EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Famous billionaire college dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and the late Steve Jobs are prominent examples of successes who never completed undergraduate degrees. Internship and work-study programs have a long history and are common at many institutions. In some ways, this is nothing new. Or must they take a leave of absence?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

PHILADELPHIA — At first, Marie Wilkins-Walker was just happy to be back in a classroom. On the floor below Wilkin-Walker’s classroom, David Thiebeau had begun to notice similar challenges. The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Related: Millions of kids are missing school as attendance tanks across the US Thousands of students went missing from American classrooms during the pandemic. She studies how burdensome paperwork and processes often prevent poor people from accessing health benefits. But Tameka says no one from the district has offered her guidance.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

For an absurd example, if dropouts tended to take classes on Thursdays in their first semester at college, but students who completed their degrees didn’t, then you might worry about current students who are currently taking classes on Thursdays. The dropout problem got a lot worse in the 1990s when more people started attending college.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Among the many other problems dragging down Puerto Rico’s stagnant economy, made worse by hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, is a huge high school dropout rate and, among those students who do manage to graduate, a comparatively low trajectory to college — especially college on the mainland — and a high dropout rate there, too.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

Andrea Hernandez studied the multiplication table nearly every day during the summer between her third and fourth grade years. From then until the coronavirus hit, when she was a 16-year-old precalculus student, Hernandez shined in the classroom. This story also appeared in USA Today. She felt she lost her muscle for being a student.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

So, we’ve spent several months traveling the country learning from schools applying best practices and from researchers and educators who have studied what works. And another study found that intensive tutoring had major positive impacts on math gains among high school students. Another is studying inequalities.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

This shouldn’t be news,” said Damon Yarnell, Dickinson’s dean of academic advising, after leading an orientation for new faculty about its early-alert system in a quiet classroom on the college’s distinctive campus of grassy quads bounded by historic limestone buildings. And that‘s what some of them are starting to do.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

Purvis is in her first year of study for an associate degree in nursing at Everett Community College. That’s why I-BEST programs feature two teachers in the classroom: one provides job training and the other teaches basic skills in reading, math or English language. She doesn’t think she would have passed without I-BEST.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

In some cases that means being given more time on tests or being offered the option of using technology for written assignments; in other cases it means having an aide in the classroom working with them individually. He said he never had to study or actually learn anything to get an A. Her parents hired a tutor to help her.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

As a freshman, she constantly got into fights, and spent long hours in a disciplinary classroom. 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. She became chronically absent and lethargic when she was in class. “I

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Conventional wisdom around when and where students learn, what knowledge they need to be successful, and who they are as learners is all rapidly changing, especially as technology becomes more prevalent in classrooms. It is difficult for the 1,200-student district to offer STEM, foreign language or Advanced Placement courses year-round.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2017

In the United States alone, jobs website Indeed reports that reduced productivity stemming from open positions accounted for $160 billion of lost revenue in 2014. One study even found that 45 percent of new graduates are in positions that don’t require a degree. high-profile dropouts and the rise of the so-called “ anti-credential.”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Many of these details are ones that, after 15 years in the classroom, Cruey has learned to pick up on, through careful tracking: what students are wearing, hunger levels and emotional states. My job as a teacher is to be a first responder to poverty,” said Cruey, a 58-year-old middle school social studies teacher at Southside K-8 school. “If

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Two years ago, Nathaniel Albert walked into a first-grade classroom at Andrew H. It’s a rarity to see male teachers in the classroom at all on this floor,” James said. Those destined to be teachers will enter the classroom and find their purpose in the classroom, Jones believes. Teaching is tough,” she said. “If

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Eve, on the city’s majority-Black East Side, 13 first graders, all of them Black, Latino or Asian American, folded paper airplanes in their basement classroom as part of an aerodynamics and problem-solving lesson. Black and Latino children fill 65 percent of New York City classrooms but just 22 percent of gifted seats.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

So says a 2017 study published by the Institute of Policy Studies. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Even if I’d had to pay tuition, attending a community college would have helped me to focus on and excel in my studies. I could have lived at home instead of on campus, saving money on tuition and housing, and spending more time studying and less time at work. The dropout rate is around 70 percent.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Related, via Salon : “ Silicon Valley ’s $300M donation to STEM educatio n is not what it seems.” Via ProPublica : “ For-Profit Schools Get State Dollars For Dropouts Who Rarely Drop In.” classrooms: An army of robots to help autistic students learn social skills.” 2 Post at Ed.

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

” From the Department of Education press release : “Secretary DeVos Accepts President Trump’s Q2 Salary as a Donation for STEM-Focused Camp.” Bloomberg reports that “ Trump Administration Tapping Tech CEOs for STEM Policy Approach.” “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2019

High schoolers in a social studies class at Patchogue-Medford work on a lesson about the history of nationalism. The ideas stemmed from the group’s twice-monthly meetings at the Patchogue library, where they talked about parenting, navigating their new American home, and the schools. The cost of crossing into the U.S.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The University of Louisville ’s head basketball coach has been suspended for the first five Atlantic Coast Conference games of the season, a piece of the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s punishment stemming from a prostitution scandal that has roiled the institution for two years.”

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Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

” Via CNET : “ Trump signs laws to promote women in STEM.” Via NPR: “ To This Scholar, For-Profit Colleges Are ‘Lower Ed’ ” “ For-Profit Schools Rebound Under Trump,” according to the National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education. Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

“ President Trump Earmarks $200 Million in Federal Grants for STEM , Computer Science Programs ,” says Edsurge , later swooning that “ Google , Facebook , Amazon Among Tech Titans Committing $300 Million to K–12 Computer Science.” (National) Education Politics. ” Immigration and Education. .”

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