The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Photo: Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report. In this ongoing series, The Hechinger Report is visiting high schools that have beaten the long odds to learn what’s behind their success in improving graduation rates and sending more students to college. Photo: Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report. Research found that a $3.5

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

A Stanford University study finds that dropout rates were lower in Oakland, California, high schools that offered a special class for black students called the Manhood Development Program. Advising and college counseling were part of the course, too. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose from our newsletters.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In 2020, according to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the high school dropout rate was 5.3% Students go through a guided, asynchronous course experience, monitored by course coaches and student success champions, that is designed to move students through their coursework efficiently.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2023

Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report Community colleges say they can’t help the neediest students get through college successfully without more funding. Obviously, all those college dropouts aren’t improving local work forces. And state lawmakers aren’t keen to write community colleges blank checks without accountability.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Demand for shorter, more focused courses is growing, and universities are finding themselves “unbundling” their core offerings in order to keep up. Almost half of all Ontario secondary school teachers report using YouTube or video elements in their classrooms. Read more: Why blended learning will become an educational norm.

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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. The Hechinger Report, which produced this story, is also housed at Teachers College.). Credit: Eric England for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

More than two-thirds of all community college students and 40 percent of undergraduates in four-year colleges had to start with at least one remedial class, according to a statistical report from the U.S. Going straight to college courses helped more students earn college credits in English but that didn’t help them get through college.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Credit: Steven Vargo for The Hechinger Report. This, and what they perceive as a crackdown on the toughest teachers, they say, coerce them into trying to keep students happy by making courses less demanding and awarding higher grades that aren’t deserved. “I Credit: Steven Vargo for The Hechinger Report. I do it myself.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 15, 2021

By doing so, schools will continue to reduce kids to proficiency scales, score reports, and individualized, dehumanized, numerical widgets in mechanistic, technocratic educational systems. Of course students need to have factual knowledge and procedural fluency. ’ But how we get there is always up for negotiation.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

This drives learner engagement, boosts retention rates and reduces the course dropout rates. Overall, gamified learning courses make the content more appealing to each learner, boost their motivation and simplify the learning process. Read more: 3 Gamification principles for a gamified learning environment.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

According to a preliminary October 2020 report from National Student Clearinghouse Research Center that tallied fall enrollment figures from just over half of the nation’s colleges and universities, the number of undergraduate students has fallen 4 percent since the fall of 2019. It could continue for years and affect a whole generation.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2022

But an April 2022 report by Eskolta School Research and Design, a nonprofit consultancy that provides training and services to alternative schools in New York, Boston and Washington, D.C., The report, How They Thrive: Lessons from New York City Alternative School Alumni , was also written by Anelfi Maria and Alicia Wolcott.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Credit: Oliver Parini for The Hechinger Report. 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?

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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: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report.

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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. Photo: Linh Tat for The Hechinger Report. Like many alternative schools, The Charter School of San Diego allows students behind on credits to complete courses online at an accelerated pace.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2018

Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. 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.

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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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Photo:Liz Willen/ The Hechinger Report. Loud cheering, a drum line, endless applause and a full buffet at Jackson’s convention center on Thursday night accompanied the release of a report that could herald in a top-to-bottom overhaul of the 24,000-student school system here. The report does not sugarcoat the system’s problems.

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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. Credit: Erika Rich for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Erika Rich for The Hechinger Report. “It

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. The Hechinger Report, which produced this story, is also housed at Teachers College.). (The The Hechinger Report, which produced this story, is also housed at Teachers College.). Students are just assuming it will work out. Why wouldn’t it?

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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

APRIL 14, 2021

The need to address these problems isn’t new, of course. As a result, dropout rates are down, high school graduation rates are up and the number of students successfully transferring from the community colleges to the public university has more than tripled. “If Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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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

APRIL 7, 2024

Credit: Leah Fabel for The Hechinger Report Collegiate recovery programs began appearing at four-year institutions in the late 1970s, offering services like sober-living dorms, life skills classes and recovery coaches. Credit: Leah Fabel for The Hechinger Report But the toughest scrambles are often for staff and funding.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2023

It focuses primarily on how students have fallen behind in core academic areas such as reading and math, which is of course a critical issue. According to a report published in 2017 by the Economic Policy Institute, large urban districts spend approximately $20,000 on every new hire.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Credit: James Bernal for The Hechinger Report But before dropping out a third time, Johnson connected with Jovenes Inc., Nationally, reports indicate that 20 to 40 percent of youth aging out of foster care lack stable housing. Her grades fell to Ds, and she thought, “College just may not be for me.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2020

Credit: Photo: Ronda Churchill for The Hechinger Report. 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. They don’t have time to waste.

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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. Data source: National Student Clearinghouse Graphic credit: Andy Kruse/APM Reports. This story was produced in partnership with American Public Media.

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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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EdTech Education Policies Assessment 124

The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2018

Over the next eight years, until they leave the district for high school, they will cycle through learning about 54 different careers, including real estate agent, paralegal, dietitian, reporter, graphic designer, sociologist, urban and regional planner and financial analyst. Related: Using vocational education to teach academic courses.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report. It reports enrolling 313 students this semester. Department of Education reports. It seems a bad time to start a university or college. Related: Colleges face reckoning as plummeting birthrate worsens enrollment declines.

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Report Dropout System Company 117

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2022

Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report. And the state’s community colleges, which depend on the same dwindling supply of learners, are reporting record numbers of applications for the fall. Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report. “I Credit: Molly Haley for The Hechinger Report. People want that.”.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 24, 2016

Significantly higher dropout rates. Retention has found to be a stronger predictor of student dropout than socioeconomic status or parental education. Most parents care very much about their children’s literacy development, of course. Image credit: Mackenzie Ryan, Des Moines Register education reporter.

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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. News and World Report , Latinos make up less than 10% of STEM-related careers. They can also help young people prevent the loss of future career opportunities. According to U.S. The Future of STEM Education.

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2018

One headline in The New York Times summed-up the findings: “Online Courses Fail Those Who Need Help.” As has been common since the very first large-scale studies were reported more than ten years ago, blended models—ones that mix and match face-to-face with online—emerged with the strongest outcomes. community colleges.

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Education Dropout Course Study 106

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report. In high school, students are expected to complete a career cluster by taking several courses in a subject area, such as health sciences, manufacturing, arts or business. Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report. “We Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report.

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Industry Elementary Education Robotics 130

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

Kids in struggling communities and socially isolated neighborhoods far too often follow a predictable pattern: They miss some school, get in some trouble, and soon find themselves failing courses. At a time when little to no work exists for a high school dropout to support a family, the community, as a result, falls deeper into despair.

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