Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2023

EdSurge: When you arrived at Southern New Hampshire back in 2003, there were some online courses but just a few. And the Navy said, rightly, every time we put a ship out to sea, all of those sailors are suddenly college dropouts. It was changing the way we were doing courses. SNHU had these satellite sites on Navy bases.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Kameshwari Shankar watched for years as college and university courses were increasingly taught online instead of face to face, but without a definitive way of understanding which students benefited the most from them, or what if anything they learned. Credit: Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

Now, just as happened in the last recession, it is likely to take them even longer and cost more, while — after years of hard-won progress — dropout rates rise and graduation rates fall. Of course, many of these decisions about whether, where and how to go to college are being driven by new financial realities.

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Hapara

JANUARY 26, 2023

While the curriculum and learning standards are of course important, you can’t simply put all of your focus on academics. This included “higher student academic engagement, attendance, grades, fewer disruptive behaviors and suspensions, and lower school dropout rates.”

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Over the course of three days, meeting attendees collaborated in working groups on topics like competency-based education, personalized learning, and maker research. They also identified new partnerships they will continue with researchers, companies, and fellow League districts. ” During a keynote address at the meeting, Dr.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

The classroom environment encourages peer-to-peer interaction, group discussions, and collaborative projects, fostering a sense of community and camaraderie among students. Classroom environments promote active participation, group activities, and real-time interaction with teachers and classmates, enhancing comprehension and social skills.

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Online Learning Classroom Learning E-rate 52

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

These short courses last from as little as a few weeks to as long as a year and don’t confer a traditional college degree but, instead, end with a certificate. Why would someone sign up for a manufacturing course, pass the certification exam and not land a manufacturing job? They’re like the Wild West of education. That’s a mystery.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2022

Normally, I would read a self-serving report by a consulting group and file it away. Another transfer school dropout described becoming a manager at a retail store. Because of missing data, Eskolta researchers were unable to prove that attendance rates or course grades were better at transfer schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

He likes the self-paced curriculum that allows students to complete a course in significantly less time than at a traditional school. Like many alternative schools, The Charter School of San Diego allows students behind on credits to complete courses online at an accelerated pace. Some students reported finishing a course in two weeks.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2018

But when the caller started sharing specifics about her prior enrollment dates and courses, the 32-year-old mother of two from Southaven, Mississippi, grew curious. Go Back” campaign in Indiana, among the several states trying to get college dropouts to finish their college educations. I was going to hang up,” she recalled. “I

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Dropout Libraries Report Secondary 70

EdNews Daily

APRIL 22, 2017

As high school dropout rates increase and the lack of motivation for students to learn science grows, the U.S. In particular, Hispanics and Latinos are one group in urban schools that lack the support for STEM education. They can also help young people prevent the loss of future career opportunities. The Future of STEM Education.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2019

It comes with the promise of deciding the course of education. To fine-tune online courses and offerings. The good thing is, while people can always take professional courses to learn Data Science, it is birthing discussions offline and online. In education, Data Science can have several impacts: For technology investment.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

Many students whose last years of high school were disrupted by the pandemic are struggling academically in the foundational college courses they need to succeed later in their academic and professional careers. He earned an A in his AP calculus course, but scored a 2 on the AP exam, which required him to retake the course in college.

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Education Course Report Policies 129

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

At two-year institutions, admission is accessible, tuition is affordable, and flexible coursework fits into schedules complicated not only by jobs and families, but counseling, support groups and doctor visits. “I A new networking group for community college program coordinators held its first call in February.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2021

The need to address these problems isn’t new, of course. The good news is that bridge builders — including nonprofit civic groups, economic development agencies and businesses and educators — have shown in recent years how to bring the right parties together to make change. They had to.

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Dropout Industry Education Mobility 94

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

As a state, we cannot afford to leave anyone behind,” said Alex Hermida, senior research analyst at the Minnesota Office of Higher Education and chair of a state-led group that is tackling the challenge. It is using the money — roughly $164,000 — to provide more intensive advising to students of color in remedial education courses.

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Dropout Secondary Course Report 72

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Educators and school leaders are scrambling to figure out how to regain ground next year in a course that often makes or breaks students’ life chances. Only half of students who take college algebra score C or higher in the course, a 2015 report by the Mathematical Association of America noted. I’m very worried.

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STEM Report Course Study 128

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

In normal times, students enrolled in her courses as 10th graders already knew how to navigate high school life. The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. At home in front of her Chromebook, she struggled to get motivated for her online courses. “My

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Dropout Chromebook Report System 100

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

The district’s class of 2010 had a 73 percent graduation rate for students in special education and a 13 percent dropout rate — double the dropout rate for the student body overall. The high dropout rate for students with disabilities is a pressing national problem. With that comes low self-confidence, he added.

