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3 Ways Big Data Can Soften the Campus Dropout Crisis

EdNews Daily

Instead of tossing mortarboards into the air come June, these non-graduates face a rocky climb in the job force, where they scramble to make up for their educational gaps. And like any major problem, this mass exodus of dropouts must be addressed sooner rather than later through innovative interventions. Click to tweet.

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The impact of digital fatigue in the educational system

Neo LMS

Experiencing this new reality in various ways, teachers and students around the globe tried their best to move education online almost overnight. However, after months of screen time, a new phenomenon emerged in the educational system, called digital fatigue. The impact of digital fatigue in the educational system. Stay tuned!

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Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts

The Hechinger Report

It’s a small but noteworthy example of a new emphasis at colleges and universities on plugging the steady drip of dropouts who end up with little to show for their time and tuition, wasting taxpayer money that subsidizes public universities and leaving employers without enough of the graduates they need to fill jobs. Dickinson stayed.

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National Dropout Prevention Center Offers Resources

eSchool News

School closures are traumatizing students, families, and educators, presenting a new dropout risk factor and requiring schools to develop immediate virtual solutions. Together, the five courses prepare an educator to implement trauma-skilled measures and to support other educators in their work with trauma-impacted students.

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Meet Anthony Johnson: Teacher of the Year. Rebel ‘Mayor.’ High School Dropout.

Edsurge

But no one who knew him back when he was a student, including Anthony, predicted that he would rise to become a model of education leadership and innovation. Today, Anthony is an award-winning educator. He is one of 30 international TED-Ed Innovative Educators of 2016. Anthony hated school as a child.

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

Edsurge

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 Existing investors Serious Change, Strada Education Network, Impact Engine, Michelson Runway and Bisk Ventures participated in the round.

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Teacher dropouts

The Innovative Educator

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. To rob them of true educational experiences. The jobs these teacher dropouts are yearning for exists outside government schools. To oppress them. To attempt to standardize them. To test them.

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