Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2023

And the Navy said, rightly, every time we put a ship out to sea, all of those sailors are suddenly college dropouts. What’s an example of something that for-profits at the time were doing well? Navy, and you would have adjunct faculty who would drive to the base and they get their pass and they go in and they teach classes.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

But new research suggests colleges’ policies around unpaid balances may also be contributing to the decline while creating lasting financial harm for the institutions and students. California has been at the forefront of policies to ease student debt burdens. Long Beach City College, for example, has forgiven $2.1

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 24, 2016

Significantly higher dropout rates. For example, one study showed that 65% to 90% of overage children in grade 9 do not persist to graduation. Retention has found to be a stronger predictor of student dropout than socioeconomic status or parental education. Retention is not a policy unknown. They’re not ‘loopholes.’

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2021

For example, at energy companies, data scientists help reduce costs, maximize investments and improve public safety. These are just a few examples — from only one part of the economy — of the range of career opportunities the IT sector has to offer. It has long been clear that IT jobs aren’t just for Silicon Valley.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Through Degrees When Due , a project of the Institute for Higher Education Policy, nearly 200 two- and four-year colleges are digging through data and auditing administrative policies to figure out how many such students they’ve lost, and why. The best-intentioned policies just get stuck on the books,” Ajinkya says.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Famous billionaire college dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and the late Steve Jobs are prominent examples of successes who never completed undergraduate degrees. One example of this is the newest trend of “ digital badges.” Peter Thiel’s initiative, the Thiel Fellowship , underscores this growing perception.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

It’s about making sure they come back from one year to the next,” said Eboni Zamani-Gallaher, a professor of higher education policy, organization and leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Education. Dropouts cost colleges a collective $16.5 “It’s not just about getting them in the door.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Some school districts with high rates of poverty — including Tacoma, Washington, Fresno, California, and Cleveland, Ohio — had very high percentages of dropouts more than a decade ago. But when nine out of 10 schools nationwide use credit recovery, there are examples of ushering kids through a system without a rigorous education.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2023

A good example is the Accelerated Study in Associate Programs , or ASAP, at the City University of New York (CUNY). Elizabeth Davidson Pisacreta is the director of Educational Transformation at Ithaka S+R and Katherine Giardello is the senior policy advisor at the ASAP|ACE National Replication Collaborative.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

It is not good policy to keep Puerto Rico economically on a downturn in what feels like an endless loop of economic underperformance. The disparity serves as an extreme example of similar trends across the United States, where the children of higher-income families go to better colleges than those from lower-income ones. Enrique Ferna?ndez,

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Districts across the country have been ramping up career education programs spurred, in part, by federal legislation updated in 2018 that provides funding for career education (commonly referred to as Perkins V ), said Matt Giani, a research associate professor in sociology at the University of Texas at Austin who studies education policy.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2019

Longitudinal data show that students enrolled in City Connects schools performed better academically and had lower grade retention, chronic absenteeism and dropout rates. City Connects has shown strong results. The program also benefits teachers. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Furthermore, three-year degrees have broad political appeal, as indicated by their endorsement by both the Progressive Policy Institute and the American Enterprise Institute. For example, college faculty publish papers in journals with conclusions that incorporate policy and practical recommendations.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 16, 2020

Chronically absent middle schoolers have lower grades and test scores that increase dropout potential. Evidence-Based Solutions Examples. For example, if people learn that their neighbors are spending less on energy, they are likely to reduce their energy use. This information provides insight into the reasons (e.g.,

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

Education is an example of what’s called “recovery capital,” something earned that makes long-term recovery more likely. Meanwhile, of the 29 million adults nationwide who said they’ve ever had a problem with substance use, about 72 percent considered themselves to be in recovery or recovered. The price tag is not the same,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Both adults and kids need to modify their behavior from time to time — for example, when they want to change eating or exercise habits. Our harsh school discipline policies are leading to an increase in repeat offenses, higher student dropout rates and a direct pipeline to the juvenile justice system.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

For example, states have to show that the alternative assessments measure comparable skills as the statewide tests. Related: How a “dropout factory” turned into a model for success. The assessment pilot also doesn’t give states any extra money to create these new systems.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2019

