Brilliant or Insane

DECEMBER 8, 2015

This good news often shields the public from the staggering facts and statistics about school dropouts. This infographic provides shocking details about the impact school dropouts have on the world. The post 5 Scary Things You Don’t Know About School Dropouts appeared first on Brilliant or Insane. Featured Infographics Issues school dropoutsBrilliant or Insane. School districts love to tout increasing graduation rates.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

The district’s class of 2010 had a 73 percent graduation rate for students in special education and a 13 percent dropout rate — double the dropout rate for the student body overall. The high dropout rate for students with disabilities is a pressing national problem.

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P21 Blogazine

JULY 1, 2015

July 2, 2015, Volume 2, Issue 8, Number 3. Driving Question: What if we rethink teacher's professional preparation? In California, educators are facing a critical problem, an undiminished drop out rate. Every year, one-third of ninth-grade students drop out of California high schools, with a yearly total equating to approximately 98,000 students. These students face a future of marginal, low-paying jobs.

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EdNews Daily

AUGUST 7, 2017

And like any major problem, this mass exodus of dropouts must be addressed sooner rather than later through innovative interventions. The “soft” predictors, those subtle hints that are precursors to student dropout. Guest Article Written By: Bob La Loggia.

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The Innovative Educator

DECEMBER 23, 2012

Editor''s note: This is a living post to which I will continue adding the stories of teacher dropouts as they are brought to my attention. The jobs these teacher dropouts are yearning for exists outside government schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

The post Fewer teenage mothers, but they still present a dropout puzzle appeared first on The Hechinger Report. An 18-year-old attended an online high school in Detroit for young mothers, in 2015. Photo: Erin Einhorn for The Hechinger Report. With U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

The post OPINION: Misguided payment policies that fuel the college-dropout trap appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Image: © Sascha Steinach/DPA via ZUMA Press).

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 26, 2017

The post Now Millionaire High School Dropout: ‘School Doesn’t Work For Anyone’ appeared first on TeachThought.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Rebecca Kantar is fighting an uphill battle. She says so herself. The 26-year-old entrepreneur has set out to replace the standardized tests that are deeply entrenched in K-12 and higher education, like the SAT and ACT, and she tells EdSurge her efforts to do so are sure to spark controversy. But if Kantar is fighting an uphill battle for Imbellus , the simulation-based assessment company she founded in 2016 and now manages, then a handful of venture capital firms are ready to fight it with her.

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K-12 Schools - Education News

JUNE 12, 2016

Lansford went on to say that access to treatment for drug or mental health issues may result in a decrease in the negative outcomes for dropouts. Author information Kristin Decarr | The post Earlier Interventions Can Reduce Long-Term Effects for Dropouts appeared first on Education News.

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K-12 Schools - Education News

JUNE 5, 2016

One example found that in California, the average high school dropout ends up costing the local, state, and federal governments $168,880 throughout the course of their lives. K-12 Schools High School Dropouts Restorative Justice Restorative Practices UCLA Civil Rights Project

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem. Together they review a list of students for whom the data indicates a dropout risk. City Year member Shawn Wiyninger greets a student at Webster High School. Photo: Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report.

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The Innovative Educator

JUNE 4, 2013

In an ongoing blog post , Lisa Nielsen uses text and video to tell the story of teacher dropouts. The stories of teacher dropouts share a common theme, a concern for the impact of high stakes testing. Advocating for education reform is one way to decrease teacher dropouts.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2017

At the University of Alaska Anchorage’s Community & Technical College, Associate Dean Kim Griffis says dropouts aren’t considered a failure, if the student has landed a job in the technical field they were training for. Noticing the dropouts, advisors reached out to the students and discovered many had left for a job in computer technical service. If a student drops out of college to take a job they are training for, should that count as success or failure?

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NPR Learning and Tech

APRIL 28, 2015

How we describe students affects how we approach them, whether as a risk or an opportunity. » » E-Mail This

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NPR Learning and Tech

OCTOBER 2, 2015

The school district revised its numbers down 2 to 3 percentage points for every year dating back to 2011. » » E-Mail This

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NPR Learning and Tech

JUNE 18, 2017

Data clearly show how many fatherless children there are and how their lives are affected, but one best-selling author says he rarely sees interventions happening in schools. Image credit: Eva Bee/Getty Images/Ikon Images

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The Innovative Educator

JANUARY 23, 2013

David Karp began learning HTML at 11 and soon after was designing websites for local businesses. Unlike Nick Perez who spent years being drugged and tortured in a school that didn’t understand his particular passion, Karp attended high school for one year before dropping out.

