The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

“It’s essentially a vestige of colonialism,” said Roberto Jiménez Rivera, a rare example of a native Puerto Rican from modest means who went to college on the mainland, where he now is an assistant director of admissions at Tufts University. Examples abound of college graduates who work in retail stores and as receptionists.

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Dropout Report Accessibility Study 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

For an absurd example, if dropouts tended to take classes on Thursdays in their first semester at college, but students who completed their degrees didn’t, then you might worry about current students who are currently taking classes on Thursdays. But some STEM majors are tougher than others. It wasn’t always this way.

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Data Dropout Company Report 108

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

In her program, educators learn how traumatic experiences affect kids’ brain development and how to identify the behaviors that stem from such trauma. Studies show not only is it ineffective at improving students’ future behavior, it can also do the opposite.

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Personalized Learning Learning Data Report 138

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The inexperience of modern-day faculty with helping students who have non-academic problems stems in part from the evolution of American higher education, said Adrianna Kezar, a professor of higher education at the University of Southern California who studies this. And that‘s what some of them are starting to do.”.

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Training Report Dropout System 82

GoConqr

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Dropout rates increase, test and project scores dip, and – worst of all – learning becomes synonymous with boredom. One of the criticisms that’s been aimed at the use of technology in schools, however, is that it is being used solely to prepare users to enter the tech workforce by corralling them into STEM-related subjects.

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Technology Classroom Learning Dropout 67

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

Only 6 percent of students from low-income families work in lucrative fields such as science, technology, engineering or math (STEM); business or healthcare, according to the report. Fourteen percent of higher-income working students have jobs in these fields.

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Report Study Trends STEM 90

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

For example, she had trouble finding the area of a triangle and other math involving shapes. She learned remotely either full time or part time for more than a year. Although math is one of her favorite subjects, she found some parts of her coursework challenging when she was learning online. It’s just gotten worse.”.

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Study Data Report Elementary 138

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. The university is known for its Meyerhoff Scholars Program , designed to prepare students from underrepresented backgrounds for STEM careers.

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Education Course Report Policies 129

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

Tulsa Public Schools (TPS), for example, is using the cloud to identify students needing more help. They are developing a recommendation engine to leverage dropout rate data to predict and design interventions for at-risk students. Code.org is another great example; it saves $1.3

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Dropout Education Data Software 160

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2018

Related: Universities and colleges struggle to stem big drops in enrollment. But unlike most of the other nervous new arrivals, she won’t be starting as a freshman. Cornell admitted her 18 months ago on condition she go somewhere else for a year and come back as a sophomore.

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Policies Report Academic Standards Meeting 82

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Dropout rates are high at Swiss universities, where less-prepared students are typically weeded out during the first year, so women probably wouldn’t be dropping out of an introductory economics class in such high numbers here in the United States. In the end, 9 percent of the men dropped the course.

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Study Dropout Groups Course 134

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2019

But while New York’s efforts to stem summer melt are part of a broader trend, intensive coaching programs like CARA’s are still relatively rare, Castleman said, and “there’s a lot of promise to this approach.”.

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Training Report Accessibility Study 98

Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

They only back companies led by college dropouts and people who never studied in higher ed. This debate about the value of college, and growing doubts, may stem from bigger questions that go back to the founding of this country, and about the American Dream that anyone can pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

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Facebook Company System Dropout 177

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Cruey’s school, in War, West Virginia, in McDowell County, has long been held up as a living example of how poverty can limit educational attainment. Overall, there’s been an increase in graduation rates and a decrease in dropouts. Related: The opioid crisis took their parents, now foster kids left behind are being failed again.

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Dropout Report System Social Media 111

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The school has struggled to stem sliding enrollment and to address poor safety ratings by parents and test scores that were among the worst in the city. At one school in the Bronx, for example, the community partner and the principal didn’t meet until the first day of school last year. And the rollout has been undeniably messy.

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Groups Meeting Examples Classroom 40

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

For example, Centennial High School is in the heart of Compton, an area known for its gang life and violence. The dropout rate is around 70 percent. Community college is especially important for students who need an affordable college option that will also give them extra time to focus on their studies.

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Dropout Study Report STEM 40

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2018

For example, a federal program introduced in 2002 helps states make available up to $5,000 a year to help current and former foster students pay for postsecondary education. He graduated from JW Sexton High School, a STEM-focused magnet school, in 2016. Government programs have also freed up some financial support.

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System Study Policies Report 111

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

In a history class, for example, imagine two students taking a test based on a chapter reading on the Vietnam War. Related: An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM. Both get a D, implying a similar lack of understanding.

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Report Competency Based Learning Common Core System 91

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

At the time, a third of Louisiana’s adults were high school dropouts. Officials also believe the scholarship has helped stem a brain drain from the state. Former state senator Rick Gallot, a Democrat who now leads Grambling State University in North Louisiana, suggested an income cap of $1 million, for example.

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Dropout Policies STEM Outcomes 82