The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Related: PROOF POINTS: Shop class sometimes boosts college going, Massachusetts study finds. Meanwhile, the overall dropout rate at regional voc-techs is 0.5 Chris Sinacola is a former newspaper editor and the author of five books. There’s significant evidence that these pillars produce successful voc-tech students.

Dropout 102

Dropout Industry Secondary Elementary 102

Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 24, 2016

In his highly-acclaimed book, Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement , he highlighted 138 different factors that can influence student learning success. Study after study, researcher after researcher, finds the same few things about retention: No long-term achievement gains.

Dropout 0

Dropout Policies Comparison Study 0

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

While general education classrooms at Covina High School in this town in the Valley east of Los Angeles were stocked with algebra and geometry books, Parry was given a book that covered only basic math. The high dropout rate for students with disabilities is a pressing national problem.

Dropout 94

Dropout E-rate Education Secondary 94

The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Studies suggest affordability is one of the leading causes of attrition. The Oregon Tribal Student Grant covers tuition, housing and books at public institutions and some private universities for undergraduate and graduate students belonging to Oregon’s nine federally recognized tribes. That’s because the U.S.

Groups 91

Groups Accessibility Policies Advocacy 91

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

But high schools often neglect to teach these students the soft skills that will help them in higher education — like how to study, manage their time and self-advocate. Skills like knowing how to ask for help or organize a study group “are as important as anything else you’re going to learn,” said Tudisco. It’s a crisis.

Study 89

Study Advocacy Report Outcomes 89

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

One study by the Louisiana board of education showed that 40 percent of retained eighth graders did not even make it to a high-school campus after being held back. Related: A new movement to treat troubled children as ‘sad, not bad’. Students who failed LEAP suddenly have more options than pass or fail.

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Analysis Report Data Policies 128

EdNews Daily

MARCH 6, 2020

He handed me a roll book, the keys to my classroom and wished me good luck. When teachers graduates from college they have a lot of book learning but are not competent to function as a quality educator. It is like reading every book there is to learn how to swim, taking a test on swimming and then being thrown into the ocean.

Secondary 130

Secondary Training Survey Dropout 130