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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In 2020, according to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the high school dropout rate was 5.3% About McGraw Hill McGraw Hill is a leading global education company that partners with millions of educators, learners and professionals around the world. Learn more at www.ancorahigh.com.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 23, 2019

When schools persistently graduate less than half of their students of color and students with disabilities, we call those schools dropout factories. Real change can come from our unanimous stance against ineffective edtech, including predatory companies who make baseless claims in order to sell their products.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

A range of specialist companies and private institutions is now providing excellent higher education components, as well as providing ancillary and support services such as examination and certification services, learning support, learning analytics, etc. .” A grim future for today’s providers of HE?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The dropout spike was even more startling for community college students like Izzy, an increase of about 3.5 The rising dropout rate on college campuses has consequences for individual students, their families and the economy. Related: Many young adults choose work over college, report shows. percentage points.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

A report published Thursday by the Student Borrower Protection Center , a nonprofit advocacy group focused on student debt, attempts to quantify the scope of this problem. The report was provided jointly to The Hechinger Report and the Los Angeles Times. The pain from these debts is not felt evenly, researchers said.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Although everyone wants magic solutions that can transform high-school dropouts into Google engineers in six months, this rarely happens. Employers need to be willing to invest in this talent after they hire them—and to recognize that the companies might need to change the way they train managers and onboard teams.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

For two years we’ve had sort of a petri dish of experimenting with learning online,” said Anant Agarwal, chief platform officer of the online program management company 2U and former CEO of edX, the online provider created by MIT and Harvard and sold last year to 2U for $800 million. Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

Photo: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report. This podcast about colleges using predictive analytics is produced by APM Reports. Photo: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report. Companies like Amazon and Netflix have been using data tools like these for years to track our clicks and steer us to buy or watch more of their products.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2024

Bilingual education’s impact With 1 in every 10 students experiencing a lack of English proficiency, millions are at risk for struggles with reading and writing comprehension, reduced academic achievement, and less rigorous tracks of study, which lead to increased dropout rates, and lowered educational attainment and human capital.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

Department of Education data analyzed by The Hechinger Report. That, in turn, contributes to the fact that more than a third of students who start college still haven’t earned degrees after six years, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center reports , often piling up loan debt with no payoff.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report. Greenville County Schools has begun partnering with companies in the area, such as BMW and Michelin, to develop courses in mechatronics and automotive research. Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report. “We Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The Roux Institute opened last year in borrowed space in this tech company building on the Portland, Maine, waterfront to teach computer science and other subjects. Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report. It reports enrolling 313 students this semester.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. Of those who do enroll at universities on the island, fewer than half earn degrees, even after six years , the advocacy group Excelencia in Education reports, compared to more than 58 percent of college students nationwide.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Credit: Amanda Cain for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Amanda Cain for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Amanda Cain for The Hechinger Report. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Credit: Amanda Cain for The Hechinger Report. They are not likely to go and seek help.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

On a laptop in the nearly empty office, he worked on code for a webpage he was developing for his employer, the learning materials company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. In half an hour, he needed to join a conference call about changes to the company’s website. He had been at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for four months.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

Like many dropouts, Floyd always intended to finish his college education. The number of college dropouts swelled during the tight labor market; an additional 2 million people joined their ranks from only a year and a half earlier in 2018. The Lumina Foundation is also among the many funders of The Hechinger Report.).

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2017

Photo: Meredith Kolodner/The Hechinger Report. Students who withdraw are also much more likely to default on their loans; dropouts make up two-thirds of defaults nationwide. The number of dropouts with federal loans at these institutions has grown from 35,443 in 2007-09 to more than 56,600 in 2013-15. [But]

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

That is why many companies and colleges have been taking deliberate efforts to increase diversity in their organizations. Related: How one district solved the special education dropout problem. We urge more companies to follow in this auspicious trend of hiring those with learning differences due to neurodiversity.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Experts say that this means dropout rates, which had been declining for more than a decade, will likely start to rise again. Related: Report finds a drop in Black enrollment at most top public colleges and universities. Then Covid hit and everyone went into disaster mode. We’re just triaging. Financial challenges are also mounting.

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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. Credit: Sarah Garland for The Hechinger Report. Your stories. math-teaching?experts.?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

More than 400 colleges and universities still had seats available for freshmen and transfer students after the traditional May 1 deadline to enroll for this fall, the National Association for College Admission Counseling reports. More are likely to go under; Moody’s projects that the pace of college closings will soon reach 15 per year.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2018

American profit and revenue are often attributed to the outsized efforts of strong CEOs, lead financiers and highly-competitive companies. To make it as an ed tech start-up, to grow into a successful online institution or company or to maintain a dominant position, sales must rise, and do so quickly and constantly.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

Photo: Eveline Chao for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Eveline Chao for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Eveline Chao for The Hechinger Report. A study found an 18-percent difference between dropout rates for low-income students with high arts participation (4 percent drop out) and those with less arts involvement (22 percent).

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

That F often transposed into poor work reports or lateral/downward movements in the company. University of California, California high school dropouts cost state $46.4 If you pursued employment, that A turned into a raise, a better office space, or prestige among your colleagues. billion annually. UC Santa Barbara. Stevens, T.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

Credit: Noah Willman for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Noah Willman for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Noah Willman for The Hechinger Report. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Credit: Noah Willman for The Hechinger Report. Then Covid decimated them.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

More broadly, nearly 73 percent in the Fall 2021 American College Health Association National College Health Assessment survey reported moderate or serious psychological distress. Credit: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report ?. Credit: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report ?. Credit: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report ?.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Photo: Harrison Jones for The Hechinger Report. million since the most recent peak, in 2011, the National Student Clearinghouse reports. Photo: Harrison Jones for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Harrison Jones for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Harrison Jones for The Hechinger Report. CARLISLE, Penn.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. The repercussions of not learning to read are magnified for poor children: Research shows that low-income children who cannot read at grade level by third grade are six times more likely to become high school dropouts. “In Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. BRONX, N.Y. —

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2020

An education technology company called Course Hero surveyed students last month about their financial needs; among the more than 14,000 who responded, rent and food were nearly tied for first place. His dad’s company cut his hours and slashed his pay to minimum wage, Abrena said, with no guarantee of how long he would stay employed.

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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. A federal evaluation found no effects of 12 for Life on students’ grade-point averages, the number of suspensions or the number of school dropouts.).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. Keith Perrigan, Bristol school superintendent since 2017, said he gets emails from companies pitching their social-emotional curricula almost every day. Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

article reported that students of universities such as Stanford are spending over $100,000 collectively each semester on course materials that are already freely available to them on the thousands of library databases they don’t know they have access to. This is not a new problem, nor a specific issue pertaining to my university.

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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. The post How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Your stories.

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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). These systems also provide assessments, feedback and reporting tools, as well as automation and gamification, among many other features. Lower dropout rates.

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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. Switches, routers, panels and projectors. Cornhole, crane games, magic shows and light-up swords. Solution: offer happier prompts?).

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

Some 10 percent of high school seniors who were planning to attend a four-year college or university before the pandemic now say they’re going to do something else, the consulting firm SimpsonScarborough reports. appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2019

Photo: Aaron Cantú for The Hechinger Report. 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. Photo: Aaron Cantú for The Hechinger Report. Robert Aranda knew it was coming. When Alexis accepted an offer from St.

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