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3 Ways Big Data Can Soften the Campus Dropout Crisis

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And like any major problem, this mass exodus of dropouts must be addressed sooner rather than later through innovative interventions. Even online schools, where data can be more available due to vibrant learning management systems, are guilty of merely scratching the surface of data capture and analysis. The “soft” predictors, those subtle hints that are precursors to student dropout. Guest Article Written By: Bob La Loggia.

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Fewer teenage mothers, but they still present a dropout puzzle

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Child Trends analysis of NSFG 2011-15 data, accessed through the National Center for Health Statistics. The post Fewer teenage mothers, but they still present a dropout puzzle appeared first on The Hechinger Report. An 18-year-old attended an online high school in Detroit for young mothers, in 2015. Photo: Erin Einhorn for The Hechinger Report. With U.S.

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Ancora High School Partners with McGraw Hill to Launch New Online High School for Adults

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In 2020, according to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the high school dropout rate was 5.3% Students will explore conducting a cost-benefit analysis for spending and investing decisions, among other financial literacy skills.

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What happened when a South Carolina city embraced career education for all its students

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In 2020, policies in 27 states allowed students to earn credentials through career education coursework, such as industry certifications, according to an analysis from the Education Commission of the States. “We’re GREENVILLE, S.C. — The brown paper bag hit the ground with a smack.

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OPINION: Now is not the time to put college plans on hold

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Around 100,000 fewer high school seniors completed financial aid applications to attend college this year than in 2019, according to an analysis by the National College Attainment Network.

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Some evidence for the importance of teaching black culture to black students

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A Stanford University study finds that dropout rates were lower in Oakland, California, high schools that offered a special class for black students called the Manhood Development Program. For black boys who were offered the class in both grades, those annual improvements in dropout rates translate into a 3 percentage point increase in their high school graduation rate, according to Thomas Dee, the lead researcher and a professor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Education.

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How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up

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Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students.

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Federal relief money boosted community colleges, but now it’s going away

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New Jersey’s two-year schools get about $14,000 less per student annually than its four-year institutions do, according to an October 2020 analysis from the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning Washington, D.C.,

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A regional public university’s identity crisis

The Hechinger Report

Related: Analysis: Hundreds of colleges and universities show financial warning signs. community college Graduation and dropouts Higher education access Higher education affordability Higher education completion Higher Education newsletter

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Subscribing to college and other visions of higher education’s future

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American universities, colleges and work force training programs are now awarding at least 738,428 unique credentials , according to a September analysis by a nonprofit organization called Credential Engine, which has taken on the task of translating these into a standardized registry of skills.

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Colleges must stop holding students hostage and release their debt

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Black women earn just 61 cents for every dollar earned by their white male counterparts, according to analysis by the nonprofit advocacy group Equal Pay Today. Andre Perry Higher Ed News Opinion community college Graduation and dropouts Higher education completion RaceFrom Left to Right: Russell Kavalhuna, president of Henry Ford College, Ora Hirsch Pescovitz, president of Oakland University, M.

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Universities try to catch up to their growing Latinx populations

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household incomes by 5 percent by 2060, according to one analysis. She blamed the high dropout rates on the fact that many students have to juggle school with full- and part-time jobs, leaving little time for academics. Higher Ed News achievement gap Graduation and dropouts Higher education access Higher education affordability Higher education completion Immigrants and Refugees Race

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Held back, but not helped

The Hechinger Report

The proportion of overage students — those who have been retained for at least one grade — hovers around 40 percent for New Orleans high school students, according to an analysis of 2014 data by researchers at Education Research Alliance for New Orleans, which is based at Tulane University. Around 40 percent of New Orleans high school students have been retained for at least one grade, according to an analysis of 2014 data by researchers at Education Research Alliance for New Orleans.

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What if we hired for skills, not degrees?

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In 2014, the labor market analysis firm Burning Glass Technologies tried to capture the extent of degree inflation. Matthew Sigelman, CEO of Burning Glass Technologies, a labor market analysis firm. Higher Ed K-12 News Graduation and dropouts Higher education access Higher education affordability Higher education completion poverty RaceRyan Tillman-French, a developer for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in Boston. Chelsea Stahl / NBC News.

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After all the fuss about getting in, how do poor students survive on elite campuses?

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Her point, and Jack’s spot-on analysis, both illustrate why the discussion of elite campuses must shift from admission to acclimation. Higher Ed K-12 News Opinion Funding Graduation and dropouts Higher education access Higher education affordability Higher education completion poverty Race SegregationAnthony Abraham Jack is the author of the new book, “The Privileged Poor,’’ which looks at ways elite institutions can do a better job with scholarship students.