More than 15 percent of these graduates and dropouts defaulted in both time periods. For example, at four-year public colleges, the default rate dropped from 7.5 That’s because community colleges cater to lower income students and dropout rates are high. The default rates haven’t improved much. percent to 6.8

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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. Lehigh University has started hiring faculty for a new college of health policy , part of a plan to add 1,800 students. Will there be more?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2022

I do think there are lessons to be learned from what’s going on in Maine right now,” said Jerome Lucido, executive director of the Center for Enrollment Research, Policy and Practice at the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

And it has everything to do with the policies of the states.”. The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

If her daughter, for example, a Eugene middle schooler, maintains a 3.0 The University of Maine, for example, has had a tuition waiver option since the 1930s. Those barriers are even more pronounced when the person is from a different state. “[H]ow are we going to be educated enough to cite policy, to fight for recognition?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Though some programs have helped lower dropout rates and improved graduation rates for students of color, the gap in the percentage of students finishing a degree has barely budged across the 30 community colleges in the Minnesota State Colleges and University system. Paul College that shows students’ countries of origin.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

Hernandez, for example, was taking her 12 th grade math class via Zoom in her family’s living room when her father returned from work hours early, visibly upset. It seemed like there needed to be a policy and expectation change in the face of an emergency situation,” Patterson said.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2021

With the UIA’s work, for example, we now understand what an idea looks like when applied in 11 different cultures, with 11 different student populations. That challenge is circumvented when a senior leader — a senior vice president, for example — is charged with shepherding the work.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2017

It is features like these that have helped former high school dropouts like Rocheli Burgos — and other students who have struggled in school — get a second chance at earning a diploma. If a student struggles in reading but is good at algebra, for example, he or she may end up in an introductory literature class while taking advanced math.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2020

Early returns suggest receiving those rewards along the way is helping the so far limited number of people who have already tried microcredential programs — at edX, for example, they comprise about a tenth of all enrollment —climb more quickly. And if we lose someone, instead of being a dropout, they’ll have a certificate.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

In September, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund released a report recommending school districts institute a moratorium on all suspensions and modify school discipline policies to be trauma-informed and supportive. Studies show not only is it ineffective at improving students’ future behavior, it can also do the opposite.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

He called the virus “something of a moment of judgment for higher education, a shock that will accelerate [negative] trends that are already underway,” as well as one that could finally open the door for systemic policy change. But changes in some areas, like college admissions policies, could happen now.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

billion a year, collectively, in foregone tuition, according to a review of 1,669 institutions by the Educational Policy Institute. For example, it found, more than 70 percent of faculty and staff didn’t feel qualified to recognize signs of psychological distress in student veterans. Students who leave cost colleges $16.5 That’s $13.3

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2018

Alana Wolf was accepted to Cornell University, which told her to go somewhere else as a freshman and come back as a sophomore under a little-known policy called conditional admission. She spent her freshman year at Ithaca College and will enter Cornell this fall. Photo: Michael Farrell for The Hechinger Report. campus as sophomores.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5 Long’s classroom offers one example of how fluid language can be at the Muñiz Academy. There are times, for example, when Spanish-dominant students are the experts who can help the English-dominant students.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 25, 2021

You’ll hear NYT bestselling author Dan Heath share a short case study from Chicago Public Schools that illustrates how this name-by-name approach worked for reducing dropout rates. The first thing that they observed was that some of their own policies were sabotaging their students unwittingly. So you know a freshman is off track?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2016

million since 1995, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research reports. Minnesota, for example, wants 70 percent of its residents to have certificates or degrees by 2025. Colleges rarely offer essential classes in the summer, for example, or allow the flexibility their older students need to juggle work and school. million to 4.8

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2017

We should always try to balance the potential of technology with its risks,” said Manuela Ekowo, an education policy analyst at New America, who co-authored the report with Iris Palmer, a senior policy analyst. “We Manuela Ekowo, education policy analyst at New America. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. “We

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

In 1980 , for example, in-state tuition was $1,206. A June 2020 study by the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program shows enrollments at regional public universities across six states — Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin — have fallen by over 10 percent since 2011. “We offered an affordable, quality education.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Usually that means creating PowerPoint presentations full of pictures and “just kind of pulling from here and there,” he said — the Internet, a third grade textbook or a preschool homeschool curriculum from Sam’s Club, for example. I’m all over the place,” said Brock, who has been teaching for 27 years.

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