The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2022

It’s not a retail company. It’s a revealing example of how people inside higher education often bristle at adopting strategies from the private sector, and why colleges and universities continue to be slow to change. It’s not a retail company. A university analysis shows that this approach has sharply reduced dropout rates.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

Department of Education data analyzed by The Hechinger Report. These and other challenges mean that, at a time when growing proportions of high school students have been successfully encouraged to go on to college, more than one in five full-time freshmen nationwide fail to return for a second year, according to the data.

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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. Beyond coursework, students swim in a flux of data, buffeted by phone calls, text messages, Facebook updates, Twitter tweets, news crawls, and other sources.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The institute, which opened last year in borrowed space with sweeping views of Casco Bay in Portland’s fast-developing East End, is offering master’s degrees , certificates and professional training in computer science, data analytics, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, cybersecurity and other subjects.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education. He points to the learning management system as an example.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

“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. Related: New data show some colleges are definitively unaffordable for many. Enrique Ferna?ndez,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

One way is through acquisitions like the one his university made of the Claremont School of Theology in California, or CST, which is being moved to the Salem, Oregon, campus of Willamette, just as private companies consolidate to increase their size and cost-effectiveness. Will there be more?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

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. For example, she had trouble finding the area of a triangle and other math involving shapes. It’s a long road of recovery.”

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IAD Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Data : Data is the primary analytics asset. Data is the raw material that gets transformed into analytical insights. Analysis : Analysis is the process of adding intelligence to data using algorithms. Data comes from many sources : Student Information Systems (SIS) : provide demographic and academic data.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Absenteeism in the spring and fall has been similarly high in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dayton, Hartford, Los Angeles and other cities, according to data compiled by the Brookings Institution. Experts say that this means dropout rates, which had been declining for more than a decade, will likely start to rise again.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 5, 2022

Today, edtech companies are actively working on taking digitization even further by converting the traditional LMS into an intelligent learning platform (ILP). 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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Keith Perrigan, Bristol school superintendent since 2017, said he gets emails from companies pitching their social-emotional curricula almost every day. Many of the ideas seemed simple, like small tweaks to language (using “expectations” instead of “rules,” for example). He knows enough to be cautious. But they also saw benefits.

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Edsurge

MAY 11, 2017

That’s why it might come as surprise to hear AspirEDU , an educational analytics company, pitch their Dropout Detective software as an “academic credit score” for students. But Chris Munzo, executive vice president of AspirEDU (and fan of metaphors), compares Dropout Detective to a gym membership—it only works if you use it.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Even though the biggest leap forward of the last few decades, for example — delivering courses online — appears to have lowered costs , the graduation rates of online higher education remain much lower than those of programs taught in person. SNHU, in a collaboration with the education company Pearson, is testing AI grading.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

Wentworth, for example, will add combined four-year bachelor’s and master’s degrees in data science and cybersecurity analytics starting in the fall of 2023, the university says. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Then Covid decimated them. Now, said Goldstein, U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

She’s in good company within her age group: a stunning 65 percent of people aged 18 to 24 have changed their education plans amid the coronavirus, according to a recent Strada Education Network survey. “The I do not want to take classes online and I don’t want to miss out on football games and the whole college experience,” Fogel said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2019

I was concerned and afraid of what might happen to her, but you cannot cut their wings,” said Aranda, an operations manager for a talent supply chain company. One example of that coordination, Miles said, came after the school opened a new residential floor specifically for first-generation students.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

According to state data, the number of young people in state juvenile justice facilities dropped from 901 at the end of 2012 to 386 in 2017. The online coursework is designed by the education company Pearson. That’s a more precipitous decline than seen in the national numbers, which are moving in the same direction. “The

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

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. Her years of assembly line work at Ford left her with debilitating carpal tunnel syndrome, but Perez said she wanted to make it back to the company — off the assembly line, as a manager.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

For now, the science is almost entirely based on data collected from people with European ancestry, which limits the conclusions that can be drawn from it, so researchers feel that they’ve at least temporarily sidestepped the issue. The score’s ability to explain variation in years of schooling could improve with more data.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

While not all states measure college-going in the same way or have data for the same years, some have also seen declines much higher than the national average. billion worth of federal loans borrowed by students of the defunct for-profit Corinthian Colleges, for example. Credit: Austin Anthony for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2019

According to the latest data from the Department of Education, Premier, which operates more than a dozen schools in nine states, had an overall default rate above 30 percent in fiscal year 2016. That could spell trouble for the embattled company, which has already shuttered at least seven schools since last year. percent from 10.8

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

The trend has been propelled by some public universities’ attempts to compensate for budget cuts by luring higher-income and out-of-state students with newer (and more expensive) housing, and by a separate, little-noticed phenomenon of pricey off-campus student apartments being built by private real estate-investment companies.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Bits of student performance data are only just starting to trickle out of the pilot schools, so it’s too early to assess most of them quantitatively. There’s tremendous hype swirling around personalized learning, with money pouring in from foundations and education technology companies eager to capitalize on the trend.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

law schools it accredits, requiring that deans attest personally to their accuracy and occasionally auditing data that raises red flags. Though postgraduate earnings are drawn from IRS data, most of the rest of this information comes from the institutions themselves. States start to demand colleges share the data.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. Developed by a company now called Edgenuity , the platform is available for all K-12 subjects. “It Classrooms were off a hallway with locked doors at both ends.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

The federal share of Medicaid funding, for example, is capped at 55 percent (if Puerto Rico were a state, it could receive 83 percent), residents are denied certain disability benefits and there are restrictions on access to other funding, such as the child tax credit. Its residents are U.S. Some nonprofits have stepped in to fill the gap.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Companies take it on faith that that a college degree is worth the handsome salaries graduates command; in contrast, dropouts suffer with little to show for their aborted time in school. That’s because the actual data would undermine his case. But in his unsupported case for privatization, curiously, his armor disappears.

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Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

” At least the e-cigarette company (which targets teens) offers a social-emotional learning curriculum, right? I mean, clearly the company has a strong grasp on the politics of information. job training company) has raised $117.2 The company also announced that it has acquired the coding bootcamp (a.k.a.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

It’s one example of the many ways that California is taking on seemingly intractable problems that are plaguing higher education nationwide. Related: Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost. But California, with a higher education budget for 2019-2020 of $18.5

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn, for example, predicted in their 2008 book Disrupting Class that by 2019 half of all high school classes would be taught via the Internet. For its part, Udacity has fully rebranded itself as a high-tech job training company, a topic I’ll cover in more detail in a forthcoming article in this series.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2018

The case is among a slew of enforcement actions, lawsuits and legislative proposals through which states are cracking down on for-profit colleges and universities and loan-servicing companies they say cheat or mislead students. Related: Once-high-flying private, for-profit universities seek turnaround strategies. “We

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