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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Dropout Report Accessibility Study 111

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

A two-year pilot program for a year-round, after-school theater club at Yung Wing was underwritten by Freddie and Myrna Gershon, a philanthropically minded theater-world couple (Freddie is chairman and CEO of the licensing company Music Theatre International). Bush-era No Child Left Behind policies and the 2008 recession.

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Dropout Elementary Report Common Core 77

Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

In addition to better collaboration and communication throughout the university, there are a number of edtech companies out there that synthesize the process for you. OER awareness (or lack thereof) stems from misunderstanding of how OERs work, and the complete ignorance of its very existence.

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OER Libraries Dropout Case Study 60

GoConqr

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Dropout rates increase, test and project scores dip, and – worst of all – learning becomes synonymous with boredom. One of the criticisms that’s been aimed at the use of technology in schools, however, is that it is being used solely to prepare users to enter the tech workforce by corralling them into STEM-related subjects.

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Technology Classroom Learning Dropout 67

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The inexperience of modern-day faculty with helping students who have non-academic problems stems in part from the evolution of American higher education, said Adrianna Kezar, a professor of higher education at the University of Southern California who studies this. And that‘s what some of them are starting to do.”.

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Training Report Dropout System 81

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. “It’s not something we’re going to make up in a summer or in a year. It’s a long road of recovery.” Whitney Oakley, Guilford County Schools.

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Study Data Report Elementary 137

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. They only back companies led by college dropouts and people who never studied in higher ed.

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Facebook Company System Dropout 171

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2018

Related: Universities and colleges struggle to stem big drops in enrollment. Alana Wolf at her summer internship at a theater company in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. It’s a blessing being bestowed on more and more applicants to college, according to admission consultants and observers of the largely secretive admission process.

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Policies Report Academic Standards Meeting 81

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Unfortunately, she added, teachers often don’t know how to address this — a problem that stems from teaching preparation programs. “In His dad works as a foreman at a painting company and has hired Michael. In every setting I’ve worked in, special ed has been the red-headed stepchild. McLaughlin said Michael likes the program.

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Education Strategy Report Training 111

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. Photo: Sarah Gonser. It’s basically a warm body in the room, just to make sure students are supervised.”.

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Training Dropout Report Meeting 40

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

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. Black students struggle to acquire wealth.

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Dropout STEM Analysis Company 87

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

After college, Taylor started an oil company and eventually made the Forbes list of world’s richest people. ‘A At the time, a third of Louisiana’s adults were high school dropouts. Officials also believe the scholarship has helped stem a brain drain from the state. A college education for everyone’. Though Moore’s 4.14

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Dropout Policies STEM Outcomes 81

Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Related, via Salon : “ Silicon Valley ’s $300M donation to STEM educatio n is not what it seems.” Via the AP: “A new federal lawsuit by Pennsylvania ’s attorney general says the nation’s largest student loan company engaged in abusive practices that have cost borrowers billions of dollars.”

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Education Robotics Company MOOC 49

Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ For-Profit Companies With the Highest Enrollments at Their Colleges, Fall 2016.” Via CNBC : “ Google , Apple and 13 other companies that no longer require employees to have a college degree.” despite having Arizona ’s third-highest dropout rate.”

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Education MOOC Kaplan Robotics 46

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. Bloomberg reports that “ Trump Administration Tapping Tech CEOs for STEM Policy Approach.”

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Education MOOC Company Report 43

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

Some internet-access advocates say EBS is underutilized at best, and wasted at worst, because loose regulatory oversight by the FCC has allowed most of the spectrum to fall into the hands of commercial internet companies. ” The company has raised $16.5 He places former Yale president Richard Levin. The Business of Job Training.

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Education Coursera MOOC Kaplan 44

Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

” Via CNET : “ Trump signs laws to promote women in STEM.” ” Reminder: here are the education companies Palantir founder Peter Thiel has invested in. Via Edsurge : “What Colleges Should Know About A Growing ‘ Talent Strategy ’ Push By Companies.” ”). .” ” Grover.

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Education MOOC Company Pearson 40

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.” ” ( No disclosure that Edsurge shares investors with the company.).

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Education Company Data Report 47

Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

” This stems from a protest at the University of Connecticut. ” Via The Economic Times : “Startups in student-lending sector see dropouts, but some score too.” ” I’ll be adding student loan company Quiklo to the ed-tech dead pool. ” The Business of Student Loans. .” million total.

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Kaplan Education Robotics E-rate 50