely to take them even longer and cost more, while — after years of hard-won progress — dropout rates rise and graduation rates fall. In-person events like this have proven to reduce dropout rates for first-year students, but some may be canceled this year because of the pandemic.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 17, 2022
But new research suggests colleges’ policies around unpaid balances may also be contributing to the decline while creating lasting financial harm for the institutions and students. She struggled with online learning and began to face severe health issues. California has been at the forefront of policies to ease student debt burdens.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 27, 2017
Too often, our education system sends the one in five children with learning and attention issues into the world without the skills they need to succeed. Related: How one district solved the special education dropout problem. Students with learning and attention issues are smart and can succeed. So why does this happen?
The Hechinger Report
JULY 4, 2018
It’s about making sure they come back from one year to the next,” said Eboni Zamani-Gallaher, a professor of higher education policy, organization and leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Education. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Dropouts cost colleges a collective $16.5
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