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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

When the coronavirus hit in the spring of 2020, student surveys indicated that four-year colleges would be hit the hardest this fall, with many students turning to cheaper two-year community colleges until the pandemic ended. Those surveys didn’t get it exactly right.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2022

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 As for graduation rates that weren’t increasing, and dropout rates that didn’t decline, she said, “you have to ask why.”.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In fact, according to a survey , the teachers are nearing breaking points with 75% of them admitting to high-stress levels and a third of educational professionals experiencing mental health issues. Course authoring tools are generally equipped with templates, themes, and interactions that greatly help to reduce content development tools.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2024

In 2020, one survey found that approximately 5 million public school students were English learners–that’s over 10 percent of students. Parents and/or guardians, of course, want to be updated on the progress of their children and what they are learning.

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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. Gallup found that while 74% of surveyed fifth-graders are engaged in school, only one-third of 10th through 12th graders are. One of the best ways to do this is by building strong relationships with your learners.

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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. Surveys bear this out. But is it better than being a dropout? No, it’s not.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Experts say that this means dropout rates, which had been declining for more than a decade, will likely start to rise again. And a third of this year’s high school seniors say they’re less likely to go to college when they graduate, according to a survey by the think tanks New America and Third Way. College enrollments have fallen.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2018

Related: Using vocational education to teach academic courses. They’ll collect surveys and other data, looking for patterns in how students see themselves and their futures thanks to the career exposure. Representatives of the police department’s forensics lab are contributing to a lesson, for example. This helps kids find their why.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

Like many dropouts, Floyd always intended to finish his college education. The number of college dropouts swelled during the tight labor market; an additional 2 million people joined their ranks from only a year and a half earlier in 2018. As with many dropouts, Floyd had unpaid student debt to resolve.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

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. This aggressive response has helped lower the dropout rate at the Texarkana campus back to 44 percent, according to still-unreleased figures, the university says. Nobody noticed.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2019

” Of course, we’d never do this in health care. Longitudinal data show that students enrolled in City Connects schools performed better academically and had lower grade retention, chronic absenteeism and dropout rates. We’ve always done this. It’s more convenient for us. But we do it all the time in schooling.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2020

Vasiki Konneh, who is 21 years old, is back home from Colby College in Maine, trying to complete his courses online, in close quarters; he’s in lockdown with five family members in a two-bedroom apartment in New York City. A physics major, he worries about not being able to go to his professors for help with difficult classes.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

That’s what an Adobe-commission survey , published in partnership with futurist Bryan Alexander and the New Media Consortium, revealed. FUN SAD FACT: According to Avi Yashchin, Senior Offering Manager at IBM Watson: “Sadness [sentiments] in incoming freshman college application essay is the sixth strongest predictor of dropout.”

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Left untreated, mental health concerns can contribute to high school dropout rates. The course taught me how to get students the help they need, especially in an emergency,” says Tori Wardrip, an art teacher at Lewis and Clark Middle School in Billings, Montana. Wardrip completed the training in June.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 2, 2016

The national suspension data comes from sophomores surveyed as part of the Educational Longitudinal Survey of 2002. The data includes survey responses of about 16,000 public and private school students included in the study, who were later resurveyed to determine if they graduated from high school.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

A 2019 American Council on Education survey found that student mental health had become a higher priority over the previous three years for 80 percent of college presidents. The pandemic, of course, is now triggering additional changes. According to the American Psychiatric Association , the percentage of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

Meanwhile, almost seven in 10 parents said in a survey that they had eliminated colleges from consideration for their children because of the cost. In another survey , only 44 percent of Americans said private, nonprofit universities and colleges are worth what they charge. Baenninger said. The sticker price was untenable.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

More than a third of Americans without degrees now don’t believe that getting additional education would help them find a job , according to a survey by the Strada Center for Education Consumer Insights. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Then Covid decimated them.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

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. And for all of the work it’s done to reduce the number of dropouts, the higher education industry has so far barely moved the needle.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

And I was describing to them that, “We got here with a long-term commitment to stay on a course of — really, if you want to call it, progressive education, but trying to really stay focused on trying to educate kids for lifelong learning, not just simply to build a transcript to take some test and to be able to walk across a stage.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Students have access to hundreds of courses while they are in Illinois’ juvenile justice facilities, but they tend to focus on math, language arts, social studies and science. Students technically have access to hundreds of courses, but Jones-Redmond said the district focuses on math, language arts, social studies and science.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 24, 2015

Educators believe that student engagement in the classroom is crucial to learning and that it can increase achievement and enrollment in challenging courses while decreasing dropout rates. The survey is relatively short and inexpensive to administer, Wang said. COLUMBIA, Mo.

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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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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2018

Now students take dual credit courses on the community college campus working with the professors. However, problems with completion do not primarily stem from dropouts, which were recorded at 2 percent in 2016. percent—lower than the national average of 83 percent, calculated by the National Center For Education Statistics.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Teenagers said that the pressure to get good grades was their biggest cause of stress , a 2019 survey by the Pew Research Center found. “A Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Now you’re an adult, you’re by yourself, you’re responsible for your grades.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

In surveying broader groups of occupations, Burning Glass found a credentials gap of 26 percent for management jobs, 21 percent for computer and math jobs and 13 percent for sales jobs. 63 percent — Percent of business and HR leaders in a recent survey who had trouble filling middle-skills jobs. to $11 per hour. “I’m

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Doing this, of course, requires faculty to know how to respond when there’s a problem — an increasingly complex task made even harder at a time when students are not only older, but more likely to come from ethnic and racial minorities and families in which they are the first to go to college.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2017

One by one, the principals looked at each student’s profile, which included the student’s answers to district-wide survey questions about what worries them about AP classes, what subjects interest them and what adults they trust in the building. In the fall, 437 Rogers students were enrolled in AP courses, up from 372 the previous spring.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

Through the help of the school’s success coaches, she navigated the school, avoided unnecessary courses for her career plan and took advantage of different resources. As a first-generation student whose family didn’t see the value in a degree, Daisy Donjuan, 25, felt lost and alone when she enrolled at Dallas College.

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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. That seems to match overall results from the National Survey of Children’s Health, which includes a question for each household asking how many students ages 6 through 17 have ever been retained.

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MindShift

JUNE 3, 2015

But at some point, students are going to notice that everyone keeps sending text messages to their mom or asking them to write a letter to their future selves in a survey. David Yeager used a writing intervention in an online freshman orientation course at the University of Texas to improve first-year credit completion by 4 percentage points.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2017

The higher employment rate is likely partially attributable to the fact that former special education students are less likely to be spending that time in college; 21 percent of special education students surveyed were enrolled in college compared to 41 percent of general education students.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

More broadly, nearly 73 percent in the Fall 2021 American College Health Association National College Health Assessment survey reported moderate or serious psychological distress. Pacetti’s chapter of Active Minds, which has grown from fewer than a dozen to 35 members over the course of the pandemic, has provided valuable support. “It

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

. — It was in his part-time job as a campus tour guide that Jared Maymon first heard prospective students and their parents asking not just about the food, the dorms or the required courses but about whether his college would be around long enough for them to experience any of those things. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2019

The practice of holding on to students’ transcripts prohibits them from enrolling in another college, which will need proof of courses taken, and can result in the loss of a job offer. And the lack of a transcript is no small matter. Among different racial groups, white families have the highest levels of family wealth.

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