Course Dropout Learning Seminar 
The Hechinger Report
MAY 18, 2020
Educators typically loathe the idea of denying anyone an opportunity to learn, which is what happens in a randomized controlled trial. Students were required to attend college full time, participate in a first-year seminar and meet frequently with an adviser. Providing many services is expensive, of course.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 25, 2021
It had been 26 years since the 45-year-old sat in a math course, but in January she found herself surrounded by fellow students, many as young as her sons, at Wallace State Community College, where she now is working on an associate degree to be an administrative assistant. I was very thankful for taking that lab course,” she said. “It
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The Hechinger Report
APRIL 6, 2022
Then, like millions of other students across the country, Hernandez was forced to shift to learning online. For the rest of her junior year and most of her senior year, she learned from a laptop in her family’s living room, with her younger sibling taking Zoom classes down the hall in their shared bedroom.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 4, 2018
Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. 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. Dropouts cost colleges a collective $16.5 or a solid B, according to the education consulting company Civitas Learning.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 16, 2018
The next school day and a just a few floors below, Miller is in the school’s biotechnology lab where students are learning the skills they would need for a job testing specimens for the presence of amalyse, the protein enzyme that breaks down starch into sugar. It’s a challenging curriculum for high schoolers, O’Toole said.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
Among single, Black and Latino fathers, the dropout rate is about 70 percent. He took a few college courses, planning to join the military, but then decided that he might as well enroll full time in the hope of getting a job in cybersecurity. Castillo had his first child when he was 16. It’s been a rough go since then.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 16, 2017
(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik. FRAMINGHAM, Mass.
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