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

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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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

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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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

article reported that students of universities such as Stanford are spending over $100,000 collectively each semester on course materials that are already freely available to them on the thousands of library databases they don’t know they have access to. In 2013, Inside Higher Ed wrote an article about double-spending at universities.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2018

Now students take dual credit courses on the community college campus working with the professors. P-TECH partnered with IBM back in 2011 to design a six-year high school where students receive associate's degrees in STEM majors and sometimes job offers from IBM by the time they graduate.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

She noted that she learned public speaking from a course during college, but that her elementary-school aged daughter is already able to speak confidently in front of groups. Yet, funding for the arts currently shows no sign of rebounding from cutbacks stemming from George W.

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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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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. Sign up here for our higher-education newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

The district decided to focus on math because “research has shown that middle school and high school math … that’s where the greatest learning loss has been,” said Dr. Faith Freeman, the director of STEM at Guilford County Schools, and the head of their tutoring initiative. Kids were falling behind in math before the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

All six students in Chemistry 121 were also taking an entry-level statistics class, and Ronhaar was co-instructor for both courses. Over the past three years, 90 percent of students passed their I-BEST courses with a grade of C-minus or better. Mosser said Ronhaar’s presence was the most valuable part of the I-BEST model.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Something interesting happened when a female was the sole woman and the other three group members were men: she was 10 percentage points more likely to drop the course. The course was only 35 percent female but women were more likely to want to participate in a study group and nearly 260, or 42 percent, of the 620 volunteers were women.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

It is difficult for the 1,200-student district to offer STEM, foreign language or Advanced Placement courses year-round. Students can take courses otherwise unavailable online, at home and even during the summer, earning valuable credits and skills. Early college access for later success. Vancouver Public Schools (Wash.)

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

Now, after realizing that academic stragglers who were retained frequently didn’t receive the support they needed, the state is changing course. Teachers told us, ‘Oh, of course, that’s a Katrina effect. Related: An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

He’s promised to add ACT prep, more Advanced Placement courses, and maybe even a STEM program. She’d heard the new management will bring better teachers, programs and more challenging course work. Alumni are working with InspireNOLA to create courses on the history of the school.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

They are developing a recommendation engine to leverage dropout rate data to predict and design interventions for at-risk students. After intervening and supporting approximately 16,000 students, dropout rates have decreased and test scores have improved. Cornell University Uses the AWS Cloud to Reimagine Course Delivery.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The Georgetown center estimates that college graduates earn, on average, $1 million more over the course of a lifetime than high school graduates. He adds: “The ability of college to generate a middle-class income has been growing by leaps and bounds and there’s no evidence that will it stop,” though he says the growth may slow.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

I know they advertise these things, but I would hold them accountable for false advertising, because show me the evidence that just because you get an A in some course where you discuss some novels, now suddenly you have a richer understanding of the problems of life. Of course, the fellowship picks only 20 people a year.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2023

But then we know that there are those who continue to have difficulties, and those difficulties really stem into a variety of areas. Children at Robb Elementary were of course most acutely affected by the shooting in Uvalde. You can think about these concentric circles kind of stemming out from the site.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Instead, her high school placed her in remedial courses for math and English, where she just fell further behind. Over the course of Michael’s education career, he received some help, such as a class with other students with mood disorders in which he worked on communicating and controlling his behavior.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2017

In the United States alone, jobs website Indeed reports that reduced productivity stemming from open positions accounted for $160 billion of lost revenue in 2014. high-profile dropouts and the rise of the so-called “ anti-credential.” These unfilled positions carry a tremendous economic cost for businesses. At almost $1.3

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

It’s why, over the course of Cruey’s years in the classroom, he has become used to stories of families torn apart over drugs, as parents and guardians shuffle between hospitals and jails. Overall, there’s been an increase in graduation rates and a decrease in dropouts. I see a growth in our students. They’re proud of their heritage.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Fellows receive monthly stipends that start at $450 and rise each year, up to $700, in an attempt to combat steep post-secondary dropout rates — 33 percent of black college students drop out after one year of college, often because of financial shortfalls. We just vibe off each other,” Nathan said. “We We have synergy.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2014

We are, of course, big fans! She''s put together a list of the best artiles on Classroom Management, Reading and Language Arts, STEM, History and Social Studies, and more. The NEA shared this article that discusses nation-wide efforts to re-engage high school dropouts. Audrey is coming this year!) National Library Week.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The school has struggled to stem sliding enrollment and to address poor safety ratings by parents and test scores that were among the worst in the city. They help connect families that have legal, housing or medical issues to resources, and they run courses in each classroom on topics like how to deal with strong emotions.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

President Obama, noting that community colleges provide affordable tuition and flexible courses, and are particularly good for students who are working or need remedial classes, pledged to provide funding to enable the schools to produce an additional five million graduates by 2020. The dropout rate is around 70 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2018

He graduated from JW Sexton High School, a STEM-focused magnet school, in 2016. He ended up with a B in the course. She’d passed her English and public speaking classes with a B average and had signed up for algebra, communications and a handful of other fall courses. Related: Teachers are first responders to the opioid crisis.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

To accomplish this, courses are year-long instead of being divided into semesters. Related: An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM. “We don’t have deadlines,” said Ocon. We call them ‘benchmarks’.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Related, via Salon : “ Silicon Valley ’s $300M donation to STEM educatio n is not what it seems.” Via ProPublica : “ For-Profit Schools Get State Dollars For Dropouts Who Rarely Drop In.” And, of course, there are robot stories in the Betteridge’s Law of Headlines section. 2 Post at Ed.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

The big ed-tech news this week is, of course, that Betsy DeVos is considering allowing schools to use federal funds to arm teachers and staff. ” CPS is, of course, the Chicago Public Schools. ” Susan Crawrford argues “Why Universities Need ‘Public Interest Technology’ Courses.”

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

” From the Department of Education press release : “Secretary DeVos Accepts President Trump’s Q2 Salary as a Donation for STEM-Focused Camp.” Trump’s budget, of course, cuts $9.2 Bloomberg reports that “ Trump Administration Tapping Tech CEOs for STEM Policy Approach.” ” $100,000.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

Via Raw Story : “BUSTED: Trump Treasury pick took 4-week course on Dartmouth campus and called it a degree.” ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “According to a new study from the Brookings Institution, students who are the least well prepared for traditional college also fare the worst in online courses.

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Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

” Via CNET : “ Trump signs laws to promote women in STEM.” Via The Atlantic : “The STEM Superhero of Sesame Street.” ” Via Real Clear Education : “ K–12 Predictive Analytics : Time for Better Dropout Diagnosis.” ” Here’s the Department of Education press release.

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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.” From the Amazon blog : “Introducing Free Alexa Skills Courses by Codecademy.”

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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.” ” Apparently it’s all Audre Lorde ’s fault, because of course it is. ” The Business of Student Loans. .”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2018

This could be a problem for colleges and universities, about which a slew of opinion polls suggest Americans take a dim view at a time of campus speech controversies, athletic scandals, high dropout rates , sexual harassment and assault, comparatively generous pay for faculty and administrators and complaints about the competence of graduates.

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