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Edsurge

JULY 12, 2017

Now, Good and his team are trying to solve a new problem: helping high school dropouts get their diplomas in the face of strict gang lines, rundown schools, and spotty internet. percent of which are high school dropouts. How many students can you fit onto a school bus? Legally—72. But what if those students weren’t heading to school, but already there—desks, computers, steering wheel and all?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

In Tennessee, the education system made headlines a few years back when the state announced the “ Tennessee Promise ”—an initiative granting thousands of high school students the opportunity to attend two years of free community college.

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Edsurge

MAY 11, 2017

That’s why it might come as surprise to hear AspirEDU , an educational analytics company, pitch their Dropout Detective software as an “academic credit score” for students. But whereas credit scores are designed to prevent risky buyers from getting approved on loans, Dropout Detective is meant to improve student success and lower dropout rates. But she says whether dropout rates have fallen remains to be seen.

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NPR Learning and Tech

MAY 28, 2016

Across the country, public universities are struggling with abysmal graduation rates. Here's one campus — San Jose State University — that's trying to do something about it

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NPR Learning and Tech

MARCH 10, 2016

A new study looks at everyday skills and finds that, when it come to math, the U.S. is below average. And in computer skills, we're dreadful

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2018

K-12 News Graduation and dropouts online learning Parents Personalized Learning poverty Principals Rural schools teachersMatthew Snyder applied for the job of superintendent in Cheraw, Colorado.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2018

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2016

In the past two academic years, Idaho Digital Learning Academy (IDLA), an online state school created by the Idaho Legislature, has taken proactive steps to fix a key problem: losing English Language Learner (ELL) students before high school graduation, and losing them from highly technical and content-driven courses like biology. Our solution came about in the form of hybrid courses for students—a mix of asynchronous curriculum and regular, scheduled synchronous sessions.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Columnists Higher Ed K-12 Liz Willen News Civil rights Funding Graduation and dropouts Higher education access Higher education affordability Higher education completion poverty Race

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

K-12 News achievement gap Betsy Devos Charters Graduation and dropouts Mental health and trauma Parents poverty RaceSchool founder Howard Fuller visits with students at the Milwaukee Collegiate Academy charter school. Photo: Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report. MILWAUKEE, Wis. —

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Aimed at curbing dropouts, improving graduation rates and sending more kids to college and other postsecondary programs, the corps is designed to offset a growing achievement gap in this relatively affluent but increasingly diverse state.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2018

K-12 News achievement gap Data and research Graduation and dropoutsHigh school students from Jackson Public Schools gather to discuss ways to improve district schools at Jackson Convention Complex in Mississippi last week. Photo:Liz Willen/ The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

K-12 News Charters Graduation and dropouts poverty Race SolutionsSchools that serve Native American students have a history of failure.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

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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. Dropouts cost colleges a collective $16.5

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

K-12 News Civil rights Graduation and dropouts Social emotionalDomonique Crosby raises her hand in calculus class at George Washington Carver High School. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

Higher Ed News Graduation and dropouts Higher education affordability Higher education completionThis report from Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce highlights the special difficulties for low-income students of working while in college.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

Indeed, being a black college dropout negatively affects earnings by at least $10 per hour, according to research by the Economic Policy Institute. Students walk on the campus of historical Morehouse College in Atlanta Ga. Photo: AP Photo/W.A. Harewood.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2018

Higher Ed News Graduation and dropouts Higher education access Higher education affordability Higher education completion Investigations

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2018

K-12 Opinion Graduation and dropouts . “Ask how we’re doing and mean it. Ask the follow-up question, even when we brush you off the first time. And be willing to listen to the answers.”. If you want to know what young people need to succeed, it turns out you should just ask them.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

At the time, a third of Louisiana’s adults were high school dropouts. Higher Ed News Funding Graduation and dropouts Higher education access Higher education affordability Law and policy Politics Race

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2018

Higher Ed News Graduation and dropouts Higher education access Higher education affordability Higher education completion poverty Race SolutionsParticipants from the college’s Summer Bridge program traditionally leave their mark on campus in the school colors of black, purple and gold.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2018

K-12 News achievement gap community college Graduation and dropouts Technology accessEditor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2017

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

K-12 News achievement gap Graduation and dropouts online learning Personalized Learning teachersDan D. Rogers Elementary fourth-grade teacher Sudhir Vasal created math lesson pathways so each child can progress at their own pace. Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report.

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