The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

After all, the plummeting number of prospects makes it much harder to replace dropouts than it was when there was a seemingly bottomless supply of freshmen. Yet colleges remain focused on recruitment, “which they already know how to do,” said Andrew Nichols, senior director of higher education research at The Education Trust.

Dropout 99

Dropout Report Policies Data 99

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2017

He’s trying to figure out how to parcel out his meager paycheck to pay back college loans for a degree he never finished. Honestly, I didn’t know how to handle it. Students who withdraw are also much more likely to default on their loans; dropouts make up two-thirds of defaults nationwide. On a good day, he’s out by 9 p.m.

Dropout 90

Dropout Study Report System 90

Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

He just doesn’t think our current university systems and edtech solutions will get us there. He’s worried that, rather than advancing our human potential, many edtech companies and universities are perpetuating the status quo. He points to the learning management system as an example. This focus on the learner is a big mistake.

Digital Learning 60

Digital Learning Technology MOOC Learning Analytics 60

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.

Dropout 111

Dropout Report Accessibility Study 111

Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

Now we hear from Julia Dexter, co-founder of Squiggle Park, a game-based reading company. I've been classrooms now for many weeks at a time just watching teachers and how they struggle with classrooms with diverse learners across a vast spectrum of skill levels. Not only with children, but teachers, my peers and the system itself.

Learning 146

Learning Dropout Company Groups 146

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

New faculty at Dickinson College attend a training session about how to help students who might be foundering. Yet only a surprisingly small minority of colleges and universities explicitly include their faculty in this work and teach them how to do it, though that number is beginning to grow. CARLISLE, Penn.

Training 80

Training Report Dropout System 80

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Canvas , whiteboards and a company called Blackboard. hulking gathering of higher-ed technology staff, faculty and companies. hulking gathering of higher-ed technology staff, faculty and companies. Your prescriptive solution is your GPS that shows you how to get to your destination.” Solution: offer happier prompts?).

Pearson 60

Pearson Blackboard Survey Learning Analytics 60

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

higher education system is fair had evaporated. Harvard researcher Anthony Jacks revealed in his groundbreaking 2019 book how poor students cleaned showers and toilets and went hungry after cafeterias closed while their wealthier Ivy League classmates fled campus for ski resorts and spring break beaches.

Education 111

Education Policies System Survey 111

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

At the beginning of 2021, The Hechinger Report’s members (individual readers who donated money to our nonprofit news organization) asked us if we would report on the best practices for helping the nation’s public school system recover from the pandemic. Nathan Levenson, former CEO at a crane-manufacturing company. I’m very worried.

STEM 128

STEM Report Course Study 128

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2018

The home of Southwire, a large company producing electrical cabling and wire, Carrolton started a program called 12 for Life designed to boost the high school graduation rate. Related: Lessons of nope: Joel Klein fails to educate us on how to fix our schools.

Dropout 68

Dropout Policies Elementary Data 68

Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Instead of paying money to support people to go to college, this program would pay people to forgo college and instead jump right into building an ambitious company or organization. Because as he’s said publicly many times, he feels the higher education system has what he sees as an irrational following, like a religion.

Facebook 175

Facebook Company System Dropout 175

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.

Dropout 60

Dropout Comparison Data Company 60

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. So systems are really trying to figure out, ‘How do we do that?’ ”. “It’s not something we’re going to make up in a summer or in a year.

Study 138

Study Data Report Elementary 138

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. The biggest challenge is how to fit the requirements of a bachelor’s degree designed to take four years into three. There’s just a sense that we need to do something because we’re losing so many people out of the system.

Report 103

Report Course Dropout Training 103

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Leave this field empty if you're human: In interviews with 45 parents and students and more than 50 other experts, advocates and lawyers across 34 states and the District of Columbia, families and advocates described systemic problems with special education in high school. The system, she said, “failed me.”.

Education 111

Education Strategy Report Training 111

The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2018

We’re about to start a national system of urban work colleges as well as a national consortium or urban work colleges,” its president, Michael Sorrell, said in April. The companies select them,” Sorrell said. Wilberforce and Kuyper have committed to exploring how to launch work college models on their campuses.

Report 91

Report Meeting Accessibility Outcomes 91

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. And despite a lack of regional public transit, the school has no shuttle system for students in surrounding towns, an issue the university’s chancellor, William J. Lowe, acknowledged.

Dropout 108

Dropout Laptops Study Report 108

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

“Taking a leave of absence essentially would end up pulling the plug on all of that as our system is right now,” said Zainab Okolo, a licensed marriage and family therapist and a strategy officer at the Lumina Foundation. The Lumina Foundation is among the numerous funders of The Hechinger Report.).

