eSchool News

MARCH 24, 2020

School closures are traumatizing students, families, and educators, presenting a new dropout risk factor and requiring schools to develop immediate virtual solutions. The National Dropout Prevention Center (NDPC) has produced topical videos and virtual professional development to support schools and educators during current uncertain times. The second set of online courses includes 16 research-based effective dropout prevention strategies courses.

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Battelle for Kids

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. Social media engagement data analysis can assist in targeting potential dropouts before they disappear from your rosters. 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. More than 20 years ago John Taylor Gatto wrote a letter announcing his departure from the teaching profession, titled I Quit, I Think.

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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. Teachers like Parry began pushing for changes, and over the last decade district officials have worked to improve the experience of students in special education — and thus reduce dropout rates — by reducing the stigma and challenging the students more.

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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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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

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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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

Sarah Horn wants to correct a myth about students who stop college before graduating. Students don’t always leave college because they can’t handle the academic rigor. Often, she says, a life event usually interrupts their studies—starting a family or a parent becomes ill, for example—and the CEO of ReUp Education says students shouldn’t suffer for it. “It It becomes very hard for some learners, especially first-generation, to continue to stay in a traditional institution,” says Horn, 40.

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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. high school graduation rates surpassing 84 percent and hitting record highs , year after year, it’s easy to forget that there are still pockets of people for whom graduating from high school is still a big challenge.

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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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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). Students who have outstanding balances that prevent them from finishing college are often short just a few dollars and a couple of credits. Even unpaid library fines and balances on campus cards can trigger a windfall of consequences that push thousands of students into debt and degree-less purgatory every year.

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K-12 Schools - Education News

APRIL 26, 2016

Edgenuity, a supplier of online and blended learning solutions, has announced a partnership with the National Dropout Prevention Network (NDPN) in the hopes of increasing high school graduation rates. Edgenuity and NDPN plan to create a discussion concerning effective dropout prevention strategies while also offering stakeholders resources, research, and best practices. The network allows relationships to build between educators and organizations that work to prevent dropouts.

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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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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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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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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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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. Originally looking to determine what factors can help high school dropouts become successful later on in their lives, Lansford said her focus quickly changed after finding that not many people fell into that category. K-12 Schools Education Research High School Dropouts(Photo: Pexels, Creative Commons).

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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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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. For the study, researchers controlled for factors such as family income, parental education, and test scores, still finding a 12 percentage point impact to the dropout rate just from suspensions. K-12 Schools High School Dropouts Restorative Justice Restorative Practices UCLA Civil Rights Project

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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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Talent Development Secondary, a nonprofit that grew out of a Johns Hopkins University study on dropout rates, is the data-driven arm of the Diplomas Now model; it identifies kids at risk of dropping out and establishes a schoolwide process of intervention and support services to keep them on track to graduate. 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.

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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

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 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. This allowed him to focus on doing projects that enabled him to pursue his passions. He also knew this would be a good way to impress colleges.

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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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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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Coronavirus and Education Elementary to High School News Civil rights Discipline Graduation and dropouts Mental health and trauma online learningOne Thursday this fall, a middle schooler in Florida’s Brevard Public Schools received an in-school suspension.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Divided We Learn Higher Education Map to the Middle Class News Opinion Race and Equity community college Graduation and dropouts Higher education access Higher education affordability Higher education completion Race

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Coronavirus and Education Elementary to High School News Discipline Graduation and dropouts online learning Parents Social emotionalKandis, Cooper and Rob Seaver stand for a portrait at their apartment complex in Austin, Texas, on Dec. 8, 2020. Credit: Tamir Kalifa for HuffPost.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Coronavirus and Education Elementary to High School High School Reform News Graduation and dropouts Mental health and trauma online learning Parents poverty Technology access

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Divided We Learn Higher Education Opinion Race and Equity Graduation and dropouts HBCUs and HSIs Higher education access Higher education affordability Higher education completion RaceWhen I graduated with a bachelor’s degree from William & Mary in 2003, I desperately needed a job.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Columnists Coronavirus and Education Elementary to High School From The Editors Desk Higher Education News Graduation and dropouts Higher education access Higher education affordability Higher education completionSophie Fogel spent much of her first semester at the University of Pittsburgh alone in her dorm room; food shopping became a fun escape. Credit: Mollie Rothbaum.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2020

Coronavirus and Education Elementary to High School Future of Learning High School Reform News Race and Equity Solutions Graduation and dropouts Social emotional teachersChloe Pressley, 17, didn’t like what she was hearing. This story also appeared in PBS Newshour.

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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. For black boys who were offered the class in both grades, those annual improvements in dropout rates translate into a 3 percentage point increase in their high school graduation rate, according to Thomas Dee, the lead researcher and a professor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Education.

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