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ReUp Education Raises $6 Million Series A to Help College Dropouts Return

Edsurge

ReUp communicates with students through phone, email, text messaging and social media. ReUp was created by Entangled Group, an education consultancy and startup incubator based in San Francisco. Our data tells us that 90 percent of them still have a dream of earning their degree,” Horn says.

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How Data Science Can Help You Create Better Customer Experiences

EdNews Daily

And while the technology was all about sophisticated Artificial Intelligence, it used a whole lot of data and analyzed it in real-time to: ensure the authenticity of wins, and. This study of data has now grown into a dedicated field and Data Science learning is becoming a sought-after career. Studying Customer Journeys Better.

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Higher Ed Needs to Bridge the ‘App Gap’ to Reach Students

Edsurge

A high school dropout cannot tap on an app and get the help they need if it involves more than one organization. They may sequentially visit a pertinent website, fill out forms, communicate with someone through email, or make a visit to an office, but to many young people, this is all very disconnected—and decidedly not social.

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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

Edsurge

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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Being Popular: Why it Consumes Teens and Continues to Affect Adults

MindShift

Rather, it reflects a person’s visibility, dominance and influence on the group. Again and again, children are drawn to peers who treat others with respect, who know how to share and cooperate, and who make other members of the group feel good about themselves. . The first group is those who experience repeated rejection from peers.

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Will the students who didn’t show up for online class this spring go missing forever?

The Hechinger Report

Mohammed Choudhury, the district’s chief innovation officer, said that the district was able to whittle that number down to fewer than 100 by fall thanks to home visits and attendance data from an app they created. Phone calls to parents and messages on social media went largely unanswered. Credit: Redland Elementary.

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College students to administrators: Let’s talk about mental health

The Hechinger Report

To those already burdened by the demands of social media and fears about how to succeed in the world, Covid piled on. They have faced restrictions on the free-form socializing that builds acquaintanceships and a sense of belonging. Students post anonymously to a campus-specific group or a broader audience.

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