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The community college “segregation machine”

The Hechinger Report

A Hechinger Report/inewsource analysis of California community college data yielded stark results. Although whites and Asians also have poor pass rates in these low-level remedial classes, the inewsource/Hechinger Report analysis found that Latino students are twice as likely as whites to end up in the lowest level of remedial English. Higher Ed News achievement gap community college Graduation and dropouts Higher education access Higher education completion Race Testing

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College dreams often melt away in summer months. ‘Near-peer’ counseling is helping keep them alive.

The Hechinger Report

According to a 2018 analysis , more than three-quarters of high school seniors who received coaching through the New York City Department of Education’s program matriculated to college in the fall, versus just over half of high school graduates who had not participated. Higher Ed K-12 News achievement gap Graduation and dropouts Higher education access Mental health and trauma poverty Social emotional

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Progress in the Deep South: Black students combat segregation, poverty and dwindling school funding

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High school dropouts are much more likely to be unemployed and earn thousands of dollars less per year than people with higher levels of education. The national average was $12,756 according to an analysis by the publication Education Week. K-12 News achievement gap Funding Graduation and dropouts Parents poverty Race Rural schools Segregation teachers

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Special education’s hidden racial gap

The Hechinger Report

A Hechinger Report analysis of federal data exposes the stark racial gap between different groups of special education students. How one district solved its special education dropout problem. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem. K-12 News achievement gap Graduation and dropouts Race Special educationKenyatta Burn works with her tutor at the Durham Literacy Center on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2017, in Durham, N.C.

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STUDENT VOICES: NYC’s schools chief Richard Carranza promised us he’ll keep pushing for racial integration

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There is not one psychometrician that has given an analysis that [the admissions test] is valid or reliable as a single criteria to identify talent for a student to go to a specialized school,” Carranza said, pointing out that no selective high school anywhere else in the country uses a single multiple-choice exam score as the sole factor in admissions. K-12 News Gifted education Graduation and dropouts Law and policy Miseducation Podcast Race School choice Segregation

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Analysis: Trump’s Justice Dept moves to protect whites in college admissions

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They wrote that he “suggested that the project would look for stark gaps in test scores and dropout rates among different racial cohorts within student bodies, which he said would be evidence suggesting that admissions offices were putting too great an emphasis on applicants’ race and crossing the line the Supreme Court has drawn.” Meredith: The idea of using dropout rates to test for racial bias in admissions does not have evidence to support it. Analysis Higher Ed Politics Race

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Why placing students in difficult high school classes may increase college enrollment

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During his tenure, North Central High School recorded the largest increase in the state in the percentage of students attending college after graduation, according to Gering’s analysis of state data. K-12 News Data and research Graduation and dropouts Higher education access povertySpokane has used outside nonprofits to help its students search for and apply to colleges.

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How I build relationships with students using instructional audio

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In fact, a review of Educational Research analysis found that strong teacher-student relationships were associated in both the short- and long-term with improvements. The COVID-19 pandemic shined a light on the importance of instructional audio solutions.

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Are Mississippi’s students prepared for college?

The Hechinger Report

More than 42 percent of students who arrived at the state’s community colleges in 2014 required at least one remedial course, as did more than 17 percent of new students, including transfers, at four-year public Mississippi universities according to a new analysis of data. Here’s what Butrymowicz’s analysis found about Mississippi schools. Higher Ed News community college Graduation and dropouts

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PROOF POINTS: How much does it cost to produce a community college graduate?

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Obviously, all those college dropouts aren’t improving local work forces. The analysis was conducted for the U.S. It’s important to note that this is not an analysis of which support services are effective.

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Economic Impact of Suspending 10th Graders: $35 Billion, Study Says

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Dropping the nation’s suspension rate by even a small amount could yield a multi-billion-dollar economic impact by helping to lower drop-out rates, leading to savings in public programs and higher wages for affected students, a new analysis finds. Slashing Dropout Rate Key to Turnaround in Mass. Marketplace K-12 dropout rate suspensions U.S. By Guest Blogger Evie Blad. Cross-posted from Rules for Engagement.

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Out of the fields: In a North Carolina county where few Latino parents have diplomas, their kids are aiming for college

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The county’s ability to raise local funds for the schools to supplement the state money it receives is minimal — it’s 96th among 100 counties in property values, according to an analysis by the Public School Forum of North Carolina. K-12 News Graduation and dropouts Immigrants and Refugees Parents poverty Rural schools

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What is an intelligent learning platform for schools and universities?