Course 89

Course Report Strategy System 89

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Already, several companies sell reports to consumers that incorporate polygenic scores for health or various physical characteristics — despite the fact that the scores are not perfect forecasters of a person’s future. Researchers in the field want to see more critical discussion of how their work could be applied in educational settings.“If

Data 58

Data Study Assessment Report 58

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

LAS VEGAS — Last year, before Anthony Boccia joined the teaching staff at Valley High School, his students spent hours in a windowless room in the company of John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. Working long hours, Boccia — known at Valley High as Mr. Tony — is learning how to run his classroom via trial and error, one day at a time.

Training 40

Training Dropout Report Meeting 40

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Data is collected by the nonprofit journalism organization The Hechinger Report and comes from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System of the National Center for Education Statistics, which in turn is an arm of the U.S. Tuition Tracker lets families see what they will actually pay, depending on their household income, for any U.S.

Survey 88

Survey Data Report Dropout 88

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Some of the queries were straightforward: how to enroll, the price of tuition, how to register for classes. After 20 years as a house cleaner, she’d gotten better work as a packaging operator at local manufacturing and pharmaceutical companies, but kept losing jobs because she had trouble filling out the required forms.

Software 94

Software Report Trends Adobe 94

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

At the meeting, a special education teacher had recommended taking the boy out of Martin Elementary School, in a town 10 miles southwest, and placing him in Georgia’s Network for Educational and Therapeutic Support, or GNETS, a statewide system for children with “emotional and behavioral disorders.”.

Education 80

Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System 80

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

To try to get some answers, EdSurge recently sat down with Donald Graham, chairman of Graham Holdings Company, the group that sold the 15-campus Kaplan University to Purdue (for just $1). We will be paid for our services, and the profits if any will go to Purdue, and hopefully back into the whole educational system.

Kaplan 72

Kaplan Course Dropout Company 72

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Puerto Rico’s school system is both uniquely vulnerable to natural disasters that are becoming more common across the U.S. Over the past two years, he has signed off on almost $6 billion in federal dollars for the island’s school system. That way we’re not having the same conversation in 20 years,” he said.

Elementary 103

Elementary Report Dropout System 103

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

“We have to admit,” Cantor assures us,” academic success is a great way to get a job, but a poor way to learn how to do a good job.” 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.

Dropout 80

Dropout Data Training Secondary 80

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Then she was summoned to the financial aid office, where she learned that the university, part of the California State University System, was giving her a grant of up to $1,500 to help her get across the finish line. “I She considered quitting, or transferring to a community college. I walked out of the office crying. The upshot?

Education 96

Education Policies Course System 96

Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Via Politico : “The Kansas Supreme Court rejected the state’s school funding system in a ruling issued Monday that found it runs afoul of the state’s constitution by failing to adequately and equitably fund its school districts.” ” The largest student loan company is Navient.

Education 49

Education Robotics Company MOOC 49

Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

Students selling notes online a legal gray area, schools say | ArkansasOnline → University of Arkansas faculty members are debating how to best deal with the selling of lecture notes by students, spurred on by the practices of online study resource companies known for aggressive recruiting tactics.

EdTech 170

EdTech Coursera Data Case Study 170

Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

” Via Politico : “Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has increased her financial stake in a ‘neurofeedback’ company that says its technology treats attention deficit disorder and the symptoms of autism. “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? ” $100,000. ” asks Education Dive.

Education 43

Education MOOC Company Report 43

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The Department of Education last week outlined changes to civil rights investigations that advocates fear will mean less consistent findings of systemic discrimination at colleges.” ” The company has raised $16.5 He places former Yale president Richard Levin.

Education 44

Education Coursera MOOC Kaplan 44

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

News from the most well-funded ed-tech company, student loan provider SoFi : SoFi settles w/ FTC over allegations it misrepresented how much borrowers save by refinancing. How a College Dropout Plans to Replace the SAT and ACT.” Really looking forward to this new testing company though! million total.

Education 53

Education Company Report IXL Learning 53

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Meanwhile, the state has given initial approval for ECOT to become a “dropout school.” ” See how many factual errors you can find in this article! Edsurge profiles the latest from Degreed : “This Company Wants to Help You Hire for Skills, Not Credentials.” ” Immigration and Education. .”

Education 47

Education Company Data Report 47

Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

Those who are keeping systems in place are very focused on power,” said Hammer. And we’ve already seen with the airbag how that can be problematic.” Speaking on a panel about making edtech companies more diverse and inclusive, Moncayo was joined by Carolina Huaranca, Principal at Kapor Capital. Any guesses?)

Education 89

Education Policies Company Dropout 89