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Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts

The Hechinger Report

It’s a small but noteworthy example of a new emphasis at colleges and universities on plugging the steady drip of dropouts who end up with little to show for their time and tuition, wasting taxpayer money that subsidizes public universities and leaving employers without enough of the graduates they need to fill jobs. Dickinson stayed.

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The Secret to Preventing Community College Dropouts? Start With Middle School

Edsurge

That's probably the best place, and then we can hook up a video conference, just like what we're doing here! Well, Sam, thank you—if anybody want to get any more information about Putnam County Schools, where can they go? Oh gosh, I guess the best place would be my email, brookss4@pcsstn.com.

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Tuesday, May 19 Events - The Learning Revolution Online Daily Education Conference #learningrevolution

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Welcome to the Tuesday, May 19th edition of the 2020 Learning Revolution daily online conference. The conference hashtag is #learningrevolution. with Vinayadhar Raju, ZPHS Jangapally 1:00 PM - Helping Students Graduate: Tools & Strategies to Lower the Number of School Dropouts & Raise Graduation Rates with Franklin P.

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Leadership Ignited

A Principal's Reflections

I have tweeted over the past couple weeks my excitement for the new structure of the NASSP Annual Conference. The result is that attendees will return home with action plans of interconnected ideas, rather than the scattered array of stand-alone ideas and initiatives that typify some conferences. Use of time.

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Why America Needs More Black Male Teachers

Edsurge

Second, Black male students benefit from having a Black male teacher, with research findings noting lower dropout rates, fewer disciplinary issues, more positive views of schooling and better test scores.

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A battle at one university is a case study in why higher education is so slow to change

The Hechinger Report

The stakes have gotten higher now that Utah legislators are tying millions of dollars in funding for UVU the state’s other public higher education institutions to meeting goals including raising graduation rates and the number of degrees conferred. A university analysis shows that this approach has sharply reduced dropout rates.

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When the punishment is the same as the crime: Suspended for missing class

The Hechinger Report

Suspensions can also contribute to new problems, such as lower academic performance and higher dropout rates. Districts and charters use a mix of approaches to address absenteeism, the Hechinger/AZCIR investigation found, including warnings, parent conferences, detentions, in-school suspensions and out-of-school suspensions.

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