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Dropout E-rate Education Secondary 94

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. These are online representations of an earned skill, often through taking small credit courses aimed toward working and non-degree-seeking individuals.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

A year ago, a group of prominent economists led by Raj Chetty of Stanford University came out with a splashy piece of research measuring exactly how much each college in the nation helps working-class kids rise up the economic ladder. You’ve probably heard the stories about the millions of dropouts who are saddled with debt.

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System Dropout Groups Data 103

Marketplace K-12

JUNE 9, 2016

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has joined the board of directors for Pluralsight , a Utah-based ed-tech company that provides online courses in various subjects, including software development and information technology, the news site Fast Company reported Thursday.

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Company Dropout Advocacy Facebook 40

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

For an absurd example, if dropouts tended to take classes on Thursdays in their first semester at college, but students who completed their degrees didn’t, then you might worry about current students who are currently taking classes on Thursdays. The dropout problem got a lot worse in the 1990s when more people started attending college.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

The dean’s list student ended up a college dropout, a gay 20-something cut off from his parents after coming out, and working at a UPS Store in a job he described as “retail drudgery” while running up credit card debt and stringing out his college loans. A meeting with an Aon recruiter changed her course. Credit: Juawana Allen.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time. To address absenteeism, school administrators have turned to outside groups to help implement data-informed intervention and outreach strategies.

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Strategy Learning Data Dropout 191

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

Wilson, 47, started taking courses in 2019, a few months before the pandemic hit and just before he lost his job as an elementary school music teacher. 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.

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Dropout Policies Data Report 102

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Community and business groups around the country share the same fear. Experts say that this means dropout rates, which had been declining for more than a decade, will likely start to rise again. Credit: John Greim/Loop Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. How can we work together to fix it?’ ”. Gregory VanDyke Jr.,

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Survey Laptops Dropout Report 140

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2020

The number taking microcredential programs from edX, the online course provider created by MIT and Harvard and the other major provider of this educational model, rose to 65,000 by the end of April, increasing 14-fold since early March alone. And if we lose someone, instead of being a dropout, they’ll have a certificate. No, it’s not.

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Industry Dropout Pearson Report 135

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

racial and ethnic groups. Regional colleges will be under pressure to cut liberal arts courses and expand professional programs, such as law enforcement, that students feel will translate into a good-paying job. Of course, Grawe’s predictions may turn out to be wrong. “But you can understand.

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Dropout Trends Report Data 111

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2019

” Of course, we’d never do this in health care. We are now working with a group of communities in our By All Means initiative where leaders have committed to piloting Success Plans. We’ve always done this. It’s more convenient for us. It won’t be perfect, but it will contribute to public health.”

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Dropout Education System Data 106

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2018

Connelly, who is pioneering a new course in social and emotional wellness, added: “I don’t know who thought white desks and rolling chairs were good ideas for high school students.”. District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. Smaller communities.

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Personalized Learning Chromebook Learning Groups 76

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

. “For us, it was surprising just how low the Latino degree attainment numbers are and how significant the gaps are in certain states,” said Andrew Howard Nichols, senior director of higher education research and data analytics at The Education Trust, a nonprofit group that conducts research and advocates for low-income students.

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Dropout Comparison Report Trends 82

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

And while the No Child Left Behind education law made it hard to use anything but multiple-choice-based standardized tests, its replacement, the Every Student Succeeds Act, opens the door for a course correction – or at least it unlocks that door. The new education law creates an opening for states to change course.

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Dropout Assessment System Policies 77

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Photo: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. Colleges are also working to reduce their numbers of dropouts on the principle that it’s cheaper to provide the kind of support required to keep tuition-paying students than to recruit more. When Steve Thorsett crunched the numbers, things looked grim. Will there be more?

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Dropout Training Industry Kaplan 73

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

It was very much like a factory they put you in and put you through,” said Chris Clause, who started college after high school but never finished and now, at 29, has returned to take courses at the Rivet School toward a degree in business management. Students graduate with a certificate of completion from the Rivet School. “It

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Report Dropout System Company 116

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Late one afternoon, while on shift at a group home for adults with developmental disabilities, I found Larry, one of the residents with Down syndrome, sitting alone at the kitchen table. That was the moment from the time I spent working with adults in the group home leading me back to school to become a special education teacher.

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Dropout Groups Report Classroom 70

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Hernandez, a 33-year-old mother of four and high school dropout, had already overcome an array of obstacles on her nearly five-year journey. “No No matter how much I studied, I was failing,” Hernandez said, recalling the pediatric and medical-surgical care course that almost felled her. “I I was just so frustrated.”.

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