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Lower dropout rates. On a similar note, offering each student the tailored content they need to complete classes and pass exams can reduce dropout rates.

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Seven most effective ways for building relationships with students through social learning

Hapara

In fact, according to Education Week , an analysis of 46 studies found that positive classroom relationships between educators and learners resulted in school improvements. Every educator wants a classroom, whether in person or online, that is brimming with engaged learners and progress.

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When the punishment is the same as the crime: Suspended for missing class

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But a first-of-its-kind analysis by The Hechinger Report and the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting has found that attendance-related suspensions are pervasive, in some districts accounting for more than half of all in-school suspensions.

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We won’t have any black Mark Zuckerbergs or Bill Gates till we do this

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About one-third of all black collegians earn degrees in either a STEM-related (science, technology, engineering and math) field or in business, according to my analysis of integrated post-secondary education data system (IPEDS), the national dataset of college outcomes. Indeed, being a black college dropout negatively affects earnings by at least $10 per hour, according to research by the Economic Policy Institute.

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PROOF POINTS: 861 colleges and 9,499 campuses have closed down since 2004

The Hechinger Report

Thirty-five colleges and universities shut down in 2021, a 70 percent decrease from 2016, when a peak of 120 colleges shuttered, according to an analysis of federal data by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO). Becker College in Worcester, Mass.,

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Top e-learning trends to keep an eye on in 2020

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This drives learner engagement, boosts retention rates and reduces the course dropout rates. AI enables fast data analysis and decision making in learning.

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10 of the best and worst school systems

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Because of the variances in funding for public school systems, the personal-finance website WalletHub recently conducted an analysis of 2017’s States with the Best & Worst School Systems. Unlike other research that focuses primarily on academic outcomes or school finance, however, WalletHub says their analysis take a more comprehensive approach, accounting for performance, funding, safety, class size and instructor credentials.

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Thousands of kids are missing from school. Where did they go?

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Credit: AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek An analysis by The Associated Press, Stanford University’s Big Local News project and Stanford education professor Thomas Dee found an estimated 240,000 students in 21 states whose absences could not be accounted for.

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Segregated schools are still the norm. Howard Fuller is fine with that

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to stop ”subsidizing childbirth” for low-income women because of their alleged propensity to rear low-IQ children) issued grants totaling more than $180,000 in the institute’s early days and has been a frequent funder in the years since, according to the institute’s annual report and an analysis by SourceWatch. K-12 News achievement gap Betsy Devos Charters Graduation and dropouts Mental health and trauma Parents poverty Race

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A battle at one university is a case study in why higher education is so slow to change

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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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Colleges face reckoning as plummeting birthrate worsens enrollment declines

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It’s absolutely bad news,” said Patrick Lane, vice president of WICHE’s policy analysis and research unit. “It’s Tuition continued to go up and dropout rates have barely improved since 2015, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. WORCESTER, Mass.

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Higher education must stand up for Puerto Rico

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There are 203 accredited postsecondary institutions on the island of Puerto Rico, according to analysis of the U.S. Approximately 250,000 students were enrolled in the 155 Puerto Rican institutions that received federal financial aid in the fall of 2015, according to our analysis of the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. Hurricanes Irma and Maria ravaged the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, located in the capital of San Juan, among other colleges.

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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

” When, or if, this doomsday scenario arises for higher education, it will be a combination of the challenges we have examined thus far – costs of “campus-based” education, failing revenue streams, and expensive dropouts. However the failure to adapt to, and embrace, new learning technologies as well as other advanced technologies such as AI, data analysis and machine learning will undoubtedly be the death-knell for most colleges.

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PROOF POINTS: Lessons from transfer schools

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Another transfer school dropout described becoming a manager at a retail store. I’d like to see a good analysis to learn if these schools are ultimately cost effective in reducing future burdens on social services. Alternative high schools often get a bad rap.

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New research offers hope to first-generation college grads

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The report’s findings came from an analysis of three different national surveys that followed almost 50,000 students from high school onward. It’s unclear from the current data if the dropout rates for first-generation students are improving or worsening. That figure reflects dropout rates, too. First-generation students in New York City.

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PROOF POINTS: Most manufacturing certificate holders don’t get jobs in manufacturing

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It’s especially puzzling when there were a half million manufacturing job openings in 2018, during the period of this data analysis, and there are a million openings today, according to the manufacturers’ association.

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